A summaryJoin us at Lowestoft Library for a variety of creative workshops this summer holidays for 10-16 year olds! Workshops are 9:45am - 3:30pm and include lunch, drinks and snacks.
Free places are available for those eligible for benefit related free school meals. Unsure if you’re eligible? For guidance visit www.gov.uk/apply-free-school-meals.
For more information on each workshop and our brilliant artists, please visit our website:
suffolkcommunitylibraries.co.uk/blank-page
If your booking is made within 72 hours of the workshop, we may not be able to accommodate specific dietary requirements. Please get in touch with the library location for the workshop to discuss options.
Library: Lowestoft Library, Clapham Road South, Lowestoft NR32 1DR
30 July: Creative theatre workshop
31 July: Creative recycled collage workshop
6 August: Monoprint workshop
7 August: Wordy wrap clay pots
13 August: Songwriting workshop
14 August: Special effects make-up
20 August: Songwriting workshop
21 August: Stop-frame animation workshop
27 August: Songwriting workshop
28 August: Comic book illustration workshop
Workshop details:
Wednesday 30 July 2025 09:45- 15:30
Creative Theatre with Poppy Stevens
This is a writing workshop with a difference. No previous writing experience necessary. This workshop will equip you with the skills to harness your creativity and get started. This workshop is designed to take the fear out of writing and instead celebrate imagination, creativity and storytelling.
So, what can you expect from this workshop? Some drama games, some writing and a whole lot of fun. You'll create a piece of writing for performance, explore what makes a great script, and learn how to write for a character.
As someone with dyslexia Poppy understands the importance of creating non judgemental spaces for neurodivergent young people to express their ideas.
Thursday 31 July 2025 09:45- 15:30
Creative Recycling: old materials, new methods + making stuff with your mates with bitemarks (Emma Rogerson)
This workshop will explore the different methods of collaging as a medium, what it is and what it can do, before engaging in a short creative writing task about your thoughts on collage. Participants will then be invited to make their own collages using upcycled materials such as newspapers, magazines and brochures. Then swap your creative collage with another participant and write a creative response to a new collage creation! You can choose poetry, prose, diary-writing - any form of writing you enjoy most.
This also explores and encourages the idea of recycling and reusing as a creative technique in a way that is refreshing and accessible.
Wednesday 6 August 2025 09:45- 15:30
Monoprint Workshop with Eleanor Rodwell
A full-day session exploring mark-making and the unique printmaking process of monotypes. In the morning, the group will focus on using still life and quick exercises to make experimental drawings. Eleanor Rodwell will then guide participants through developing these drawings into one-off paper and fabric prints. People will have the opportunity to incorporate found objects into their designs, and produce a series of prints in a variety of colours and on different surfaces.
Thursday 7 August 2025 09:45- 15:30
Clay: Wordy Wrap Pot with Emma Jayne Robertson
Join ceramic artist, Emma Jayne Robertson, to make a wrap pot from clay covered in all sorts of textured prints.
You can include words, phrases and imagery inspired by your favourite story.
We will start by drawing out ideas and develop these into a final design. Then we will create!
You will roll out your clay and then spend time exploring all the fabrics, stamps, buttons, shells and more from Emma’s texture box. She will then show you how to wrap it around a former and add a base to make it into a pot/vase.
Each participant will get to choose one colour for their pot/vase before they leave. This will be applied by The EJaRt Creative Team and wiped back to highlight the patterns on the surface before it has its final firing. The inside of the pot will be glazed and the outside left natural.
Items will be delivered back to the library for you to collect, after being glazed and fired.
Please Note: Delivery can take 4-6 weeks as your pot will need to dry out thoroughly and be fired twice in the kiln.
Please bring an apron or old shirt to protect your clothes. (We do have some disposable aprons if anyone forgets them on the day).
Wednesday 13 August 2025 09:45- 15:30
Songwriting with Aga Serugo Lugo
Come and join in the songwriting fun with experienced and talented Aga Serugo Lugo, a musician and artist from London. This workshop will allow students to listen to, write and create, sing and perform music of their choice.
Thursday 14 August 2025 09:45- 15:30
SFX Make Up with Lorna-Jane Garside
Join arts practitioner Lorna-Jane Garside for this creative workshop for 10-16 year olds at your local library. Learn how to create your own cuts, bruises and gory special effects makeup looks! Participants will learn how to create the gory looks they've seen on stage and screen. You'll be making your own stage blood, creating latex prosthetics, and learning how to apply cuts and bruises. We'll build the weirdest and most creative story we can think of and design the special effects to go along with it!
Wednesday 20 August 2025 09:45- 15:30
Charlie's Community Song Factory with Charlie Law
Participants will write a song together in a group and record it in one day. The song will be professionally mixed and mastered and participants will receive an mp3 of the song. Charlie Law is a local singer-songwriter who has been featured on BBC Introducing and performed gigs with Ed Sheeran, Frank Turner and Turin Brakes.
Thursday 21 August 2025 09:45- 15:30
Future Animators: 2D Stop Frame Animation Workshop with Lulu Horsfield
Join artist Lulu Horsfield for this creative workshop for 10-16 year olds at your local library and learn how to create your own 2D stop frame animation. This one day workshop will introduce future animators to 2D stop frame animation using their own ideas, artwork and storytelling skills. We will encourage participants to tell their own stories through moving image, by exploring 2D methods of animation using iPad technology. Participants will have the opportunity to create their own artwork in different ways and learn how to work with stop frame animation techniques to make their own short film. For those who have attended this workshop previously, there will be new ideas and starting points.
Wednesday 27 August 2025 09:45- 15:30
Songwriting and Album Art Creation Workshop with Ben Brown and Catalina Carvajal
Join musician Ben Brown and visual artist Catalina Carvajal for this free creative workshop for 10-16 year olds! Explore your innate creativity to spontaneously create exciting and unique works or audio and visual art. Participants will go on a creative journey, writing and recording a song with Ben and creating the cover art with Catalina. In this workshop we will explore songwriting; rhythm, rhyming and harmony as well as visual arts. Together we will write a song by brainstorming ideas and using a variety of creative techniques and games.
Once created, we will then record the song in the space! We will also cocreate a piece of cover art to accompany the track. The completed tracks will be uploaded to Bandcamp as part of the Blank Page EP which will be downloadable for free (individual participants will not be named).
Please do not bring instruments along to this workshop.
Thursday 28 August 2025 09:45- 15:30
Comic Book Illustration with Joel Millerchip
Join illustrator and artist Joel Millerchip to create an 8 page comic zine that’s tell your own unique story. This will be drawing heavy day with mixture of pens pencils and collage materials for you to create a mixed media narrative. Learn to create fabulous characters and play with sequential imagery .
Joel Millerchip is an image maker in Suffolk with a second city heritage. Proud pen smith, ADHD thinker, creator visuals & workshops, and part of the education team at West Suffolk College. Joel works with bold, impactful illustrative styles that work perfectly in print.
