Beccles Library The Blank Page Project

A series of creative workshops for teens

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Location address: Beccles Library, Beccles
Chosen age group:

Ages: 10 - 18 years

Available tickets:
Paid non HAF child £15 per session Free HAF eligible Free
Next date: Tuesday 29th Jul,
Funded by Suffolk County Council
Universal provision
Beccles Library The Blank Page Project block mentored by Suffolk Community Libraries
Beccles Library The Blank Page Project block mentored by Suffolk Community Libraries
Beccles Library The Blank Page Project block mentored by Suffolk Community Libraries
Beccles Library The Blank Page Project block mentored by Suffolk Community Libraries
Beccles Library The Blank Page Project block mentored by Suffolk Community Libraries
Beccles Library The Blank Page Project block mentored by Suffolk Community Libraries
Beccles Library The Blank Page Project block mentored by Suffolk Community Libraries
Beccles Library The Blank Page Project block mentored by Suffolk Community Libraries
Beccles Library The Blank Page Project block mentored by Suffolk Community Libraries
A summary
Join us at Beccles 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 amazing 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: Beccles Library, Blyburgate, Beccles NR34 9TB 29 July: Creative Theatre with Poppy Stevens 5 August: Comic book illustration workshop 12 August: Collage and digital book creation workshop 19 August: Special effects make-up workshop 26 August: Creative recycled collage workshop Workshop details: Tuesday 29 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. Tuesday 5 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. Tuesday 12 August 2025 09:45- 15:30 My Style - print, collage & digital folded books with Michelle Brace Work with gel plate printing, collage, text, digital drawing and mixing to create a folded book in your own unique style! You will start the day by creating your own series of printed texture papers for use in your colourful collage. Your collage will be photographed and added as a background for digital layering, mixing and drawing in Procreate on the iPad (supplied for use in the workshop). Your design will be printed out in colour on A3 paper and folded into a book. You will then be able to add a title and any finishing touches to your book using acrylic markers and cut up text. Tuesday 19 August 2025 09:45- 15:30 Special Effects Make-Up with Antonio Reche Join special effects make-up artist, author and puppeteer Toto Reche for this free creative workshop for 10-16 year olds at Beccles Library, as part of The Blank Page Project! Learn the art of special effects make-up, focussing on fantasy and horror themes, and use a variety of techniques to inspire creativity. This workshop will explore different creative methods, to show how to create easy special effects for fantasy/horror for movies and theatre. Toto will introduce how to draw and design for specific characters, and he will do a practical demonstration with a model. The focus will be on Dracula, Frankenstein, zombie, fantasy creatures. Participants will need to bring with them some photos or a clear idea for them to base the makeup design. Participants will work in pairs; practicing on each other’s faces or hands, arms. Participants will have the opportunity to take photos to document their progress. Tuesday 26 August 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.
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2:1 care
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Epilepsy trained
Accessible toilet
Assist with personal care and toileting
Hoist and changing bench
Makaton and PECS trained
Sensory break area
Quiet spaces
Secure environment
Disability communication skills
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About your mentors
Suffolk Community Libraries
County Library Service
We run 45 libraries across Suffolk. We host engaging creative workshops for teens during the school holidays. Suffolk Community Libraries is part of the Public Health & Communities team at Suffolk County Council
Toto (Antonio Reche Martinez)
Creation is life, life is creation.
I am a Spanish National and an Artist. My love for the different arts disciplines make me an all round artist. I have my degree from the London School of Fashion in special effects for movies and theatre. This three year course provided me with ample knowledge in make-up costume, sets, puppetry and special effects. I then worked 9 years in a pantomime company, designing and making all the aspect of the production. All my life I’ve been working in different disciplines in the Arts. I also use my knowledge to present workshops for adults and children, something that I love to do. I have diplomas in Drawing, Ceramics and in Teaching for adult education. For several years I was a Spanish language assistant at a middle school, where I also ran many art workshops, including award winning designs for local carnivals. In 2004 I came third in an important costume competition, awarded by Zandra Rhodes. More recently, I have published my first illustrated children’s book, “The Frog’s Kiss”. I can be writing for a long time but that I think gives you a little idea of me.
Poppy Stevens
Lover of words, tea, cake and cows!
Poppy Stevens is a community arts practitioner, poet and performer. Her writing has been commissioned and published by The National Centre for Writing, The Young Norfolk Arts Trust, TOAST Poetry, BBC Radio Norfolk & Suffolk & Atrium poetry. Poppy works within the community delivering creative workshops to a diverse range of people. Her work with children spans from EYFS to Key Stage 4 both in schools, alternative provisions and community settings. Poppy runs a regular dyslexia inclusive writing club. These courses focus on taking the fear out of reading and writing and instead celebrate imagination, creativity and storytelling. As someone with dyslexia Poppy understands the importance of creating non judgemental spaces for neurodivergent young people to express their ideas.
Michelle Brace
Digital & mixed media artist
I describe my work as digital mixed media. I use all kinds of things as visual source material including moving image, natural materials, collage, mark making, text and photographic textures to build colourful visual compositions. I've recently been collaborating with dancers, musicians and other visual artists to make studio based work and work for live performance and projection. I often work with communities producing and facilitating projects and have a current emphasis on developing my creative practice to support mental health and well-being.
Joel Millerchip
Illustrator and artist.
I’m Joel Millerchip, an artist, ADHD thinker, illustrator and tattooist-in-the-making. Born in Birmingham, blossoming in Suffolk. My distinctive illustrative style is perfect for bold, impactful designs that work perfectly in print, on a wall, on a screen or all over your left leg. I also Lecture and support creative workshops with young people.
Chloe
When your mentor provides a strapline it will go here
I am passionate about getting young people into the libraries through creative purposes. I believe that libraries are a safe community space for all.
Molly
Library and info advisor at Beccles
Hi I'm Molly! I work here at Beccles as an LIA. I love creative arts and photography.
Hazel Brookes
Reader, writer and lover of words
I am a Library and Information Advisor working at Bungay Library.
Learning aims
Aim 1
To try something new and explore creativity
Aim 2
To learn about what Suffolk Libraries can offer
Aim 3
To develop confidence in meeting and working with new people
Pricing information
Ticket namePaid non HAF child
Price£15
Ticket name Free HAF eligible
Price£0
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Where we'll be
Beccles Library, Blyburgate, Beccles, Suffolk, NR34 9TB
WHAT’S PROVIDED
Drinks
Snacks
Meals
Equipment
Safety
Enhanced DBS
Risk Assessment
Public Liability Insurance
Safeguarding Training
First Aid Training
First Aid Kit
Smoke Detector

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Cancellation Policy
Free bookings do not require refunds but as places are limited, please cancel if you cannot attend so that your place can be offered to someone else.

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