A summaryJoin 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: Ceramic clay creations workshop
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
Clay with Alice Andrea Ewing
Come experiment and play with a range of arts materials with clay-maker Alice Andrea Ewing for this free creative workshop for 10-16 year olds at Beccles Library, as part of The Blank Page Project! We’ll begin the day free style modelling in clay before shifting to creating a design for a plaster tile. After a break we’ll cast our tiles and once set that afternoon, we will paint the designs.
We will spend the day working with a range of materials with no set outcome - just to experiment and play! In the morning we will be working with clay followed by activities using henna and marbling inks. In the afternoon, participants can use their marbled papers to create stationary and/or work on canvas with paint to create banners and flags.
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.
