Creative Activities
Team Leader: Bev Stuart
This team encourages WIs and members to participate in a variety of activities that include - music, dance, literature, painting crafts and cookery
MAY
It’s May already and I’m looking forward to Federation Day next month. Have you entered one of the competitions? There’s still time to enter: write a poem, make a peg doll, bake a cake, or take a photo! It’s fun to see all the entries and to find out who the winners are receiving a rosette. I hope you can also contribute to the appeal for knitted or crocheted blankets approx size 76cm (30 inches) x 122cm (48 inches) and small pairs of knitted hearts. These are for the Butterfly Comfort & Memory Making trollies used by the End-of-Life Care team at Kings Mill, Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals. You may bring or send them to Federation Day. There are workshops in the morning with the Annual Federation Meeting after lunch, a superb speaker has been booked, and all this will make it a thoroughly good day out.
Our Team are also putting on other events in the next few months including Steelpan Drumming on Saturday 5 July, taking place at Hucknall Central Methodist Church. This is a great opportunity for you to experience a hands-on musical activity using steelpan drums. We have organised a Liz Earle face care @ John Lewis on Thursday 10 July, they will demonstrate their naturally active skincare and beauty products whilst you enjoy a delicious cream scone and hot drink in the comfort of the restaurant. You will receive a voucher to spend in the shop, there will be a raffle and of course, you will also be able to browse round the rest of the shop at your leisure. This was an excellent event last year and I expect similar this time, and another date for your diary is a Mosaic Workshop on 20 September.
APRIL
The days are getting longer and the weather warmer. So far so good!
All the events that the Creative Activities Team have organised have gone well, (fingers crossed) and they have all been popular, so they must be what members want. We had an amazing response to the Lacework Knitters’ tour around G Hurts factory. Another “behind the scenes” tour takes place this month with a look at the Palace Theatre, Newark.
Our big event in June is fast approaching; there’s been a lot of discussion regarding this, and a lot of organising, it will now share the day with the Annual Meeting as part of Federation Day. We’ve pared down the activities to make room for the meeting, but so far it will happen almost as planned. There will be some competitions and a talk at Federation Day so get your craft hat on, or your cooking apron ready, and your camera as the Competition schedule is coming to you this month - we hope to see you there.
Other activities to look forward to later in the year are a Mosaic workshop (a new activity) and Steelpan Drumming, which is always popular
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