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STICKLEPATH FIRESHOW CRAFTY CAPERS SUMMER EVENT WEEK FOR ALL AGES

Children - do you want to have some creative fun for a week in the summer holidays? Parents - are you looking for holiday activities for your children? 'Grown ups' of all ages - fancy giving your creative skills a stretch? Don't want to join in but want a fun afternoon? - come along to the Saturday show during the August summer holiday.

Crafty Capers was held again in the 2010 school summer holidays in a marquee on South Zeal Recreation Ground with a week of creative workshops, which culminated on the Saturday with an exhibition of work by the younger children and a cat walk fashion show by the older participants. The fashion show comprised a number of Crafty Caper's infamously creative and curious categories, ranging from garments made from waste to representing something edible! (see bottom of page for the 2010 categories).

The craft activities run by the Fireshow's Artistic Director Hilary Gillespie and her experienced helpers are designed to make interpreting the show categories REALLY FUN. Whether you're a five year old painting, gluing and sticking, or a fifteen or fifty year old making a torso of willow withies, surreal props, fabulous heads, incredible hats or amazing costumes - the wilder the better!

The event was open to ALL AGES and you did not need to have attended any of the workshops in order to enter the show itself.

 

 

 

 

See details and photos from Crafty Capers 2010 and a couple of the previous shows: 2006 and 2007.

Background - In 2005 we were lucky enough to receive a grant from the National Lottery’s Awards for All scheme. This enabled us to realise our ambition for a summer event,as well as helping to buy lots of tools and equipment that will help the show for many years to come.

We borrowed 2 marquees from the National Trust and held a week long workshop on the Fireshow site at the end of the school summer holidays. The workshops were flexible enough that participants, both adult and child, could pick and choose what they did within all the jobs that Fireshow involves; although most people chose to work towards the end of the week’s performance.

This was a resurrection of the infamous, but long abandoned, Sticklepath Fashion Show, a once popular local event that had fallen by the wayside - we had imagined all sorts of new creative activities, but the popular cry we heard from the village was “bring back the Fashion Show”.

So it was that on the Saturday afternoon a crowd gathered to watch the participants parade their creations up and down the cat walk - and being a Fireshow event it wasn’t just clothing, but masks and puppets too!