Exeter Scrapstore is really pleased to offer a series of FREE Creative workshops for Exeter-based community workshop leaders, teachers, tutors, activists and educators!
If you know the value of using repurposed and recycling materials to use in your sessions and would love some support with creative approaches and ways of working with our scrap – we’ve got just the thing for you!
We are hosting six inspiring workshops at Exeter Scrapstore, led by creatives who know and regularly use our materials. Each lasts for 2 hours and can be seen as a valuable bit of CPD as well as an opportunity to spend some social, creative time with like-minded people in the city! You’ll create together and also get to take home some materials to develop your own ideas from what you learn, to support you delivering activity to your own groups/ classes…
All the Books in the World with artist Megan Dowsett [@norrisandtheflamingo]
Delve into the papers available at the scrapstore and explore fun, simple ways to transform them into books for different purposes. We’ll think about expressive books as a creative medium: how to make individual and group books that share a message, explore a theme or celebrate a project. And we’ll think about waste-free books: how to turn all the spare paper at home, work and the scrapstore into notebooks, project books and sketchbooks using simple techniques that children aged KS2 + could easily learn.
Storytelling Through Scrap is a joyful, hands-on workshop led by Dion Saunders – a friendly, experienced creative facilitator who loves making imagination feel easy and accessible [@thearthopper_events]. She will guide you through turning colourful scrap and reclaimed materials into quirky characters, tiny worlds, and playful story props or costume, using simple prompts that spark ideas fast. There’s no pressure, no need to be good at “art”, just curiosity, laughter, and lots of creative freedom.
Sets and Displays with local prop and display maker Lizi Bennett [@bennettlizi] is an introductory workshop to the basics of 3D prop modelling, building scenery and creating standalone displays using materials from the Exeter Scrapstore. Perfect for learning techniques for working with cardboard and other recycled materials whilst gaining inspiration for themed classroom or community displays, modelling projects, practical demonstrations and more.
Gain insights into approaches and techniques. Bring your own themes to explore and get support to select and work with Scrapstore materials to begin a display project for your own work activity.
Perfect for teachers and community leaders, you’ll leave with confidence, inspiration, and practical, low-cost ideas you can use straight away to encourage storytelling, creativity, and connection with all ages and abilities.
Places are limited to just 8 per workshop, as we want these to be spaces where you can benefit from experimenting and learning at your own pace. They are being held as ‘twilight sessions’ for weekdays and afternoon sessions on Saturdays, to ensure people are able to come along around their working schedule. Please use the form to choose your 1st and 2nd preferred dates. book on. We will get back to you to confirm which one you are booked on to.
1: All the Books in the World – Thursday 29th January 4.30 – 6.30pm
2: Storytelling Through Scrap – Saturday 31st January 3.30 – 5.30pm
3: Storytelling Through Scrap – Friday 6th February 4.30 – 6.30pm
4: All the Books in the World – Saturday 7th February 3.30 – 5.30pm
5: Sets and Displays – Thursday 12th February 4.30 – 6.30pm
6: Sets and Displays – Saturday 21st February 3.30 – 5.30pm
This project is funded with the support of the Creative Arc Programme, an initiative funded by the University of Exeter, Exeter City Council and the UK government through the Shared Prosperity Fund.