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June 1 @ 11:00 am - 3:00 pm
  • LAUNCH EVENT
  • FREE
  • Workshop
  • Young Essex

This Land: The Launch Pad Workshops

Selena Chandler, Lora Aziz, Katie Kennedy, Zoe Martin
Oak Galls

Venue:

Art Exchange, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park
Colchester, CO4 3SQ
Tickets:
Free
drop-in, no booking required

This Land: The Launch Pad Workshops with Selena Chandler, Lora Aziz, Katie Kennedy, Zoe Martin

Throughout the day we will be hosting a series of free drop-in workshops for ages 7+.

Learn how to make traditional ink out of ink gall gathered from 25 destinations across Essex under the guidance of artist, basket weaver and researcher Selena Chandler.

Explore the art of calligraphy and help us create a 25th Edition ‘E’ for Essex with British Egyptian artist/calligrapher Lora Aziz.

Try your hand at a range of traditional printing and basic book-making techniques with artists Katie Kennedy and Zoe Martin.

Help us craft a People’s Festival Charter fit for the next 25 years with a little help from the Special Collections and Archive team at the University of Essex.

 

Part of our This Land: Launch Day events on Saturday 1st June at University of Essex. Join us for a day of talks, performances, debates, walks and workshops to mark the 25th Edition of Essex Book Festival and the 60th Anniversary of University of Essex.

Saturday 1 June, 11.00am -3.00pm

Venue: Art Exchange, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ
Tickets: Free, drop-in, no booking required

 

Essex County Council logo red Arts and Cultural fund

 

Colchester City Council logo

 

Manifesto For Essex logo

 

 

 

Venue

Art Exchange, University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester, CO4 3SQ
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Art Exchange has full disabled access.

For details of how to get there go to artexchange.org.uk/visit