Posted on 27th Sep
Newark’s Cultural Consortium is bringing more than 40 free activities and events to Newark on Friday 30 September and Saturday 1 October!
Titled ‘Newark’s Fun Palace,’ the packed programme is bursting with events, activities, and workshops, all for free!
On Friday 30 September, events are aimed at adults and include self-defence, creative writing, knitting, life-drawing, how to fly a plane and cake decorating! On Saturday 30 September, events are aimed at families and include music, performing, dancing, circus skills, and sports! On Saturday evening, you can enjoy a cocktail making masterclass, belly dancing and more! There really is something for everyone.
The nationwide Fun Palaces campaign sets out to share skills and celebrate culture amongst communities. Newark’s event has been organised as part of Newark Creates, a three-year cultural programme within the town’s High Streets Heritage Action Zone, led by Newark Cultural Consortium which is spear headed by Inspire: Culture, Learning and Libraries and Newark and Sherwood District Council.
Newark Library will be offering crafts with the chance to make a hand sewn flower brooch or a paper aeroplane as well as music sessions where you can learn to play the ukulele and a djembe drum. There’ll be fun with origami, macrame and puzzles too which will also be taking place at the new Inspire venue at the Buttermarket. This location will also see balloon modelling workshops added to the roster on Saturday with ace magician Steve Nixon.
Newark College will be offering their expertise to lead a variety of fantastic introductory sessions for participants aged 16 and over. These range from creative writing to digital media, and life drawing and they’ll even be sharing the skills needed to fly a plane, wire a plug and write a CV as well as taking on the challenge of making maths fun.
Newark Art Gallery is also getting involved with a drop-in project over the two days to paint a continuous paper piece of work depicting the Civil War sieges of Newark. Children will be welcome with parents and anyone joining in can spend as little or as much time adding to the piece with acrylic paints as they wish.
Most of the events across the two days are drop-in but some do require pre-booking. To reserve your free place for these and for more information on Newark’s Fun Palace, visit http://www.
