Worksop Library - Fun Palace for a day!

Worksop Library will be opening its doors as a Fun Palace on Saturday 20 May at 10am with a day of FREE drop-in activities designed to help visitors find their inner artist or scientist!

Fun Palace visitors can drop in at any time between 10am and 3pm to discover building, excavating, coding, candy-floss making or create and craft in a variety of arts activities. Make a butterfly badge, write, draw, paint, create crazy spin pictures, kick back on the knitting sofa or join the craft-bomb workshop to make cheeky clothes peg pals. If singing, dancing and playing is more for them, they can rock up to the performance stage! A chance to watch, listen, play or sing-a-long with a range of bands, choirs and groups – from samba drums to the Red Hot Swing band;

• 10.45am St Anne’s Primary School Band will inspire and delight you with band and solo performances

• 11.30am Bottle of Stars – experience this up and coming young group performing music they have written themselves.

• 12.15pm Music Workshop Community Choir – listen or even singalong to an inspiring performance!

• 1.45pm Red Hot Band – an opportunity to join in with this red hot young swing band on percussion or play it cool in the audience!

• 2.30pm – Samba drumming- get in touch with your inner drummer and play along with some energetic Latin rhythms!

Fun Palace News Flash! – Keep an eye out for Portland Juniors Dance Group who may be making a high-energy surprise appearance. Don’t miss it!

In the Library gallery, there is a Myriorama exhibition which can make a thousand stories! Inspire artist Sue Rowland and Leicester Print Workshop have worked with groups to create a unique Nottinghamshire ‘Myriorama’. The series of printed artworks on display form a landscape scene which will also be used to inspire your fun palace poems!

Inspire, who now deliver culture, learning and libraries on behalf of Nottinghamshire County Council wanted to create a special Fun Palace ahead of the main Fun Palaces weekend on 7 and 8 October.  Fun Palaces is a free, international celebration of community, bringing people together with arts, science, crafts and tech. Fun Palaces create events that bring together arts and sciences – but above all PEOPLE – to work together, create together, have FUN together!

Peter Gaw, Chief Executive of Inspire commented; “We are excited to be one of the first to hold a Fun Palace in 2017 ahead of the official weekend in October. Worksop is one of Inspire’s biggest libraries and we felt that such a variety of free activities to discover, create and perform would be welcomed by people of all ages in the town!”