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Orange Street Creative Studios Update - Important News.

On 31st March 2011 the funding we have from v ceases, bringing to an end 3 years of fantastic creative community projects.

358 volunteers contributed to improving their local communities so we would like to give a big thank you to all involved.

BUT ALL IS NOT LOST!!!

We have managed to secure a small amount of funding enabling us to continue our great work for another 3 months.

So our Music, Ceramic and Fashion projects will continue and are now open for anybody over 19.

For more information please contact us on 0117 924 3561

 

Orange st volunteers visit Oxfam warehouse in Portishead.

Orange st studio's have joined forces with Oxfam to work on an exciting new fashion project. Oxfam are donating vintage, costume and unsellable clothing for the Vintage Fashion Favours project in order for them to design and make new fashion pieces that will be exhibited in a high profile fashion show in the New Year.

Staff members and volunteers visited Oxfam's warehouse recently to discuss this exciting new project and also had fun scouting through the rails of vintage clothing to find inspiration and garments to use in their new outfits.

Orange Street and the BBC on College Green
Staff members and volunteers from Orange Street Creative Studios recently met up with the organisers of the “Portents” outdoor art installation project.

The project will see the transformation of one of Bristol’s most famous public spaces into an extraordinary ‘tent city’.

For a period of 10 days from Saturday September 18th – Sunday September 26th, over fifty tents, printed with artwork by the people of Bristol will stand in College Green as a united testament to the diversity of the population of the city.

The theme of this project is ‘Home, Histories and Hope’ and with one or all of these words in mind during the month of August, we will be looking for volunteers to help develop this project.

Click HERE to the BBC local news website giving more information on this exciting initiative.

Orange Street volunteers interviewed on BBC Radio Bristol

Volunteers from the Orange Street music project were recently interviewed by BBC Radio Bristol for an article about the proposed Government cuts and how it will affect the voluntary sector. Listen to the interview HERE
 

 

 

Fairbridge Taster Day

Volunteers From Fairbridge enjoyed themselves on the pottery and textile project.

Alan and Des made some questionable fashion accessories, while Yas and Carmen made beautiful felt flowers.

 

Pottery Volunteers
Volunteers from the pottery recently went to Shire Link Day Centre in Southmead. Volunteers were given the opportunity to support adults with learning disabilities and use their skills to assist the service users with decorating the ceramics created by the volunteers. This was great experience in working with different members of the community and helping in making a fun activity. The session was a great success and the service users had lots of fun!


 

 

Pottery Awards

Congratulations!

Congratulations to all the pottery volunteers for earning their v50 awards!
Orange Street would also like to say a massive thank you to the pottery volunteers for all their hard work and dedication to the ‘Play with Clay’ project.

The volunteers have created a spectacular collection of ceramic work for Orange Street to take out into our community art projects and sell at local arts fairs. So far the collection has raised over £150 towards the next community project!

Thank you!
 

 

May Day at Redland Fair

Bank holiday Monday saw the ceramics volunteers selling their wares at Redland Fair.
The fair is the first of Bristol’s local festivals and for many marks the start of a busy festive summer.
Our “Play with Clay” project has been running for two months now and the volunteers had the chance to meet the public, sell their pots and market the vinvolved project.
Most of the ‘pots’ were produced during the training phase of the project and were sold to raise money for more equipment and materials. We had a great day and sold lots of goodies including jugs, mugs, flower pots, broaches and fridge magnets.

Thanks to everybody involved.

We have 3 more events lined up for this spring:


The Upper Horfield Community Trust is having their Spring Fair on Sat 15th May. We will be there with a stall and ceramics demonstrations…….


The Stokes Croft Street Fest is in Kings Square on Saturday 22nd May, where we will have a stall and offering everybody the chance to have a go on the potters wheel!!


The Mangotsfield Festival on Saturday June 12th will again be blessed by our volunteers demonstrating their skills and selling their wares.