The Romford Sun

Tonight!

@ one station parade
from 7 - 9pm

Ages 10-16,

Come and write a story in the style of your local press with inspiration from what you have seen in the news-

Make up an amusing story about the people of Romford, or just re-write a story how you think it should read.




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No More Shopping

A big thank you to everyone who came to participate in 'No More Shopping' yesterday- I hope you weren't too disappointed by the outcome!

If you did miss out, there is still plenty of time to experience the joys of Internet shopping via popping into the shop from Tuesday to Thursday this week- unfortunately our fabulous pop up won't be there as she has to go to school- but I will do my best for the team!

There are also lots of other things going on next week- from writing a newspaper article on Tuesday evening to making a puppet stereotype on Wednesday. And for those more advanced animators, a workshop to create the multicolored swap shop's official cartoon!

All going on now!

Drop in before the shop goes into 'art administration' next Sunday

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The NO Collective Present:

NO MORE SHOPPING!

What would your town look like if there were no more shops?

What would happen if the revolution in Internet shopping took over from tangible businesses?

Would this be what your life would be like EVERY DAY?!

Pop in to experience physical Internet shopping within an empty shop on your local high street. I'm confident to say that you may NEVER experience something like this EVER again - 

One Station Parade TODAY@ 10am - 4pm

Here's One I Made Earlier

Thank you to everyone who came along to 'here's one i made earlier' yesterday - we had some great arts and crafts going on - from Merlyn's fantastic Graffiti session, Gill's technical Jar painting workshop, Emma's experimental cloths customisation and Tracy Tasty T-Cakes decorating.

Please follow the links below for some more details on a couple of the arts and crafts people who participated:

Tracy T-Cakes - Fantastic Cake decoration and supplier, also does workshops and parties at great prices

Emma Greenhalgh - Clothes customiser by night, portrait painter by day, check out some of the fantastic paintings on her website

Gillian Bays - Professional face painter, but paints decorative jars as a craft out let, sells at local fairs and fetes

Merlyn Griffiths - Graffiti artist, fantastically executing images through stencil and spray - also runs outreach projects through his medium

Here's One I made Earlier!

Tomorrow!

Come along for a skills exchange with local crafters and artists in Romford- bring some clothes to customise, have a go at spray painting- try your hand at glass painting and take home a beautifully decorated t-cake, all for free if you RSVP!

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The Finished Installation

Drop by to participate in a longitudinal event from Tuesday's to Thursdays 10am - 4pm

@ One Station Parade


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Day 1 at The Shop

My first official day at One Station Parade, and i am both relieved and apprehensive to start.

Joe accompanied me to the shop yesterday to look at the basics of my set up. There is a lot going on at the shop at the moment, and my greatest challenge is to create an interesting space that both transforms the space into The Multicoloured Swap Shop while at the same time incorporating the works already present in the shop.

There is a Photography exhibition by Studioweave at the front of the shop looking out into the street and the previous resident, Claire Sam's knitted Station Parade Sculpture, which is also to remain.

My initial thoughts were to incorporate both of these aspects into my installation - however looking at it, it has come to light that this would not be practical or possible to do without taking away from all three elements / exhibits. Instead, I have, with help from Joe, turned to curating the space instead to incorporate a show of three works - whilst actively using the larger space for my work/ workshops.

Today i have been moving my things in and setting up shop, ready for tomorrow's official opening.

- The three spaces, curated as separate entities.