World Community Arts Day 2012

World Community Arts Day 2012. Rawlins College: Friday 17th February. 10am to 4pm, £3.00 each. Booking in advance essential: strickly 100 places available. To book call 01509 622827 or pop into Rawlins on Loughborough Road in Quorn.

On the day you will get to choose 4 out of 8 workshops to participate in. These may include 3D model-making, jewellery design, pin badge faces and flowers, pom-pom making, marbling and drawing and painting.

If you would like any further details or wish to volunteer to help on the day, please email me at hayleyfern@rawlinscollege.org.uk







This will be Rawlins' fourth World Community Arts Day event, each one catering for 100 people of all ages in the area. What makes this one even more exciting is that I am collaborating with the charity Inter Care (www.intercare.org.uk ) which is based locally and supports health care in Africa (Cameroon, Ghana, Tanzania, Malawi, Sierra Leone), so the event can link with these locations in terms of awareness and support. We are working with children all week in the run up to 17th Feb to create artworks and craft pieces which are inspired by the arts and crafts of these places, then on the Friday we open our doors to the public for a large scale community arts day where we will exhibit and sell items to raise funds as well as having up to ten workshops where everyone can make, paint and create. The line ‘art as a catalyst for caring and sharing’ works so well for these plans. We’ll be using that every day in sessions throughout the week to build up to the Friday. As ever, I am over the moon to be linking in with WCAD and the global community around it.