24hrs of Possibility

My dream of the House came to fruition on 20th June this year as House-About made it's first appearance in the Civic square as part of the activities for the Festival of Transition.

snakes and ladders with Wendy Stayte

Dr Bike

Pledge tree in the back ground

wild food picked on skillshare in the morning

House-About black board

This time House-About was half black board, half fabric. We invited folk to write down what are their snakes and ladders to link with the giant game I made with the help of the Saturday Creative Club. Big thank yous and many cheers to Wendy Stayte, Wendy Howarth and Bethan Matthews for the pictures on it.
The event was called Tea And Exchange in the Square . Folk were invited to bring homemade or locally bought food to share over pots of tea while making new friends. We had a swop table for unwanted goods, Dr Bike, Several skillshare incl. upcycling and Mosaic with Jan O'Highway. Steph told Tales of Transition, Sally gave information about the Credit Union and Ruth Ben Tovin of Encounters set up a story sharing space with Inez Aponte. The tea table groaned under the weight of delicious dishes as Mary Rebeh and Erica kept the tea pots full of sweet hot brews in their flowery finery.
Despite the threat rain, the sun shone strongly from within as people opened their hearts to one another in this rare pubic opportunity of giving and sharing.

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Transition Streets

The first event House-About appeared was the Transition Streets coffee morning on July 2 nd 2011 in the Civic Hall, Totnes. This event was to celebrate the success of the first Transition streets scheme and invite and inform new people to take part in the next wave. House-About provided a creative play area for children, allowing their parents to relax and share. We were busy from the start, making pin wheels from recycled materials and inviting children to draw pictures of their street and neighbours to pin up on the outside of the play house. House was popular with very young children under 3yrs. It provided a small safe shelter in a large and busy hall. Older children stayed longer and after making a pin wheel started to create objects of their own design from the materials provided.

Dartington Primary School Summer Fête

Next event was Dartington Primary School Summer Fête to support the consultation process for the proposed Transition Housing development in Dartington. Parents could discuss there hopes and concerns for the new development while their children played in the house and drew pictures of their dream home and/or garden. This activity was offered to adults as well with some lovely results. One man said that it had been a long time since anyone had asked him what his dream anything was. Adults rarely get offered the space to dream in creatively as there is so much emphasis on product and doing. This demonstrated to me how important it is to have this type of creative space available to all ages of people, so that they can take time out of the doing and creatively look at their goals and dreams in a safe playful space.

Winterfest 2011

We were asked to provide a creative play space for families attending the Winterfest. A celebration of and for all the groups and community involved in Transition Town Totnes. A day to invite others to see what has been achieved in the last 5yrs and the opportunity to join in co-creating the future. We made mice from toilet roll tubes, christmas crackers and sock puppets for the puppet theatre we incorporated into one end of house-About. Paint and brushes were used with colourful abandon on 2 sides of the house which were built of cardboard.

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