InkWell (by sarah)

This year thanks to the sponsorship of the Gloucestershire Poetry Society I am running a monthly workshop called InkWell at The Folk of Gloucester. The sponsorship pays for room hire allowing me to offer the 2 hr sessions at an affordable rate (or more affordable than they would have been without it). £10 fall price and £5 concession and I am happy to include low wage, benifits, retired, college student, blue badge holders, blue light discount and so on.

The workshops are 1-3 pm on the first Thursday of every month except January - they will cover subjects such as scrapbooking, visual poetry, journalling, dairy keeping, creative writing, zines, chapbooks, junk journals, ugly sketchbooks, illustration, zentangles, card making, ink work and so on.

There will be a theme for each month starting with Sakura or Cherry Blossom for the first session Feb 6th 2025. We will cover making your own blossom themed note books using binding combs or fabric and ribbons. There will be themed paper, tape and stickers plus other little accessories. There will also be writing inspiration and room for people to work on their own projects using the resources I provide.

The name is a triple word play as The Folk is a 500 yr old timber frame building or rather buildings built in the Tudor era and like a lot of older buildings it has its own well which since the renovations is now viewable.

(backblogged from social media posts to keep a record of InkWell)

Burns Night Poetry and Songs to be! (by sarah)

Tomorrow The Folk of Gloucester (a lovely Tudor timber framed building) will be hosting a Burns Night which is very exciting especially as we are going to have Scottish folk tunes from Jessica Law that we can all join in with! And poetry recitals by me! There will also be haggis of various ilks!

I really enjoyed their last Burns Night two years ago so am very excited!

tix are here (its £10)

Here are some photos from the 2023 celebration: