Transition Town Tooting

Tag: Making

  • Foodival, Making, Cinema, Restart, Field Day

    Foodival in the Guardian

    There are so many things you can get involved with over the next few days in Tooting, hopefully something for everyone! Why not start tonight at the Streatham Cemetery Chapel by helping Jeni & SMArT make the Bird with Borrowed Feathers for Sunday’s Field Day.  It’s a Mindful Making workshop where you can help to construct a giant bird and adorn it with “borrowed” feathers.

    Then tomorrow you could check whether there are still tickets for Furzedown Low Carbon Zone’s screening of The Emperor’s New Clothes starring Russell Brand at Streatham Park Bowling Club, just off Tooting Common.

    Tooting Restart in action

    On Saturday, get your broken electronic items fixed at the Tooting Restart Party at Mushkil Aasaan.  And then join in a free puppet-making workshop, have a picnic, or walk all the way from Tooting to Clapham Junction only on the grass with fanSHEN on Sunday’s Field Day.

    Also this week we are very happy to have this September’s Foodival featured in the Wandsworth Guardian.  What are you growing?  Want to help out?  Just email TTT to find out how to get involved.

  • Tooting Field Days – Free Family fun – Starting Sunday 19 April

    Tooting Field Days are local safaris based in and around Tooting; a chance to get outside and play, walk or make something. We can’t promise lions and zebras but you might discover something you’ve never seen before, think something new or have a mini adventure!

    Tooting Field Days will happen every month on a Sunday afternoon from April until September. The first Field Day is Sunday 19 April.

    The theme for the April Field Day is “Natural Neighbours.” Make a pine cone bird feeder, discover voices of Tooting past and do scavenger hunts in Streatham Cemetry. Drop in for part of the day or join us for the whole event.

    2pm: Meet at Tooting Library (75 Mitcham Road, SW17 9PD) to make a pine cone bird feeder that you can hang in your garden or balcony to encourage more feathered friends to visit you. Materials provided.

    3pm: Depart Tooting Library to do Tootingwalks 1, a specially-made audio walk packed full of music and the voices of local people, talking about Tooting past and present and Tooting’s love of food. MP3 players and maps provided.

    3.45 – 5.30: Treasure Trails, Scavenger Hunts and honey tasting in Streatham Cemetery (enter through gate on Broadwater Road).

    You can join us for the whole afternoon or drop in for just one section.

    All activities are suitable (and fun) for children and adults.

    Tooting Field Day is a collaboration between Transition Town Tooting and local arts organisation fanSHEN.

    To book a (free) place or for more information, click here

  • Make Something, Meet People

    This month’s Meet & Make is a sew fest! We have makes suitable for sewbies and sewsperts.

    All materials, expertise and equipment is provided for free (we do collect small, donations for the venue) so you can just turn up, have a chat, sew some seams and perhaps go home with some new  hairbands, or a pair of slippers.
     
    Date: 11th March 2015
    Time: 6:30 – 8:30 (do join in later if you are working late or whatever)
    Sprout Community Arts 76 Moyser Road
     
    For more info please contact Jeni: jeniannewalker@gmail.com 07944693015

  • Make time for making at this Wednesdays Meet & Make

    The first Meet & Make of 2015 is happening this Wednesday 11th from 6.30pm at Sprout.

    It’s a sewing session so bring along a project from home you already have on the go (or ready to start) and SMArT will provide a sewing machine and all the sewing paraphernalia you are likely to need to do the next few steps or indeed to finish it.

    SMArT will also be providing a featured activity of self made scrunchies equipment materials and guidance to create your own hair bobbles from fabric odds and ends.

    Please bring if you can a (voluntary) small cash donation to go towards Sprout running costs and snacks to share if you feel like it. Hot tea will be provided by SMArT.

  • ‘I never knew you could do so much with paper’

    The title for this first TTT blog post of New Year 2015 is a parent’s comment at our ‘Reduce, Re-use, RESPARKLE!’ crafts making session run with the Tooting Library on the Saturday before Christmas. 

    ‘I never knew you could do so much with paper’ is a great prompt for us all about seeing things differently, about challenge, about taking action, about sustainability, about exploring new skills together across ages and cultures, about appreciating the local settings we have in Tooting (including great community places like the Library), about coming together to have some surprises and fun.

    Those are all ‘resolutions’ that TTT will  aspire to in 2015. 

    What did we do in the ‘RESPARKLE!’ session?

    We used recycled materials and simple methods to enthuse children and adults with making beautiful seasonal decorations, presents or bags from ‘waste’ – old newspapers from the Library, single-side printed A4 docs, juice cartons, and more.

    It was a very full two hours – from a standing start at 2:00 pm, we were almost swamped by lots of nimble fingers, questions, concentration and focus, and smiles…and a big range of ages, nationalities and cultures. 

    We had over 30 children active at once; we had adults making things too, and families setting up tables and doing their own thing (all these activities can be done at home with household materials).  
    We expected a fun session, and this was nearly off the scale….!


     





    Thanks so much to the GLL staff at Tooting Library, and to our six skilful TTT volunteers.
    Cheers to the Children’s Librarian for these nice comments: ‘the event went brilliantly, was well organised, well attended and great fun. I was really pleased to have you along for the day’. 
     
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  • Reduce, Re-use, RESPARKLE! crafts workshop

    Tomorrow: Saturday 20th December
    TTT crafts with recycled materials, Tooting Library, 2:00 to 4:00

    Our free drop-in seasonal craft making workshop upstairs at the beautiful Tooting Library, 75 Mitcham Road, SW17 9PD. 

    All welcome, all ages, all tuition and materials provided
    Practical and fun session to illustrate making beautiful things from waste – and reduce carbon. Photos from our 2012 event here
     

    We’ll be using recycled materials to make creative presents, decorations or packages (for yourself or for others). 
    With quite a lot of glitter.

    Many thanks to the team at Tooting Library, and to GLL

    Crafts with recycled materials!
    Our biennial free drop-in seasonal craft making workshop upstairs at the beautiful Tooting Library.
    We’ll be using recycled materials to make creative presents, decorations or packages (for yourself or for others). With quite a lot of glitter.
    All welcome, all ages, all tuition and materials provided.
    Practical and fun session to illustrate making beautiful things from waste – and reduce carbon.
    Photos from our 2012 event here on PD:
    http://www.projectdirt.com/project/7213/#!/journal…
    Many thanks to the team at Tooting Library, and to GLL
    Any queries – email us at transitiontowntooting@gmail.com
    – See more at: http://www.projectdirt.com/apps/event/32290/#sthash.fDExqieP.dpuf
    Crafts with recycled materials!
    Our biennial free drop-in seasonal craft making workshop upstairs at the beautiful Tooting Library.
    We’ll be using recycled materials to make creative presents, decorations or packages (for yourself or for others). With quite a lot of glitter.
    All welcome, all ages, all tuition and materials provided.
    Practical and fun session to illustrate making beautiful things from waste – and reduce carbon.
    Photos from our 2012 event here on PD:
    http://www.projectdirt.com/project/7213/#!/journal…
    Many thanks to the team at Tooting Library, and to GLL
    Any queries – email us at transitiontowntooting@gmail.com
    – See more at: http://www.projectdirt.com/apps/event/32290/#sthash.fDExqieP.dpuf
    Crafts with recycled materials!
    Our biennial free drop-in seasonal craft making workshop upstairs at the beautiful Tooting Library.
    We’ll be using recycled materials to make creative presents, decorations or packages (for yourself or for others). With quite a lot of glitter.
    All welcome, all ages, all tuition and materials provided.
    Practical and fun session to illustrate making beautiful things from waste – and reduce carbon.
    Photos from our 2012 event here on PD:
    http://www.projectdirt.com/project/7213/#!/journal…
    Many thanks to the team at Tooting Library, and to GLL
    Any queries – email us at transitiontowntooting@gmail.com
    – See more at: http://www.projectdirt.com/apps/event/32290/#sthash.fDExqieP.dpuf

    Crafts with recycled materials!
    Our biennial free drop-in seasonal craft making workshop upstairs at the beautiful Tooting Library.
    We’ll be using recycled materials to make creative presents, decorations or packages (for yourself or for others). With quite a lot of glitter.
    All welcome, all ages, all tuition and materials provided.
    Practical and fun session to illustrate making beautiful things from waste – and reduce carbon.
    Photos from our 2012 event here on PD:
    http://www.projectdirt.com/project/7213/#!/journal…
    Many thanks to the team at Tooting Library, and to GLL
    Any queries – email us at transitiontowntooting@gmail.com
    – See more at: http://www.projectdirt.com/apps/event/32290/#sthash.fDExqieP.dpuf

  • Number 4 in TTT’s ’12 tweets to Christmas’

    Here is tweet number four:
    No.4 in @tttooting‘s 12 day to xmas: Make decorations from recycled or found materials like these pretty snowflakes goo.gl/XHTJYc

    And…a tweet number four bonus for followers on the blog:

    Make your house look festive this Christmas with unique and simple homemade creations from recycled materials or natural materials.

    Get out in the crisp wintery weather and collect some pinecones. They look great as a table centre round a candle or hung from ribbons. When Christmas is over they can go back in the garden. 

    Plastic bottles are so versatile and come in a variety of sizes to make things from.  Try these bottle-bottom snow flakes or bottle penguins (click on the names to link to the websites).

    Use paper and wrapping paper off cuts to make these hanging decorations: click here or here.

  • Meet & Make update from SMArT

    The Meet & Make at Sprout last Wednesday was really relaxing. The next time I feel like stepping off the treadmill of life for a few moments I might just reach for another ‘cathedral window’ quilting project which was our featured craft. Just look what we achieved in the 2 hours! It turns out it is more simple to do than it looks.Thanks go to Grandma Lawes in Salisbury who was caring enough to share this skill with me and, now lots of us.

    All hand sewn
    and to keep you up to date with Arts In Transition locally, here is the SMArT Notice Board.
    Things are warming up
    for info or questions about making and arts in Tooting you can send Jeni an email on jeniannewalker@gmail.com

  • Meet & Make Tonight

    Much like a tree in winter the Meet & Make notice board is looking a little sparse due to the season, we are all drawing our energies and preparing for flourishes throughout the rest of the year!

    Do check out the picture for what is going on and get in contact or chat to me tonight for more info on any of the items.Meet & Make Notice Board page #0-1
    And not to worry as this just leaves us with more making time at our Meet & Make tonight which is now confirmed to be at Sprout, who are kindly lending us the venue, at 6:30 – 8:30ish. See side bar on the right for the address.
    We have an official feature craft tonight which will be making ‘Ribbon  Zipper Bags’ as demonstrated in this fab Marc Montano video. I will bring materials and sewing machine!
    Come along to try this out or bring along something else you are working on to get in some quality making time.
    Hope to see you there, contact Jeni for more details or to join our Meet & Make mailing list – jeniannewalker@gmail.com

  • Festive Meet and Make – this Sat 7th Dec

    A little taster..

    of the kind of mad things…

    you could be making…

    if you come to Festive Meet & Make …

    this Saturday 7th Dec…

    3-7pm at Mushkil Aasaan hall, 222 Upper Tooting Road SW17 7EW (next to Nandos)

    We will also be creating cards, producing pomanders, stirring up sweets and reusing recyclables for wrapping gifts.

    Drop in, no need to book, all free but donation buckets will be on hand for loose change.  Monies raised go to Mushkil Limited charity and TTT funding.

    email jeniannewalker@gmail.com for info