Workshops in Waltham Forest

JOHN O’LEARY

All last week I criss-crossed Waltham Forest to deliver workshops in pop-up design, character creation and story development to all the borough’s libraries – 8 workshops in 8 libraries over 4 days starting Monday 24 Oct.

One of the aims was to deliver workshops that were flexible enough to suit all ages and I also wanted to involve the accompanying adults in the making – some families combined their pop-up pieces to make a family book. It was very encouraging to see a few children coming back for more at a different library later in the week. The video shows just a small selection of the wonderful work that the children and their families produced.

Many thanks to Waltham Forest Libraries and London Borough of Waltham Forest for inviting me to work with them over the half-term and to everyone who participated.