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Part of the Flowerwall at York Explore Library |
The Bloom! festival in York over the last few days has made the city look even better than usual. From the 5-8 July 2018, the festival celebrated the 250th anniversary of the Ancient Society of York Florists - who have held an annual horticultural show since 1768. This blogpost is dedicated to the York Learning community art flowerwall at York Explore which was magnficent.
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Flower arch at Bloom! |
You may remember that I went along to take part in one of the many York Learning flowerwall workshops given by Deborah New - read more here. Then I told the Fairfax Court Yarnstormers all about it and they decided to get involved - read about that here. Fiona Dixon & her group Sew Chatty also contributed fab flowers to the project...
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Sew Chatty Flowers courtesy of Fiona Dixon |
See if you can spot them in the flower wall...
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Green flowers |
York Learning put on lots of flower making workshops for people to go to. Workshops weren't only held at the library. Claire Douglas (project leader) & Kerry Roberts took workshops into New Earswick, Skelton and St Barnabas primary schools and Karen at Lakeside primary ran after school workshops for parents & children.
Some people made them at home or in their craft groups. Sue Clayton worked with older learners & Kat
Wood, created lovely flowers from plastic bags with crafty folk at
Chapelfields Community Association & Foxwood Community Centre. Other groups (including Haxby Methodist Church Hall, Clifton Library & Blossom Women's Group) and individuals (especially Cheryl Pickard & Hannah Savage) also made lots of bloomin' flowers...
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Green Flowers |
There was such a great variety of flowers - fabric, paper, plastic, willow, stitched, knitted, crocheted and they were all displayed in groups of the same colour...
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Blue Flowers |
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Blue Flowers |
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Purple Flowers |
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Red & Orange Flowers |
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Fabulous Flowers |
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Yellow flowers |
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White flowers |
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White flowers |
It wasn't just the outside of the library that was blooming...
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The Stairwell is Blooming |
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Inside the Library |
It all looked fantastic. And Claire Douglas, Deborah New, Donna Taylor & Karen Winship did an amazing job putting it all together. Thanks to York Learning and everyone who took part for creating such an amazing display!
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York Learning Flowerwall |
More about the Bloom! festival in another post!
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