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Midnight Monsters Workshop in Teignmouth!

Hi Everyone! I’m putting on my Midnight Monsters Workshop at Teign Heritage Centre on 27th October 2-5pm – come down with your kids and spend the afternoon creating scary shadow monsters and animating them on a lightbox! Ideal for 5s and up – but younger children also love it with a bit of help fromContinue reading “Midnight Monsters Workshop in Teignmouth!”

Easton Kids’ Film Club!

A new venture taking off in Easton at the brilliant Junction 3 library is Easton Kids Film Club. Small World has teamed up with Junction 3 library and community housing provider Knightstone to create a film club as part of the Into Film initiative run by the British Film Institute. We staged our first eventContinue reading “Easton Kids’ Film Club!”

New Pork, New Pork!

Here it is, the great new animation we made at Bournville School Weston Super Mare as part of the after school club and XTND project. The premiere is this afternoon, and we’re even having popcorn! 🙂

Bristol Festival of Puppetry “Excitement at the Bottom of the Garden!”

I had a fantastic time working at Bristol Festival of Puppetry last weekend running the excellent “DIY Animation Workshops” at Watershed Cinema. So many thanks to everyone who came along, and my fantastic BFP helpers, not forgetting the awesome Rachel McNally who programmes and organises the whole festival (don’t know how she does it…) HereContinue reading “Bristol Festival of Puppetry “Excitement at the Bottom of the Garden!””

brightening the corners…

Have just painted a mural at the back of Hamilton House to brighten a murky spot.

Rocket Rabbits & the Space Chickens!

Here it is, guys!! Well done and hope you all enjoy it! You can download it by clicking on the share button at the top of the video x

The Big Draw!

I’m really pleased to announce that I’ll be running this year’s Big Draw at the M Shed in Bristol!! Well, not just me, I’m working with the wonderful Rachael Dadd, a much-loved and admired contemporary folk musician. What some people might not know is she’s also an amazing artist – which I did know becauseContinue reading “The Big Draw!”

“The Creepy Library of Birmingham”!

Well, I don’t know what you’re up to this summer, but I’m going to be delivering 42 half day workshops in Birmingham’s libraries, all based around the theme of “The Creepy Library of Birmingham”. It’s going to be an amazing project, and I’m very excited about it.. it’s linked to this year’s national Summer ReadingContinue reading ““The Creepy Library of Birmingham”!”

Tales from the Funkadelic Ferret

Here’s Part 1 of “Tales from the Funkadelic Ferret”, which I’ve been making with members of Misfits Theatre Company, a local theatre group led by people with learning difficulties. We premiered it in Aardman Animation’s screening room last Friday, hurray! and here’s Part 2! Who will win the Funkadelic Ferret Pub quiz hosted by DrContinue reading “Tales from the Funkadelic Ferret”