Maze-makers, 1

Summer Reading Challenge, 

Nottinghamshire, August 2014

2 proud maze-makers

There has been a labyrinth of workshops spilling across Notts libraries over these last few weeks and images will come in in bits and pieces now....
As part of this year's Summer Reading Challenge, I've been doing "make your own maze" workshops:. As maze-making companies, we've been mixing stories with poetry, communal drawing with personal ideas, and throwing in lots of mess, lots of laughter and occasional Terrifying Moments ("if you fall in the lava, you will die!" "There is a monster here that sits on people and squashes them into jelly")

I've had 2 cameras fall apart on me in the last 2 weeks, a third has wandered off somewhere and my new camera is exciting and shiny and very good but that doesn't always help when we're working with lots of excited people and there are glue and pencils and puppets and mazes everywhere and time to take photos slides down a slippery sideshoot of a labyrinth...so photos are going to be rather erratic!

But here are a first set of images from exciting times in  Newark Library

tabletops grow their own mazes
of bits and pieces

Many thanks to the Maze-makers of newark!