Christmas is just around the corner and each year we all experience the same issue. How do you buy a good quality and thoughtful gift for your loved ones, which is unique and will bring lasting pleasure? Every year we all receive kind gifts of ‘stuff’, such as bubble bath and socks which are useful but unimaginative, or other items which are often consigned to drawers and cupboards and possibly never used. I’ve spoken to several local artists who may be able to offer something a little different, and enable you to bestow the gift of experience – giving years of joy and bringing a smile to the face of even the most difficult to buy for.
Screenprinting and letterpress workshops
Linzi Cason has had her own photography business in Blackpool for six years and in 2013 decided to branch out and offer workshops.
Letterpress is a traditional method of relief printing using a printing press. A worker composes and locks movable type into the bed of a press, inks it, and presses paper against it to transfer the ink from the type which creates an impression on the paper.
Both sessions provide skills and materials that can be taken away and used again and again. Screen printing workshops are £60 per person per day (stencil screen-printing is a one day course, photo screen-printing is two days) and letterpress costs £60 to £100 per person per day. For more information, please contact Linzi Cason at [email protected]
Circus skills sessions
Do you know someone who has always yearned to run away with the circus? Or someone who is a bit of an adrenaline junkie? We might have the perfect gift solution.
Stephanie King is a local performer who has worked as an aerialist for circuses, theatres and TV for the last 17 years. She trained at Zippo’s Circus School and by 18 had her own circus juggling and hula hoop acts.
She also teaches hula hooping for fitness, juggling, beginner’s Diablo and poi. She works locally as a pole fitness instructor at Reform gym. For more information, please call Stephanie King on 07519 192020.
If you have any loved-ones who are keen on the superhero genre or art in general, you should definitely check out The Tangerine Art Company. Founded by John Marc Allen in 2012, its distinctive bold pop-art style has been showing up around Blackpool and garnering lots of positive attention wherever shown.
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