Lowestoft Folk Session 4

Puplils from Roman Hill Primary School and Britten Court Residential Home used petri dishes and coloured acetate amongst other materials to create shhadow puppets for a puppet show using characters researched at the Maritime Museum, Lowestoft.

Pupils worked in pairs with residents from Britten Court to create one-off characters in a collaboration of ideas.

Over the course of two years, artists led school pupils and care home residents in an exploration of artifacts and stories found in Lowestoft Museum and the Maritime Museum, including quilts, porcelain and paintings, dolls houses, scale model boats, ship figureheads and sea shanties.

Through 12 weekly creative workshops, the inter-generational pairings shared their memories and experiences of local folk traditions with each other and created contemporary folk art, to be added to the Museums’ existing collections.