07.05.08

On Safari with ST-ART

The African continent is beckoning for youngsters taking part in half-term activities organised by the Barton upon Humber based children’s charity, ST-ART.

Janine Knight, the charity’s project worker, has organised workshops with an African theme which will be held throughout North Lincolnshire and will include a performance of How the Giraffe got its Neck by theatre company, Tall Stories.

“We have taken the play as our theme and will be offering a Safari theme throughout all the workshops that will be taking place during half term,” she said.

The week of events gets under way on Tuesday, May 27, at Ropery Hall on Maltkiln Road when the theatre company will be giving a workshop based on the theme of the play between 12 noon and 1pm.

The play itself will be performed at Ropery Hall starting at 2.30pm.

Here children will be able to join two intrepid explorers on a fantastic adventure across the open seas and discover how animals such as elephants and leopards came to be.

“The play is made up of stories, science and a splash of silliness which is suitable for everyone aged four years and over,” said Janine.

Tickets for the show cost £2 each and are available now from The Ropewalk. Booking is essential. Other workshops cost £1 per child.

The same afternoon, between 2pm and 4pm, at Broughton Village Hall, Gill Hobson will be making masks and Maasai shields while the day afterwards, at Epworth Leisure Centre, Kirsty Champ will be leading a mask making workshop between 10am and 4pm and Marc Renshaw will be at The Ropewalk between 10am and 12noon showing youngsters how to make elephant foot pencil holders.

On Thursday, May 29, Broughton Village Hall is again the setting for a workshop, this time led by Wendy Reeves when a collage of African animals will be made from 10am and 12 noon while at Barton’s Viking Resource Centre on Fairfield Drive Wendy Chan will be showing youngsters how to make a Wild Safari windsock with an animal face.

The final ST-ART workshop for the half-term holiday will be at Barnetby Village Hall on Friday, May 30, with Suzanne Dring who will be making a Safari Watering Hole between 2pm and 4pm.

Apart from the Tall Stories performance each workshop costs £1 for each child.

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