Friends of Littleborough Stations work with children

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Feb 17, 2012, 5:53:09 AM2/17/12

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Dear friends,

Just to let you know what we’re up to in Littleborough:

Friends of Littleborough Stations are hosting two ventures with Rochdale’s primary school children: a writing competition with enticing family prizes of days out on steam railways and a visual art project in conjunction with Littleborough Arts Festival.

The theme is for the writing competition is “Railways” and some excellent writing in the form of plays, poems and prose have been received from Brimrod Community Primary School and we are hoping for lots more from other schools. All primary schools in Rochdale have been invited. The closing date is 31^st March and entries should be sent to the Secretary, FOLSs, 2 Schofield Street, Littleborough, OL15 0JS.

Next Saturday and Sunday sees an exhibition and public consultation on the colours of Littleborough with students from Salford University to which members of the public are encouraged to come along and chat about Littleborough. Details below:

Littleborough Station Platform Gallery.

EXHIBITION OF LANDSCAPE WATERCOLOURS BY PUPILS OF LITTLEBOROUGH COMMUNITY PRIMARY SCHOOL

& LANDSCAPE COLOUR CONSULTATION.

9 am to 4pm on Saturday 25^th and Sunday 26^th February, 2012

On Saturday 25^th and Sunday 26^th February Littleborough Train Station hosts a display of watercolour paintings and group mosaics produced by pupils of Littleborough Community Primary School. Children at the School have been helping a team of artists with a new public art project commissioned by Littleborough Arts Festival Committee. The project, ‘Colouredge’, is building a colour palette based on the pigment sources and chromatic hues found in the local landscape. Pupils have produced individual watercolours and group pictures to help with the colour survey. Their colours have added to the artists selection and visitors to the exhibition on the 25^th and 26^th are asked to highlight the most representative range of colour so that a final palette can be produced.

Maxine Kennedy and Paul Haywood are researching the local landscape with the aim of designing a bespoke selection of colours and hues. This exploration will capture the daily diversity of colour in the landscape and harness the rich natural and social heritage of the town. They intend to produce a colour palette and swatch that will reflect on the identity of Littleborough on the Pennine Edge.

‘Colouredge’ is a new public art commission celebrating the 10^th Anniversary of the Littleborough Arts Festival in 2011. www.colouredge.org

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regards

stuart

Stuart Carmichael

Secretary

Friends of Littleborough Stations

http://www.friendsoflittleboroughstations.weebly.com

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