[Radical_childcare] CC Kidspace - Practical stuff, mainly workshop-related

[tumbleweed_freed at riseup.net]

Hi all,

all sounds amazing, thansk anaelle. a circle tent would be fab!

one piece of eqipment thats really versatile and kids absolutely adore is
a rainbow parachute to play group games with- i'd say its an essential
piece of kit!! not sure how we are working with the equipment list? shall
i email someone with some ideas, jon maybe?

i reckon for the zine making- it would be good to have a dedicated area of
the tent for zine stuff permanently- ie: a table, scissors glue, paper n
pieces for it etc, so kids can do it whenever they want. but also in
additrion to this, maybe one or two dedicated slots for group zine making
stuff/schedlued zine-time.

my second elder session (bead necklaces) will only go ahead if i manage to
get enough elder into camp/if theres some growing on site, and have time
to prepare it using hacksaw. but will try to have a backup activity to do
in case of this, or just do painted pasta/etc necklaces if neccessary. or
if anyone wants to do their own workshop in this timeslot then go ahead,
we will see when we're there.

xx



> A few good news & info:
> - looks like we're going to get a 35ft round tent (marquee man has booked
> it for us but hasn't yet seen it, so this is on the provision that it is
> in good nick, otherwise we'll have the square marquee)
> - central kitchen are happy to provide us with the ingredients for our
> baking/bread-making workshops - out of the central food budget.
> - a few other workshops have been confirmed, singing, dancing &
> consensus-decision making. Still awaiting a reply from a couple of others.
> Also looks like we might just have nice bedtime accoustic music/singing
> sessions every evening 8-9pm. Still in need of storytellers though... but
> it can all be improvised on the spot by anyone who wants.
> - bicycology will most prob be running a bike-maintenance for kids
> workshop in the kidspace & will definitely be bringing kids bikes.
>
> Also I spoke to Action Support re. perhaps organising something. The way i
> see it, as some pre-camp preparation is necessary, we could work on a few
> options that we then take to the big kidspace meeting to be decided by
> consensus. Anyone has other ideas ? Maybe we could talk about this in more
> details on the 3rd if everyone's interested ?
>
> Finally, main workshop team has communicated the standard break & meal
> times. I have tried to fit all the workshops in these spaces, if only
> because i don't see how else they would publish our workshop times in the
> big timetable grid in the camp's leaflet. It does not mean that we'll have
> to strictly adhere to these. Please have a look at the new google doc
> ('final timetable') & let me know what you think (& tell me if you can't
> access google doc, i can email it as an attachment). 
> Gemma, because of morning time constraints & since they're both natural
> craft activities, anna suggested that perhaps we could advertise both her
> & your workshops for the same start time. Then they could either be run
> simultaneously or their start times could be slightly staggered. We should
> have enough space to do this & because of the open nature of the kidspace
> it will all be more drop-in than closed workshops so it shouldn't be a
> problem having them both run at the same time. What do you think ?
>
> Brunel, I put on breadmaking/baking every morning (except the first &
> last). But Marlene will be happy to help with/or even take on the baking
> on at least one of those days & It shouldn't be difficult to find other
> enthusiasts among all our foodie friends to do more. So don't feel you
> have to do them all. Speak to you later about the oven.
>
> And last thing if anyone has an idea for a catchy name for the first
> workshop (decorating the space) please change it, i don't much like the
> one i came up with! Also, the last column has intentionally been left
> blank for self-organizing during camp.
>
> Final workshop schedule needs to be handed in by Friday afternoon for
> printing. Then we can finally move on to other things :)
> Also spoke to finance guy this weekend, budget still very tight, roughly
> 60% of what it was last year (£300) but there is still potential for this
> to increase. 
>
> anaelle x
>
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