The Museum Tour

First stop : Bagshaw Museum

On 18th April, we rushed the Museum across to Batley, to install it temporarily at Bagshaw Museum. We got there just in time for the Creative Scene celebrations on Saturday night, starring the wonderful Miss Inform, Dolly Miss Chief, and more.
A wonderful way to end our residency.

From 29th April: Dewsbury Museum!!!

Yes!!! We will display the Market's Museum of Hidden Delight's in Dewsbury Museum itself!

More dates on this tour to be added soon.

And the Musuem is made

18th April 2015

Our final workshop responded to an idea from the perfume stall man, that smell is a sense that can trigger memories and inspire the imagination. This exhibit just had to be interactive.
He supplied several smells each on one of his little card sample sticks. Some of these sticks became flower petals, but the most recent ones became the core of our museum's 'SMELL -a-VISION'.

The memory or vision was recorded by our many testers, during the day, in corresponding colour pen, and stored in the smell-a-vision record book.
While all this was going on, Jim secured our many exhibits into their places on the shelving.
Liz busily catalogued and labelled them with their names and histories.
We also had an assistant curator with us today. Pipi scoured the market for intriguing items and created our 'Curious Objects' section.
Finally, in glorious sunshine, our Museum was completed, and ready to go on tour....

Many, many thanks to all the staff, stallholders and public who have helped and contributed
over the passed 6 weeks.

cheers

TOY HACKING pt 2

 SATURDAY 11^TH APRIL

A woman smiled as she passed the paper covered shelves. “That looks so cool”, she said.

“Aren’t they gorgeous, “ some-one else exclaimed, pointing at the suspended insects.

A mother and daughter called by. They’ve been regulars at our workshops. “We’ll be back on Saturday”, said mum, “She looks forward to coming to the market now”.

We spread out all the bits of disassembled toys and odds and ends, ready for the workshop, building creative chimera.

Another shopper “ooh, look, come and do a Sid!”

Soon, several new creatures were being created/discovered. We asked  for their descriptions to be recorded in our book. Our new ‘scientists’ named their discoveries, described what they ate, where this ‘species’ might be found.

‘Species name:   Mikey,

Lives:                  in the mountains.

Details:               He has wings which make him fly onto rooftops. When he is on the roof, Mikey puts marshmallows down the chimneys and does his signature dance’.

‘Discovered by:   Haasain

Species name:   Ifor

Details:               eats sausages.

Species name:   Feeni

Lives:                 in the desert

Details:              survives by eating pancakes’

‘Discovered by:   Ella

Species name:   Barbiebot

Lives:                 you would find her in the jungle, zooming around.

Details:              She would eat anything, also she is a black belt in karate.’

One creator struggled to think of the details. To stimulate her imagination I asked, “Where’s the last place you’d expect to find this creature? Her grandma laughed, and answered “On Dewsbury Market!”

Zara (creator/scientist) declared, “This is a FUN place to be”,

Iman added, smiling, “Everybody’s a child at heart”.

A dad watched enthusiastically as his son got stuck in. “There should be more of this stuff going on. The market needs it. More creative stuff. “

     

 Many thanks to our creative scientists who shared the new species they’d discovered, with us,today.

Animation Day - Transformations

Flip book

With face-painting, tile decorating and easter egg hunts it was very holiday like down the market, the weather too was making a holiday effort, grey clouds gathered and a chill breeze blew.  'Camera, electrics and rain are not good' Rozi declared...several times... so we prepared for flip-book action just in case.
We set up the camera and rostrum, created a big box of bits to animate and set off.  A rope of beads became the outside edge of a face. It had flower eyes, a meccano nose and a crab-leg mouth, the shape and objects changed, becoming a ribbon snake that moved across the screen, collecting items as it went. This was moved out of frame to re-appear as a fish being chased by an onslaught of 'pirannah' pegs.  People picked up where others had left off creating whole new characters and transformations.   This stop-frame object animation formed a great cohesive style for the 'stop-by and do' market visitors.

'Ooh that's so interesting', 'We love everything about this' were some of the comments.
The rain held off and the sun came out, making a whole shadow play on one of the pieces - 'we'll go with that' said Rozi, embracing the situation and turning it into a deliberate process.