Lanterns 2014

We had an interesting Halloween supporting and attending local Hallowe'en Events.
The Liverpool Lantern Company put on their usual spectacular event with local community groups designing and carrying small, and not so small! lanterns.
A brilliant firwork display with choirs, musicians, and dancers contributing made it a unique visual spectacular event.

Santa's Finale

Santa at Mackets Lane

Torrington Santa Parade

Santa's Christmas Parade, Halewood.

Each day we will post the details of where Santa will be today.

Look out for the blog posts.

Turnstone & Clover Santa Parade

Santa's Christmas Crusade

LOOK OUT FOR FURTHER POSTS INCLUDING NAMES OF ROADS.

HALEWOOD SPOOKTACULAR

 HALLOWEEN LANTERN

MAKING

OPPORTUNITY!

if you want to learn how to make spooky, spectacular, brilliant lanterns

for the ‘Halewood Spooktacular’

Join us at

The Environment Centre,(Rangers Hut) Halewood Triangle Park, Okell Drive, Halewood, L26 7XB

Saturday 25th October 1pm

Please note NO unaccompanied children

ONE LANTERN PER FAMILY

You will be shown how to make your own lantern.

Demonstration starts at 1pm, please don’t be late.

 Donations welcomed.

Contact Carole, Halewood Arts Association for more details halewoodarts@ gmail.com or 07931 520959

Junior Artists Lantern Decorating 8.10.14

HALLOWEEN LANTERN DECORATING

The Junior Artists decorated their lantern frames this week that they made with Becky Bryson last week.

Plenty of sticky tissue paper and glue !

The artists layered the willow frames with white tissue paper and then designed decorations to stick on them out of coloured tissue paper, then put another layer of white tissue paper and hung them up to dry.

Carole hard at work

Designing decorations for their lanterns.

Decorated lanterns

Junior Artists Halloween Lantern Making with Becky Bryson 1.10.14

LANTERNS WITH BECKY BRYSON

The Junior Artists this week began work on their Halloween Lanterns with the help of Becky Bryson.

The Junior Artists all made a frame similar to this out of willow and over the coming weeks these will be covered in white tissue paper and decorated in the theme of Halloween.

The Halloween lanterns will be covered with tissue paper and decorated next week.

Poems

Here are a few of the poems we came up with: 

ARTWORK

Art is a brain.

Art is everything.

Do it when you like.

Transform whatever you want.

Art is something,

Anything you like.

Anyone can do it,

Just do something.

Use your brain

By what? Your imagination!

Art is nothing

I say that!

Even rubbish

Recycle

It’s just a matter to transform

Create it

The way you like!

And again and again

It’s nothing!

And again and again it’s nothing!

Rosalia Mendes

Langsdale

It was the Langsdale classic

A fell race just for fools,

We did it on our two tired legs

We should have been on mules.

The race it was a long way out

And a long way up ,

The runners got a medal,

The winner got ac cup.

Half way around, upon a hill,

I tripped against a tree,

I finished up in hospital

With a titanium knee.

I felt so stupid

I don’t know why,

I didn’t laugh

But I didn’t half cry!

Tom Glow

Boat trouble

In 92 I bought a boat 

I was so made up I didn’t half gloat.

It was made of wood

And twenty foot long.

It didn’t cost much,

I got it for a song.

The rotten wood it didn’t half stink

And the missed out holes it made him sink.

The final touch was the rest of the boaters

They had a good laugh cos they all had floaters!

Anchors away!

Tom Glow

Poem for Barbara

I only came to vote here

Now they won’t let me go

And now I bring my knitting

It stops me getting low

I knit and knit and knit and knit

And then I knit some more

I knit so much I’ve covered up the ceiling, walls and floor

And now the irony of it is

I cannot find the door!

You gotta laugh or else you’ll cry

Write a poem don’t ask why.

Poem for Ruby.

Everywhere you go you’ll see her Halewood way,

You’ll see her at the crack of dawn and at the close of day,

Through rain and wind and sunshine

She’s out and she’s about

She’s not one for going slowly if you see you must shout

and then give chase

cos she’s a racer

and 

she’ll zoom and beep her hooter.

She’s the queen of these here highways

Ruby and her trusty scooter!

Good bye Ruby Tuesday

We all shout as past she goes

With her bags on carribinas

And her face all pink it glows

Life with Ruby

Is a journey

And the scooter eases pain.

Ride it with her

here on Halewood way

through wind and sun and rain.

HAIKU

Last week during our active older people session we continued with our creative writing sessions - building on what we did last week and reading a few of our favourite poems from liverpool writers.

Sometimes finding a starting point can be the hardest part of getting any words down on paper so Alison our writer in residence started with a quick technique to get our brains thinking. Simply put on two sides of the paper likes and dislikes and the opposite of these for example:

 Sid likes fishing but disliked the government (in his own words the lunatics are running the asylum!!)

Tommy likes writing but hates waiting around. 

I like painting but hate trying to find a matching pair of socks in the dryer (as Carol stated she just wears odd socks as she too finds this irritating!) 

I know what your thinking where is this going to lead....well Alison then introduced to us what a Haiku is.

This is a very sort poem of 3 lines:

1st line 5 syllables (sounds of a word for example university is 5 syllables u-ni-ver-si-ty)

2nd line 7 syllables 

3rd line 5 syllables

So we all attempted to write to write or own Haiku’s about our likes and dislikes  - sounds easy - well counting the sounds of syllables is harder than it looks! 

Edith wrote:

“Must queue for a bus

No overhead railway now

The dockers get wet”

So if we look at syllables 

Must/queue/for/the/bus

no/o/ver/head/rail/way/now

the/dock/ers/get/wet

My Haiku was based on my love of painting/hatred of finding socks

“Get the right palette

Paint the missing sock like love

Voyage et la lune”

Really interesting session - If you or anyone you know wants to come along bring your knitting or anything for a nice group session and discover your inner poet. 

Wednesdays 1-3 

S

Finalising spooky Lanterns for tonights walk!

Yesterday was the last day our junior artists and older people had to finish working on their Lanterns ready for tonights parade! Once we put the finishing touches to them including some spooky bats, spider webs, and BOO's we just put a second layer on then passed over to becky for the finishing touches. Putting a little 'cat flap' on so we can light them tonight. 
A few nail biting moments when we thought we would have a couple of unfinished ones but we all got stuck in and done them all!

Together we have about 20 lanterns - and a lot more pumpkins to help guide us through the woods on tonights scary walk!! 

Keep posted for pictures and tales from tonights spooky event!! 

Happy Halloween everyone!! 

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Hale-O-Ween with Halewood Community Spirit

 

Watch this space for details of how you can make your own lanterns for Halloween, Sefton Park Parade, or even Christmas.

Santa Claus is Coming to Halewood

Check out Santa, his fabulous sleigh and twinkling reindeer coming to Halewood this week and next. Courtesy of Halewood Community Spirit

The sleigh has been designed by Mike and the Reindeer by the very talented Becky Bryson assisted by Carole Trenaman. Merry Christmas Two floats - Santa’s Sleigh & The Branded Collection Van for the Mission Christmas will tour Halewood. On the final night (19th December) the procession will terminate at the new Halewood Shopping Centre – where the twelve days of Christmas and final get together will include carol singing and will act as a climax to the event Santa’s illuminated float will be a Sleigh on the back of a twenty one foot vehicle Santa Driving 2 Four Foot High Illuminated Reindeer Reindeer. This display will also have amplified music playing the Twelve Days of Christmas, and similar interspersed Christmas anthems. This will then be followed by the Radio City Mission Christmas Float – collecting unwrapped presents for their annual appeal and given up by Halewood Residents. Lou Armstrong one of the organisers of the event said “We want to foster a sense of the true Halewood Community Spirit, and aim to convey a focus on the community by promoting special events that enable our neighbourhood to come together - in the interests of improving the conditions of life in the Township”

Lantern Making

We have had a great time making Lanterns for The Liverpool Lantern Parade and Halewood Spooktacular Parade

The Liverpool Lantern Parade was huge with over 10,000 people joining in the Halloween Fun. We were just a small part of the event, but we all had a great time parading with our lanterns.

Halewood Spooktacular organised by Halewood Community Spirit,was a smaller event with a real community feel. Children and several adults really got involved with the evening and turned out in fantastic costumes. We expected 80 particiapnts, but we estimate there was closer to 200!. What a great turnout.

There was Pumpkin carving at The Environment Centre, before all participants lit their lanterns, pumpkins, and torches and paraded along the Loop Line to the Arncliffe Centre. The Loop Line was decorated with Spooky Bats, Ghosts pointing the way, and an avenue of lights, all adding to the fantastic atmosphere. Once at The Arncliffe the festivities continued with delicious homemade scouse, including a veggie version, (thank you ladies of the Arncliffe Centre); apple bobbing; and a disco. Everyone enjoyed the evening and Halewood Community Spirit are already putting thoughts together for next year. Thanks to all who supported the event including HAA and The Community Police.