Funding

also i forgot to add the list of funding that was found


Arts council Big Lottery Banks Big Companies e g Shell Also do GRANTFINDER at Devonport Library to search for pots of relevant money. European Funding Plymouth University Enterprise Centre can help access stuff Banks e g Lloyds have community money Drake Foundation

i have already done some research on the arts council, we would be eligible to apply for funding,
sadly i cant upload the screen shots i even tried to capture them again but it wont let me do it


here is the link for the pages
arts council funding

sheep skull painted lavender with blue horns 

the influence is taken form sugar skulls 

travel doc on day of the dead

hello all i found this video on the tube of you,  is a travel show but has really interesting visuals of festivities , also a fair but about how the dead come to visit 

Dia de Los Muertos Poem by Olivia Garcia Narrated by Carlos Puma

Drafted up kids fact sheet tonight to accompany other activity sheets etc. Tried to keep it as brief as possible and to the point.

Let me know if anything needs to be changed or corrected etc.

Just had an idea after looking on "creative opportunities" advertised through college webite...


Theres a facepainting workshop in Saltash this Thursday 17th 10am-3pm in Saltash, £2 per head.


Was thinking we could maybe include some kind of Day of the Dead facepainting workshop day for kids at exhibition.


Let me know what you think and perhaps we could go down to the Saltash workshop for a few hours to get a bit more experience.

Children's exhibition actvitiy sheets etc - the guinea pigs!

These are the first 3 activity sheets I made, taking into considering the group's discussions and ideas. I will also make a kids factsheet to accompany the other sheets. Also think it would be a good idea, as discussed, to produce a kind of "treasure hunt" activity sheet i.e. clues to lead the children to different parts of the museum and find various objects. This could be discussed at a later date when we've established what to exhibit and what pieces we could relate to our exhibition which are already in the musuem and gallery.

If theres anything you think could be changed or added, let me know (including any spelling mistakes!)

I decided to use my family as guinea pigs and gave them the mask sheets to have a go.

My daughter Kayls (8), tried out the activity sheet - she struggled a bit with the wordsearch but thought the dot to dot and maze was quite easy. She did add that it wasn't girlie enough!!! Think this may be better on the back of one of the mask sheets or fact sheet instead of being an individual page.

Here are some photos of my troups colouring in the masks and the resulting images:



Tyler (2) Kayls (8)



Char (15) Sumz (12) Andrew (32)

Everyone seems to enjoy decorating/colouring the masks and some took more time over their masks than others (Andrew!)

I think this would be a very successful activity for visitors at the exhibition - young and old!


(2yrs) (8yrs) (15yrs)

(12yrs) (32yrs) (8yrs)
(last mask is the patterned template sheet)