Further notes for the Carnival
Junk Carnival: a brief user’s guide:
What you will need to provide.
The Carnivals is as good as its junk!
As a rule we find it is best if the organizer arranges this, and aims to provide one plastic bin bag for each participant, full of plastic bottles, cardboard, bottle tops, etc.
Please note this will need to be all washed and dry, as usual with rubbish for recycling.
Old fabric (not clothing) such as sheets are also desirable.
The organizer also has an option about providing helpers or not (which affects the overall price). For further details of this please see the sample budget below, and the workshop price guidelines page (which is here) .
We will then provide willow, glues, tools, paint and know how. We can also provide a Moroccan Pavilion as a venue.
What we then do with it;
With the rubbish provided, participants will learn how to make costumes, musical instruments, masks, banners and other carnival items using the things which they or their households would normally throw away.
The shortest workshop will run for 4 hours. It has the form of a drop in session. Participants are therefore free to come and go as they please. They can make one thing or several, and will of course get to keep whatever they have made.
Where there is time and interest we will also arrange a procession at the end.
What workshoppers gain from the Carnival;
Participants learn;
How to recycle things themselves, without resorting only to large scale collections by councils, some of whose loads can be contaminated by one household putting in inappropriate, eg; wet, rubbish.
To give real thought to how much we throw away, how much packaging our food and shop bought goods come with, and whether it should be so!
How valuable the everyday materials which we take for granted actually are, and how useful, and how to embody in the physical world the ethos of ‘Reduce, Recycle, Reuse’.
How to think laterally in order to make use of the unexpected to create the playful, useful, or the decorative.
How to be creative on a budget.
And lastly that the means of making something and engaging with the physical world by transforming one thing into something else are always within everyone’s reach.
Sample Budget:
This was for a five hour workshop. we provided one (skilled) helper in addition to the Workshop Leader and the festival provided two others.
£250 fee for Wayne + 1 helper: (5 hours @ £25 per artist)
£60 fuel from W.Cornwall to N.Devon
£65 materials - Willow @ £30 a bundle plus staples, glues, tools,tape, crayons, sundries.
Total £375