I’ve had a lovely week last week as we had graduations in Tullie’s Lecture Theatre. Although the actual graduations took place in Carlisle Cathedral, unfortunately the Cathedral always gets over subscribed so those who can’t get in the Cathedral can watch the graduations via video link in Tullie House. As you walked past the lecture theatre you heard the occasional cheer and applause! I think it’s a lovely idea to have a video link as it would horrible if you have to miss you child’s or grandchild’s graduation, so it’s really nice they had the opportunity to still see it.

As well as the graduations Katie and I made a display in Tullie House’s foyer promoting an up coming 1930’s themed event called ‘Murder-Lite-Night – The Curious Croquet Corpse’. The event is being run by the company ‘Highly Suspect’ who create opportunities for guests to play detective in solving a murder mystery! The event is going to be held outside in the Tullie House garden where games such as croquet and quoits are going to be played! I’m even working at the event so I’m really excited!

I have also just been trained to hold the summer holiday’s activities. I was shown how to set up the area and what the activity is going to be! It’s called ‘Richard Slee’s Play and Play’ activity, inspired by the current exhibition we have in the Art Gallery created by Richard Slee. It involves decorating items you wouldn’t normally decorate and it looks great fun! Definitely an activity to bring the children too!

Anyway, I hope to see you there! I’ve had a lovely week last week as we had graduations in Tullie’s Lecture Theatre. Although the actual graduations took place in Carlisle Cathedral, unfortunately the Cathedral always gets over subscribed so those who can’t get in the Cathedral can watch the graduations via video link in Tullie House. As you walked past the lecture theatre you heard the occasional cheer and applause! I think it’s a lovely idea to have a video link as it would horrible if you have to miss you child’s or grandchild’s graduation, so it’s really nice they had the opportunity to still see it.

As well as the graduations Katie and I made a display in Tullie House’s foyer promoting an up coming 1930’s themed event called ‘Murder-Lite-Night – The Curious Croquet Corpse’. The event is being run by the company ‘Highly Suspect’ who create opportunities for guests to play detective in solving a murder mystery! The event is going to be held outside in the Tullie House garden where games such as croquet and quoits are going to be played! I’m even working at the event so I’m really excited!

The book cover I made for the display

I have also just been trained to hold the summer holiday’s activities. I was shown how to set up the area and what the activity is going to be! It’s called ‘Richard Slee’s Play and Play’ activity, inspired by the current exhibition we have in the Art Gallery created by Richard Slee. It involves decorating items you wouldn’t normally decorate and it looks great fun! Definitely an activity to bring the children too!

Anyway, I hope to see you there!

Katie & Claire at our
Venetian Mask Making Workshop

I’ve had a really nice couple of weeks here since my last update. I’ve been helping organise the Summer Fayre and it seems to coming together nicely. I really like seeing the progression of putting together one of these events as I didn’t realise initially how much work is involved in organising one! This project all came about when I first started at Tullie so having helped develop it to the stage it’s at now feels really rewarding.

On the 28^th June as part of my Arts Award I went to Kate Plumtree’s Venetian Mask Making workshop along with Katie (one of the other apprentices). It was actually really fun and we both learnt a totally new skill in the process! We moulded the mask onto each others faces and had to wait for the material to harden before we could decorate it. Considering everyone in the class had used the same basic principle of how to make the mask, I think it’s fair to say they all looked totally different by the end. I opted to do a simple eye mask, where others such as Katie created a mask which covered ¾ of the face. If I got the opportunity to do this again I would definitely do it again!

Also since my last Blog update I had a meeting with my apprenticeship assessor which went really well. She looked at how far I had progressed and set me some new pieces of work to complete. I also found out my next assessment date, which is in September so I’ve  put that in the diary!

It’s definitely seems like I’ve got a busy year ahead of me!

Claire