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SUMMARY:Summer River Workshops at Rowntree Park
DESCRIPTION:\nJoin sculptor and ceramicist Sarah Schiewe for a creative, family-friendly clay workshop inspired by York’s rivers, flooding history, and climate resilience.\n\n\n\nIn this hands-on workshop, participants will create their own unique air-dry clay fish — a “river messenger” carrying stories, memories, and imagined journeys from the Yorkshire Dales down to the River Ouse.\n\n\n\nAlongside making, we’ll explore some of the extraordinary things that have been discovered in rivers over many years — from everyday objects lost and carried along the water to unexpected and intriguing finds that hint at human lives, industries, and floods long past. These discoveries open up stories about what rivers gather and hold over time, and how objects become part of the river’s changing memory.\n\n\n\nUsing simple clay hand-building techniques, families will shape and texture their fish with materials found along the river such as reeds, driftwood, pebbles, sand, silt, and plant matter, alongside bark, leaves, rope, and fabric. These natural impressions will create tactile surfaces inspired by water, land, and flood environments, turning each fish into a storyteller of the river’s shifting history and imagination.\n\n\n\nParticipants will add “flood memory lines” and words such as rise, flow, safe, and home to their sculptures, creating personal artworks that reflect both lived experience and imagination.\n\n\n\nAt the end of the workshop, all the fish will come together as a collective “shoal of messages” — a temporary installation celebrating community voices, resilience, and our shared connection to the river. Paints will be provided so participants can finish decorating their sculptures at home once dry.\n\n\n\nWhat to Expect\n\n\n\n\n– Learn accessible clay hand-building techniques\n\n\n\n– Create your own river-inspired clay fish sculpture\n\n\n\n– Explore storytelling, memory, and climate resilience through art\n\n\n\n– Contribute to a collaborative community artwork\n\n\n\n– Take your sculpture home to finish and display\n\n\n\n\nDate: Saturday 25th July – Rowntree Park – 10:00 – 12:00Duration: 2 HoursSuitable for: Ages 10+ (younger children welcome with an adult)\n
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LOCATION:Rowntree Park Lodge, Richardson St, York YO23 1JU
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