BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.7//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4116@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20181017 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20181021 DTSTAMP:20181009T213843Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/crosby-library-pool-our-resource s/ SUMMARY:: Crosby Library: Pool our Resources DESCRIPTION:Pool Our Resources!\n\nThree days of free skills-swaps\, worksh ops\, demonstrations and food-sharing at Crosby Library. 17th\, 18th\, 20t h October 2018\n\n \n\nPool our Resources will look at how we are reintr oducing elements of craft\, thrift and upcycling back into our everyday li ves.  You’re invited to a celebration of the strength and depth of col lective knowledge\, a reminder of the importance of our social spaces\, an d the positive effect of skill-sharing on health and wellbeing.  Join us how to learn to bake bread\, pickle vegetables\, make soap\, make a pictu re frame\, save seeds from garden produce or mend a puncture. Workshops led by artists\, librarians\, social enterprises and local people include DIY with Bootle Tool Shed\, Embroidery with Dorlin's Haberdashers\, Bread for beginners by Homebaked\, and candle-making with Ford Lane Allotments.  And if you can ferment veg peel\, darn socks\, throw a pot or propagate plants\, your valuable knowledge is required!\n\n \;\n\nAll workshops and sessions are free and drop in\, but places are limited so turn up ear ly to secure your slot!  Suitable for anyone of any age with any level of experience – or none!\n\n \;\n\nEveryone is welcome and everything is free!\n\n \n\nPool Our Resources is a project by artist Sean Roy Parke r\, initiator of PEFA projects\, lead artist at Camden Arts Centre and che f at The Brixton Pound.\n\n \;\n\nThe Human Library believes that ever yone has “gifts of the heart\, the head and the hand” to offer. The Hu man Library project is organised by Sefton Libraries with funding from Art s Council England.  To find out how to take part you can speak to one of the Librarians\, or see:\n\nwww.thehumanlibrary.co.uk\n\ntwitter: @OurHuma nLib      facebook: @OurHumanLibrary   instagram: @ourhumanlibrary\ n\nRunning order\n\n \n\nWednesday 17th October\n\n \n\nMorning 11 – 1 \n\n \n\nSquash Liverpool – Seed-saving workshop\n\nJoin Jackie and Tab itha as we save seeds from flowers and produce to plant next year. We'll b e drawing beautiful seed heads too\, using a variety of art materials.\n\n  \;\n\nDorlin's - needlecraft\n\nEmily from Dorlin's will help you get started with embroidery - or trouble-shoot your stitchery needs.\n\n  \;\n\nCollette Whittington  - printmaking\n\nA relief print workshop usin g Block\, Roller and Lino printmaking techniques to create bespoke designs for a library takeaway tote bag.\n\n \;\n\nLunch 1 – 2\n\n \n\nHum an Library volunteers – chapatti-making\n\nMarj and Niamh will be cookin g up chapattis to eat for lunch.  Learn the tricks of how to make this de licious traditional bread that costs only pennies.\n\n \n\nAfternoon 2 – 4 \n\n \n\nSufea Mohamad Noor -  make your own cleaning products\n\n Join Sufea for a hands-on demonstration of how to make cost-effective\, ec o-friendly cleaning products using ingredients from the kitchen/garden. PL US Learn how to make reusable cloth bags for shopping using recycled texti les.\n\n \n\nBootle Toolshed -  simple upholstery and woodwork\n\nCover seat pad with new fabrics and learn how to make a planter\, using donated materials.\n\n \n\nNathan – DIY!\n\nAll the skills you need to wire a p lug\, change a fuse\, fix household equipment.\n\n \;\n\n \n\n \n\n  \n\n \n\n \n\nThursday 18th October\n\n \n\nMorning  11 – 1\n\n \ n\nTheo Vass - Framing on a budget \n\nLearn how to make a frame for your artwork or photos using simple techniques\n\n \n\nBrixton Pound - picklin g workshop\n\nMake some vegetable pickles and ferments with Sean Roy Parke r. Bring a clean jar with a lid if you want to take your pickles away.  ( Produce donations welcomed!)\n\n \;\n\nDorlin's - needlecraft\n\nMore skills with Emily – continue what you started or begin something new.\n\ n \;\n\n \n\nLunch 1-2   \n\n \n\nHomebaked - breadmaking\n\nA han ds on introduction to bread-making with baker Mark Loudon.  Learn the ing redients and processes for a perfect loaf. Take your dough home to cook in your own oven and fill your home with the smell of delicious freshly-bake d bread.\n\n \;\n\nAfternoon 2 – 4\n\n \n\nB4 Biodiversity - candle making\n\nA practical workshop making scented tealights from beeswax from the hives and apiaries at Ford Lane allotment\n\n \;\n\nFrances Disle y - hydrosols and soaps\n\nAs the hydrosol distils gorgeous herbal fragran ces from foraged plants\, make simple soap or mix your own bespoke scents to take away.\n\n \;\n\nGordon\, Crosby Librarian - guitar strings\n\n Find out how to restring your guitar\, or make a cigar box guitar from scr ap materials\n\n \;\n\n \n\nSaturday 20th 11 - 2\n\n \;\n\nGavin and Ian\, Crosby Librarians - Bike fix 101\n\nGet some essential bike main tenance skills:  mend a puncture\, change a tyre\, fix your brakes\, repl ace your bike chain - demos and maybe some hands on practice.\n\n \;\n \nFoodsketz – make a meal for a pound\n\nArtist-chefs Alison and Cat wil l share how to prep simple but tasty food from leftovers and low cost ingr edients in this hands- on workshop.\n\n \;\n\nBluebird Upholstery - up holstery demo\n\nWatch Imogen at work as she brings old furniture back to life using traditional hand skills and talk about the processes.\n\n \ ;\n\nAll day each day  - ‘zine-making\, artists film screenings\, selec ted bookshelf. 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