01 September 2012
The Circus of illustration invites you to become illustrators for the day and join us at “The Drawing room ” 24 Mill St Pop Up on September 15th between 10 and 4. We’ll be covering everything with doodles, creating a literal room of drawings and a room to draw in. The event is a […]
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23 August 2012
As part of the 24 Mill St Pop Up local artist and all round wonder-woman Anne Marie Stijelja will be curating the Mail Art: Bedford exhibition which will incorporate her own work alongside other travelling Mail Art shows. Anne Marie explains more here: “I will be curating an exhibition at the 24 Mill St Pop […]
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23 August 2012
We are back with another empty shop adventure. Working in partnership with Stimpsons Eves we are now the proud pop-up shop keepers of the 24 Mill Street Pop Up. As a result of our We Are Bedford Bursary we are working with a number of people and groups to schedule a range of events including […]
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18 April 2012
Last year we worked hard to transform some empty retail units in Bedford. We think we did a good job and we’d like to offer the opportunity to others to have a go. We are making small grants available to groups or individuals with the energy and passion to make creative use of the empty […]
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12 March 2012
Following the success of the Monsters of Bedford ‘Big Draw‘ event in October last year we decided to enter into the Drawing Inspiration Awards. These awards recognise the Big Draw activities that were most innovative and creative. Now the bad news is we didn’t win. But the good news? We gave the judges a hard […]
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12 March 2012
It is hard to believe that 12 months have passed since the Castle Quay Weekender took place in the seven empty shops in and around the Cultural Quarter of Bedford. The weekend of 19 – 20 March 2011 attracted over 4,000 people to Castle Quay offering everything from live music to crafts, wine-tastings to comedy, […]
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08 December 2011
Open until the 17th December the Pop Up Emporium is a shop stocked exclusively by Bedford made or designed goods. Entirely volunteer run we exist to showcase the very best of Bedford talent and to offer local makers, designers and creatives an route to market. We have transformed an empty retail space into a winter […]
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08 December 2011
Bedford is one of those towns that can really surprise you. Bedfordian’s everywhere are busy creating little slices of magic for the town with little fanfare or fuss. Jude Cottam is one of those people. For 7 years she has put on the Bedford Christmas Tree Festival in St Paul’s Church in the heart of […]
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13 November 2011
This weekend we opened the door to our Pop Up Emporium for a series of ukulele workshops for families and grown ups. Ukulele tutor Sue Snell, author of the book ‘Uke and Sing’ taught 20 willing participants (who ranged in age from 2 to over 50) a range of simple songs to set them on […]
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13 November 2011
Approximately 200 people (and one dog) joined us on the 22nd Oct for our Monster ” Big Draw” event in our empty shop in Castle Quay Bedford. Seven Bedfordshire Illustrators were on hand to help artists of all ages develop their creatures through drawing, stitching, cutting and sticking and more. We were all blown away […]
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