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This week at the HAHC Craft Cafe we carried on with our needle felt landscapes and, with so many new faces, we will be doing another needle felting session next week so everyone who has started a landscape gets the chance to finish and have a go at a different needle felting project! After thatContinue reading “Needle-felting continues”

This week at the Craft Cafe Monique ran a needle felting session where our group created a delightful landscape each. Next week the needle felting theme will continue and the group will be able to finish the landscapes they started or work on something new! Come along and join in on Monday 27th January fromContinue reading “Craft Cafe 20.1.2020”

At the Craft Cafe next week Monique will be running a needle felting session. The needle felting will take the form of a small landscape so why not find a picture of your favourite landscape and join us for a morning of craft at the Harwich Arts and Heritage Centre! For more info please emailContinue reading “Craft Cafe – 20.1.2020”

Monique de Vlieger says Bee creative, Bee part of our new public art project for Harwich Festival 2020. Join us in the Harwich Library on Saturday 18th January, 10 to 12, for our Sewing Bee. We’ll be working on a collaborative piece for which pre-cut squares of fabric will be embellished. These squares will beContinue reading “Public Art Project!”

Today at the Craft Cafe we worked on the Harwich Festival’s public art project. Attendees were given a small piece of fabric which they embroidered in whichever way they liked! The colour palette for the project is stunning and the use of golds in the embroidery will make is shine. There is another drop inContinue reading “Craft Cafe 6.1.2020”

For the next two weeks in Room 6 we have on display art work made by Homestart Harwich families in collaboration with FirstSite in Colchester! The centre is open Monday-Friday 9-5

On a cold winters night (14th December), the Christmas Spirit was awoken at the Harwich Arts and Heritage Centre!  With mulled wine, mince pies and laughter in their hearts, the audience listened attentively to Anthony Roberts as a he recited Charles Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol.   In the interval Anthony asked how different today’s BritainContinue reading “A Christmas Carol”

This week at our Monday Craft Cafe Jack ran a session on collage. Our group cut and tore things out of magazines to create a collaborative piece of work: The Craft Cafe will be back on Monday 6th January at 10:30 for a SEWING BEE session – this will be as part of the HarwichContinue reading “COLLAGE at the Craft Cafe”