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Posts with tag: Older People

A group of adults, some wearing Ipswich Town Football Club T-shirts standing in front of displays of Town memorabilia. In the foreground, two women, one in a blue and white glittery wig, crouch holding a football Blog posts

Enter the Archive All-Stars

Local poet (and erstwhile goalie) Dean Parkin introduces the Britten Court Angels and the Extra Time Roman Hill Football Club to the Archive All-Stars, a collection of Lowestoft footballing legends, including Ethel the Bell and a gentleman who played for Roman Hill in 1910.

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A gentleman stands, arms raised in the air, as a group of school children copy his movements Blog posts

Opening match of the season

The first Extra Time intergenerational session, in which the children from Roman Hill Primary school visit residents at Britten Court Care Home and together they play magnetic football and discuss their favourite teams, players – and half time snacks.

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Rows of hand-decorated paper figures some with initials RHFC on them Roman Hill Football Club Blog posts

Getting ready for the match

Roman Hill Football Club rally their supporters whilst Britten Court Angels get their players match fit for next week’s game.

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School child holding a decorated card on which she has listed her team skill as Never Being A Sore Loser Blog posts

Player’s Cards and thoughts on having fun together

Our second session at Roman Hill Primary School in Lowestoft, in which the children consider the skills they bring to the project – and what the residents at Britten Court Care Home might get out of meeting them and taking part in Extra Time.

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A face of a man, wearing spectacles and a green jersey with the words Suffolk Artlink in red on the chest. Above the image reads Extra Time and below the name of the individual Blog posts

Around the Ground

A unique Extra Time poem, created by poet Dean Parkin in conversation with participants at the Around the Ground workshop at the Britten Day Care Centre in July.

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A monochrome image of a football match, with faces of the Extra Time artists and facilitators superimposed over the heads of the footballers Blog posts

Extra Time kicks off at Britten Day Care Centre Lowestoft

Personalised rosettes, Spot the Ball and a poem about living Around the Ground – all part of the Extra Time creative session at Britten Day Care Centre last week.

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Long strips of blue and green felt and silver netting laid out on a table ready to be made into bunting News

First Light Festival Welcome from Hildesley Court

The folks at Hildesley Court have been busy, making beautiful blue bunting in time for the First Light Festival Parade on Saturday 17th June.

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A collaged postcard featuring overlaid pieces of blue patterned papers, including one that is latticed, a tiny picture of a deckchair and beach umbrella, a framed image of a butterfly and a bird and wooden shapes of 3 blue fish, a starfish and a scallop shell Blog posts

Bunting and beach scenes

Sea-themed bunting at the Kirkley Centre and postcards from Windsor Care Home.

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