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We offer arts in education, community workshops and projects in environmental art, writing and theatre, creative writing prompts, activities, and creative writing resources. The Flying Shop of Imagination champions the use and value of imagination in schools and communities, to connect, communicate and inspire creative adventures transforming aspirations and life opportunities. We believe:
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03/04/2025
We love exciting new research into helping children to write.
Trips to the playground and jigsaw puzzles: five surprising ways to help children learn to write Spatial awareness is a key prerequisite of handwriting development.
11/07/2023
Summer holiday creative workshops for children...Tuesdays in August...
16/02/2023
The young writers created a breathtaking formula after professor Brainstorm led a small hurricane into the laboratory and all of this in the shadow of the Doomsday Clock...
16/02/2023
Lovely workshop at Norwich Theatre this half term creating a Formula to Save the World! with some super-talented young writers...
22/12/2022
Here’s the essential skill for assessing our politics: knowing the difference between lies and bu****it | Aditya Chakrabortty We have suffered both. Some never speak the truth because they don’t know or care about it. Others know the truth but lie anyway, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
18/12/2022
A rich life in the UK’s creative industries is a long shot if you are born poor | Tomiwa Owolade Low pay and job insecurity in the arts are increasingly making the field the preserve of the wealthy, and less diverse as a result, writes Tomiwa Owolade
16/12/2022
Freezing fog at Lode Mill.
A picture of Cambridge every day since 2010. (No 4649) Wednesday 14th December 2022.
16/12/2022
Hilda Carline has become familiar to us as Stanley Spencer's first wife and muse, though reference is rarely made to her own considerable achievement as an artist
Alison Thomas her story: https://artuk.org/discover/stories/hilda-carline-artist-mother-and-the-first-mrs-stanley-spencer
🧑🎨 Hilda Anne Carline (1889–1950)
📸 Tate
16/12/2022
With the seasons changing we’re reminded of all the great literature about winter weather. Here’s one of our favourite poems on the subject. What are yours?
16/12/2022
Winter wonderland on the Thames? ❄️
From Stuart London until 1814, the surface of the river froze over twenty-four times. Londoners marked some of these occasions with Frost Fairs, building markets, playing games and cooking meat on the icy surface of the river.
Take a look at some of the most famous Frost Fairs through the Museum of London's collections: https://bit.ly/3YqtSIc
16/12/2022
The paintings of the Victorian artist Edward Burne-Jones transport us to the realms of Arthurian romance or classical legend.
There is a consistency to his vision, each picture densely packed with beautifully designed detail. Suffused with crepuscular light, they have a claustrophobic quality that intensifies the melancholy mood.
His women possess a wispy otherworldly beauty, as do many of his men – androgynous heroes, more likely to be lost to languid introspection than performing gallant deeds.
Sir Edward Burne-Jones Bt. ARA, 'The Summer Snow', May 1863. Wood-engraving. 142 mm x 103 mm. © Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London.
16/12/2022
Absolutely true. ❤️❤️