EVENT DETAILS

When: 7 - 9pm Fri 25th June

Where: Bishop Mascall Centre Car Park, Galdeford, Ludlow

What: An evening of talks and films, live and live streamed in about the importance of making and how we can inspire our kids to engineer their future. With Nick Corston Co-founder of STEAM Co. and patron of Ludlow Fringe 21 and a number of very special guests.

Tickets: £5 live (£5 online) - limited quantity available, buy here now

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Refreshments will be served and there will be an interval.

Speakers:

The event will include the following speakers Live in the venue (L), Live on a video call (V) or pre-filmed (F)

Cardboard artists Darrell Wakelam who made thsi model of Ludlow St Laurence’s Church which we will use as a set for the event

Cardboard artists Darrell Wakelam who made thsi model of Ludlow St Laurence’s Church which we will use as a set for the event

  • Nick Corston - STEAM Co. and Ludlow Fringe 21 Patron (L)

  • Darrell Wakelamn - Cardboard Artist (V)

  • Finn Sagrott - Engineer and Maker from Norfolk (V)

  • Pax Nindi - Junkanew cardboard carnival king

For more information about each speaker see below

Event overview

They often say that for many children the box is better present, especially after the initial excitement sparked by the purchased present subsides and the endless possibilities presented by the cardboard are explored and reinvented.

Ten years ago, Caine Monroy, a seven year old boy caused a viral internet sensation when he built an amusement arcade from cardboard boxes in his dad’s car parts shop in Los Angeles during one long, hot and otherwise boring summer holiday.

His initial disappointment at a complete lack of interest from passers by soon turned to elation when a local filmmaker told a few friends and flash mobbed it with thousands turning up.

The film they made of this momentous day celebrated the creativity that, like every child, Caine was born with and has inspired children all over the world since.

The theme of this evening event was inspired by a talk at a TEDX event by a young man at Norwich UTC who had a passion for making and engineering and how said that to him “cardboard was the gateway drug to making”.

It will be staged amidst a range of cardboard models at Ludlow Primary School at the end of the first day of the #YourGlasto21 Festival, a three day event showcasing the art of community on a pyramid stage built by a few dads from cardboard, code and creativity on their playing field, before it is moved to Castle Square for the next two days.

The evening will bring together an eclectic mix of guests including some of the world’s most prolific and inspiring cardboard modellers and educators. It will appeal to anyone, young or old interested in creativity and education and the role they will play in all our futures

STEAM Co.

Nick co-founded the non-profit community enterprise STEAM Co. to help connect our kids with their art and our communities with their schools.

This evening of talks, films and other artistic contributions will appeal to all creative carers - people and organisations who care about children, creativity and all our futures.

To that end Nick will launch a £2m fund to put 22 STEAM Co. Drop Trucks and STEAMsters on the road across the UK for their #Festival22 of Creativity.

It will be live and live streamed globally and we really want you to bring your stories as well as share them on social media in advance with the the tag #ARTofDADS #LudlowFringe21.

#ARTCONNECTS21 AT #LUDLOWFRINGE21

STEAM Co. are delighted that our co-founder Nick Corston has been asked to be #Patron21 for the world renown Ludlow Fringe Festival and be co-curating a programme of live and live streamed #ARTCONNECTS21 events to celebrate, showcase and remind us how our art connects us, whatever it is.

We want everyone to be a part of these events, to bring and share their stories.

Click the image below to see the section from the Ludlow Fringe Programme about this #ArtConnects21 programme