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Category Archives: Workshops
Fitzrovia Fete August 10th 2025
Great fun to be invited back to take part in the annual Fitzrovia Fete event organised by Lucia Jaffer and her Fitzrovia Community Centre team. My drawing prompts this year were ‘Draw a Family Tree and/or Draw your Best Friend’, … Continue reading
Sally Kindberg and the House of Mysterious Objects
Swedenborg House, the 18th century home of the Emanuel Swedenborg archive, is a house full of mysterious objects. More than one hundred years ago this house in Bloomsbury, London became home to all things related to the 18th century polymath, … Continue reading
Sally Kindberg and the House of Mysterious Objects
Another workshop event at Swedenborg House on April 16th. Check their site to register for a free ticket. You could bring your own mysterious object to draw, although there are plenty of mysterious things in situ. You could also could … Continue reading
Sally Kindberg and a happy school visit
Last week I visited an infants and junior school in Windsor. Recently my school visits have been to Sixth Forms, running workshops for the Royal Literary Fund encouraging writing skills, although in the past I have run many workshops in … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Visits, Workshops
Tagged book week, cartoon characters, drawing cats, drawing expressions, live drawing, school visit, workshop
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The Queen in my suitcase
‘Aha!’ said a member of Glasgow airport’s security staff as a small Royal person was revealed lurking at the bottom of my suitcase. Ten years ago this summer, whilst returning from the Outer Hebrides, my luggage set off a shrill … Continue reading
Posted in Drawings, Travels, Visits, Workshops
Tagged an Lanntair, Bernara, carvings, chess, chess sets, Iceland, islands, Isle of Lewis, Lewis chess set, Outer Hebrides, Queen, Stornaway Gazette, travel, Uig, Vikings, Visit Scotland
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House of Dreams workshop with Sally Kindberg at Swedenborg House
The painted wooden summer house where eighteenth century polymath Emanuel Swedenborg sometimes wrote his mysterious books, thought of inventions, planned his garden or played music on his organ, is now in Skansen, Sweden. I visited here when I was three … Continue reading
Posted in Workshops
Tagged drawing workshop, dream, family workshops, House of Dreams, memory, paper cut out, paper house, Skansen, Summer House, Swedenborg, synaesthesia, Triola, workshop
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Sally Kindberg workshop at the Fitzrovia Fete 2024
Ha! the best workshop events have a life of their own … who knew when I introduced my tetrapods to Fitzrovia last sunday, I’d meet another one quoting Latin (it means now and for ever), encounter members of Save the … Continue reading
Posted in Drawings, Events, Festivals, Workshops
Tagged Bloomsbury Publishing, community event, drawing event, early ancestor, events for children, events for families, festival, Fitzrovia Community Centre, Fitzrovia Fete, giant knitting, Lego, London street festival, street event, street festival, tetrapod, tetrapods, The Comic Strip History of the World
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Sally Kindberg’s workshop at Herne Bay’s Cartoonists Festival 2024
On 3rd August I headed to Herne Bay’s Beach Creative HQ to run a workshop, part of the annual Cartoonists Festival. Not only families drew impressive comic strips – the youngest was five years old – professional cartoonists joined in … Continue reading
Sally Kindberg, International Women’s Day and almost spring
Happy International Women’s Day which of course should be every day! It’s almost spring, and already a busy time here. Last month I ran another House of Dreams workshop at Swedenborg House, later going to a talk about the current … Continue reading
Posted in Travels, Workshops
Tagged architecture, International Women's Day, Royal Literary Fund, Southall, workshops
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Sally Kindberg’s House of Dreams workshop at Swedenborg House
Where would you keep your magic numbers? In your paper House of Dreams of course! Just one of the many inventive drawings made on St Valentines Day this week during another workshop at Swedenborg House. If you had a little … Continue reading
Posted in Drawings, Events, Workshops
Tagged cut out house, House of Dreams, paper house, Skansen, Summer House, Swedenborg, Swedenborg House
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