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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’s House of Delights workshop at Pollocks Toy Museum
What better venue to celebrate almost-Christmas than to run a workshop at the magical Pollocks Toy Museum in Fitzrovia, London? And what more appropriate way to travel there than by a pair of wings? Although I’d forgotten about the hazards … Continue reading
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Tagged Channel 4, Charles Dickens, cut outs, explore and draw, Fitzrovia, greeting cards, House of Delights, Miriam Margolyes, paper houses, paper theatres, Pollocks Toy Museum, Pollocks Toy Theatres, Robert Louis Stevenson, Spitalfields Life, The Hand Book, toys, Victorian dolls, Victorian toys, wings, workshops, workshops for all ages
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Sally Kindberg Dinosaur Wrangling in Fitzrovia
Dinosaurs extinct? Pah, nonsense! Lots of Dinos emerged in fantastic drawings by visitors of all ages at the wondrous Pollocks Toy Museum Fitzrovia Fete on Saturday. I had some trouble with my ears, confusing cats with dinosaurs but it … Continue reading
Punch and Judy
Last weekend in another guise (as a Pirate Captain) at the Fitzrovia Fete, I met Robert Styles (should I call him Professor?) as he was dismantling his booth. I’m not a great fan of the events that happen during these … Continue reading
Posted in Drawings, Events
Tagged Fitzrovia, Fitzrovia Fete, Fred Tickner, Leslie Press, Mr Punch, Pollocks Toy Museum, Punch and Judy, Robert Styles
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Sally Kindberg’s pirate workshop at the Pollocks Toy Museum Fitzrovia Fete
Ahoy there! Pirates of all ages joined me on Saturday at the Fitzrovia Fete, organised by the magical Pollocks Toy Museum, to demonstrate that pirates have remarkably inventive drawing skills. While pirates swashbuckled, crocodiles snapped, musicians played, Punch and … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Events, Festivals, Workshops
Tagged activity book, Bloomsbury Activity books, Bloomsbury Draw It! series, crocodile, Draw It! books, Draw It! Pirates, Draw It! series, Fitzrovia, Pearly King, pirates, Pollocks Toy Museum, sea monsters, street festival, treasure maps, workshops
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Sally Kindberg at Pollocks Toy Museum again
This week I called in again at Pollocks Toy Museum, to chat with D, ex-curator who comes in to the museum once a week to catalogue its contents – a mammoth task, as the museum has a myriad of nooks … Continue reading
Sally Kindberg at Pollocks Toy Museum
My first visit to Pollocks Toy Museum in London’s Fitzrovia district was many years ago with my young daughter. An added delight at the moment is a series of artists’ responses to the collection. Where else could you see singing … Continue reading
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Tagged Fitzrovia, Gallimaufry, Pollocks Toy Museum, The Hand Book of hopes and dreams, toy museum
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