AMTeC Educational Workshops:

CPD & children

Half Term Free Workshops

6 The Forum, Sittingbourne ME10 3DL

Previously:

Swale Wassail:

A community effort to create plaques, runes, and bricks before gathering for a Wassail along the high street, blessing the shops and bringing ‘prosperity’ to the struggling retail industry. A great opportunity for kids to get involved with historical practices and be a part of celebrating their heritage.

Paper Making:

100 Year celebration of Sittingbourne’s paper mill, a series of workshops for children to have hands-on experience in papermaking

Book Care:

Bring your broken and old books to our expert and receive advice on how to care for them

Doll Hospital:

Got a poorly dolly at home? Bring them into the forum to receive some care and learn about how plastic degrades

Saturday preparations for the Swale Wassail

“A great day on Saturday at Sittingbourne Shopping Centre, helping to show people how to make paper using cotton (old T-shirts etc), put into the paper making machine, that grinds it down with water into a pulp, ready for paper making.

I made a lovely little sheet of paper too.

We, with Dana Goodburn-Brown, were celebrating Sittingbourne Paper Mills’ amazing past, in 1912, having held the title of the largest newsprint producers in the world!

Andrew Richardson also brought along some amazing artifacts and had the famous Anglo-Saxon sword on show (as seen on Digging For Britain)!

Toni Mount taught us lots about ancient medical remedies and how they were used. She also brought along her fascinating selection of books and novels (available on Amazon).

Damian Goodburn was carving Anglo-Saxon runes into wood foraged from their orchard. As we carved, Damian had us hanging on his every word, listening to his amazing stories of his archaeological past.

It was great to meet Sam Rapp, the dyslexic poet, who was making signs and maps and even came and had a go at making some paper with us. She was very pleased and proud of her paper, made with her own fair hands.”