Kathleen's Attic

We work with heritage organisations, Councils & other businesses to provide local seasonal activities at events. Categories:
Schools: linked to the NI curriculum we offer various interactive programmes suitable for all primary Keystages. These include; Play in the Past, Victorian Life, Houses and Homes, Traditional crafts, From Flax to Linen, Famine Times, Seasonal customs & folklore, Cultural Diversity. Events: Over the years we have provided themed traditional crafts at events such as the Tall Ships, the Ulster Scots Festival, A Victorian Christmas in Antrim, May Day Celebration Week in Ballyclare, Spinning Yarns Festival in Antrim, the Belfast Mela to name a few. Community Groups: We can come to your group to work alongside you on a special project or a one off visit. Our projects have included working with the R-Space Gallery's Linen Biennale programme offering schools and community groups the opportunity to learn about local linen production and design a tea-towel. We facilitated North Ardoyne Women's Group to discuss and design a cultural wall hanging represenative of their own local history. In conjunction with Artsekta, we overseen the Coalisland Knitting Groups knnited town projevt. The women were taught how to take a building, work to scale, build it and then use the template to knit it as it would have been in 1910. Health & Wellbeing: Mossley Mill was host to a morning of activities set to help participants with being mindful of body, mind and soul. We provided two craft activities linking with this theme.