Balby Remembers.
Right Up Our Street 2014 marks the one hundred year anniversary of the start of the First World War. To commemorate this event the front of Balby Community Library will be decorated with a field of poppies great and small. The Balby Field of Poppies project was launched last year and is the brain child of Kate Sully, the Right Up Our Street Art Supporter for Balby. Kate has been working with Balby residents making poppies from a range of materials that will transform the library and garden area into a stunning installation celebrating the power and creativity of people working together. The idea was to have as many people as possible involved in the process and creation of the project and to practice and learn different skills. Through drop-in activities at the library and other venues, family workshops in schools and a whole range of poppy based events Kate has been gathering poppies ready for display in September. The Balby Field of Poppies will be breathing a new life into an ordinary landscape to create and ignite a new curiosity in a familiar place.
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