Art
Creativity is important to us at The Village Hub. We love finding new ways to encourage creativity in Stoke and Morice Town, and try to be creative in our approaches to working in our local community.
We support community members to lead groups focussed around their interests – including a regular Art Group, Writing Group & Squat Theatre. Local residents and creative folks can approach us with ideas to run workshops or events, trips they’d like to organise, or new ideas they’d like help with.
From Autumn 2021 – Autumn 2022, we have been working on a project called Growing The Village Hub, which focusses on growing creativity in our neighbourhood and helping people find new ways to make connections between people, creativity, heritage and our local green space at Blockhouse Park.
- Culture Club
- Writing Group
- Art Group
- Workshops
- Summer of Fun
- Art Go See
Blockhouse Folk: Past, Present and Future
Blockhouse Folk: Past, Present and Future was a two year project by The Village Hub to uncover and celebrate social and natural heritage in our neighbourhood – made possible with funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund. The idea is to connect past, present and...
Join the Village Show at the Stoke Village Fun Day 2025!
Thank you to The National Lottery Community Fund
It's a year since we had the news that the National Lottery Community Fund Awarded us funding for 4 years but what have we been up to in the year? Have a read of our report and find out. Kim Armstrong the Funding Officer form The National Lottery Community Fund...
Local people make up our Photographic Census
May is National Local History Month and The Village Hub in Stoke Village is raising awareness of local history by encouraging the community of Stoke, Morice Town and Ford to find out more about where they live. With support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund The...
An old man sitting on his own
“Spring” Poem
Happy New Year
The Village Hub Contributes to The National Gallery
We were invited by Green Minds Plymouth and The Box to contribute a piece of writing about a local artist who had taught at the original arts college just down the road from us! The piece was based on Ben Hartley's A Devon Lane, loosely compared with a Turner, "Rain...
Culture Club: Bite-Sized Bazaar
FREE Bring & Share/Swap Culture Club + Market Event where we got together to share, swap and celebrate some great community cooking featuring YUMMY bite-sized finger foods! We tried out a swap and trade system, using tokens, not money in this bazaar event. Some...
Climate Fresk
Local resident Sjoerd from Climate Clarity led us carefully through The Climate Fresk - so we could play together to learn more about how our climate system works! The Climate Fresk is a 3-hour interactive workshop, based around a card game that we could play...
Rag Rug Workshop
Over the next few weeks, we'll be learning about how to make our own rag rugs, and work on a collaborative project together. Barbara Hampson from Glad Rags will be teaching us the skill of making a rag rug using proddy and hooking techniques. This is a FREE four week...
Bronze Age Cups Workshop & Picnic
Travel back in time to make cups the way our Bronze Age ancestors would! We joined Angie Wikenden (potter, educator and experimental archaeologist) to learn how to make and fire Bronze Age ceramic cups from scratch. Using pre-historic techniques, we will learn about...
Stoke Saplings Forest Club
Artist Rebecca Begley-Smith is very excited to bring nature learning and artistic fun filled sessions up to Blockhouse Park this summer. Every Wednesday morning through August, we focused on a different nature subject, where we learned and then had fun making. Each...
Ceramic Signs For Blockhouse Park
Come and help us design & make ceramic signs for Blockhouse Park! We're working with local residents & artists "In The Making" (Maia & Tressa) to design and make a new set of ceramic signs for Blockhouse Park. In The Making have been working with our...
Celebrating Lughnasa: Breads ‘Round the World
At this months Culture Club, we invited everyone to Join us to share, swap and eat breads from around the world in this celebration of the traditional harvest season. We tried out a swap and trade system - using tokens, not money, to buy bread. Bread-makers received...
Sun Printing Workshop
We joined photographers, educators and nature enthusiasts Jess and Emma to explore the traditional technique of cyanotype sun printing - one of the earliest forms of photo print making that produces prints in a distinctive dark greenish-blue. By using found objects,...
Sunset Screening
We have done our FIRST EVER outdoor screening of short videos, animations & sounds in Blockhouse Park! Local residents, friends and people from further afield joined us for a lo-fi outdoor screening under the stars. We watched and listened to a selection of short...
Natural Colour Workshop
We have been exploring the power of natural colour using plants and flowers sourced from our surroundings!! Artist, dyer and grower, Ffion Taverner showed us the ancient Japanese technique of Hapa Zome (hammering plant material on cloth) based on leaf printing, and we...
Sound Foraging Walk
Let's explore the flavours, smells, sights, sounds and natural environment of Blockhouse Park!! We joined Tess Wilmot (permaculture teacher and expert wild food forager) and Jodie Saunders (musician and sound enthusiast) for a guided foraging/listening walk around...
How To Bury The Giant: Create Your Own Miniature Mossy World
We learned how to build our own terrariums / miniature mossy worlds!! We invited Art and Energy (artists, thinkers, makers and tinkerers responding to the climate emergency) to lead us on a stroll around Blockhouse park, exploring the world through an energy lens,...
Sarah on Candid Camera
When Sarah, a local resident, first met us she had never performed any of her poetry live.... look at her now! Reading about her beautiful rescue dog, Mickey. DSC_0136 Mickey arrived at Sarah's directly through the Village Hub. We had a new visitor who stopped a...
Drop In – Bunting & Decor Making Workshop
We invited local residents to join us to make up-cycled Outdoor Decor for the Stoke Fun Day (which will happen on 17th July 2022). Using materials that had been donated to us, and bought from Plymouth Play Scrapstore (who salvage materials that would otherwise go to...
Culture Club – JarSquad Take Over
JarSquad did a special "take over" day at Culture Club this month, and hosted a co-learning Assembly where we made pickles and fermented foods inspired by recipes from around the world! Carmen, Tess & Rachel shared the processes they use at JarSquad, including...
Culture Club – Super Stylish Summer Salads & Picnics
We got together to learn how to snap snazzy food photos in our salad-meets-photojournalism Culture Club! Salad isn’t just lettuce, tomatoes, and cucumber...it can be anything! This weekend, we came together to create some beautiful and delicious summer salads and...
Visit to Devon Sculpture Park
We went on a fact finding trip to learn about rewilding in other settings and bring the information back to Blockhouse Park! Here are some photos from our visit This ArtGoSee was supported by the Growing The Village Hub project (in...
Culture Club – Beltane Foraging Walk & Workshop
We're so pleased to have Mariam & Gabriele from Totnes Community Herbal lead a Beltane herbal foraging walk around Blockhouse Park. This month at Culture Club we have been celebrating Beltane (or Beáltaine - pronounced Bee-yowl-tan-eh, if you are Irish!) - a...
Community Voice Interim Report
Flax Corn Dolly Making
This week we joined Vicky Putler (who runs The Flax Project) to help build an oversized Corn Dolly made of flax straw on Blockhouse Park. The making took place in Stoke Youth and Community Centre and outside in Blockhouse Park. Everyone who wanted to could have a go...
Culture Club – Potluck Feast
We are very excited to have run our first Community Feast at Stoke Youth & Community Centre in Blockhouse Park! This was a great opportunity to get together, share food and good company. There were also be some spring themed arts & crafts activities on hand...
Block Printing Workshop
Community members Vicky Pulter and Farrah Seyedi led a Block Printing Workshop at The Village Hub. Block printing is a method of printing onto textiles. We carved the blocks to leave only the pattern we wanted to print, and then inked up the blocks to transfer the...
Culture Club – Plate Making
We got together to make ceramic pottery plates for our upcoming Community Feasts. Rachel and Haidee shared the skills they had learned from Tweeny (who runs The Pottery at Ocean Studios) to support everyone to learn how to make plates from scratch. The Village Hub's...
The Village Hub and Take A Part
Recently The Village Hub was successful in getting funding to work in partnership with Take A Part to learn more about how to run a creative community building programme in two neighbourhoods of Plymouth, Stoke and Morice Town. The neighbourhoods are home to a diverse...
12 Years in Stoke
Stoke Village Window Wanderland 2020
Stoke Village and the surrounding areas were transformed into an outdoor art gallery, with around 45 beautifully decorated windows, as part of the first Stoke Village Window Wanderland. We saw some more incredible windows! You can view the gallery of windows online...
Pumpkins and craft bags
Art doesn’t have to be arty. We spent an enjoyable few hours socially distanced carving pumpkins with some local school children. Our area is quite eclectic – we had the family of a star footballer, a single mum and her 7 year old, Jobiel who has just arrived from...
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The Village Hub
67 Devonport Road,
Stoke Village,
Plymouth,
PL3 4DL.
Opening Times
Monday - Thursday- 10am - 12noon
Friday - 10am - 12noon AND 1pm - 6pm
"The Village Hub Community Limited" is registered under the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014 as a Community Benefit Society, number 8522. Registered on Companies House number RS008522. "The Village hub Community" is a charity for tax purposes in line with Paragraph 1 of Schedule 6 FInance Act 2021. Reference ZD15315. Also registered with Co-Operatives UK.
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