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Airship Dreams: School Resources

Our Airship Dreams: Escaping Gravity project provides a great way for schools to link local, social history to the curriculum across a range of STEAM subjects.    We have been working closely with Shortstown Primary School to develop a set of resources that are FREE for schools to use.  We’ve called this programme the Airship Dreamers Club.    The resources can be used…

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Case Study: Shortstown Primary School Escapes Gravity

Bedford Creative Arts (BCA) and The Higgins Bedford have collaborated with artist Mike Stubbs to develop a new artwork and community exhibition based on Bedfordshire’s Airship Heritage. One of our goals is to engage the local community in the engineering heritage of the local area, and our links to the airship industry. Children and young…

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Make & Share

As part of our Take Part Queen’s Park  art project, we’ve launched a brand-new campaign called Make & Share. This is your opportunity to get involved and showcase your talents. We are also exploring the mindfulness benefits that making and creating can have on our well-being.   Expressing your creativity makes you feel good and you can do that through cooking up a storm,…

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Airship Dreams: “unboxing”

What airship treasures do you have at home? This could be anything from a photo, to newspaper cuttings, a model or any memorabilia related to airships. BCA invite you to share these in the form of an ‘unboxing’ video, for our community archive, as part of our project Airship Dreams. Simply unwrap or remove your…

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