January, 2019, at the Broomhill Art Flat
We kicked off 2019 with a bang of new classes, more classes and returning classes! Our Furniture Upcycling workshop multiplied due to popularity, so there’s now two classes – […]
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December, 2018, at the Broomhill Art Flat
As Christmas approached, we were wrapping up classes and preparing presents… The folks from the Plastic Melting and Weaving workshop were finalising their masterpiece to be hung in the community […]
November, 2018, at the Broomhill Art Flat
In November we were continuing with ongoing classes like Textile and Furniture Upcycling, but also had the new Plastic Melting and Weaving workshop! We partnered up with Community Flat, Suite […]
September, 2018, at the Broomhill Art Flat
September was a busy month at the Art Flat. As well as the usual weekly workshops, we had a week long celebration of Zero Waste Week, from the 3rd till […]
Broomy’s Bairns – Trip to Lunderston Bay
Last week we took a trip to Lunderston Bay with the Broomy’s Bairns to collect some sea glass! After a brief chat with the kids about the importance of keeping […]
Mosaic Madness
We were sad to see the Mosaic Madness come to an end once again! Participants did a great job in making lots of beautiful pieces for the Broomy’s Bees […]
Plastic Fantastic End of Second Quarter
It’s been a busy few months here at RIG working in Broomhill on our CCF (Climate Challenge Fund) project, ‘Plastic Fantastic’. We’ve got 2 our of our 4 in-house plastic […]
Creative Plastics Workshop
In this weeks Creative Plastics Workshop, artist and designer Amelia Rowe, showed the participants how to make pompoms out of recycled film from inside VHS tapes! Amelia took loads of […]
Clothes and Costumes Upcycling
Textiles artists and costumer, Susan McInnes has been leading clothing upcycling workshops from the Art Flat as part of our project Plastic Fantastic. Running for the last 10 weeks, the […]
3D Drawing
We’ve now begun working with the 3D plastic drawing pens in the Art Flat and Notre Dame high school. It took us in RIG ages to figure out how to use […]
The Broomhill Project 