YarMakers

06/05/2026

We’re really pleased to see the new report from Creative Lives now published (link below 👇)

YarMakers began back in 2023, made possible through the Department for Culture, Media and Sport’s Know Your Neighbourhood fund, distributed via Arts Council England and Creative Lives.

From the outset, the focus was simple but powerful:
how can creativity support social connection, reduce loneliness, and inspire pride in place?

This new report brings together learning from across the country >> all the places, people, and projects it has touched.

The combined findings show that community-led creative activity can:
• improve wellbeing
• strengthen social connections
• create volunteering opportunities
• build pride in place and a sense of belonging

It’s fantastic that Great Yarmouth has been part of this. Not just as a participant, but as a place where this work has taken root and continues to grow.

Since its beginning, YarMakers has become a catalyst for ongoing activity:
>> developing an accessible making and crafting offer for anyone to enjoy, and building a brilliant, growing community of local makers (some new to the challenge and some who are more experienced) who are leading the sessions and shaping what happens next...

Have a read of the report and see the wider picture 👇

Creative Lives' new report exploring how creativity can support social connection, reduce loneliness, and inspire pride in place

05/03/2026

📣 Sharing on behalf of our friends Arieh Frosh and Ed Compson

A free Hotel Kittiwake+ workshop is coming up at The Battery in Lowestoft — tea included! ☕

They’d love to gather a good mix of people to take part in imagining and designing a speculative marine hotel through collaborative role play. The conversations and designs that emerge will feed directly into the development of the sculpture/set the workshops take place in, ahead of its presentation at First Light Lowestoft.

Free but booking required — details via the link below.

Join artists Ed Compson and Arieh Frosh for two connected role playing workshops inspired by the ‘Kittiwake Hotels’ that have recently appeared on the North Sea horizon. Built as nesting sites for kittiwakes affected by offshore construction, these structures prompt a wider question: what would ...

20/02/2026

🎨 PART TWO – Sunday at YarMakers SUPERSIZE

We’re nearly at the final layers of our SUPERSIZE live build — and Sunday is your chance to respond in colour.

🗓 Sun 22 February · 12–4pm
📍 PrimeYarc (originalprojects;), Great Yarmouth
🎟 FREE · Drop in

🎨 PLAY WITH PAINT

Led by Gabby

After weaving, knotting, burning, printing and folding — we paint.

This experimental session invites you to respond to everything created so far, adding colour and movement to our evolving exhibition.

Pour. Push. Play.
See what emerges.

The exhibition has grown all week. Now it shifts again.

All materials provided.
All ages welcome.
No experience needed.

Come once. Come back. Watch it grow.

🔥 PLUS… Pyrographiti with will be happening alongside —
two ways to make, one space growing. Add your mark to a communal wood-burned tabletop artwork.

…..

Start small. Go big.

🖍 All materials provided
👋 All ages welcome
🎨 No experience needed (under 16s supervised for pyrography).

Supported by Creative Lives through funding from Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Arts Council England.

20/02/2026

This weekend🌟 PART ONE – Saturday at YarMakers SUPERSIZE

This Saturday we continue building our growing SUPERSIZE exhibition — and you’re invited to help shape it.

🗓 Sat 21 February · 12–4pm
📍 PrimeYarc (originalprojects;), Great Yarmouth
🎟 FREE · Drop in

🧧 FOLD A FORTUNE

Origami with Tracy (Rock the Block)

Fold.
Multiply.
Let good fortune gather.

We’ll be creating swarms of folded paper forms inspired by Lunar New Year — each one joining our evolving exhibition.

What starts as a single sheet becomes something collective.
What begins small gathers scale.

🔥 PLUS… Pyrographiti with Pyrovision will be happening alongside —
two ways to make, one space growing. Add your mark to a communal wood-burned tabletop artwork.

….

Start small. Go big.

🖍 All materials provided
👋 All ages welcome
🎨 No experience needed (under 16s supervised for pyrography).

Supported by Creative Lives through funding from Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Arts Council England.

11/12/2025

CHRISTMAS, gradually... : A gently growing winter fair and workshop season
on at PrimeYarc in Market Gates Shopping Centre
open 12-4, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays until 21 December.

11/12/2025

Hello,

We’re planning a research trip to visit galleries in Leeds, The Turner Prize in Bradford and The Museum of Making in Derby.

It will take place from 13-15 January, and you're all invited to apply to join us on the trip.

If you'd like to come please fill in the application form (which has further info) by Sunday 21 December, and we can let everyone know who can join us before Christmas.

Do get in touch if you have any questions.

As part of originalprojects; ongoing work to support artists' development in Great Yarmouth, we organise research trips to explore exhibitions, organisations and events across the UK. Our next visit will be to Leeds, The Turner Prize, and Derby (following previous visits to London, Liverpool Biennia...