Where Stories Begin: A Look into ‘Write Your Book’ Course at The Workshop
We love seeing our spaces at The Workshop come alive with creativity. We often welcome individuals and groups of all kinds, but this time we had the pleasure of hosting Piper Terrett (Norfolk Writing School) for her Write Your Book course. Sometimes it’s simply being in a creative hub that helps you connect with others […]
Six Years of The Workshop, King’s Lynn!
What is The Workshop? For those who may not know us, The Workshop is a charity with a clear mission: to transform lives through the arts. We believe creativity has the power to inspire, connect, and change communities – and for the past six years, that’s exactly what we’ve been working to do in King’s […]
Roaring Success: Celebrating the Dragon Festival in King’s Lynn
This past Saturday, 8th November, King’s Lynn was ablaze with creativity, community spirit, and a touch of dragon magic as the town-wide Dragon Festival took flight! From 10am to 3pm, organisations across the area joined forces to offer a day of free, family-friendly fun – and what a day it was. A Shared Celebration The […]
Meet The Workshop’s new front-of-house assistant Harry
Meet Harry Hastings, who joined us in March as our new front-of-house assistant. Born and raised in King’s Lynn, he’s no stranger to The Workshop having freelanced for us and being one of our first ever Introduction to the Creative Industries programme participants. I’ll let Harry pick up the story. I’d like to thank everyone […]
My interesting week with The Workshop
We were delighted to welcome Inca to The Workshop for a look at what we do and why. We wasted no time putting her to work – from creating posters, social posts, and a class schedule to questionnaires, a session plan and some serious arts and crafts. She spent her last day with us looking […]
NT Connections 2024 role is a brilliant thing to happen to me in terms of identity and being trans
Trans theatre company member AB says landing a role in our National Theatre Connections play Your Name is Dead has helped them validate their whole identity. Written by Elgan Rhys in collaboration with Leo Drayton, it follows M over the course of a day as he navigates shifting relationships and the challenges and joys of […]
WoW we had a fantastic time at Buckingham Palace
Some of our team and participants swapped The Workshop for Buckingham Palace to hang out with royalty this week. You may have read on our socials how we were involved with the WoW (Women of the World) Festival Bus a few weeks back when it visited town. Our participants got to enter a draw to […]
2024 KLYP crew broad-en their knowledge of nature’s healing power
It’s been a great start to 2024 at The Workshop. Hard to believe we’ll soon be celebrating five years since we opened our doors. Here’s our Arts Engagement Worker Sophie to catch you up on what’s been going on. It’s been busy, especially in the Inclusion department with brand new Foundation classes starting. The King’s Lynn Youth […]
Work has finished on our makeover. What do you think?
Hard to believe, but we’ve been open since 2019. The Garage Trust, which operates The Workshop, was already doing a lot of outreach activity in West Norfolk so knew it had to open a second venue. We landed at 38 New Conduit Street, in King’s Lynn’s Vancouver Quarter, but closed soon after because of the […]
Why we signed up for the 2023 Introduction to the Creative Industries (ICI) course
We were thrilled to begin our first Introduction to the Creative Industries (ICI) programme at The Workshop last month, made possible by The Norfolk Community Foundation‘s West Norfolk Employment Fund. The free course is designed to show 16-25-year-olds the wide variety of work and roles that exist within the sector and support them as they […]