The Print Shop – GilmourFamily Geocaching Blog

Yesterday evening we went a long to our second Freedom Festival event. Earlier this week we went along to The Print Shop in preparation for the weekends events.

The opening of the Museum of the Moon in the Hull Minster was Thursday evening and so we thought going along to beat some of the crowd at the weekend would make it more special. It was worth it!

The moon is made with real NASA imagery and 1cm of this moon represents 5km of the real moon itself. I think that in itself drew us to look at the detail. Photos are hard to capture because it looks like a 2D moon but it is a sphere.

The three children were in awe of it and wanted plenty of photographs with the moon.

Even we couldn’t resist it…

We are planning to come back and see the moon lit up at night as well. If you are local to Hull then we recommend you stopping by to see this installation for the festival. Over the weekend you can go along to see the moon from 12pm until 10pm. The moon is staying a little longer then the festival, FreedomKj1964 informs me it’s the 15th September.

The Freedom Festival is on now until late Sunday 2nd September. This is our third year of attendance and our first year planning out what we go to see rather than walking around and bumping into everything.

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Today we went along to The Print Shop in Hull City Centre, a part of the Freedom Festival which begins on Thursday 30th August.

More about the print shop:

PRINT YOUR SLOGAN T-SHIRT

RISE (up) and express yourself at Freedom Festival 2018 with your own personally designed slogan t-shirt created at ‘The Print Shop’ in Whitefriargate

Opening on the 25 August – 2 September

Ahead of Freedom Festival 2018 and in readiness for presenting RISE! we are launching a temporary pop up art studio, The Print Shop, to encourage a collective expression of Freedom.

The Print Shop is equipped with print technology, placards, banners, t-shirts and all sorts of crafty and creative materials providing you with a fully accessible expression centre to develop your voice and make it heard.

Taken from Freedom Festivals website, find out more here.

Here’s inside The Print Shop and other people’s slogans. The gentleman who helped us was very friendly and walked us through everything we needed to do. We spent quite a lot of time finding our slogan and started with words that meant a lot to us. I will explain our slogans below, in the order we are photographed.

Rob (AKA Daddy): ‘HOPE~~LESS~~‘ Rob has reminded me of one of his favourite quotes in the years I have known him ‘Even the word hopeless has the word hope in it’. It really does make a difference to our thinking and its an important one to share, you may not see very well on his shirt but LESS is set in red.

Riley: ‘HELP PEOPLE OUT’ Last year Riley was a school councillor at his primary school and he took his role very seriously, his school also introduced the school buddy system and they are other pupils that help others out in times of need. Riley’s slogan has come from this thought process and he is proud to wear his shirt.

Sophie: ‘CLEAN WORLD FOR ALL’ Sophie is very passionate about the world she lives in and has certainly learnt a lot through her achievement of Senior Wilderness Explorer. It started with recycling, animals, environment and resulted in her four worded slogan.

Jenny/me (AKA Mummy): ‘TOGETHER WE ARE LOUDER’ I have cheated a little as I had formed this slogan a month or so ago with the help of my street team and linking to what I do with my work. Together we are louder meaning one voice can be heard but a group of people saying the same thing will be listened to and potentially resulting in actioning the message.

Robyn: LOVE/CHANGE Believe it or not, this came from the words Frozen and Pink. It formed into ‘Change is possible with love’ but this was a bit long for a small shirt and with the volunteers help we formed the two words. If you think of the Disney movie Frozen its quite a message that has come from a movie.

The next step was to hunt for the letters in the tubs and put our shirts together to go to print. The children found this very exciting and couldn’t wait to put them on and show off.

They even got to peel the paper, to reveal their final piece of work.

This is a free activity but I believe they accept donations.

We will be wearing our shirts around the Freedom Festival this year, to be a part of the art. The main time to wear these is for the Rise Up Friday night event and we can’t wait to read everyone else’s shirts and be a part of the community in a visual way.

What will your slogan be?