Saturday, September 20

ReadFest 2025: Recycled Book Art – Origami Flowers (Drop-in)

Name: ReadFest 2025: Recycled Book Art – Origami Flowers (Drop-in)
Start: 2025-09-20T11:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-09-20T13:00:00+01:00
Location: Dagenham Library

By Pen to Print

Learn to fold beautiful origami flowers from recycled book pages! Drop-in workshop for ages 8+ with Becky Wash.

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Location

Dagenham Library

1 Church Elm Lane Dagenham RM10 9QS United Kingdom

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Highlights

2 hours
In person

About this event

Upcycle old books into beautiful origami flowers!

Join Becky Wash from Retro from Scratch for a fun and relaxing drop-in session where you'll learn how to fold charming paper flowers using pages from recycled books and notebooks.

Perfect for complete beginners – Becky will guide you step-by-step through the folding process, using a variety of book paper left over from her handmade creations.

Ideal for adults and children above the age 8 – A great activity for families, craft lovers, and anyone looking to add a personal touch to their bookshelf or home decor.

Drop in between 10am-12pm to create your bloom!

If you have any accessibility requirements, please directly get in touch with us at pentoprint@lbbd.gov.uk

Booking is essential and you will be asked to present your booking confirmation upon arrival.

Pen to Print shall not be liable to attendees for any injury, loss or damage of or to personal equipment belonging to the attendees or any indirect or consequential loss or damage whatsoever arising out of the attendance of the event.

Pen to Print reserves the right to cancel, delay or postpone the event for any reason, including adverse weather conditions, an emergency situation or unforeseen or unavoidable circumstances out of its reasonable control. In such cases, the event organiser will endeavour to inform participants as quickly as is possible.

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Pen to Print

Pen to Print provided by Barking & Dagenham Libraries is working to build a network of support for aspiring writers in Barking and Dagenham.

We identify local writing talent and provide them with opportunities to produce quality writing for publication.

We publish our own suite of publications, Write On! our free quarterly print magazine, alongside Write On! Extra online and our Write On! Audio podcast

In addition to our main competition The Book Challenge we offer other free writing competitions, author events classes, workshops and other activity supported by established creative writing experts, authors and artists.

A majority of our events are available for free and open to everyone and are designed to inspire and encourage writers, as well as providing entertainment to the wider reading public.

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NB: Due to increased costs, we will be making a small charge of £1 (plus any charges applied by Eventbrite.) for people attending sessions online, this comes into effect from 1 January 2024 onwards.

Taking part in all of our sessions in-person at a venue remains free.

Any profit we may make will be invested back into the programme, contributing to making our digital offering more environmentally sustainable. We are starting with an upgrade to our website that will be coming soon.

We do regret that we have to make this difficult decision however, our grant funding is not increasing and we are experiencing increased costs that we can no longer afford to absorb.

We are aware that this could prove cost prohibitive for some people, if cost is a barrier to you taking part, if you are UK based , please do email us directly: pentoprint@lbbd.gov.uk to discuss this further.

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Pen to Print is supported using public funding by Arts Council England funded by UK Government, as a Library National Portfolio Organisation .

Web Address: pentoprint.org

Email: pentoprint@lbbd.gov.uk

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