Yesterday evening I had the pleasure of showing around ten members of Transition Town Belsize the simple, limitless potential of the "crankie" miniature theatre. In the warming, colourful ambience of Oliver's Village Cafe in Belsize Park the participants made their own crankie theatres using cereal boxes, wooden dowel, and various handles, nuts and bolts made of cardboard, reinforced wool and wooden coffee stirrers (yes, coffee stirrers.....spot their many uses in previous blog posts here).
By the end of the evening we had a full range of finished crankie theatres, and even a couple of finished moving picture scrolls within them, including one inside a Ricola throat sweet box, using straws as rods.
Next time I relish dabbling in collaborative crankie-making...how to tell ever-evolving stories passed from one person to the next like picture Chinese Whispers.
