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If you fancy having a hands-on start to your day, or taking a breather between our mighty fine live acts – we have some exceptional workshops planned for you to get involved with! This year, workshops will be hosted by Declonise Fest, Farmer Glitch, Bunny Bissoux, Maisie Violet Rees, Debbie Armour (Burd Ellen), Artefact and Craftspace’s Shelanu.
FARMER GLITCH: Spring Thing – Noise Box (SATURDAY | SIGN UP)
places are limited, so don’t delay – | sign up | now to secure your place.
Build and take home your own experimental noise-box/instrument – a wooden box allowing improvisational audio experimentation. Farmer Glitch will guide you through the principles of contact-microphones and how they can be used for capturing hidden sounds, as well as design, electronics and circuit-bending.
SHELANU: Transfer Printing (SUNDAY | DROP IN)
Shelanu, which means ‘belonging to us’, is a collective of migrant and refugee women working with Craftspace to develop craft skills, confidence and well-being through social enterprise. Join them in making your own Supersonic key ring or pendant to take home with you – choose from a series of different designs and colours.
DECOLONISE FEST: Decolonising Publishing Through Zine Making
(SATURDAY | DROP IN)
This workshop will explore the history, practical use, and creative process of making zines. Participants are invited to explore themes of self and identity by producing their own creations. Collage materials provided.
MAISIE VIOLET REES: Upcycled Objects (SATURDAY | DROP IN)
At this drop in work shop, Maisie will assist you in creating your own unique upcycled objects using image transfers and thrifted second hand objects to transform into your own decorative Homeware to take away with you. Turn one persons trash into decor treasure!
BUNNY BISSOUX: Greetings From Digbeth – DIY Postcard Collage Workshop (SUNDAY | DROP IN)
Commemorate your festival memories and celebrate Supersonic’s home city by making a one-of-a-kind souvenir with Birmingham-raised artist, illustrator & obsessive fanatic Bunny Bissoux. Combining text slogans, images and patterns inspired by Birmingham local architecture and iconography. Participants can use a variety of materials including printed stickers, stamps and snapshots to create a DIY interpretation of the retro ‘wish you were here!’ postcards of the past.
ARTEFACT: Issimo! (SUNDAY | DROP IN)
Issimo! is an experimental music group devised at Artefact in South Birmingham. In our Issimo! workshop we will take every day materials and use them to create new instruments. You can create whatever the materials and your imagination will allow. These newly created instruments will be in an Issimo! experimental exercise and then we will use our new instruments to perform a new improvised piece of music.
DEBBIE ARMOUR: Ghost Songs – Exploring Revenant Ballads (SUNDAY | SIGN UP)
places are limited, so don’t delay – | sign up | now to secure your place.
In this workshop you’ll sing and learn about Revenant Ballads. Revenants are manifestations of grief occupying a third space — an ambiguous zone between this life and what is beyond. Look at what they represent using examples from British and Irish tradition and sing them as part of a group. This workshop is for everyone, even if you don’t consider yourself a “singer”.
