About this Event
Potions Making at the Soap Factory
Get ready for a super fun in-person experience where you’ll dive into the magical world of potions making right at the soap factory! Join us and create your own enchanting blends while enjoying the vibes. Plus, we've got a special treat: the Miracle Mira Blueberry muffin to sweeten your day. Don’t miss out on this cool, hands-on adventure!
Potions Making at the Soap Factory Workshop
10:30am – 12:30pm
Ages: 7–13 years
Come and discover the magic of herbs, plants and potion making!
As we will be harvesting and gathering herbs from the surounding area's on the day, we can’t tell you exactly what we will be making in advance or what spells we will find from the spirit of the soap factory . Each workshop will be a little different, depending on what nature provides us with! A potion and a bone healing ointment will be on the list.
Children should dress appropriately for both indoor and outdoor broomstick flying activities so be prepared to get involved.
Please let us know about any allergies or sensitivities in advance.
Parents/guardians are asked to remain on site during the workshop. While the children are busy making their potions, parents can enjoy exploring the Soap Factory, art exhibitions and Factory Café. (Unless a consent form or provision is aggred prior to event)
Further information and relevant documents will be sent to you in advance of the workshop.
We look forward to a fun, creative and magical morning of Potions Making at the Soap Factory! 🧪🌿✨ Book now as once all places have been booked, the session will be full.
The historic industrial building serves as a vibrant community space, arts hub, and café.Parking
Brook Street Car Park is located just around the corner from The Soap Factory, making it a convenient option for visitors attending the event.
📍 Brook Street Car Park, Lewes
It is only a very short walk from The Soap Factory.
Parking is available via pay-and-display or mobile app payment. Please check local signage for current parking charges and payment information.
A little about me
I’mjust on eof the busy busy busy Bee's. I am formost a proud Mother and sometimes im teacher , medical herbalist , artist , dog walker and co-founder of Spectral Art's, a creative organisation exploring the connections between nature, health, art, and sustainability .
A lot of my work brings together plants, traditional knowledge, making and creative expression. I’m particularly interested in looking at things that we might normally overlook — weeds, natural fibres, our bodies, our relationship with the environment — and turning them into something imaginative, useful and thought-provoking.
Through Spectral Art, we’ve explored ideas around eco-fashion, natural materials and sustainable making, including fashion shows and creative builds. One of our more unusual projects was the Nettle Knicker puppet show .Nettle Knickers is an interactive puppet theatre show based on plant characters supported by educational workshops, and a fun educational animation to detail the history of the use of herbal medicine through time. The show uses folk law, fairy tales, myths and combines them with real active ingredients in the form of well known medicinal plants to bring to life a collection of herbal puppets which personify the dramatic charismatic appeal of the plant kingdom. How ever this is not about nettle knickers even thought she may come and visit.
For me, doing this pop up Halloween workshop with the Soap factory is really about making connections: between people and plants, children , creativity and science, the past and the future. Handing down to the next generation.
And that’s why working with the next generation is so important to me. I want young people to feel that they can be curious, inventive and imaginative — that sustainability doesn’t have to be dull, and that traditional knowledge can become the starting point for completely new ideas.
Today is another opportunity to explore those connections together: what nature can teach us, what we can make from it, and what we might pass on to the next generation.
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BN7 2QJ, Phoenix Place, Lewes, United Kingdom
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