BREAD OVEN FACILITATION AND ‘BATH (STREET) BOMBS’ WORKSHOP
12pm – 3pm, Sunday 28th June
Garnethill Park
Organised by Glasgow Building Preservation Trust and the Sauchiehall Street: Culture and Heritage District, along with partners PEEK, the Hunterian Museum, Join the Dots (that’s us!), Make It Glasgow and the Mackintosh Tearooms.
Join the Dots supported the Sauchiehall Street: Culture and Heritage District's "Weekend of Play" running two events in Garnethill Park.
PIZZA MAKING (12-3pm)
Age range: 5+ age with parent/career supervision
Number of participants: 40 children in 2 bookable sessions
With the Italo-Scots community well established in Glasgow since the first migrants arrived in the late 1800s to make Glasgow their home, Italian food culture has been integral to Glasgow. The Italians were leaders in the café trade in the West of Scotland in the early 1900s – and were at the forefront of popularising the fish supper! Thanks to dough donated by local, family-run Italian restaurant Sartis, Kirstin, Jude and Loris helped children and families make 40 DIY pizzas to celebrate the merging of Italian and Glaswegian culture.
The Garnethill Community Bread Oven was lit and heated for two hours prior to the event and the team are gaining confidence in fire building and use of the oven. This time we maintained a good heat throughout with a larger and continuous fire and had no problems cooking the 40 pizzas over the 3 hour period.
BATH (STREET) BOMBS 2-3pm
Age range: 3+ parent/career supervision
Number of participants: 20
Glasgow's Bath Street gets its name from being home to Glasgow’s first ever public bath house. In the early 1800s, entrepreneur William Harley opened the first indoor public baths in Scotland for local people to access for free. Children joined us to hear about the history of Harley and his obsession with hygiene, enjoying a fun messy play session throwing bath bombs into a vat of water in the park and watching them fizz, pop and crackle. The children loved the explosions of colour and the whole sensory experience; the sight, smell and sounds!
Thanks to Lush for kindly donating over 30 bath bombs.
The Weekend of Play was organised by Glasgow Building Preservation Trust and the Sauchiehall Street: Culture and Heritage District, along with partners PEEK, the Hunterian Museum, Join the Dots, Make It Glasgow and the Mackintosh Tearooms.