Afterlives Festival: Craft a Quilled Egg with Chloe Rodham
Fri 08 May
|Newcastle City Library
Using traditional paper quilling techniques in this free workshop, participants will craft a delicate, hollow, egg-shaped form, echoing the vessel the phoenix creates.
Time & Location
08 May 2026, 10:00 – 13:00
Newcastle City Library, Newcastle City Library, 33 New Bridge St W, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8AX, UK
About the event
Discover a spectacular community artwork and become part of it through the Afterlives Festival.
In Victorian times, people placed beautiful glass domes on graves filled with precious objects, symbols and treasures to honour those they had lost.
Now that tradition is coming back to life, and it has found a powerful new muse. It is common knowledge that the phoenix is a mythical bird reborn from its own ashes but in some ancient accounts, this beautiful creature performs a deeper ritual.
When it senses its life force ebbing, it gathers aromatic spices and scented resins like myrrh, shaping them into an egg and placing within it the ashes of its previous self. The newly born phoenix must then carry this precious object to a sacred place.
Inspired by both of these traditions, Newcastle-based Moving Parts Arts has worked with artist Chloe Rodham to create Anise the Phoenix, a stunning new…
