Spaghetti Club: New Fairytales (Ages 7 - 10)
A creative writing workshop exploring the history of fairytales and the power of imagination within storytelling, focusing on the creation of new fairytales. As part of Tai Shani: The Spell or The Dream Family Programme.
Parents/Guardians must be present for full duration of the workshop
| Dates | Thu 28 Aug 2025 |
| Times | 2pm-3.30pm |
| Space | West Wing |
| Price | £5 per ticket (for one child with one parent/guardian) |
With one eye on Tai Shani’s sleeping dreamer installation, this experimental workshop lassos the ingredients of fairytales to find out what’s possible when imagination is shot out of a cannon into a juicer.
The group will play with language like a toy from the future; writing new stories which tiptoe and foghorn beyond more modern, often diluted, depictions of fairytale lore.
Learn how details and twists power the magic of a story. Expect sentences never written before, and ideas dug up with the Grimm Brothers' shovels.
About Spaghetti Club
Spaghetti Club (est. 2018) involves around 60 new exercises and games per week in a one hour creative session covering art, anti-comedy, dance, philosophy, etc. Run by writer and artist Michael Crowe, the children’s after school club was featured on the Palais De Tokyo Instagram and voted "Best 10 Exhibitions in UK/Ireland" by Frieze Magazine.
Michael has exhibited at LACMA, St Gallen Switzerland and Le Plateau, Paris. His most recent book, An Attempt to Exhaust a Place in Grand Theft Auto was published by Studio Operative. He's given talks at the New Museum NY, KNCDC Korea and the BFI, London. The club is supported with writing by Claudia Sohrab and an ever growing list of visiting artists.
New Fairytales is part of The Spell or The Dream, a major new commission by Somerset House Studios artist Tai Shani. Centered around a striking new sculpture for the Somerset House courtyard, this multifaceted work includes a 24/7 radio broadcast, live talks and performances, and an extensive family programme, inviting a host of guest contributors to collectively dream of possible futures.