September Recap!

Welcome to the second instalment of the Topple Academy Monthly Newsletter! September has flown by with a handful of workshops at Corby Library and Scribble Studio! Although major preparation has been underway for Halloween Half-Term which is announced later in this blog!

Domino Workshops Recap:

The Summer Reading Challenge has come to an end at Library Plus locations across the county! To celebrate all of the children who took part and completed the challenge we run a handful of sessions at Corby Library, located inside Corby Cube! The sessions were a success with new ALL new builders who managed some great topples with whole families working together on towers!
Please note that there are no photos from this session due to photograph permission on the day, but you can see all galleries on the website under ‘Previous Workshops’.

Upcoming Events!

October means half-term which means Halloween which means spooky workshops!

This year’s October half-term is jam-packed with domino workshops across Northamptonshire, with all of the drop-in sessions being FREE! You can see a full schedule below:

Monday 26th – Daventry Museum 10am-2pm (Drop-In)

Tuesday 27th – Rushden Lakes 10am-1pm (Book here)

Wednesday 28th – Rushden Lakes 10am-1pm (Book here)

Thursday 29th – Far Cotton REC Centre 1pm-3pm (Drop-In)

Domino Masterclasses are also making a gradual return throughout the year, with sessions being announced throughout the month. These sessions are currently priced at £8 per child, with adults attending for free! Evening sessions this Autumn and Winter will help to keep you out of the incoming colder weather!

I am also looking to trial the idea of ‘couple’s workshops’, similar to how pottery classes and partner painting sessions run. Potentially a fun activity to bring to date night where you can be in touch with your creative side together! The session would be ages 17+, and booked in couples. If there is interest, please let me know via message or email!

In Other Domino News:

If you actively look at the hashtags in my posts you’ll spot #H5DominoCommunity very often… and this is because it is probably the best way to share domino content online!
The #H5DominoCommunity tag was started by Hevesh5 many years ago and is a consistent stream of domino content across several social media platforms. There is a YouTube channel under the same name which recently published “The Summer Domino Screenlink” which was a community involved project where everybody could send in submissions to be a part of the full video! You can see it here!

I am almost underway of organising a way to subscribe to these newsletters. It is still a W.I.P however if you’d like to be added to the email list please let me know via message on Facebook/Instagram/Email with your permission to be subscribed to the monthly update! (Please do not comment your email publicly on any social platform!)

Please remember to always tag me @toppleacademy or mention Topple Academy in your domino creations and highlights for me to see! You can also email me any domino bits and bobs you’d like to share at info@toppleacademy.com

Keep on building!

-Ricardo :)

August Recap

Something new!

This month I have decided to introduce a Topple Academy Newsletter to keep you up to date with domino activities and news each month. The newsletter will start with Topple Academy workshops and related news then open up to any other business which directly links to us! The read should be around ~5 mins.

Domino Workshop Recap

Drop-Ins at Daventry Museum, Hunsbury Library and Far Cotton REC Centre were a blast! The biggest workshop to date with 73 participants at Daventry Museum – a special thank you to their consistent support of Topple Academy – and other locations being full to the brim of domino art!

Booked sessions took place at The Bede House and we had one Masterclass this month at Scribble Studio, which also included a special visit from the resident cat who likes to get his nose into whatever is going on down there when he can!

See snaps below from these events.

Upcoming Events!

Domino Masterclasses are returning sporadically… the next session is Thursday the 17th of September at 6:00pm-7:30pm and booking remains the same as previously – please email info@toppleacademy.com how many spaces you’d like to pre-book, and then payment is taken on the day in either cash or card.
These sessions are only limited to 8 people per session so that each child can have sufficient learning time and development of their skills The aim of the masterclass is to learn new techniques and topple your project together alongside others!

The next workshop takes place at Corby Library for their finale event of the Summer Reading Challenge in conjunction with Northants Libraries. If your child has completed their summer reading challenge they are welcome to come along to this final event and learn domino art completely free of charge! This takes place on Saturday the 19th of September and is bookable here!

In Other Domino News

In August 2025 a team of 8 builders jetted off to Italy to work on the largest KAPLA structure ever… it was a grand success and without a doubt one of the best experiences of my life. Such a fantastic energy every single day working on this project. It was also the largest project I have ever been a part of, which was great to tick off. The full mini documentary by Raffaele Salvoldi has been posted to his YouTube channel this month. The video is around 8 minutes long and you can catch it here! You can also view the rest of Raffaele’s work on his Instagram here!

The World Domino Collective (WDC) for 2026 took place on Friday August 21st. The team set up over 700,000 dominoes this year across two weeks and it was a grand topple! Information about the event can be found here! Once the full final video is posted I will also link it here😊

Thank you

To you for taking the time to read this post!
If this is something you would enjoy seeing each month do let me know! And please, always tag me @toppleacademy in your domino creations regardless of the platform, or email me any domino bits and bobs you’d like to share at info@toppleacademy.com

Keep on building!

-Ricardo :)