The Great East Swim

As part of our 10th anniversary celebrations this year, Suffolk Artlink is very excited to be partnering with Allied Health Professionals Suffolk for The Great East Swim.

Allied Health Professionals are kindly completing the swim on behalf of Suffolk Artlink and, along with members of our own team, will be taking to the water to help us raise money for the next 10 years of making creative connections.

We welcome any of our supporters, volunteers, artists, partners, and anyone else who would like to, to join us in taking part in the swim. It will be taking place on Saturday 18 June at Alton Water and there are a variety of distances available, from ½ mile to the brand new 10k if you’re feeling brave.

You can find more information on the Great East Swim website at www.greatrun.org/great-swim/ and if you’re interested in completing the swim to fund-raise for Suffolk Artlink please do get in contact with us.

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Creative Employment Programme

If you are young and unemployed or know someone who is, now is a great time for them to look at what there is through the Creative Employment Programme. Currently there are 6 opportunities for young unemployed people to apply for in Ipswich, Stowmarket and West Suffolk.

These opportunities not only cover skills that are useful in the creative industries, they are also useful in the wider economy and cover administration, marketing, hospitality, customer service and project management.

Ipswich Borough Council is looking for a Customer Experience Apprentice,

ADEC is looking for a Marketing Assistant Intern and a Management Intern,

The Mix Stowmarket are looking for a Hospitality Assistant Intern,

Gecko Theatre are looking for an Administrative Intern,

And The John Peel for Creative Arts is looking for an Events Promotions Co-ordinator Intern.

For more information see our CEP page.

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Suffolk at Play

Why do children want to take part in Suffolk at Play?

Well, Evie wrote that she wanted to be part of it because …
“I would love … to learn and share memories from the past. I think I will enjoy sharing stories with the residents and feel it would be great fun making animations for the DVD.”

Jakub wants to get involved “because I’m a modern child and the internet is my life. I think it’s going to be fun – I’ll learn more and I’ll be able to talk to my mum better.”

And Amelia wanted to join because she would “… love to find out more about what people at Cedrus House used to play when they were little.”

All these children are pupils at Cedars Park Community Primary school and, along with nine others, they will be taking part in Suffolk at Play this term. They will be investigating the kinds of childhood games played by residents at the neighbouring Cedrus House Care Home and making animations about what they find out.

Meanwhile, we will shortly be organising a celebration event at Stradbroke, and bringing the Suffolk at Play Cube to the High School, to display the animations created by the students and local adults involved in the project there last term.

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Rock Up

A new term – and already new faces are signing up for the one-to-one tuition offered by regular Rock Up tutors, Matt and Bryan.

We have also welcomed back our regular band and hope to be organising a public showcase of their work in the coming months.

Rock Up runs every Wednesday evening at Colville House Youth Club in Lowestoft and offers an informal drop-in session, where young people can have a go at a variety of instruments, followed by one-to-one tuition and then band practise. The tuition is also supported by online tutorials that are accessible by the young people only – but there is an example video on our YouTube page shown below:

Interchange

Our new project for Young Adult Carers begins next week at the UCS in Ipswich. Working with artist Vicki Johnson, the group will be exploring print-making over 12 weeks. The group will work collaboratively creating group artwork alongside their individual pieces. The work that they produce over the 12 weeks will be showcased in Ipswich at the end of the project in the spring.

Interchange is funded by Arts Council England and the Youth Social Action Fund.

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Forget-me-not Visitors

The Forget-me-not artists will be back in Ipswich Hospital this week, visiting patients with dementia and complex needs and bringing opportunities for creative engagement and self-expression. Using their vast array of skills such as singing, poetry, storytelling, music making, humour, clowning, dance, movement, hand massages, and other sensory resources, the artists will give patients one-to-one time for meaningful engagement.

Julie Sadler from the hospital comments ‘They are solely there for the patients, to engage with them on another level, for patient’s to have their own time; this enables patients to connect with key parts of themselves, to communicate on an emotional level and be more expressive’.. ‘The interaction allows patients to laugh and be happy, which in a hospital can be difficult; people in hospital feel they need to be given permission to laugh – the artists give them permission’.

The artists are looking forward to many more visits on the Ward throughout the year.

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JumpstART!

It’s an exciting time for Jumpstart as we will be starting our new module in Ipswich as well as Lowestoft and Bury St Edmunds. The new course will be in Carnival Arts, and we’re really lucky to be based at the Art School Gallery next door to Ipswich Museum. Across the three locations we’ll be working with Kasia Posen, Hannah Garland, Linda Farrow and Caitlin Howells to explore costume, design, drumming, drawing and many other exciting workshops.

There are taster days currently running in venues across the county, and some Explore days in Ipswich, Lowestoft and Bury St Edmunds in February. Please contact Charlie or Fran if you’re interested in a place on the explore days or the courses on [email protected] or [email protected]

The modules will begin in the first week of March – on Tuesdays in Bury, Wednesdays in Ipswich and Thursdays in Lowestoft.

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Clown Round

After all the excitement of the Christmas visits across the children’s wards in December, the Clown Doctors were ready for their mince pies and a little rest over the festive period.

Luckily the Clown Doctors can never sit still for too long, and are back out, full of bounce and silliness for the start of 2016! You will see them over the coming months in a slightly different line up to normal, as one of our beloved Clown Doctors, Dr Hyacinth Haystack, is hanging her nose up to pursue an exciting new teaching role in Essex. We will be very sad to not see her so often on the rounds, but wish her lots of luck and look forward to seeing her for the odd Clown round session during the school holidays.

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