Funding success for Suffolk Artlink

We’re delighted to share that over the last month we have been awarded three grants for upcoming projects and organisational development.

Youth Music have awarded just under £30,000 for a further year of regular Rock Up sessions for young people in Lowestoft to continue playing music at Colville House.

Arts Council England have awarded Artlink just under £60,000 through their Grants for the Arts fund for ‘Our Place’. The project will work with The Partnership In Care across six residential care homes in Suffolk to pilot developing a whole home approach to embed creative interaction and engagement between residents, families, staff and their communities through a year-long programme of training and artists residencies.

Suffolk Artlink was also one of three Suffolk organisations to be awarded funding through the Arts Council’s Catalyst Evolve – a fund set up to build resilience in arts organisations through supporting fundraising from private sources. We will be able to double new donations from individuals and businesses so keep a look out for how you can get involved too!

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Suffolk at Play

The Cube has moved again, this time to the Museum of East Anglian Life (MEAL).

Since it was created in 2014, the Suffolk at Play Cube has been exhibited in museums, schools and libraries across the county, and has been seen by over 11,000 people.

Now it has arrived at MEAL, its final destination, and is currently on display in the Domestic Life Building, where it will remain for the next few months.

The arrival of the Cube marked the launch of our family events at the Museum. Caitlin Howells has been running craft workshops, with participants creating either their very own Jack in the Box, or a magnetic landscape. Needless to say, the results have been wonderful and, at times, a little spooky.

Meanwhile, Emma Curtis ran animation sessions, with toys chasing up and down a snakes and ladders board, and dominoes falling all over the place. We will be posting the animations to our blog site at suffolkatplay.primaryblogger.co.uk so you’ll be able to see for yourself.

We will be holding one more family workshop – this time with Caitlin and Dean Parkin – and then we look forward to our final event on Saturday, 10th September, when adults and children who have been involved in the project since it started in November 2013 will join us at MEAL to celebrate Suffolk at Play.

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Forget Me Not Visitors

The Forget Me Not artists are coming to the end of their summer visits at Ipswich Hospital. They have had some lovely visits recently, making the most of the sunshine and spending time with patients in the garden.

The artists recently took part in training with Heather Edwards exploring Music Mirrors – ‘A written resource of a brief life story with sounds or music embedded to spark memory’. The training will allow the artists to collect songs, sounds and words which have significant and positive associations for patients with dementia.

Hearing these familiar and comforting sounds enables patients to feel more comfortable within an unknown setting and to hold on to their identity.

Alongside their creative interactions, the artists can create a personal list for a patient which can be passed on to hospital staff or family members allowing them to make positive connections.

You can find more information about music mirrors here: www.musicmirrors.co.uk

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Creative Employment Programme

Are you or someone you know interested in marketing and events, aged 18 to 24 and registered as unemployed? The Creative Employment Programme currently has opportunities for a Marketing Assistant in Forest Heath and an Event Promotions Co-ordinator at the John Peel  Centre in Stowmarket.

For more information about how to apply go to our CEP page at www.suffolkartlink.org.uk/cep/

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Creative Company

Regular Creative Company sessions have been taking place at the Pool and Leisure Centre in Hadleigh, and are now taking a break for the summer.

When we return we will integrate these sessions into the Together Tuesday sessions already held at the Leisure Centre, and at the Sue Ryder Synergy Café at the Ansell Centre.

This will help us reach more adult family carers and also embed the project more firmly in Hadleigh, supported by the Creative Volunteer who will take over the organisation of the sessions when we step back.

In Stowmarket, we have already held a couple of sessions, including one at the Dementia Café at Red Gables, and are looking forward to returning there, and to the Suffolk Family Carers session at Hillside, in the autumn.

Our next location will be Bury St Edmunds, where we are due to start taster sessions in early October.

JumpstART!

The last few weeks at Jumpstart has been spent taking taster sessions around Lowestoft, Bury and Ipswich led by poet Dean Parkin, jazz pianist Maurice Horhut, and artist Gareth Bayliss. We’ve been visiting Suffolk Befrienders, colleges and community hubs around Suffolk. Explore days are currently running to give students the chance to try out the new Musical Words and Pictures course.

The 15 week module will be starting the week of the 30th August in all 3 locations and we’ll be working with Dean and Maurice to create poems, music and songs, and with visial artists Gareth Bayliss, Caitlin Howells and Kasia Posen to make artwork and illustrations. The work will all go towards making a short film in each location with film maker Lewis Wickwar.

For further information on courses, contact Fran or Charlie by email on [email protected] or [email protected] or by phone on 01986 873955

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Rock Up

As one door closes …

The Rock Up Summer School in August marked the end of this 24 month project, during which we engaged with over 100 young people attending the Colville House youth club in Lowestoft.

Rock Up delivered 148 hours of high quality music sessions, including one-to- one sessions for 21 young people and 60 online tutorials to support their musical development.

Rock Up tutors Matt, Bryan and Sophie (our DJ) supported two public showcase performances as well as numerous online recordings via our Mixcloud page – www.mixcloud.com/rockUpProject – and have been brilliant in encouraging the young people to take part; as one young person commented “The tutors are amazing – I couldn’t have done this without them.”

…another one opens… we are delighted to report that we have secured funding from Youth Music for a further 12 months of activity, to build on those successes and offer the young people the chance to achieve an Arts Award, a nationally accredited qualification.

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Clown Round

Summer has arrived and things are starting to wind down a little for the Clown Doctors. The last month hasn’t been totally quite though! Clown Round has been hanging out with our Hospices in Suffolk and Norfolk. Sessions have run at Treefest in Ipswich with EACH Treehouse Hospice and at a sibling day at Notre Dame in Norwich with EACH Quidenham Hospice.

Dr Quiver Quaver wowed Treefest with her musical talents, playing all sorts of treats on her ukulele while Dr Fidget kept very important time with her very technical tambourine part!

While the Clown’s may be hanging their noses up for a small break from the wards, they will be working hard behind the scene this month, with a Play Day training session at the Coop Education Centre in Ipswich.

All our Clown Doctors will be sharing their skills at the training day. Dr Dizzy will be sharing what she has been learning on the Norwich Puppet Theatre apprenticeship scheme. She will also be performing a piece that she has complied during her apprenticeship at the Norwich Puppet Theatre, Norwich from the 13th – 30th August. Follow the link for more details. www.puppettheatre.co.uk/whats-on/puppetry/landscapes-outdoorstreet-theatre

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Bridge Project

This last month has seen the completion of the Bridge Project at our final school, Reydon Primary.

Artist Kasia Posen worked with the students and Miss Church to complete a beautiful mural at the back of the school, for all to see.

The mural incorporated the characters that the children had been working on in earlier sessions. All the characters were focused around the schools learning behaviours.

This project has been a real success and lots of fun, bringing artists, teachers and pupils together to create some magnificent pieces of art. The Bridge project has also been a brilliant platform for skill sharing, culminating in new ways of thinking about creativity and its uses. We very much look forward to seeing how these skills and artworks will continue to influence the schools activities.

Many thanks to all the Active Learning Trust schools we have worked with and the Norfolk and Norwich Festival Bridge for supporting the activity.

Here are a couple of things coming up that Suffolk Artlink is not involved with but thought some of you might be interested in.

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Tight Modern 2016

Tight Modern 2016 is now open for submissions from UK based marginalised and disabled artists. Tight Modern is tight! Entries must be 13cmx18cm in portrait format, with a maximum depth of 2cm. You can submit original artworks, photography or computer generated images.

The competition is open until 30th October 2016.

For information on how to submit to the Tight Modern, and details of prizes and the accompanying free workshops, visit www.tightmodern.org.uk

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Suffolk Youth Music

Suffolk Youth Music (SYM) is a progressive range of music-making activities for children and young people in Suffolk, provided by Suffolk County Music Service, a free-standing traded service within the Children and Young People’s Services Directorate of Suffolk County Council.

Our County Ensembles offer Suffolk’s most Able, Gifted, and Talented young musicians the opportunity to experience ensemble music-making at the most advanced levels, through rehearsal courses and high profile public performances at home and abroad.

The County Ensembles next perform together on Sunday 4 September 2016 at Snape Maltings Concert Hall, with a programme that includes music by Britten, Gershwin, Saint-Saëns, and Hindemith. Tickets are available from Aldeburgh Music.

Our County Ensembles offer Suffolk’s most Able, Gifted, and Talented young musicians the opportunity to experience ensemble music-making at the most advanced levels, through rehearsal courses and high profile public performances at home and abroad.

The County Ensembles next perform together on Sunday 4 September 2016 at Snape Maltings Concert Hall, with a programme that includes music by Britten, Gershwin, Saint-Saëns, and Hindemith. Tickets are available from Aldeburgh Music.

For more information go to www.suffolkmusichub.co.uk/events/september-2016/gala-concert-suffolk-youth-orchestra-suffolk-young-strings-suffolk-youth-brass-ensemble

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