Welcome to our Suffolk Artlink October Newsletter.

Clown Round

Suffolk Artlink’s Clown Doctors return to the children’s wards at Ipswich, Colchester and James Paget Hospitals. This time they are accompanied on their rounds by the trainee Clown Doctors, shadowing provides a valuable opportunity to see how special it is to spread the Clown Round magic dust, resulting in smiling and laughing hospitalised children .

Suffolk Artlink is so very grateful to Author Filomena Cristallino and Illustrator Bee Willey for donating the proceeds from the Children’s interactive book ‘Fidget and Hamish’ to the Clown Round project.

We are excited to announce the launch of Fidget and Hamish this month at The Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust.

Meet Fidget and Hamish! Dr Fidget is a clown doctor with loads of energy and a naughty dog, Hamish, who insists on coming to work with her at the hospital. Find out about their escapades in this fantastic new story and colouring book.

Filomena Cristallino (Dr Fidget) is one of Suffolk Artlink’s wonderful team of clown doctors, working with the children and young people in hospitals and hospices across the East of England. Filomena brings her work to a new audience through the beautiful interactive book.

Bee Willey is an illustrator with an extensive portfolio of book and design work. Bee draws, paints and uses mixed media and collage to create wondrous illustrated worlds. Bee’s client list include Walker Books, South Bank Centre and Royal Mail.

Have colouring fun and help raise money for children and young people in hospitals and hospices in the East!

To buy Fidget and Hamish (priced at £4.99) contact Suffolk Artlink
[email protected]
Telephone number
01986 873955.

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Activities Unlimited Funday

Our thanks to artists Kate Munro and Caitlin Howells for making the Activities Unlimited Fun Day such fun – adults and children alike thoroughly enjoyed making shadow puppets and the resulting plays were truly magical. You can see some of the images below:

Worried llamas, spaceships, awesome owls and beautiful butterflies from Suffolk Artlink on Vimeo.

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JumpstART!

JumpstART! students in Bury St Edmunds have been learning about different ways of printing. In the first week they looked into leaf patterns by sticking them on paper or drawing round them. In the second week the done stencils onto t-shirts. In the third week they painted patterns onto silk scarves based on patterns on a church and in the fourth week they made flags.

JumpstART Lowestoft have been focussing on making hats out of several pieces of material and badges in the form of bugs.

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Rock Up

Great news – we’ve got Youth Music funding to develop Rock Up, a music inclusion project in Lowestoft, enabling us to deliver regular term time sessions at Colville House senior youth club for the next two years.

As well as providing an informal, drop-in session for young people to come and try out different instruments and genres, the project will also offer one-to-one tuition, supported by on-line tutorials, plus band practice, showcase and recording opportunities. Guest tutors, including DJs, beat boxers and music technology tutors – not to mention a chap with a trumpet – will be regular features so roll on – and Rock Up – the next two years.

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Culture Club

Creative activities will begin at Alasdair Place in Claydon in October. They will be focusing on candle-making, clay work, decoupage and card making.

The Gainsborough Library Art Group (for older people living independently within the community) have been focusing on watercolour painting this month, working on landscape and botanical paintings. Additionally the art session with the Sue Ryder Synergy Cafe group (for carers and cared for) went down well, the Artist who led the session, Sara Harrington, facilitated the creation of some beautiful paintings.

We have further sessions with the Sue Ryder Synergy Cafes planned over the next two months, including singing and clay work in the Forest Heath area.

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Creative Employment Programme

There is an opportunity for a young unemployed people aged 18 – 24 to become a Suffolk Book Festival Intern in Ipswich. For more information and how to apply see our CEP page at http://www.suffolkartlink.org.uk/cep

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Reminiscence: Back to Basics & Being Creative with Memories

SHARE Museums East, where Hayley our co-director is on the steering committee, are going ‘back to basics’ for this workshop.

Session 1:  This is a session for people who are new to reminiscence work and want to learn about key skills however it is also useful for those people with experience of reminiscence work who would like a chance to network and meet other people using reminiscence across the region.

Session 2: A presentation by Fiona Mason from Troubadour, a theatre company using music and drama based on memories and people’s stories. In this session Fiona will explain how memories and objects can be used to create song.

The workshops are being offered across the East on the following dates:

Friday 24th October 2014, British Schools Museum Hitchin
Monday 10th November 2014, The Cut, Halesworth
Wednesday 28th January 2015, Chelmsford Museum

For more information see http://sharemuseumseast.org.uk/network-events/

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Raising the Roof

On Thursday 9th October we are going to take part in a one-day conference for teachers, head teachers, school governors and all those delivering and developing creative learning and school improvement. Keynote address by Paul Collard of Creativity, Culture & Education. Case studies on creative projects that have stimulated pupil engagement, attainment and aspiration. Panel discussions with Ofsted, school governors and creative learning organisations. Market place of creative learning organisations in Suffolk.

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Creative Minds National Coordinator

Here is a job opportunity that is separate from Suffolk Artlink but thought it might be of interest.

Do you have the skills to support artists, performers and film makers with learning disabilities to work together with a range of national arts organisations? Together you will facilitate taking the conversations about quality in learning disability led art forms to the wider world.

We are seeking a Creative Minds National Coordinator, four days per week (28 hours) to support, co-ordinate and develop this national project, based at Carousel in Brighton. www.creativemindsproject.org.uk

Starting salary – £24,500 (pro-rata)

This post is funded for three years

The deadline for applications is 10 am Monday 24th November 2014

For an Application Pack please call Liz or Mark on 01273 234734 or email: [email protected]

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