In March we have over 30 arts sessions, celebration events and exhibitions.

These include our creative Artbase sessions for children and their parents in 2 Lowestoft schools, our Clown Round sessions at Ipswich, James Paget and Norfolk & Norwich hospitals, print and dry felt making with Ruth Philo in our Culture Club sessions, the Exchanges 2 residency and grand public finale on 31st March, the illustration and character art sessions in Lowestoft as part of Jumpstart course for people with learning difficulties and the dance sessions for the Bury St Edmunds course, our music sessions for Phonic and the animation sessions for Suffolk at Play.

Exchanges – a film about the project from Suffolk Artlink on Vimeo.

Aside from sessions and events, Nonnie and Ilona, two young adult carers from Exchanges 2, have been interviewing others and doing audio diaries on the project and are being aired on BBC Radio Suffolk. So far 7 radio pieces have been broadcast including interviews with the group as they were doing body casts with alginate, interviews with the artists and interviews with the UCS dance student placement about creating a dance piece in response to the residency.

There will be a grand public finale on 31st March 2014 at the UCS Waterfront Foyer from 4pm. For further information contact Jenny Holland on [email protected] or 01986 873955

The ‘Been There, Done That, Still Moving’ film which Suffolk Artlink made as part of a dance project last year is going to be shown as part of the Reminiscence East Conference on 26th March 2104. If you have not been able to book onto that you can see the film here

Been There Done That Still Moving – The Full Story from Suffolk Artlink

We are also still helping promote Suffolk County Council’s Creative Employment Programme with an Administrative and Producing Intern at Gecko Theatre, a Marketing and Admin Assistant at Red Rose Chain and two apprenticeships at Dance East added in the last two weeks. The Creative Employment Programme is internships and apprenticeships across Suffolk for young people registered as unemployed interested in working in the arts. For more information and the list of current opportunities go to www.suffolkartlink.org.uk/cep

Something that Suffolk Artlink is not involved with but we thought that we would pass it on as part of supporting artists is the Ipswich Borough Council, CSV and Eastern Enterprise Hub’s joint project ReCreate. www.ipswichrecreate.org

ReCreate is a EU Funded project that looks to stimulate Ipswich town centre regeneration through the Creative Sector.

Through this project there is:

·         Free Space – There are spaces at the Town Hall that are available for free hires by the Creative Community. These can be used for exhibitions, galleries, rehearsals, residencies, etc.

·         Free Business Advice – One of our partners are running a Creative Entrepreneurs course for people who are interested in turning their creative ideas into a business.

·         Free Skills development – Numerous free training courses in topics like social media, word press, etc.

For more information about ReCreate please contact [email protected]

 

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