Creative Employment Programme

There are two exciting paid internships open to unemployed 18-24 year olds.

The first is a unique opportunity as a studio assistant at Brian Alabaster’s studio foundry in Linstead helping with bronze castings among other things. The closing date to apply for this internship is 9am Monday 20^th July 2015.

The second is as a development and marketing assistant for PhotoEast to provide support for the launch of an international photography festival in Suffolk.  The closing date to apply for this internship is 12 noon Friday 3^rd July 2015.

For more information and how to apply visit our Creative Employment Page here.

Creative Company  

This week is Carers Week, to find out how you can get involved and help raise awareness about caring go to: www.carersweek.org

Here’s a lovely image from our Creative Company project; giving family carers and cared for the chance to take part in creative activities together…

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Jumpstart

JumpstART! Studio Project has launched of the on-line gallery of artist’s work. Please take a look at the amazing artwork that the participants created during this 12 week project in Bury St Edmunds and Lowestoft. It would be great to get some feedback too.

You can view the gallery at www.suffolkartlink.org.uk/jumpstart-online-exhibition/

The new Big Lottery funded JumpstART! project began on 1st June!  We’re really excited to be able to continue and develop the work we’ve been doing in Lowestoft and Bury St Edmunds – and will also be working in Ipswich.

New JumpstART! modules will begin in September in ‘Installation Art / Making Spaces’, in Lowestoft and Bury St Edmunds, which will be run by lead artists Kate Warner and Carrie Phoenix. Taster sessions will be running in the next few weeks, and Explore Days in August. In Bury St Edmunds, the dates for Explore Days are 11th August and 17th August at the Centre, St Johns Street. Get in touch with Charlie for more information via email on [email protected] or by phone on 01986 873 955.

Clown Round

“The Clowns cheered me up and took my mind off the upcoming surgery.” A child sharing their experience after a recent visit from the Suffolk Artlink Clown Doctors.

The team of eight Clown Doctors continue to spread smiles and laughter to hospitalised children in Suffolk, Norfolk and Essex.

The weekly visits are fully up and running this summer term extending to ‘On Call’ visits to the children’s ward at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital this month.The Clown Doctors with their ukuleles in hand will be meeting for one of their training Play Days in June. These are a few pictures from the last training day where Doctor Hyacinth Haystack share some origami skills.

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Suffolk at Play

We’re half way through the programme at East Point Academy, Lowestoft. At our last session before half term, we were joined by poet Dean Parkin, who led a creative writing workshop with the group. This produced some lovely anecdotes and personal recollections of games played out in the street, on the beach and in the local parks. It also produced a vivid account by an Academy member of staff of how he and his brother deliberately drove their go-cart over the edge of the cliff – for fun.

For the next six weeks the group will be very busy, making animations with Emma. Dean will join us for another creative writing session, and Julie will continue to support the reminiscence element, making memory boxes and helping with the scrapbook.

Next September, the project moves to Stradbroke, where we will be working with students from Stradbroke High School and, hopefully, members of the local Over 60’s Club; we also hope to be working alongside volunteers from Laxfield Museum to deliver part of the programme.

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Rock Up

Sixteen young people have taken up the opportunity to have one-to-one tuition from Rock Up tutors since we started these sessions in January. Our regular tutors, Matt and Bryan, have tutored drumming, vocal, keyboard and guitar skills; they’ve also have posted supporting tutorials to the Suffolk Artlink YouTube page, so that the young musicians can practice at home. Meanwhile, Sophie, our DJ, has also provided one-to-one sessions for the young people to create their own mixes.

We’re hoping to hold a celebration event to coincide with the youth club annual summer barbeque, where participants will be able to entertain other young club members, and we are also planning a programme of summer activities, open to club members and other young people in the area, to take place over the holiday period.

Culture Club

We are busy planning new activities for later this year but today we are reflecting on the amazing work that our groups have produced in the past year. We’ve seen some fantastic work and the feedback we have received from groups’ members speaks for itself…

‘An uplifting and inspirational space where people share, care and express their thoughts and creativity’‘To me the group is a means of escape.. I can let my mind go, let the words flow’

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Uninhabited and Music and Arts Day

Here are a couple of things happening unrelated to Suffolk Artlink, but may still be of interest.

Uninhabited – A play by Paul T DaviesFootprints Theatre Company are creating a site-specific production in response to their exploration of the space. Essex County Council have been kind enough to support them with a small arts grant. The project explores the space and past presences in the space and the community. It uses professional actors and a community chorus.Music and Arts Day delivered by The Voice Cloud.

There will be the chance to learn contemporary and fun songs and learn to sign language along to them, as well as drumming and percussion using lots of different instruments. In the afternoon, there will be seated dance routines taught and the chance to learn how to perform live sound-effects for a radio play!The day runs between 10:30am and 2:30pm at the John Peel Centre for Creative Arts in Stowmarket and is free to attend but places are strictly limited so booking is essential.

To book or for further information, please contact 07909 510976 or email [email protected]

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