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The other news: we’ve also had an engagement! Jade is officially getting married to John Cole. We all went out to celebrate in style last week.
Vicki is planning her holiday of a life time, she’s off to Hong Kong, Cambodia and Thailand. She’ll be away for nearly four weeks from 22rd February and will be returning on 22nd March.
If you need to contact her before she goes please email: vicki@fullcirclearts.co.uk
We’re finally up and running in the FCA HQ once more.
It now looks like the electricity is back on and here to stay, so after de-icing ourselves we’re raring to go.
We’d like to thank all of you who sent your best wishes in this rocky start to 2010.
A Continued winter saga.
Following our mini newsletter last week, here is our latest update on our winter office saga.
Some staff are able to get into the office, and although we have electricity to computers and lights we currently have no heating.
Jade has been very brave and been doing the job of impersonating the polar bear stood on the glacier mint, but it is so cold the office is unusable, and I have told her to go home to thaw out.
Therefore until we either get our heating fixed or the weather warms up all staff will be working from home:-
Work will continue as normal, but making more use of the internet and remote working/ file sharing.
Meetings will go ahead, but at different venues if they were planned to be held in our offices.
You can make sure staff can get your e-mails at home by e-mailing:-
Chris = fca1@me.com
Jade = jadefca@me.com
Vicki = vickifca@me.com
Kathryn = kathrynwfca@me.com
You can reach staff on their mobiles, and messages left on our answer phone will be retrieved daily.
Apart from those who had arranged to have meetings in our office or make use of our computer or research facilities, use of technology means this should not cause any inconvenience. Please be assured we are doing our best to fix the situation in both climatic and financial hard times. We thank you for bearing with us, in not the best of starts to 2010.
Chris Hammond
Artistic Director
Here at the FCA HQ we’d like to wish you all a happy New Year.
We’re all feeling the chill a bit and the electricity going off hasn’t helped, but we’re back in action after the Christmas break and raring to go.
Here’s a picture of our snowy office for you:
Snowy office
The last two weeks have been very busy here at the FCA HQ!
We went to the launch of the Dada Festival which looked very impressive and full of exciting work. To find out more about the festival visit the website.
We’ve been to the Manchester Social Media Café and learnt about new technologies, such as google wave, and how we can use them to our advantage.
The young artists have completed their Silver Arts Award, which marks the end of this year’s source: young artists project.
We were lucky enough to get tickets for Art of With 2 at the Cornerhouse, which was brilliant. You can find out about this by going to the Cornerhouse website.
And finally we had a sneak preview look around the new People’s History Museum in Manchester which is a very impressive building and we can’t wait until it’s re-opened.
Phew! We have been busy, there’s probably lots of things I’ve forgotten about but I’m sure Chris will add them when she reads this.
Yesterday we had another exciting staff day.
It was the first one with Kathryn W so to ease her in we started the day with a bacon sandwich and a cup of tea.
We discussed projects, such as the ‘Source Young Artists’, who will be handing their Silver Arts Award work in to be moderated next week. We also planned ahead for projects that will start early next year.
Part of the work we want to do is to improve the services we offer on our website. We need your input so we can tailor it to your needs. To help us with this you can fill in a short questionnaire.
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Watch this space to find out more about our up and coming work.
We finished of the day with a TED Talk by Emily Levine which we’d like to share with you:
Kathryn B, our Arts Project Officer, is leaving after 3 years for the sunnier climate of New
Zealand and Ray, our Administrator, has retired. You can see a photo of Kathryn to the right, and a photo of Ray below.
Ray’s replacement is Kathryn W who works on Mondays and Thursdays. You can contact Kathryn W via her email address: kathrynw ‘at’ fullcirclearts.co.uk
We like to welcome Kathryn W to Full Circle Arts and we hope you’ll enjoy working here. Watch this space to find out more information (gossip) about Kathryn W.
To celebrate Ray working for Full Circle Arts for 14 years we all went out to eat and to see a band at the re-furbished Band on the Wall.
We had a brilliant night and then the following week we had a tea party for him in the office and presented him with gifts so he won’t forget us.
We’d all like to wish Kathryn B the best of luck on her travels and we’re very jealous that she’ll be in the sunshine on a beach for Christmas!
AIM – Arts In Motion was a project designed, managed and facilitated by those who had committed to Full circle Arts Source Young Artist scheme, a twelve month intensive development opportunity for disabled people between the ages of 18 and 30. AIM took place over two days in August 2009 at the Zion Arts Centre in Manchester. AIM – Arts In Motion – arrived from the idea of an arts relay, the passing of an art form onto another to encourage the development of characters, themes and stories. Damien Hayward worked with Photography, Paul McDowell on Creative writing, Peter Pamphlett and Janet Charlesworth on Drama and Helen Bridge on Dance.
Since the completion of AIM, Damien Hayward a participant on the Source Young Artist Project worked along side Karren Morris, a freelance editor, to produce a short documentation of the project. You can view the film here:
The twelve month scheme of SYA included intensive development, meetings, mentoring, professional development, training, workshops, arts award and a great deal of commitment and independent study. The group put all their knowledge, experience, training, and skill into practice during the planning and delivery of ‘AIM’ and are continuing to work towards achieving their Silver Arts Award in December and are supporting Full Circle Arts to evaluate the entire twelve months of the Source Young Artists scheme.
Full Circle Arts and the SYA Team would like to thank the following individuals/organisations who contributed to either training, development workshops, mentoring, venue, work experience or additional arts experience.
Arts Award, Hub 4 training, Rachel Preston, Caz Brader, Kerry Tuhill, Tanya Raabe, Derek Cully, Maya Chowdhry, Sarah Platts, Michelle Oakes, Schani Cave, Ray Biggs, Karren Morris, Nathan Pendlebury, Nicky Hatton at PANDA, Creative Breaks, DIY Theatre, Contact Theatre, Jaime Patterson at So Many Words, Zion Arts Centre, Greenroom and Chinese Arts Centre.
For further information on the Source Young Artist scheme, please contact vicki@fullcirclearts.co.uk.
We will be updating the SYA pages on our website over the next month.
