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.
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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.
Footage taken during the remix project. Young people were asked to come to the diary room to talk about their experience of the project.
The first of many clips from the diary room at the Remix project. Find out what the young people thought about the project.
Although we are all very sad that Ray our Administrator will be retiring in the Autumn we have had to come to terms with it and advertised his post. We’re a close strong team and if you have any experience as an Administrator and doing the financial stuff for a small organisation we’d be very interested in meeting you. All the details of the job are up on our main website http://www.full-circle-arts.co.uk/jobstraining.asp?id=89 and you can find out a bit more about the sort of people we are and stuff we do by visiting the about us tab at the top of this page.
This is the film of the final animated shorts produced as part of Full Circle Arts annual disabled young people’s summer project “Remix” Apart from one young participant the young people had no previous experience of producing animation. These animations are all the work of the young people and produced in 5 days. Some of the background music is produced by young people who took part in the music workshops which were also part of the project. Take a look we are so impressed with their work…
Jonny showing how he is animating the eyes on his characters at the Remix project animation workshop
Jamies 1st attempt at animation with a lovely message from Jamie at the end
