Our talented Fox and The Feathers animators from Alder Centre for Education came to view their display at TATE Liverpool, and quite rightly were proud as punch of their achievements. such talent so pleased for the opportunity to create such beautiful work with them. …
Our display at Tate Liverpool is up. Very proud animators, artists and musicians celebrating self expression and what happiness means to them. Thanks to our collaborators Sandfield Park School and Alder Centre for Education. Funded by Community Foundation for Merseyside from the Tampon Tax Community…
The work that our talented animators and musicians have been developing is now up in TATE Liverpool – you can find out more here https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-liverpool/tate-exchange/workshop/creating-space If you get chance please call in and enjoy the beautiful dreamcatchers, thought provoking pebbles and inspiring animations and positive…
In preparation for the development of the score for the animation, our talented musicians worked with Georgina to explore how different instruments made them feel, their favourite tunes and how to convey emotion through sound.. Funded by Community Foundation for Merseyside from the Tampon Tax…
Our lovely ladies are busy thinking of ideas for their animation – considering what is important to them, what makes them happy, what messages they want to convey…big themes coming out are it is ok to be different, be happy with who you are, love…
Paul McCann, audio artist, recorded a series of the music and movement and relaxation sessions held at St Barts, as well as recording individual residents memories, thoughts and feelings. The final audios are a fascinating insight into the lives of the residents at St Bart’s…
The residents enjoying doing some movement, singing, dancing and relaxing – as well as having a chat over a cuppa! And when Jill and Georgina joined forces to give residents at St Barts a musical treat whilst relaxing and moving everyone really enjoyed themselves as the…
Jill our wonderful masseur working with residents at St Bart’s to offer one to one massage support – concentrating on residents identified as most benefiting from such therapies. This includes residents who are bed bound and love the improvement they feel following one of her…
Lots of the residents at St Bart’s have been getting involved in making music – and having a ball in the process. Georgina’s bag of tricks includes lots of percussion instruments, as well as a ukulele for the more adventurous! Kindly funded by Big Lottery.
The residents, and their families, at St Bart’s Nursing Home, enjoying Georgina’s wonderful music – as a classical cellist for Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, she is a delight to listen to. Offering residents an eclectic mix of tunes from classical favourites from Swan Lake to…
We planted lots of flowers into our planters – choosing a lot of perennials so that they will continue to flourish once our gardeners have returned home and new patients arrive at the unit. Lavender was the most popular choice due to its beautiful smell,…
Our first task was to get the kitchen garden in order and growing our tasty plants for the season. Our new gardeners chose a wide range of plants and herbs including strawberries, kale, parsley, tomatoes, potatoes, beetroot and courgettes. We also planted some plant pesticides…
We took down the fence that separated the kitchen garden from the new play and relax area as it totally transformed the space and meant everyone could run around a lot more! But to give a different feel to this area of the garden we…
Everyone helped create a beautiful wall mural for the newly developed garden area – putting artistic and creative skills to the test with bird and insect houses, mosaic leaves and rope flowers set against a beautiful tree and hand decorated wooden birds. Heres’ what our…
I liked doing the Mosaic leafs because I liked all the colours and they looked really nice, they look really nice on the wall. I liked doing the bird box because I like the decorating and painting is my favourite thing to do. Now that…
I made the big owl I used a mix of colours and it was quite relaxing painting it because all the colourrs I used were relaxing colours. The bird boxes look good because they have been decorated with little animals/insects. I liked taking the photos…
Once the animation was completed we had to think about how it could be utilised in an educational setting. We widened out from our animation creative group to incorporate the wider sixth form at Broadgreen International School and also incorporate our second focus group from…
After much work, not only with our sixth formers but with members of the local community the animation was ready to be screened. As part of Black History Month 2014 we premiered the animation at Kuumba Imani Millennium Centre, followed by a series of screenings…
Our talented sixth formers divided into groups to develop the animation with some concentrating on research, selection of sounds and developing Clint’s narration, whilst others got stuck into the illustrations and the task of painting the hundreds of assets that were needed to tell Clint’s…
We are thrilled that the exhibition has been set up at the entrance to International Slavery Museum and the large scale portraits juxtaposed with the intimate audio visuals that audience members can immerse themselves in work incredibly well together. This powerful exhibition has had positive…
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