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    I manage and deliver arts programs, workshops and sessions in education, community and health settings.
    My travels, adventure and Eastern philosophy have taught me to be versatile and holistic in my way of living. My experience as a schoolteacher taught me to be organized. I gained valuable experience in project and events management whilst working in Darlington for the Arts Development Team and in various roles for Creative Partnerships Tees Valley.
    I continue to work on CP schools projects as an artist deliverer.
    For any project I provide a frame which outlines the whole lifecycle of the project: planning, structure, time schedule, aims and objectives, budget, materials, resources, process, documentation and evaluation.
    I collaborate closely with staff in order to get the best from any endeavor.

    • Managed arts projects (selected)

     
  • Full on Futures 2006
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    Partners: Creative Partnerships TV, the Darlington Education Village and DBC. I co-organised an event for the government initiated enterprise week which focused on enabling primary and secondary children to gain creative careers advice and experience participating in arts, business and enterprise projects as well as creating performance opportunities for school children and training for teachers. This was also a chance for artists, creative businesses and enterprising individuals to share their skills and knowledge with young people. Darlington Education Village.


     
  • Health & Arts People's Partnership Initiative( HAPPI) 2006
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    Darlington Borough Council and PCT initiative aiming to bring together arts and health professionals to develop a number of projects including an open arts studio, arts on prescription schemes and a regular Arts and Health forum event - management and development role. Darlington Arts Centre.


     
  • North Lodge Park Summer Play Scheme 2005/06
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    DBC and Friends of North Lodge Pk arts and sports activities program for local children - management and arts development role. North Lodge Park, Darlington.


     
  • Surestart Parent and Toddler Arts Project 2005
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    DBC, Surestart and Corporation Rd School. 12 weeks program of after school arts activities with different artists provided for parents and their young children - management and arts development role. Surestart Darlington.


     
  • Bengali Community Arts Project 2005
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    DBC and Corporation Road School. 12 week program to provide a diverse range of arts activities to children and their parents - management and arts development role. Corporation Road School Darlington.


    Other classes/sessions/workshops (selected)

      Combined arts
  		• Stockton YMCA. 2 large painted and collaged murals with young people, 16 - 19 yr olds, August and Oct '07.
  		• Newcastle Toy Library and dance/drama/art activities culminating in a performance - project for children aged 8-15 yrs with various learning difficulties
  		• Youth Consultation Day, Darlington '06. Arts and crafts workshops.
  		• African masks and dance workshops, Darlington Arts Centre, '06
  		• Transitional work, dance/drama/art for children with special needs, Children's Fund, Darlington. Sept '05 - Feb '06.
  		• Dance/drama/visual art/storytelling project based on "Sealife" with 3 special needs schools in N Tyneside. Jan- April '04
  		• 'Too Much Talk' - Arts/dance/music/storytelling project based around an African story involving six primary schools in Sunderland with children, teachers and parents. Jan - April. '04
  		• Large tribal masks for African dance project, Churchill's School,Ncs/le, June '04
  		• 'Dance in Healthcare'. A HAZ funded project using visual art, dance, storytelling and percussion to initiate teenage girls wishing to work with nursery and early years children. Based in Ashington. Sept. - Dec. '03
  		• 'Releasing Potential'. A Headway Community Theatre Co. project working with adults to build skills and confidence using a mixture of visual art, dance, drama, drumming, yoga and voice work. Sept. - Dec. '03
  		• Various work with Delta, a locally based dance/drama/arts organization working in schools in and around the NE, 2003/04
  		• Refugee and Asylum Seekers - drama/dance/storytelling project working with refugee children to produce a performance for N.Tyneside Multicultural day '03
  		• Site-specific participatory 2D visual arts projects: Exterior Perimeter Fence Design, Shildon Sure Start, Co Durham '03
  		• Interior Design work and mural, Pune Meditation Centre, N India '03
  		• Exterior Mural work, The Tyne Pub, Newcastle '99
  		• Exterior Mural work, Multicultural Awareness project, Edgware School, N London, '97
     
    Dance
  		• La Fura de Baus - part of the arial performance show on Spillers Quay, July '07.
  		• Various one off sessions and day events organising, facilitating and providing structured dance group activities with space, music and sometimes props and/or arts activities. India and UK. 2002 - present.
  		• Darlington MIND 2006 - guided social dance sessions for adults with mental health problems including introductory presentation for health professionals about 'Why dance is good for you' and practical sessions for professionals and clients at the UK World Mental Health Day event, Leeds.
  		• Dance sessions for adults with visually impairment . 2005
  		• Sunderland Action 4 Blind, dance sessions for 8 -16 yr olds 2006
  		• 'Dance in Health' all women's group, Holistic and natural Living Centre,Byker, Sept '05 - Nov '05
  		• After school dance club with girls aged 10-12, Bede's World, Jarrow, July - pres '05
  		• 'Re - Awaken the Dancer' 2 day workshop for adults, Anam Cara Retreat Centre, Inverness 21/22nd May '05
  		• Year 6 Dance Club for children, some with special needs culminating in a short performance at the Newbiggin Dance Festival. Sept. - Dec. '03