• Stockton International Riverside Festival (SIRF) 2008
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    'Sowing the Seeds of Innovation' - 1st year of a five year carnival development plan uniting towns, cities and people across the UK and further a field.

    Partners: Stockton Borough Council, Kinetika.

    I was employed as part of a team of artists to and design and make costumes and props which would both represent each of the community groups working with me.
    Anything goes with carnival so long as your designs communicate your theme loudly and in the case of community groups, who are wearing and carrying the gear, expresses who they are too. My themes were 'communication' and 'footprints'.
    This was a wonderful and challenging project to be involved with and a great opportunity to work with other talented artists.
    March - August '08

     


     
  • Priory Woods 'Maths Moves' Project
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    Creative Partnerships Enquiry Schools project working with Special Needs students in Yrs 7, 8 and 9 to develop and support their understanding of Maths: Pivats Scale National Curriculum
    Levels 1-8.

    Partners: Priory Woods SN School, Middlesbrough, Creative Partnerships TV, WeeSpiders.org (managed and directed by myself and digital artist Oran Milstein).

    Maths Moves was designed to enable children to learn about shape, space and measurement through movement, dance, creative play and digital media.

    We used range of 'props' to investigate and create environments in which to learn as well go out on visits, do drama - play, take photos, make up dances and make a film. This project was all about finding new ways to learn, make active connections and explore some new territory. Out of this project has come a documentary film which was shown at the ARC in Stockton in front of which pupils performed their dances, specific lesson plans and a website which tells the whole story.
    Working with these pupils was a joy…. click here to find out more.



     
  • Billingham Campus Carnival Performance Project
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    'Over the Rainbow' - Outdoor event created, produced and performed by Yr 10 pupils and selected staff.

    Partners: Billingham Campus Secondary School, Stockton Borough Council, Creative Partnerships TV, collaborative artist Gordon Sharp.

    A full on 6 week project in which everyone worked very hard and enthusiastically to devise, collaborate, co-operate to make props, costumes, dance, drama, write script and music for this moving outdoor performance. A group of 10 staff were taken off timetable and allowed time to explore this interesting and diverse theme asking the question 'What happens when humans interfere with nature? From this an amazing range of stories emerged and a set created which Yr 10 pupils brought to life.
    Carnival costumes, banners, masks, giant iconic puppet heads, a rainbow torch, Iris, the Garden of Eden, stone tablets, animals, a magic well and much more…….
    May/June '08

       


     
  • Hummersea School Carnival Project
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    'Wow!': Stimulating Pupils through Carnival Arts.

    Partners: Hummersea Primary, Loftus, Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council, Creative Partnerships Tees Valley.

    This was a whole school project delivered over the spring term which involved all the staff as well as the children. The aim was to give each and everyone artistic inspiration, support and encourage creativity and provide a broad range of creative experience on which they could build whilst developing pupil led learning and pupil voice. Yr 3 pupils interviewed me for the job!

    There were many smaller projects within the whole which included research, dance, drama and story, circus, costume, visual arts and crafts. Incorporated were two PD days for staff which focused on different art styles, materials and creative curriculum opportunities. As ideas grew, other artists were brought in to deliver and develop specialist areas and support the overall project. We ended on a high note with a procession, music and performances from every class including the staff!
    Jan - April '08

    Performance
    Procession
    Art work


     
  • Planning to Act 2006/07/08

    • Partners: Planning Aid Scotland.

    A community engagement project focusing on developing creative tools such as visual art, creative writing, drama, music and digital media which can be taken into communities throughout Scotland and used to help and support people to engage with the planning system. Also aimed at empowering communities to have a voice in local planning issues; can identify the effects which imposed urban and rural regeneration has on peoples lives.

         


     
  • Westlea School Travel Plan 2007
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    Partners: Westlea Primary School, Durham City Council.

    A project developing a range of resources: film, book with illustrations and linked interactive whiteboard game, design and execution of playground map for cycling proficiency test. All resources have been developed with children and staff throughout the whole school using drawings, dance, drama and film. Themes include physical health, travel of different creatures, transport, the environment, mobility and different ways to travel.



     
  • Creative Solutions. 2006/07

    • Creative Partnerships project aiming to support artists and teachers to work together in developing creating learning methods to enhance and feed into the primary curriculum and support literacy, creative processes, social/emotional intelligences, self esteem etc. Delivery of a range of dance, drama, visual art sessions across 4 primary schools in Stockton on Tees.

     


     
  • Darlington Community Carnival 2006
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    Partners: Darlington Carnival Community Council and DBC.

    I co-ordinated and co- delivered the program of art sessions which involved working with 12 local community groups making a variety of art work based around the theme of 'environment'. The carnival culminated in a local events day and final procession.