3 Year Partnership with Keynsham Town Council Arts Development with Bath Fringe Visual Arts Festival.
Having worked with the guys from the Festival last year on our Keynsham Creates Festival, due to its success we decided to develop more partnership work together. The Festival have been working very hard on funding bids and have been awarded funding from BANES Arts Development to deliver a wide variety of arts projects across BANES.
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(Photo by Ben Newton-Capturing the spirit and soul of community dance practioner Lynne Nazemmi) |
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The Secret Lives of Us Exhibition
Two young aspiring photographers Sam & Ben from Keynsham where involved in a photography project called the “Secret Lives of Us” where a snapshot of local resident including our local football coach, our Keynsham Good Citizen of the year and many more people. The exhibition celebrated their involvement in all the community work they do and for helping to make Keynsham a great place to live over the years and also revealing the things they enjoy that others might not know.
This was a partnership project between Keynsham Town Council Youth Service and Arts Development and Bath Fringe Visual Arts Festival, which supports local creative talent giving people a platform to show their work to a wider public audience.
Through providing professional mentoring by photographer Tanya Moulsen and advice in exhibiting their work for this project and their own work. Their photos will also be used in the exhibition in Bath as part of the Bath Visual Arts Festival, Southwest in Bloom, Town council literature and various venues in Keynsham.
From this project we are currently developing two new fantastic projects for 2012, more news to come!
Breathing Space
Breathing Space is a project designed to help people who have found themselves feeling a little lonely or disconnected, are having problems with anxiety and depression, or who may simply be feeling life isn’t as fun as it should be, getting together once a week for four weeks in September to do art together, drink tea, chat and make friends.
The facilitators hope to secure more funding to continue the project over a longer period. Participants are referred to group by their GP, or by New Routes
The project is funded by Keynsham Town Council and faciltated by Georgie Huntley and Ben Dickson KTC Arts Development Resident Artists.
Recipes for Life Project
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(Members of Time Out creating their own T shirts in the 'Recipes for Life Project') |
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Young people from Time Out Youth Centre where involved in a project called 'Recipes for Life' .This was a partnership project with Time Out Youth Centre, Keynsham Town Council Arts Development,Creativity Works, Suited and Booted & Bath Fringe Visual Arts Festival. The project involved young people working with local artists in a variety of art forms. The young people were consulted in what kind of art workshops they would like to take part in. Cake making with sweets and treats, photography and recycling textiles came out top ideas. They created a gorgeous array of cakes and tasty treats; from truffles to Chocolate and Beetroot cake. They have also created fantastic clothes and art work from recycled material, from badge making to tye-dye T shirts. Next to start is photography where the young people will have the opportunity to learn photography skills and then have their work exhibited as part of the Bath Fringe Visual Arts Festival. Suited and Booted will be working with young people to document the 'Recipes for Life Project' then created resources that will enable young people to engage in positive activities to support their well being.
Mark from Time Out Youth Centre said "The young people had a fantastic time in the sessions working alongside professional artists, we have had young people who's first experience of cooking is with this project. The arts sessions have helped young people to share and informally chat about many issues that are affecting them."
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(Time Out members cake making) |
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Dance in the Park
Dance in the Park—an inclusive dance project run by resident dance artist Sarah Haddow, working with people who have additional needs and able bodied on a devised piece of choreography culminating in site specific dance performance in the park
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Keynsham Creates Festival
‘Keynsham Creates’ a large scale month long community led Festival. The main aim for the Keynsham Creates project was to celebrate Keynsham’s growing creative community and to promote local groups and arts activities to the community of Keynsham in order to encourage future participation. We offered the opportunity to people of all ages and abilities to try out something new with a series of taster arts workshops in a range of indoor and outdoor venues, facilitated by professional local artists and amateur groups.
The workshops included an event or a workshop every day for a month including a range of arts and crafts, singing - with local choirs, drumming and recycled instrument workshops, world music and dance workshops. CreateXchange opened up their studiois and hosted a fantastic range of arts workshops from Murder Mystery Writing to wire sculpture making. We also worked with a wide range of local people who volunteered in a variety of roles, inc artists and photographers to document all the creative activities, this led to a photographic exhibition of ‘Keynsham Creates’ as part of the Bath Visual Arts Festival, this was a great opportunity to promote the project and all the great creative work the people where involved in.
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(Local Artist Fiona Edwards, facilitating a stained glass workshop for The Keynsham Creates Festival Fiona facilitates stained glass workshops and also works to commissioned pieces, she can be contacted on jandf_chaos_abounds@hotmail.com) |
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Keynsham Festival Participant Quotes
“I loved making the mosaic pots, really enjoyed meeting people who liked being involved in creative activities”
"It was so lovely to go along to all the different workshops, It was so nice to get involved in the arts again, I've for gotten how lovely it is to be creative, I feel like a child again!"
“I have never sang before in front of people, I was very nervous at first, but because it was so relaxed, it made me feel confident to join in”
Keynsham Festival Artists Quotes-
“This series of events is a tremendous opportunity to raise the profile of the arts in Keynsham and have a lot of fun while we're doing it. Let's show the world what Keynsham can do” Richard North, local photographer
"Writing can be a solitary occupation so it was wonderful to bounce ideas around with such a creative group of people at createXchange. I wanted to demonstrate how easy it is to find inspiration but hadn't anticipated that the richest resource at this event would be collaboration. I look forward to more of the same!" Lu Battley Murder Mystery Writing Workshop facilitator
"It is so important to me to be a part of community arts in Keynsham, as it is where I grew up and where I now live. The project has meant that I feel my voice can be heard in decision making, included in the arts scene and its future, to meet other artists and to share ideas and have support from my peers” Sarah Haddow, Resident Dance Artist
Visage Arts
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(Local Artist Pam Savage facilitated a clay, sculpturing and modelling project as part of the Visage Arts Programme.) |
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Visage Arts was a two year long member led project which provided a variety of visual arts workshops for people aged over 60. Many of the workshops where led by local artists who where themselves over 60. This project was funded by Awards for all.
Keynsham Farmers Market
Local artists have the opportunity to sell their art work at the Local Keynsham Farmers Market
(Local artist Anita Macallum with her beautiful handmade jewellery)
Dance Your Body Awake
The lovely ladies from Dance Your Body Awake performing at The Keynsham Creates Festival.
For more info contact about DYBA Contact Lynne [equinoxdancer@hotmail.com] or 01179869366)
Dance Your Body Awake was originally set up by KTC Arts Development nearly ten years ago, open to people aged over 55 years.
Due to its success the group decided to develop its work and work towards being an independent sustainable group. They are an integral part of the arts community and have many members who love to kick start the week with movement, friendship and fun! KTC Arts Development are very proud to be a part of the groups history and know how important the group is for the community.