Archive for the ‘Adults’ Category
Simon Bridge
Art forms: Shakespeare and Drama workshops and lectures for all ages.
Summary: Shakespeare and theatre workshops for schools, teachers, young people and adults. Interactive lectures and talks on Shakespeare for A-level and adults.
Locations: Suffolk, Norfolk, Essex, Cambridgeshire
Experience: I have been a professional actor for more than a quarter of a century and since 1993 I have been bringing Shakespeare and other aspects of theatre to schools, adult education, youth theatre and community groups using practical workshops and lively interactive lectures.
Qualifications: Diploma, Drama Studio London
Enhanced CRB check
Projects: I have worked with numerous theatres throughout the UK including a long association with the education department at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. I have led education projects for organisations including the Theatre Royal in Bury St Edmunds, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Watermill Theatre Newbury, the British American Drama Academy, Proteus Theatre Company, Hastings Festival and the Bremer Shakespeare Company in Germany. I work regularly with schools throughout the region and recently led a series of drama-games workshops for Suffolk Young Carers.
Groups worked with: Schools – Key Stages 2, 3, 4 and A-level. Undergraduates. Youth theatre and amateur dramatic groups. Drama Students. Community groups. Adult education.
Contact details:
Nicola Marray-Woods
Art forms: Visual Artist
Summary: I specialise in community and school art projects including murals, ceramics, drawing, mixed media, environmental works and school ground design. I work with all ages and levels of experience from nursery, primary and secondary aged children through to family groups and adults of all ages and abilities. I aim to facilitate the work of others so that the process is satisfying and meaningful whilst ensuring that their creativity is retained in the final high quality work. I enjoy the challenge of working with new materials and groups. I also provide training in school ground development through my role as an accredited trainer for the school grounds charity Learning Through Landscapes (LTL).
Locations: Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, South Lincolnshire
Experience: Since 2000 I have been working in the East of England on a wide range of workshops, projects and artist in residence programmes. Clients have included over 40 schools and children’s centres, district and county councils and local and national charities. As an accredited trainer for LTL I have delivered training and facilitation on national school ground development programmes. I have project managed and led a range of large projects including an award winning school garden in King’s Lynn and since 2009 a Heritage Lottery Funded community project for the Woodland Trust.
Qualifications: June 2004 Learning Through Landscapes Accredited trainer
June 1995 University of Surrey BA (Hons) Art in a Community Context with Educational Studies – First class honours.
Projects:
Woodland Trust (Jan 09 – Dec 2010) Reffley Wood Projects: a Heritage Lottery Funded project running art & maintenance events in Reffley Wood and WREN funded informal play sessions in wood with 5 primary schools
Cambridgeshire Library Service (Cambridgeshire Community Archive Network)(2005 – 2008) Working with four primary schools, a special school, a youth group and 6 local community groups using local history images to create new art works with children.
Forest Heath District Council (2006) Mural at Brandon Railway Station
Tilbury Power Station (2006). Interpretation board at environmental centre
Howard Junior School, Magical Sensory Garden – Project manager & artist-in-residence (2001-04) Creating multi-sensory quiet & creative award winning garden which features in DfES publication and a 25m mural painting for school playground
Forward & Futures ‘800 years of King’s Lynn’ mural (2004) Research, design & painting a 112m2 mural for a town centre location with a local charity.
Text Collector II –Artist-in Residence - A Year of the Artist, EAB and European funded community arts project (2000) based in Downham Market, Norfolk. Text (poems, stories etc.) were used to inspire art work (collage, painting, film, public art etc) made with and by local people. This culminated in an exhibition.
This is a selection from the last ten years. More examples are available.
Groups with: Children and young people (2 -18), families, adults, people with learning disabilities, older people (including those with dementia), teachers and other professionals.
Contact details:
0771 256 7479
15 South Everard St,
King’s Lynn,
Norfolk
PE30 5HJ
Laura Watson
Art forms: Scriptwriter/Dramatist
Summary: Freelance Scriptwriter who runs playwriting projects for children, teenagers and adults.
Locations: Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire
Experience: I am a freelance scriptwriter. I have written several episodes of EastEnders, an episode of Casualty, an Afternoon Play for Radio 4 (Nightcap) and a play for my local youth theatre in Newmarket, Suffolk (Angel In The Park).
Before going freelance I worked for BBC Radio Drama, Laura Cecil Literary Agency and as a Script Editor and Story Editor for EastEnders.
I also have extensive experience in running creative writing classes and projects for children, teenagers and adults.
Qualifications: Post-grad Certificate- Scriptwriting & Literary Editing, Sheffield Hallam
BA (Hons) Writing, Middlesex University:Classification 2.1.
A Levels, Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge, 2 A’s and a C
10 GCSE’S, Soham Village College, Ely, Cambs, 5 Grade A’s and 5 Grade B’s
Projects:
Writer in Residence @ St. Felix Middle School, Suffolk, Sept 2009- July 2010: I work with a different group of students each term on a creative project. Past projects include the plays ‘Danger In The Darkness’, about a school trip that goes wrong and ‘The Burning Truth’ about two runaway children.
Scriptwriting for Adults, Jan 2009-ongoing: I run a ten week evening class on the basic craft of scriptwriting.
Creative Writing Workshops, LACESS, Jan- May 2010: Looked After Children’s Educational Support Services are funding me to run workshops in various schools attended by Looked After Children. I also ran a Create A Play Day in February half-term for fifteen children (aged 11-14) who are all in Foster Care.
School Workshops, The Children’s Discovery Centre, May 2009- Ongoing: I am a listed writer for The Children’s Discovery Centre who arrange for me to go into schools and run creative writing workshops.
Radio Project, Open Doors Course, Suffolk Artlink, Nov 2009: I worked with adults with learning difficulties to develop a short radio play. The play was on the theme of ‘Love’ and was recorded by Ipswich Community Radio.
Create A Play- Newmarket College, Suffolk, July 2009: Along with my brother who is a Primary School Teacher, I ran a three day summer holiday workshop for 8-12 year olds. The theme was Magic and Fantasy. We worked with the children to develop their own short plays, which they then performed to their parents at the end of the last day.
Writers Residency for Action For Children, Feb-May 2009: I worked with twelve Young Carers (aged 7-11) over a three month period of weekly meetings. We created a modern-day fairytale ‘A Science Project Goes Wrong’ which was then performed by the children to their families and key workers.
Scriptwriting/Drama Project @ Red Balloon, Sept- Nov 2008: I ran a series of workshops at Red Balloon Learner Centre in Cambridge (for students that have left mainstream education due to bullying), working towards a one-act play that the students performed at the Cambridge Arts Theatre.
Groups worked with: Children, Teenagers and Adults. More specific groups include Young Carers, adults with learning difficulties, children and teenagers in foster care and teenagers who have left mainstream education due to being bullied.
Contact details:
07974409228
Laura Watson – Making the Change
Kate Ackerley
Art forms: Visual Arts, Creative Writing
Summary: I am a creative and integrative artist and therapist, working primarily in oils and pastels, and words. I am a leader and facilitator of workshops and courses which I have created and delivered, entitled The Creative and Silent Self series, which is designed to give expression and voice to the creativity which is inherent in everyone. I use creative exercises, including drawing, pastels, paint, claywork, collage etc, creative writing of poetry and prose, journaling, visualisation and meditation to strengthen the inner self and create a safe space in which people can explore themselves and their potential. I believe in the redemptive power of art and its ability to grant new perspectives to those engaged in the creative process. Art can be a way to shape difficult experiences and transcend them.
Locations: Suffolk, (Cambridgeshire), (Norfolk)
Experience: I am an experienced and qualified teacher of children in schools, having worked with a range of ages and abilities, with over ten years experience.
For adults, my Creative Self workshops (5 day residential/ 3 day weekend) have been running since 2009 in Suffolk and Sussex and the next one is in May, a residential 3 day weekend course. I have also been involved with running a creative writing workshop in Leiston, leading meditation groups in Woodbridge, delivering therapists’ training and healing workshops in Suffolk.
Qualifications: BA (Joint Hons) Drama and French (Bristol and Sorbonne); PGCE with specialism in arts and creative language (Cambridge), CPE (Law); MNFSH (healer training and qualification) member of the Friends’ Fellowship of Healing.
Projects: Creative writing with adult group at Leiston (some mental health issues, isolation) My own Creative Self workshops for adults (see also my website)
Therapeutic touch/reminiscence workshops to deliver massage to group and train support workers to continue the work, Woodbridge (following voluntary work in the same vein at St Elizabeth Hospice Ipswich).
Future projects at Landguard Fort, Artist in Residence 2011, and plans for series of workshops for older people to develop their creativity and release memories.
Groups worked with: Children, Adults.
Contact details:
studio@KateAckerley.com
www.kateackerley.com
Posted in Adults, Artists and Therapist, Cambridgeshire, Children, Creative Writing, Norfolk, Suffolk, Teacher, Visual Arts
Leigh Driver
Art forms: Visual Arts, Film / Video / Photography, New Technology, Web Design, Crafts, Literature, Heritage Interpretation
Summary: At the West Suffolk Arts Centre we provide engaging and accessible opportunities to work in a wide variety of media through workshops,courses and personal tuition suitable for all ages and abilities. We also act as Arts Award Advisers for the Trinity Guildhall Arts Award Scheme and offer GCSE and A-Level support.
Locations: Suffolk, Norfolk, Essex, Cambridgeshire
Experience: Very experienced arts and museums educator.
Qualifications: I trained as an artist at the Hertfordshire College of Art and Design in the early ’80s. Since then I have run numerous Arts-based events and workshops for all ages and abilities in a wide variety of media. I am an accredited Arts Award Adviser for The Trinity Guildhall/Arts Council England Arts Award Scheme and I am currently working with groups of young people from the Education Otherwise organization teaching Visual Literacy and Contemporary Arts Practice. I am also a successful web designer and published author (most notably ‘The English Village’ and ‘The Lost Villages of England’ for New Holland Publishers).
Projects: Trinity Guildhall/Arts Council England Arts Award Scheme – Adviser. Education Otherwise ‘Art Basics’ Course at Lopham – lead educator.
Art in the Park Week at Brandon Country Park – a week-long series of artist-led workshops and exhibitions – curator and occasional workshop leader.
Art and Craft Workshop with Mildenhall CRU – a group of young adults with severe learning difficulties. ‘Cultural Diversity in Brandon’ independent project with students from Breckland Middle School. ‘Brandon on The Fringe’ Arts Festival (promoter).
Groups worked with: I have many years experience of working with home educated children (largely through the Education Otherwise organisation), people with severe learning difficulties, and people of all ages with little or no experience in the Arts. I am an accredited Arts Award Adviser at Bronze, Silver and Gold levels for the Trinity Guildhall/Arts Council England Arts Award Scheme.
Contact details:
leigh.driver@westsuffolkartscentre.com
Tel: 07882 891022
West Suffolk Arts Centre,
Brandon Heritage Centre,
George Street, Brandon,
Suffolk, IP27 0BX
www.westsuffolkartscentre.com
Jacqui Petrie
Art forms: Visual artist
Summary: I make messy drawings and sloppy water colours of almost recognizable natural forms which usually have an autobiographical significance. Also, I am a very versatile and experienced art tutor of all ages. Currently I am teaching secondary school students for three days a week. I teach A Level and GCSE and moderate for EDEXCEL. I run a weekly art class for adults and over the last few years I have run various workshop days as well as some courses for the Field Studies Council at Flatford Mill.
Locations: I am available to work anywhere in East Anglia.
Qualitfications: BA Fine Art / PGCE Art and Design / Enhanced CRB for Norfolk County Council
Projects: Together with two other founder members I have set up an Art Trail called Waveney Springs see www.waveneysprings.co.uk for further details
Groups worked with: I teach students from 8 to 80
Contact details:
petrie@blackmilllane.fsnet.co.uk
www.jacquipetrie.co.uk
Tel: 01379 674 309
Posted in A'level Students, Adults, All Ages, Art Tutor, East Anglia, Secondary School Children, Teacher, Visual Arts
Katharine Moore
Art forms: Visual Artist
Summary: Painter and mixed media artist. Work on collaborative art projects along side actors musicians and choreographers to help coordinate effective visuals for a performance.
Locations: Suffolk
Experience: Have had exhibitions and worked for different arts organisations on a freelance basis. Have worked for and with Bury St Edmunds Theatre Royal and Art Gallery, Dance East, Theatre Nomad, London school of Musical Theatre, The museum of Childhood (part of V and A). Was Artist in Resident at South Hill Park, Bracknell, Berkshire and Windsor Art Centre.
Qualifications: BA hons in Fine Art
Projects: Have helped co-ordinate the way performances should look and run art workshops.
Groups worked with: Children, Adults and people with learning disabilities.
Contact details:
katharineamoore@yahoo.co.uk
Tel: 01284 704387
7 York Rd, Bury St Edmunds
Suffolk, IP33 3EE
