Centre for Cultural Value Festival of Ideas, 2-13 November 2020 12 November 2020 How can we better recognise, acknowledge and learn from failure? This interactive session will share findings from the FailSpace project and invite you to propose ways in which the cultural sector can have more honest conversations about its […]
Yearly Archives: 2020
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Envisage Arts CIC recently finished their Stitch in Time project, led by a student art therapist under mentorship from the organisation Director Sue Ellis. Over 20 social group sessions via Zoom a newly connected community made this digital quilt of 28 squares. Not all are fabric, some squares are photographs, […]
By Lisa Dillon-Langhorn Before lockdown, I had the privilege of meeting Catherine and Naomi, from Significant Seams, when I attended, in person, the Textiles and Nature course in Crediton, Devon, UK. The course was listed on the Devon Recovery Learning Community (DRLC) website and I was instantly drawn to the […]
arthur+martha, an experimental arts organisation based in the north west of England, is coordinating two quilt projects through the pandemic – AND ACCEPTING PATCHES THROUGH THE END OF OCTOBER: ‘Here Comes the Sun (a global project),’ and ‘Necklace of Stars’ (which is open to people 65+ across Derbyshire) . They […]
A group of academics at the University of Exeter are curating a non-traditional scrapbook as part of a research project about the uncomfortable but important topic of Loneliness. The Lockdown Blues Project is calling for submissions for their online scrapbook. The academics, Charlotte, Olly and Fred, say, “We want this […]
I have always ‘felt’ September as the start of something new. Leaves changing colours has been a signal, not of stop, but of shaking off of distractions and a refocusing to the task at hand. I find the reds, oranges and golds of the Virginia Creeper, Maples, and Oaks energising. […]
by Catherine West, Artist and Founder, Significant Seams CIC I have led various community quilt projects for more than a decade. In my artistic practice, these are a key medium. It is my hope that more than a pretty wall hanging, my audiences will see people supporting one another, listening […]
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This special issue will welcome submissions from across the spectrum of arts and culture to include: performing arts (incl. music, dance, theatre), visual and creative arts (incl. painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, crafts, design, photography, film), museums, libraries (including reading and creative writing), archives and other types of heritage, such as […]