Creative activities with Colchester and Ipswich Museum Service, DanceEast, Gainsborough’s House, Ipswich Town Hall Galleries, Mildenhall Museum, Museum of East Anglian Life, New Wolsey Theatre, Suffolk County Council Libraries, The Poetry Trust and Wonderful Beast Theatre Company.

New! Culture Club Tours:

Annual tours of performances and workshops by professional companies.

Add to list of activities:

Creative writing

Drama, dance and movement

Art and craft

Reading groups

Performances

Photography

Museum talks and visits

Reminiscence projects

Intergenerational projects

Call Hayley Field or Gabby Cox on 01986 873955 or e-mail hayley@suffolkartlink.org.uk / gabby@suffolkartlink.org.uk to find out more.

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From tea towels to tea pots, kitchen sinks to feather dusters, ‘The Right Moves’ is a poster to inspire people to keep active. It contains a step-by-step guide with full written instructions accompanied by photographs.

Suffolk Artlink worked with DanceEast and physiotherapist Sarah Bruin towards a dance exercise poster that will keep you active in your own home. An exercise group of sheltered housing scheme residents from Babergh helped shape the exercise programme for the poster by sharing their opinions and expertise. They also feature on it demonstrating the exercises using household items.

Contact Gabby or Hayley at Suffolk Artlink on 01986 873955 for your free copy.

      
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Map of The People’s Community Garden, Ipswich incorporating visual art work by local school children following artist-led sessions with James Fletcher.

We have developed a number of intergenerational projects as part of the current Culture Club programme. The projects have linked young people with older people in communities around Suffolk, working with primary and secondary schools and Suffolk Library Top Time groups and At Home Library Service users, sheltered housing scheme residents and local older people.

The projects have forged new relationships, giving people the opportunity to share experiences and learn new skills. Ranging from photography to writing, performance to reminiscing, artists have worked with groups to encourage them to develop new work and interact with each other.  

Lost and Found – reminiscence and visual art project with The People’s Community Garden and Ipswich Town Hall Galleries

Dark Tales – creative writing project in Lowestoft with poet Dean Parkin 

Now and Then – performance project in Hollesley and Boyton with Wonderful Beast Theatre Company

Aldeburgh Stitching Time – textile project with Aldeburgh, Suffolk and Colchester and Ipswich Museums

In the frame - photography project in Great Cornard with Gainsborough’s House

To see some of the outcomes from intergenerational projects, see the downloads below.

The Current Culture Club Leaflet

Full of Life– a book of creative writing by Suffolk’s At Home Library Service Reading Groups following workshops led by Michael Laskey

Podcast! - Full of Life – a podcast of selected readings from the book

Reminiscence project booklets:
Tin baths and rabbit pie - with the Museum of East Anglian Life

Tin hats and coronation mugs - with the Museum of East Anglian Life

Pastry cutters, petticoats and pennies - with the Museum of East Anglian Life

Nylons, dripping and dog tags - with the National Horseracing Museum
Planes, lanes and automobiles! - with Mildenhall Museum

Stitching Time – a booklet of textile work produced by a range of groups with Colchester and Ipswich Museums

Through the Ages – selected photographs and readings from an intergenerational creative writing and photography project based in Woodbridge:
Through the Ages 1
Through the Ages 2