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Archives for October 2020

Acting our age

October 28, 2020 by Candida Wingate

A collage of old newspapers and a brown label that reads Amanda

Members of the Bury St Edmunds Theatre Royal Act Your Age group have been hard at work, creating characters based on the Dunkirk Letters – and I got to sit in on a Zoom session and hear them performing the monologues. It was amazing – people who were barely mentioned in the actual letters suddenly […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Abbots Green Academy, Act Your Age, Bury St Edmunds, Dunkirk Letters, School, Suffolk Record Office, Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds, Young People

Working together for equality

October 27, 2020 by Alistair Winch

Black Lives Matter

In response to the Black Lives Matter movement and the reaction around the world to the shocking police killing of George Floyd, we have considered the actions we will take to address inequalities in our work. Movements like Black Lives Matter, #MeToo and Pride remind us of how important it is to be actively inclusive […]

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Culture, Creativity and Health: Winter Gatherings

October 26, 2020 by Alistair Winch

Culture, creativity & health winter gatherings

We’re looking forward to a week-long selection of virtual regional events and webinars, taking place from the 16 – 20 November 2020, hosted by the Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance and Arts & Health South West. During the morning each day, online Regional Events will take place. The afternoons will offer a series of live […]

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Continuing to bring creativity to rural Suffolk’s older residents

October 26, 2020 by Alistair Winch

This month, we launched a free arts programme aimed at addressing rural isolation in Suffolk’s older residents. ‘What is your village made of?’ invites adults (55+) to take part in free activities that encourage creativity and connection with others, using their home villages and towns as inspiration. The programme is part of our ‘Make, Do […]

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Our Clowns return to their rounds

October 26, 2020 by Alistair Winch

Clown Doctors in a hospital

We were so pleased to see our Clowns return to their rounds on the children’s ward at Norfolk & Norwich Hospital this autumn. Drs Dizzy Daydream, Christobel Misschief, Kerfuffle Buffle and Kimble Curly have been paying regular visits since September and, whilst following social distancing and other safety precautions required by the hospital, they are […]

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Suffolk Artlink 2019/20 Annual Review

October 23, 2020 by Alistair Winch

Annual Review 2020 cover

We are delighted to share Suffolk Artlink’s review of our activities in 2019/2020. Over the year, we worked with 2,917 people including family carers, people with learning disabilities, older people and young people in youth clubs, schools, hospitals and hospices. We employed 59 freelance artists to deliver inspirational creative activities in all 7 districts in […]

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Make, Do & Friends Connect in Risby

October 13, 2020 by Candida Wingate

Last month, photographer Gillian Allard ran a ‘walking workshop’ in Risby, in which she accompanied residents as they showed her some of their favourite sights in the village, and she gave them tips on how best to photograph them. The resulting images were then bonded on to logs and yesterday we gathered in a large […]

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Cold tea and poetry

October 9, 2020 by Candida Wingate

Eight brightly coloured envelopes, addressed to the participants

They’ve arrived. The children received their letters, which they read before the session, as there was so much to get through, we weren’t sure we’d fit it all in. First, it was finishing off the envelopes, after which children had to snip up the postcard pictures they’d drawn of themselves and put them inside. To […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Abbots Green Academy, Bury St Edmunds, Dunkirk Letters, Paper making, Poetry, School, Suffolk Record Office, Visual Art, Young People

Self portraits and favourite colours

October 6, 2020 by Candida Wingate

A pencil drawing of a face with spectacles

Last week, we asked the children to draw a self-portrait on a postcard, and to add a few lines about themselves. The results are so lovely, we thought we’d share them here, ahead of tomorrow’s session … when who knows what might happen to them? The featured image is of our wonderful volunteer, Amanda who, […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Abbots Green Academy, Dunkirk Letters, Suffolk Record Office

Old fashioned words – and how to keep letters private

October 1, 2020 by Candida Wingate

Last week, the children were introduced to the Dunkirk letters – and got to open their archive boxes full of pens, paper and other resources they’re going to need over the next month or so. This week, our story teller Lynn went through some of those letters and the children picked out unfamiliar words and […]

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