As part of the recent Heritage Open Days, Special Delivery popped up at Lowestoft Record Offices for a one-off session exploring this year’s theme; Edible England with poet Dean Parkin. Dean welcomed locals to share their tales, past and present about buying and eating food in Lowestoft, as well as chatting about what people would […]
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Edible England meets Special Delivery
On the 11th September at 10.30am, we will be popping up at Lowestoft Record Offices for a special one-off session as part of the Heritage Open Days. This year’s theme for the Heritage Open Days is Edible England, so we will be welcoming locals to share their tales, past and present about buying and eating […]
Kirkley Creates at First Light Festival 2021
We were so pleased to celebrate the culmination of The Third Person’s Kirkley Creates artist residency with a beautiful dance performance at First Light Festival’s Longest Days of Summer. Thanks to DanceEast, who commissioned a film of the day, we have a fabulous record of the performance for you to enjoy. Artists, Carrie Phoenix […]
Next stop, Lowestoft.
Special Delivery may have been a little quiet lately with lockdowns and restrictions playing havoc, but do not fear, the creative cogs are turning and exciting things are a foot. In recent weeks, two of our artists, Lynn Whitehead and Caitlin Howells have been busy behind the scenes creating a beautiful, explorative film. The film […]
Suffolk Artlink AGM goes online!
Much has changed in our programme delivery in the past year, which has inevitably seen us moving many of our face-to-face activities online. To reflect this change of emphasis in our delivery, this year we are producing a digital annual and opening our AGM up to the public through an online event. Whether you are […]
A fond farewell to Make, Do & Friends
Earlier this summer, we said a fond farewell to Make, Do & Friends, our creative programme aimed at addressing rural isolation in older people throughout mid-Suffolk and Babergh. What a lot we’ve done, learnt and delivered since the project began two years ago! And little did we know when we started out how important the […]
New Brave Art international partnership begins
This week we received funding from the British Council Micro Awards to develop a brand new international partnership between our Brave Art students and art students in Malawi. Suffolk Artlink join together with Rhobert Magasi, a Malawian artist, to facilitate the student’s progress over the coming months. Brave art students Sally Payne and Harvey Harris […]
Little Beats online resources for pre-schoolers go live
As it’s Creativity and Wellbeing week, and the school holidays are coming up, we thought it was a great time to share some new resources with you, designed to help introduce pre-school children to music in creative ways. Little Beats was a project partnership between Suffolk Artlink and Suffolk Libraries that took place during the […]
Guess who’s back, back again? (Spoiler alert – it’s the Clown Doctors!)
We’re delighted to report that our Clown Doctors are once again back on their rounds at the Norfolk & Norwich Hospital’s Children’s Ward this month. And whilst most of us have been buying nice comfy leisurewear online, our Clowns have been on the hunt for the best in bubble guns and comedic headgear to fit […]
Suffolk Artlink goes global on Google Arts & Culture!
In celebration of Creativity and Wellbeing week, hundreds of artworks and photos from our community arts projects can now be viewed online on Google Arts & Culture by people around the world due to our new partnership with Google. Thanks to this new virtual exhibition, users will be able to see collections of artworks created […]