It’s just two weeks until we hang our Suffolk Open Studios exhibition at La Tour Cycle Café on Ipswich’s Waterfront! From Thursday 6th June until the end of the month, we’re showing a variety of joyful, inspiring and moving mixed media works created by our participants and students, including family carers, school pupils, care home […]
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Booking open for JumpstART Festival Arts Course
Booking is now open for our new JumpstART arts course aimed at adults with learning disabilities. Starting in the first week in April, this 10-week course will focus on Festival Arts and take place in Bury St Edmunds, Lowestoft and Ipswich. Once again we’re offering our students the chance to enjoy exploring a variety of […]
Dates for your diary
We’re pleased to invite you to three celebration events, marking the successful conclusion of our most recent JumpstART term, during which our students have enjoyed exploring the art of storytelling. Over 12 weeks, our students have learned about character development, story structure and illustration. They’ve had the chance to harness their imaginations and create stories […]
Double celebration for Clown Round
As our flagship project, Clown Round, turns ten this month, we’re also celebrating the fantastic news that we’ve been awarded grants totalling £146,000 from Children in Need to continue bringing fun, laughter and distraction to young people and their families in hospitals and hospices across the East. For the past ten years Drs Fidget, Misschief, […]
We’ve published a new impact evaluation report on our work in care homes
We are pleased to be able to share with you learning from Our Place, a project that saw us bringing artist residencies to six Partnership in Care residential care homes across Suffolk last year. The project aimed to put staff, residents and their families at the heart of designing and delivering a more creative and […]
We’re bringing more smiles to Ipswich Hospital thanks to new funds
Thanks to £37,000 of new funding, our Forget-Me-Not-Visitors project will create a positive, friendly environment for even more older patients living with dementia at Ipswich Hospital. The new funds have been provided by The Rayne Foundation, Limbourne Trust and Suffolk Community Foundation’s Henry Smith County Grants. The money will enable us to continue to deliver […]
Booking open for The Human Body Through Art JumpstART course and tasters
Booking is now open for the spring term of our arts training course for people with learning disabilities. Taking place from February in Bury St Edmunds, Ipswich and Lowestoft, this term, JumpstART will be exploring the fascinating world of the human body through art. During the 15 week course students will be drawing and painting, […]
You’re invited to our JumpstART celebration events & exhibitions
During our recent Protest Arts module, the JumpstART students have been exploring ideas and issues that are significant to them through creative activities including print-making, dance, music and film. We would like to invite you to experience some of our students’ work at a series of three celebration events, which include a live protest art […]
Celebrating a successful journey for Avenues
As summer comes to a close, we are celebrating the successful conclusion of Avenues, a project that provided young adult family carers the chance to explore a variety of contemporary creative practices. Participants have enjoyed fun, friendly and creative experiences during social events and a summer school held at the University of Suffolk in Ipswich. Each event […]
Artists successfully transform Suffolk residential homes
At the end of this month, we’ll be celebrating the completion of artist residencies in residential homes in Suffolk. Over the summer, as part of our innovative Our Place project, teams of artists have been working alongside care staff, exploring new ways of caring creatively for residents, their families and friends. Over the course of […]