Junction Arts would like to say congratulations to Hilary from the High Peak area who won the free prize draw by filling in our arts survey. Hilary will shortly recieve a box of cupcakes delivered to her door.
We’d also like to thank everyone who took part, there was a great response and many of you offered to be part of our focus group or volunteer at our events which was very encouraging.
Once we’ve analysed the results we’ll make a summary available on the website.
Survey Prize Draw Winner
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OLD SCHOOL – NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
OLD SCHOOL – NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
Old School is a new arts and heritage project to uncover and collect memories of Fountaindale School in Mansfield. The project is supported by Nottinghamshire County Council Arts Service and will be delivered by Junction Arts.
Fountaindale School has a fascinating history, from it’s beginnings in 1957 when it was known as ‘Thieves Wood School for Very Severely Handicapped Children’ to it’s present incarnation as a ‘Specialist SEN School’ for children with physical and sensory needs. A new school is being built on land adjacent to the current buildings and we want to capture some of the stories that have shaped it’s development.
The first sessions have started at the school led by artist Nathan Portlock supported by Junction Arts project coordinator Jane Wells.
Memory Lane
Memory Lane
Participation in the Memory Lane project has now been confirmed by Age UK Derbyshire. Junction Arts are thrilled to be working with Age UK, whose services include offering older people the opportunity to take part in a wide range of activities, especially arts activities. Beginning with Hartington on the 1st February, workshops will also be delivered in Hope, Hulland Ward, Bakewell and Chesterfield. Overall there will be 15 weekly sessions for approximately 60 participants that will be supported by up to 10 volunteers.
Memory Lane is a reminiscence and heritage project in which participants will work with an artist to create an imaginary streetscape of memories. During a series of informal workshops, through conversation and by looking at contemporary and archive photographs a building will be identified and participants will be supported to create an image of that building. The images will be illustrated with a short written personal history before being exhibited for friends, family and the wider public to view. Memory Lane falls within our Health and Wellbeing programme and is funded by Derbyshire Dales District Council and Age UK.
BRIGHT WINTER NIGHTS 2012
BRIGHT WINTER NIGHTS 2012
BOLSOVER LANTERN PARADE 2012 The 19th Bolsover Lantern Parade took place on Saturday 1st December 2012, returning to the streets of Bolsover by popular demand after 2 years of remaining in the grounds of Bolsover Castle due to bad weather and funding constraints. Old Bolsover Town Council held the traditional Christmas Festival on the same day, organised by the Bolsover Christmas Festival Committee, of which Junction Arts is a member. This year we received £1000 funding support from Old Bolsover Town Council to support our schools workshop programme and marketing costs. Junction Arts ran 6 full days (three weekends) in November of Open Community Lantern Making workshops for local people and families to make traditional tissue and willow lanterns at Bolsover Assembly Rooms, and an afternoon of Lantern Making at Surestart Children’s Centre, led by artist Liz Sparks. Emma Parkin, Carole Beavis and JA Staff ran 4.5 days of Schools Lantern Making Workshops in Brockley School, Palterton School and Bolsover Infants School. Chesterfield College made 3 fantastic giant lanterns in their own tutor-led workshops as part of their coursework, which they brought to the parade. On the night of the event, a fire juggler entertained the crowd accompanied by music and drumming from the 15-Piece Battuta Samba Band. The parade started at Bolsover Castle at 5pm with the lighting of a community-led Fire Sculpture. Olympic Torch-bearer Shaun Brailsford led the Lantern Parade and musicians along High Street, Hornscroft Road and Town End, with a finale around the Christmas Tree in Market Place with a Bass Band and carol singing. Attendance was excellent, with town residents and visitors lining the streets to watch the parade pass by. Junction Arts had excellent support from English Heritage and our Christmas Festival Committee Partners, Bolsover District Council, Old Bolsover Town Council, local police officers and volunteers including the Chesterfield College Public Service Course students and staff who helped steward the parade. A team of young volunteer filmmakers recorded the event, which can be viewed on the Junction Arts website. Junction Arts Project Coordinator: Aly Stoneman, Junction Arts
Draw Your Own Dinner
Draw Your Own Dinner
See here our lovely pictures from this years event at Hardwick Hall (Derbyshire Food and Drink Fair) Dinners included ice cream, full roast, ice lollys and cakes. Well done all who participated especially in the heat and thank you to Derbyshire Couty [gallery link="file" columns="4" orderby="ID"]
Limestone Journeys Year 2
Limestone Journeys Year 2
Limestone Journeys
Junction Arts is one of the nine partners in The Derbyshire Magnesian Limestone Landscape ‘Limestone Journeys’ project, an exciting Heritage Lottery Funded (HLF) scheme, led by Creswell Heritage Trust. This Landscape Partnership grant brings £2.9 million into the scheme area. Junction Arts has been a major contributor in this bid.
Limestone Journeys Year 2
Junction Arts Project Co-ordinator: Aly Stoneman
Junction Arts ran 11 projects during 2012 as part of The Derbyshire Magnesian Limestone Landscape ‘Limestone Journeys’ project. Our creative projects are designed to bring new skills and individuality to our participants, taking place in schools, colleges, local communities, and with the general public. There are also commissioned artworks designed for site-specific installation and performance. The Year 2 Celebration Event for Limestone Journeys was The Festival of the Outdoors, which took place on Saturday October 28 2012 at Hardwick Hall.
Here is a brief synopsis of the projects being delivered by Junction Arts in Year 2.
Click on the project titles to be directed to the individual project pages:
First Light: A series of workshops in a school, which lead to the creation of a large scale time-line map to provide an educational resource on the chronological and geographical aspects of the local magnesium landscape that can be used by school children. Science and art will came together in a stimulating process with an emphasis on climate and natural intervention. The project is designed to extend knowledge about the origins of the landscape.
Triple Echo: A commissioned artist created a site-specific stone artwork to reflect and enhance the landscape, using local materials. Open studio access was available to schools/consultation groups to see the progress of the project at Hardwick Stone Centre. The sculpture is now located in the grounds of Hardwick Hall.
Drawing the Way: An introduction into how maps provide information from the past to the present. A particular emphasis was placed on how we use maps to understand the evolution and changing state of the landscape and its contours. Research included visits to specific sites to provide physical references.
Beneath The Surface: Commissioned film documentary showcasing the growth and decline of the local industries of quarrying and mining. Research and engagement with community members will help to create a legacy from local people with reference to the industrial past.
The Listening - Limestone Songs: People from the local community were invited to form a choir and with the expertise of a composer/choir leader the choir through a series of workshops to created a new song celebrating the area. The materials will reference the delicate nature of the land and how intervention, if not managed carefully, will make it a more fragile place.
The Whispering Gallery: A participatory event for The Festival of the Outdoors celebration day on October 28 at Hardwick Hall. The general public who are visiting the festival engaged with the project by recording their personal journey through the landscape to the site. The recordings will be installed in the Listening Posts at Hardwick Hall in Autumn/Winter 2012.
Make It, Mend It: An extensive ongoing programme of teaching heritage crafts and skills to members of the community. Led by professional crafts people, this project was designed to bring a response to the sustainability of the landscape through traditional skills and responsibilities, enabling local people to learn new skills relating directly to the environment.
Custodians: Lecture Walk/Tour - A Specialist led this introduction to the Magnesium Limestone area, starting at Creswell Crags and including several key sites of interest. Addressing concerns over environmental landscape management and focusing on local involvement and ownership in the future, this project aims to help create a new awareness of the local landscape and its fragility in these times of global warming. In partnership with Creswell Heritage Trust.
From Cave to Castle: Photography workshops in specific heritage sites of the areas including mills, workers cottages & farmhouses. Students from Chesterfield College School of Art and Design worked with a professional photographer to encourage and extend the vision of the Limestone Journeys project and potentially link with Creswell Heritage Trust’s ‘Your Hidden Heritage’ project, involving local people surveying vernacular structures in the area.
Strands: A Celebration of a lost local industry and the skills supporting it. An artist was commissioned to research and reference the now closed local textile industries of the area and run a series of workshops in the community with an emphasis on textiles or a local craft skill. This project is a practical, visual arts project using knitting skills to showcase how a basic craft can be used to transfer skills and creativity within the community. This project offered an opportunity for local people to become community leaders for skill sharing events.
Traces: A professional writer/artist will ran a series of workshops in schools with a ‘radio link’ designed to create imaginary radio broadcasts with reference to the Ice Age and present day, using stories to describe events or forecasts. Designed for schools in rural or hard to reach communities, this project has an emphasis on communication and investigating the local landscape and history, providing the opportunity for two schools – one from Derbyshire and one from another Magnesian Limestone region in the UK - to build a new relationship which has a strong reference to the special landscapes in which they live. The students created imaginative work to be broadcast or skyped between the schools.
Old School
Old School
Old School is a creative heritage project involving pupils and staff in the development of an archive and contemporary record of the current Shirebrook Academy (currently a new school is being built, due to open Easter 2013).
This is a pilot being developed with Shirebrook Academy and Stubbin Wood Special School. A small team of young people from each school worked with writer Pete Davis to collect oral histories from pupils, teaching and support staff past and present, and the wider community. In addition, we produced story postcards that were distributed amongst the community for people to write their own recollections of their school days.
The reminiscences formed the exhibition, which together with portrait photographs of the interviewees will be shown in the old and new schools and other public venues. All the information collected will be made available to both schools to use as a teaching resource to aid the curriculum.
The exhibition was shown at the Junction Arts Open Day and will be visiting Stubbin Wood School, Shirebrook Academy and Bolsover District Council Offices in Sherwood Lodge, Bolsover.
“Sections of the stories will also be translated to be shared with Stubbin Woods partner school in China and we are also investigating opportunities for a ‘Project Exchange’, delivery of the project in the Chinese School.” Jane Wells Junction Arts Old School project co-ordinator.
Seb Coe, Chair of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games said: “ The Inspire programme is ensuring the legacy of the 2012 Games starts now as projects like Old School are enabling people in the Bolsover District to make positive life changes.”
Junction Arts are currently exploring continued delivery of the Old School project with schools across the region.
Photo of exhibition at Junction Arts
Combine: Farming Heritage | East Midlands
Combine: Farming Heritage | East Midlands
The exhibition phase of Combine: Farming Heritage | East Midlands is now well underway. Over the last six months we have successfully delivered over 85 workshops, working with over 250 people across the 6 counties of the East Midlands. We have met some amazing people along the way, heard many wonderful stories, produced and discovered some striking images and uncovered valuable material in the archives and museum collections, but more importantly, the young people have witnessed first-hand living farming heritage. All the research has been reflected upon and interpreted to create a strong visually stimulating exhibition that has now begun its regional tour. Currently in the Corby Heritage Centre it will visit venues large and small until July 2014, including schools, county museums and Record Offices and local community venues. Included in the exhibition are the 6 brand new contemporary maps created by the participants. They worked with artist Danny Callaghan to interpret their discoveries using a variety of creative techniques and produced unique pieces of artwork. A complimentary leaflet has been produced and is freely available from all the exhibition venues.
Download the Combine Leaflet here.
Information about all dates and exhibition venues can be found on the website : www.combinefarmingheritage.org
The project website is where you can find information in full of everything that has taken place since the project began. Of particular importance are the audio oral histories recorded by the young people who carried out a series of interviews with people in from farming communities. They offer a valuable insight into everyday farming and rural life past and present, some amusing, others quite poignant. There is also a facility to contribute your own stories by clicking on the contribute icon on the Home page.
To celebrate the project we have produced a commemorative book to tell the story and share the findings. A Celebration Event was held at the Rutland County Museum in November where all participants and partners came together for the first time. We presented everyone attending with their own copy of the book to take home and share with family and friends.
Click here to view the Combine book
There have been numerous positive outcomes from the project so far, for participants and partners. Here are some comments from some of the people involved:
Christopher Weir. Principal Archivist (Public Services), Nottinghamshire Archives.
"Combine: Farming Heritage | East Midlands provided a wonderful opportunity for the Archive Service to support this pioneering project and engage young people with archives. We organised a workshop day for school children that gave opportunities for the children to work with quill pens, see conservation at work and view hundreds of years of history. The day generated huge enthusiasm and it was a privilege to be part of a project brought ‘history to life’. Being involved with Combine was a great opportunity for the Archives to develop it’s ‘learning outreach’ strategy and engage young people and we congratulate Junction Arts on initiating this excellent project."
Dave Robertson. Teacher at The Kingswood School.
"This was a very interesting and necessary project in that our students are what I would call semi-urban! Corby has a strange industrial past despite being situated in a very rural county. This project enabled the students to reflect on their agricultural forbears and gave greater understanding of their home turf. The ‘gentleness ‘ of approach facilitated open response from our students. This in itself is no mean feat!"
Elizabeth Simpson Farmer Northants.
"I was always on the farm when I was a little girl and I can remember being put in the hay rack or a trough to keep me out of the way. I could watch everything from there but not get knocked over by the sheep. As soon as I was old enough I would pick up the lambs and their mothers, the ewes, would follow me round."
make: CREATE
make: CREATE
Photographs taken by participants of one of the make: CREATE workshops (more...)
Rural Creative Workshops: MEMORY LANE
Participation in the Memory Lane project has now been confirmed by Age UK Derbyshire. Junction Arts are thrilled to be working with Age UK, whose services include offering older people the opportunity to take part in a wide range of activities, especially arts activities. Beginning with Hartington on the 1st February, workshops will also be delivered in Hope, Hulland Ward, Bakewell and Chesterfield. Overall there will be 15 weekly sessions for approximately 60 participants that will be supported by up to 10 volunteers.
Memory Lane is a reminiscence and heritage project in which participants will work with an artist to create an imaginary streetscape of memories. During a series of informal workshops, through conversation and by looking at contemporary and archive photographs a building will be identified and participants will be supported to create an image of that building. The images will be illustrated with a short written personal history before being exhibited for friends, family and the wider public to view.
Memory Lane falls within our Health and Wellbeing programme and is funded by Derbyshire Dales District Council and Age UK. Participants from Hartington Age UK looking at archive and contemporary photographs.
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Freelance Artist Required
ARTIST OPPORTUNITY FOR JUNCTION ARTS: OLD SCHOOL
Junction Arts have an opportunity for a freelance artist/ practitioner to run an arts and heritage project (8 sessions) beginning in late February 2013, these will be delivered as part of the Junction Arts Old School programme.
For further information click here opportunities
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Combine: Farming Heritage I East Midlands Celebration
On November 7th Rutland County Museum hosted a very special Celebration Event for everyone who had participated in the project. This was the first time all the partners and participants had come together to see the wonderful work that had been produced and was an opportunity to see the exhibition for the first time.
We were very pleased that Gail Pringle from the Heritage Lottery Fund could attend and she presented each participant with a copy of the Combine book. The exhibition has now moved to its second venue, the Corby Heritage Centre, a beautiful thatched cottage in Northamptonshire and will be there until February 2013.
Click here to go to the project page.
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Junction Arts Survey
Junction Arts are a participatory arts organisation and we would really appreciate your input in planning our programme.
Here at Junction Arts we are proud that our projects are community led and would like you to fill in our short survey so we can take into consideration your thoughts and ideas.
In return we would like to offer you a chance to win a a box of cup cakes delivered to your home or office over the Easter period in our prize draw.
Deadline for Entries 31st March 2013
To enter the survey please click below:
Junction Arts Survey
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LP7F9PP
Thank-you
Junction Arts Team
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“Underground Music” Premiere Screening Weds 28th November
Junction Arts are proud to annouce the film premier of “Underground Music” a film about Creswell Colliery Band past, present and future by Ian Nesbitt amd Creswell Colliery Band. The event takes place at Creswell Old Miners’ Welfare, 321 Model Village, Creswell, S80 4BP Weds 28th November 7-9.00pm
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Junction Arts goes MADD in Derby
Junction Arts staff spent a fantastic day in Littleover Community School in Derbyshire supporting the schools MADDfest, an action packed day for Year 8 pupils to be creative and experience a variety of art, drama and music workshops. Delivering four hour long sessions we worked with 120 pupils who decorated paper bags with images inspired by memories of food, especially things associated with special celebrations and events.
In advance of the workshop, the young participants had thought about what makes a good design and then using collage techniques and brightly coloured tissue papers, created strong final images they proudly shared with the rest of their year during an afternoon showcase.
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Bolsover Lantern Parade a Great Success
This year we had an amazing turn out for our annual lantern parade over 1500 people participated. Here are afew snaps our team took , more photos and film to follow.
Community Lanterns Led the parade alongside Junction Arts huge star Lantern which was over 6 foot across. Lanterns in the parade were made by pupils from Brockley School, Palterton School, Bolsover Infants and Nursery School and Stubbin Wood School. Chesterfield College brought three giant lanterns to the parade including a 20 foot cracker! Music was provided by Buxton Samba Band (Battuta), and the parade was led by Olympic Torch Bearer Shaun Brailsford. A Fire Juggler entertained the lantern makers at the Castle from 4.15pm while they took their places in the parade. The parade began at 5.00pm with the annual Fire Sculpture with London 2012 created by Bolsover Alternative Committee and progressed from the Castle around the streets of Bolsover to the Market Place where there were carols around the Christmas Tree, accompanied by Whitwell Brass Band. The weather was ideal, cold but clear and no rain or snow in sight. Everyone had a fantastic time and there was great support by thoses watching at the roadside. Thank-you to all who attended.
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Lantern Parade Workshops Have Begun
Lantern Making started this weekend at Bolsover Assembly Rooms and will continue over the next two weekends 10.00am-4.00pm. The workshops are free (small cost for materials) and open to all ages. No experience required just an idea which we can help you make. Previous lanterns have included Spongebob Squarepants, a Spitfire, a 12ft Dragon and a Penguin. This years lantern parade will take place on Saturday 1st December starting at Bolsover castle and finishing at Bolsover Centotaph in the town.
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Combine: FarmingHeritage | East Midlands Exhibition at Rutland County Museum
Junction Arts are delighted that the Exhibition of the work produced from the participants of the Combine: Farming Heritage | East Midlands project has now started its 18 month touring programme.
Over the last year young people have visited farms, museums, and archives to research and record the rich and distinct farming history of six regions of the East Midlands. They have taken part in traditional heritage skills and worked with an artist to create a contemporary map of their area. The research is being shared with local communities and the wider public in a number of ways including the project publication, the Combine project website and this touring exhibition. This October half term Jane Wells Project Coordinator delivered a creative workshop in the Rutland County Museum which is the first venue to host the exhibition and the complimentary workshop proved to be very popular throughout the day with children and young people. Participants could decorate a paper bag using one of two techniques; either making tissue paper mosaic animals or by ‘magic drawing’ farm related images.
The exhibition can be seen at the museum until Monday 12th November. Rutland County Museum Opening Times :Mon, Wed, Fri & Sat : 10.00 – 4.00
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