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Involve (Next Stage)
INVOLVE
Involve works with Social Services day centres for elders and adults with learning disabilities, the length and breadth of Nottinghamshire. Working with professional artists, Involve provides exciting opportunities including performances, creative workshops, festival events and in house residences. Involve focuses on offering choice, developing life long learning, social inclusion and promoting independence.
GENERAL PROGRAMMING OUTLINE:
ARTS CLUBS (2002-5); These were planned for centres to meet in a community setting experimenting with new artforms and working with other centre users from around the county. The programme has moved on from these, developing more centre lead residencies.
RESIDENCIES (2002 - ): These are ongoing and an exciting element of the programming offering centres the chance to work with artists in their centres on their own projects. Dramatic pieces of artwork have been produced and interesting ongoing projects have been initiated with residencies.
PERFORMANCES (2002 - ) We offer centers a chance to see professional touring companies in local community centres, also social services day and residential centres.
TRAINING (2002 -) The project has offered 3 training elements so far uniting carers and artists, maximising the use of sensory rooms and developing the health video package with staff.
EVENTS (2002-) the project has seen a variety of big culmination events such as Parklife, Diverse Dance, the Showcase, the Carnival most recently Hullabaloo. These have offered a unique day event uniting service users from around the county and often the public in a celebration of the work undetaken in the project.
EVALUATION: The project has always ensured that artists, staff, managers and service users have had the chance to evaluate the project and what they take part in. As of this year we will be working with Nottingham Trent University on academic evaluation processes to ensure that feedback is measured and it will validate the projects successes.
Involve is supported by ACE, Adult and Community Learning Service
For more information visit our website www.involveproject.co.uk
For more information contact Next Stage
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EMPAF has a new website which is to be launched in September. Based on the social networking model it will enable users and members to put up profiles for individuals, projects and organisations. There is also an option to link to other profiles, send comments and update with news, events, opportunities as well as engage in debates around current issues affecting the community and participatory arts.
In addition to putting up information and resources EMPAF will also be promoting future CPD events and development opportunities.
The website is aimed at creating a vibrant and engaging online community so please get involved and make use of this site as much as possible.
The site itself in final testing but live and will transfer to the www.empaf.com address at the end of the beginning of next month. To join now please go to http://beta.empaf.com/ (note there is no www) and anything you add now will remain live during the transfer. We welcome any feedback on how to make it even more user friendly, so please email jane@empaf.com with this or any questions.
A free event for artists; arts practitioners; organisations and community groups working in, or interested in working in community and participatory arts.
The day is designed to give plenty of opportunity to network, discuss your work, ask questions, share experiences and find out more information about a range of subjects and issues affecting everyone working in participatory arts.
Including an in-depth session devoted to professional and project development subjects such as negotiating contracts, rates of pay and how to set up and run an event will be covered.
There is also be an facilitated open space session based around working in and across different arts forms, a presentation and open sharing session on International working and a presentation outlining current key trends and influences such as reforms in Public Sector funding, the Cultural Offer and Cultural Olympiad. Plus, this is your chance to influence future EMPAF work and events as each of the sessions is designed to bring out issues that are most relevant to you.
Registration and networking begins at 9.45am for 10.30am start. Lunch is provided and there is lots of time given to networking and finding out more about EMPAF, Cultivate and a wide range of other resources and sources of further information.
Taking place at St James Centre, Derby places are available on a first come first served basis. To book email Jane@empaf.com or call 07984199477 giving your name and a daytime contact number. For more details click on the title above.
EMPAF has been working to support an Arts Council England East Midlands initiative to help demystify recent developments in Local Area Agreements. ACE are running a series of mini events around the region for artists, arts practitioners and local authority arts officers to look at recent changes in terms of how they offer opportunities for arts and creative projects. The first event took place in Leicester at the beginning of June and EMPAF is publishing copies of presentation notes, supporting information and case studies used as part of all the events in the resources / essential publications section of this website (click on the title of this news item to go directly there). The next event will take place in Nottingham on 3rd July. Email info@empaf.com for more details.
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