Impact Arts

Spirit of The Community Award!

Impact Arts Ayrshire employees Samantha
and Kirsty attended an awards ceremony at Clydesdale Bank in Glasgow on
Thursday night. From over 250
applications, Impact Arts were one of 12 winners and received £5000 of funding
under the Environment Category towards an Urban Green summer programme in
partnership with Oasis Café in Broomlands, Irvine. Thanks to IA employee Fiona Doring for
submitting the application! It’s going
to be busy summer… Full Press Release and photos here.

Drab to Fab

After
a 3 month delay in gaining access to Barrhead Museum (due to heating and
asbestos problems), the makeover is finally finished! Tutors Linda and Cheryl worked with 6 young people
on this project and to celebrate, the space is being launched on Wednesday 25^th June, 12-4pm @ Barrhead
Community Museum, Main Street, Barrhead, East Renfrewshire G78 1SW. See the Facebook event here.

There
will be a presentation of certificates at 1pm and free tasters to promote the
new Creative Pathways Plus starting on 7^th July. Check back next week to see the ‘After’ photos!

Creative Pathways ‘Theatre Arts’, Edinburgh

The young people’s WW1 performance at Ocean Terminal was a big success, and they moved the audience
with singing, dancing and improvisation, allowing both
celebration and a pause for reflection. Their design included atmospheric
elements such as entrance through a trench and used traditional nurses,
officers and soldiers uniforms to set the scene and transport us back in time!

All three groups made their semi-final trip to Jupitar Artland to create a logo for the GPS app they’ve been working on. Using Geo-Paint, young people tracked their journey around the estate with GPS and came up with a logo combining their adventures!

The
Set Design Team created a Beach Hut in record time for a community consultation event in Glasgow’s Alexandra Park. Read Natalie McFadyen White’s Representing Dennistoun blog here to find out more about the project.

Cooking up Creativity at the
Elderpark Craft Café

Opportunities Assistant Rosanna has been running creative writing workshops at Elderpark
Craft Café on Tuesday afternoons! The group chose a theme of ‘Food’ and Rosanna hopes to put together a recipe book of the older peoples favourite cooking tips, creative writing and illustration. Highlights so far include Waris’s secret curry recipes which will be revealed, along with the
story of his voyage from Pakistan to Glasgow in the 1960’s, Frank’s stories
about his favourite childhood sweets and Irene’s reflections on her first date
dinner.

The book will hopefully be
available to buy once it’s finished, so watch this space!