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Spotlight

In the spotlight this week...

* The Campaign to be me! - Read here

* What does the "Para" in "Paralympic" stand for? - Read here

* Interchange 2010 - Read here

* Redlands Primary School International Project - Read here

* Aarti Home and Hlanganani - Read here

* "Shelter" Project - Read here

* Lynch Hill School Project - Read here

* Holy Family Catholic Primary School embraces the e-community with a virtual conference with nine of its partner schools - Read here

* New Inter-Action Campaign! "Making-of" video now online here

* 09.02.2011: Campaign! has now taken the second group INTER-ACTION to the Houses of Parliament to present their campaigns to MPs. Click here for more information.

* 02.02.2011: Campaign! took SQUARE PEGS to the Houses of Parliament. Click here for more information.

* Create Compete Collaborate has produced a promotional film

This is to explain what our objectives are. For a subtitled version of the film look at our homepage.

Bucks 2012 Showcase, Aylesbury Waterside Theatre, 6 October

Create Compete Collaborate exhibited at the Bucks 2012 showcase. The event was attended by over 1000 school children from the Busckinghamshire area at Aylesbury's brand new Waterside Theatre.

The morning kicked off with SignDance Collective performing New Gold to a packed audience in the main auditorium. Then during the morning session we saw 3 groups of children and gave them a pedometer challenge. In the afternoon there were 2 sessions with older children in the smaller auditorium area where we quizzed them on their knowledge of world music and their preconceptions of national idenity were challenged.

The whole time our "Wheels of Glory" game was available to be played on 1 of 10 laptops in the i-Van area in the foyer. We were happy to see there wasn't an empty seat all day!

THE PLAY PROJECT (Participation, Learning and Activity for the Young)

The Play project intends to links schools in Surrey with schools in Europe and beyond. With excitement building as the 2012 games approach, we want to develop our understanding of the Values of the Olympic movement, sharing our learning both locally and internationally. We also want participants to develop new ICT skills as we web-conference and share multi-media presentations which will include photography, animation and film. Our aims are to adopt the Olympic Values as a medium through which we can improve the ways in which we work and play together, within school, in collaboration with schools locally and with international partners, to link with schools in Europe and beyond, including making friends in countries who have already hosted the Olympics and to share work and ideas through the CCC website, which will become the hub for our international partners to collaborate and celebrate the achievements of the project. A key message of the project will be ‘Participation For All’ and we want to work in close collaboration with our partner schools, sharing our experiences of play and creating new games which we can try out together. We hope this will: build a sense of community in school and beyond, locally and internationally, exploring of the concept of the ‘global citizen’, building awareness of the Olympic movement (its aims and values), recognising and respecting other values and customs, planning and taking ownership of events by participants in the project and developing new communication and ICT skills.

Aarti girls are back in India after a wonderful visit to England

Srilakshmi, Anusha and Suneeta from Aartt Home, India, came to stay in England for 2 weeks in June/July to talk in schools and other organisations about Aarti and their Playing Wall film. We filmed them on arrival and just before leaving to document their visit and find out how their experience changed their lives.

To learn more about the Aartti home click here.

Field of flags - Dysarticulate

The audacious aim of ‘Dysarticulate’ is to create tens of thousands of recycled ‘flags’ to be made and placed where they wish by anyone who dares to join in over Open Weekend, to create a unique new temporary public artwork all over England. The scale of their showing will start conversations reflecting the real issues around disability, our fragility and the nature of Public art. “Dysarticulate’ encourages you to be inventive, become the ‘artist’ in your area and take the initiative - create your own DIY ‘planting’, individually or join as a group, school, workplace and make creating the ‘Flags’ accessible to all. Your choice where to articulate your story creating a ‘flag field’, make sure it’s safe and you have asked permission. You can re-configure the ground with patterns or designs, on the beach, hillside or village green, your window box, urban garden or park. Make new partnerships with arts and heritage in your area. ‘Flag fields’ are starting points for further works inspiring a legacy of ‘self’ or ‘collective’ expression. This will be taking place from 23 July 2010 - 25 July 2010. Click here for more information.

Launch event at Pinewood Studios!

Create Compete Collaborate, Creative Junction and Chalfonts Community College (Bucks) were delighted to hold the official launch of the new online game ‘Wheels of Glory’ at Pinewood Studios 13 July. It was developed through the Gaming! programme which is being delivered through CCC as part of the Accentuate programme. The game was inspired by the Paralympics and the story of Stoke Mandeville. Creative & Media Diploma staff and students worked with industry experts and Stoke Mandeville Stadium to develop the new, interactive on-line game and over 80 of these people came together for the launch event at Pinewood Studios for the launch event. The game can now be played by people all over the World. Click here to play the game. For more details contact Louise Keyworth.

Bucks Youth Games

Sports Champions and London 2012 Mascots, Mandeville and Wenlock, visit the Bucks Youth Games.

More than 500 children from across Bucks came together on the 26th June for one of the highlights of the sporting calendar: the Bucks Youth Games. This festival of sport was an exciting countdown to London 2012, and took place at the prestigious Stoke Mandeville Stadium, birthplace of the Paralympic Games, and The Mandeville School & Specialist Sports College in Stoke Mandeville, Buckinghamshire. The Games are not just about the young participants. This special event highlights the variety of ways everyone can get involved in sport and enjoy it. The team coaches and managers, Local Authority sports development officers, competition managers, event organisers and volunteers, and hundreds of guests, parents and spectators, all contributed to the success of the Bucks Youth Games. Click here for full details. Pictures of the event will be available to download from the Bucks Sport website.

CIAO! Ark Project

The CIAO! Ark is the result of an innovative arts and environmental science project, culminating in a large scale public art installation (the Ark) that will provide an exhibition and performance space during a five day celebration of low carbon living in Oxford, from 23-27 June 2010. Children from ten Oxfordshire primary schools have been working with environmental scientists and artists to answer the question - "If you were sailing away on an Ark to a low carbon future, what would you take with you and what would you leave behind?"

The children have translated creatively what they have learnt in specific areas of climate science through theatre, dance, music, creative writing, film and photography. These final artworks will be performed and exhibited on the Ark, alongside a programme of family friendly events, when it is installed on the front lawn of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History in June.

The Ark itself will be made from reclaimed materials from a 20-mile radius of Oxford. It will be an object of beauty, with lighting and sound from clean, green power. The Ark will be placed in 'the Sea of Troubles' - a visual representation of what the children choose to leave behind, from asthma inhalers to values and behaviours that they feel have contributed to environmental problems. Click here for full details. To see photos of the Ark click here.

Aarti Home & Creative Junction Partnership

The Aarti Home in India was started 15 years ago by Sandhya Puchalapelli. What started as a simple effort to take care of a few orphaned children has turned into a full fledged NGO providing shelter, education, and love to over 80 children. Out of these 80 kids, about 70 of them are girls abandoned by their parents because of deep-rooted economic and cultural forces that disfavor daughters. The luckiest of the girls are those who were abandoned as babies, untraumatized by the event that left them at The Home. Others, sadly, have been sold, prostituted, or chosen to run away from a life of domestic abuse. And yet, these children are able to live their lives with so much gratitude for the people around them. They are more eager, curious, and lively than many other children, but without Sandhya and without The Home, these kids would all be out on the streets stealing and lying to survive, if not dead.

For more information on the Aarti/Creative Junction project click HERE.
Visit the official Aarti Home web site HERE.

April/May 2010: The girls of Aarti School have been engaged in a very interesting project over the last year. They have been exchanging thoughts and opinions with girls of similar ages at the Newlands School near London. The project has been conceptualised and facilitated by Creative Junction CIC, UK.

Inter-Change 2010 was a fantastic success!!!

Inter-Change 2010 is an international programme for young people in the Thames Valley. It ran from 8th to 25th March and offered collaborative creative activities to young people aged 14-25, their peers in other countries and creative practitioners. The theme will be shelter. The main event was a conference held on Thursday 18th March at Taplow Court, Maidenhead.

Here's Lwazi Groom from South Africa addressing the audience.