Spotlight



In the spotlight this week...

 

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. 

 

 

 

 

Collaborations! / New Gold 

New Gold – the first Collaborations! project is now underway!


In line with the aims of Collaborations!, New Gold involves a number of young deaf and disabled artists working with Signdance’s established artists. Paralympic athlete, Naomi Riches, who won bronze in the rowing event in Beijing, has also been interviewed to inform the creative process. New Gold will be inviting young people to respond to and inform the development of the work at a series of schools’ workshops from September – November and will be performed at festivals in Slovenian and Austria.

Click here for more details.

 

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.  

Welcoming the Modern Pentathlon Athletes to Medway 

In April, Medway hosted the Modern Pentathlon World Cup 3.  Thousands of Medway’s school children have been studying both a Modern Pentathlon country and the five disciplines of this international sporting event.  Our primary schools have spent the last two years finding out about the participating nation they have been partnered with as part of the Our Medway: Counting down to 2012 project. This is a major Olympic-themed education programme provided by Medway Council and which has been endorsed with the first Inspire Mark to be awarded to a local authority by the London 2012 organisers. 
The Modern Pentathlon element of the Our Medway project involved the pupils in designing and making good luck cards and video messages to welcome their visiting teams.
Schools learned and some recorded the national anthem of their chosen country. Videos of Medway children singing the Hungarian and French anthems were played out over the big screens during the medal ceremonies for the men’s and women’s finals.  The competitors and their coaches were particularly moved by this personal touch.
Spectators at the four-day World Cup event were able to view an exhibition of Medway pupils’ work. Classwork displayed exemplified what they had learned about the country they have been studying. Welcome banners, country flags, Chinese dragons, Czech castles and an Egyptian pyramid greeted visitors to the Medway Park exhibition hall. The colourful and varied good luck cards on show were of particular interest to competitors, parents and children alike.
Medway Council education advisor Joy Gundry said: “The Our Medway exhibition was a unique opportunity for our schools to welcome the world and to show the outcomes of their modern pentathlon country study.
“What shone through for me was the children's enjoyment and enthusiasm for their country study, not only via their DVD presentations and work but also from the sheer numbers of them who came along with their families to show them what they had been doing and to support their team.
“It was also so encouraging to see how interested the visiting teams and competitors were in the children's work and how much they appreciated the children’s involvement. We certainly were able to show the world what Medway primary school children can do!”
The athletes were so touched by the efforts of the Our Medway pupils that they signed programmes for the school children as a thank you present.

For more information about the Our Medway: Counting down to London 2012 project, visit the website here.

Newick House, Holy Family & Portchester school 'Get Together' 

28th April @ Portchester: 3 schools met to share ideas about what they have learnt  about  United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child. They also video conferenced with a partner school in Holland to include them in the conversation. Check out the CCCeCommunity for full details. 

 

 

 

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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.

 

  

New CCCeCommunity now on line! 

The CCCeCommunity website is an exciting tool which enables young people to communicate with peers all over the World. You can share experiences and communicate using videos, pictures, photos, sound clips, video-conferencing….and more!

Click here to visit the new site. Or contact the team here for further information.

CCC Global Magnet Events

Over the winter we  hosted 5 'Global Magnet' Events around the region to mark the launch of CCC.

The Global Magnets want to attract those who work with young people and have - or want to have - an international dimension to their work. to give young people international opportunities and experiences, be they virtual or face to face. The events will:


The ambition is that every young person gets the chance to collaborate with peers from other places in the World... these encounters can only help broaden horizons and empower young people to feel more positive about their place in the Globe. We hope the events will inspire the decision-makers into making new opportunities happen.

If you were unable to make any of these events but would still like to chat to us more about what we do contact us.