Welcome to the Crescent Arts Outreach Blog. This is a creative space and network where we will share our new project ideas, practices and examples of community arts processes and outcomes delivered by our fantastic team of practitioners.
Please feel free to leave comments, we always welcome new ideas and feed back to develop our arts education tool box!
If you are interested in creating a project with us or joining our team and facilitating a project please email: outreach@crescentarts.org
The Crescent Arts Centre wishes to appoint a Youth Drama Director who will lead and assist in the establishment of a new, inclusive cross-community Youth Theatre for the centre.
The main purpose of the new youth theatre is to bring young people together to learn a range of performing arts skills and create youth drama in a collaborative, supportive and fun environment. It will be important that the young people play a key role themselves in leading and shaping the future of the group.
We are looking for someone who can lead, inspire and sustain the interest of a small group of young people aged between 13-18. The person appointed will be confident in devising new work, or able to source suitable scripts that address the core theme of the first term’s workshops, which will be Belfast’s Shared Heritage. They will work with the group to deliver its first performance in the Crescent Arts Centre’s performance space ‘The Cube’. It is anticipated that each term will involve at least 10 weekly workshops with between 10-15 young people, though it is our hope that this number will grow. Young people are to be targeted from various areas of Belfast.
The successful applicant will be expected to work with the centre in designing a recruitment campaign and getting the project off the ground. The Director will act as a key adviser to the Outreach & Education Officer and utilise their own community networks and resources.
Closing date for applications: Friday 5th April 2013
Interviews: W/c Monday 15th April 2013
For further information or enquiries contact:
Ann Feely
Outreach & Education Officer The Crescent Arts Centre
2-4 University Road
Belfast
BT17 1NH
Tel: 028 90 242338
E: outreach@crescentarts.org
Summer Art Work
Young people from ‘Friends Of The Grove Dance Group’ worked really hard creating this amazing work of art with the direction of artist Tim McCarthy! They did particularly well considering the numerous times they had to stop and re-start due to very bad weather conditions in July and August.
The once previous ugly steel container has now been totally transformed into a beautiful creation for everyone to enjoy who visits and works in the new community garden. It has a fully functioning tea/coffee making facility and acts as a super shelter from our summer weather.
Art facilitator Sheena Bleakney will be working with children from The Frank Gillen Centre, Divis, to bring a story of ‘bugs’ to life in a colourful stage performance! Sheena has been creating a wonderful story with the children using words and drawings to illustrate bug characters. These characters will have a very important message to convey to their audience about social diversity and bullying.
Venue : Crescent Arts Centre (Date and Time TBC so watch this space!) Here’s a sample of their work so far…..’A Bug’s Story’
Some bugs are short, some bugs are tall
some have got 8 legs, some none at all
some fat and round, a juicy snack for a cat
some long and lean and totally flat
some bugs are red, some in your bed
some in your soup or even in your head…
i like the bugs that have the boggly eyes
or the ones that glow in the dark, now thats a surprise!
i like the ones that are furry and crawl
and the ones that made Ms Muffet bawl and bawl
but there’s one little bug that had a hard time
for he wasn’t pretty, and the others were unkind
‘hey, you’ said the butterfly as she spread her wings
‘where are your colours? you plain little thing’
‘oi, you’ said the snail with his house on his back
‘you are very useless, a dwelling you lack’
‘meh’ said the ladybird, counting her spots
‘what do you do all day, if you can’t play dot to dot?’
the teasing went on for a day and a night
and the little woodlouse had lost all his fight
he felt all alone in a big bad world
so he scuttled off into a corner, around himself he curled.
and so the next day, the sun shone bright
out popped the caterpillars, the beetles and the bees took flight
each had a purpose, each had a tool
the woodlouse felt like a bit of a fool.
but the next thing that happened was totally crazy…..
We will be developing new and exciting elements to the Elderflowers weekly programme of activities, pushing the boundaries and enabling the ladies to develop new skills! Watch this space!
Start Date Time Venue
September 19th 10am-12pm Crescent Arts Centre
‘Generations Of Glamour’ recently completed it’s final session, see photo below! This was an intergenerational project between pupils from The Model School for Girls and a group of senior citizens creatively calling themselves ‘Silver Threads’. CAC Outreach worked in partnership with The Ulster Museum and Linking Generations to deliver the four month programme of arts activities which included dance, sewing, creative writing, public speaking, jewellery-making and flower-making. The project created opportunities for the two generations to have fun while learning new skills and showing respect for each other.
New CAC Book Club!
Following the success of Ten Community Book Clubs set up across areas of Belfast as part of Belfast Book Festival 2012, we are pleased to announce that Crescent’s Outreach is seeking interest from anyone who would like to join a new Book Club at The Crescent Arts Centre. This will be a FREE monthly event and is aimed at anyone over 18 and is for all levels of ability and is fully accessible. Please email Ann to register your interest: outreach@crescentarts.org
New Community Choir- ‘Sing For Life’.
This is a new and exciting community led project in partnership with Cancer Focus Northern Ireland. Anyone affected by cancer is welcome to join us for a song, chat and a cup of tea. You’ll have fun and learn new singing skills too! The choir is FREE.
Start Date Time Venue
Monday 17th September 6pm Crescent Arts Centre
