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 is delighted to welcome emerging artist Dorothy Hunter. Check out some of her work and what she will be exploring during her placement in The Emerging Artist section-you can also find the evaluation and experiences of last years emerging artist.
Congratulations to Morton Community Centre participants who created this intergenerational animation. The group wrote the story and created the characters (with the help of Sheena Bleakney, Ann Harrison) The group explore within the story how things have changed for young people today-with mutual respect for both generations.
The Crescent Arts Centre had a fantastic time running The Belfast Book Festival. A big thank you to all our Outreach Practitioners who delivered super fun character cup painting and story telling workshops.
Malachy Doyle, reading his wonderfully charming book ‘BIG PIG’.
The Crescent Arts Centre and Ballynafeigh Community Development Association are working in partnership to deliver a unique pilot project called Game On NI.
The project is led by Veronica Tate an experienced Video Gamer-she is exploring Loyalist and Nationalist heritage and history with a group of young people from both backgrounds through engaging in site visits around Ireland and Northern Ireland. They will collect historic info through video recordings, interviews and photos. By uploading the footage on to PC’s and creating a story board they will then have a template to create a video game for PC’s.
The video game will focus on the collective history that both catholics and protestant share. It will also be a learning tool to promote the positive aspects of heritage. Its not simply a culture based on conflict.
The video games will be disseminated to 500 young people across the city.
This project is funded by Belfast City Council-Good Relations.
Congratulations to The Crescent Arts Young Peoples Theatre and Jude McVitty for a fantastic, sophisticated and timely performance in ‘Let me in’, a devised piece of theatre examining the dangers of the ways in which which share information.
The cast worked extremely hard and delivered a rich and engaging show, which included live singing, dancing and sharp satirical comedy!
Feed back from the show:
“It is note worthy that these issues are so seldom explored and it is good you have approached the whole area of computers, social networking, self-image, celebrity-hood and the world of entertainment”
The performance concluded with the show case of Jude McVitty’s installation letmein/letmeout, which was a further exploration of the way in which we share information. Jude collected keys and confessions which were completely anonymous. The audience were then able to choose a confession and key to hang on the installation. A ritual of retaining anonymity once again.
Donegall Pass and The Markets Youth Groups have been taking part in a community photography project working with community photographers Norma Burrowes www.normaburrowes.com and Jan Lowry (from Belfast Exposed)
Through the images they have captured each community has been looking at what they like about where they live and why. The youth groups have also been learning about different ways of capturing images and techniques. The project will culminate in each group having an exhibition of the photos produced in their communities. Check out an example of Donegall Pass group’s work with Norma below:
