What's
On
Millennium
Project, 2000/01 digital / photographic mural on Tynemouth
Metro station ( three twenty feet long prints, pictured above).
A collaborative project with studio artists and employees
of NEXUS, the Metro operator. This is now at North Tyneside's
Stephenson Railway Musem |
August
2003
Much time and
energy is being spent working with the other groups in Linskill
as part of the Linskill and North Tyneside Community Development
Trust. We are fundraising for a feasibility study to secure the
future of the organisations at Linskill.
March
2004
Hilaire
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The
Studio has developed a project called KARIBU, (Swahili
for “welcome”) with ACANE (African Community
Advice North East), the Sunderland Great Lakes Community,
and the local NHS Mental Health Trust. It is an arts
programme for Africans in the North East of England.
It will create opportunities for people to play a
part in the region’s cultural life and to address
issues across the spectrum of education, employment,
health, crime and social exclusion. See the KARIBU
page for more information.
KARIBU
will also soon be running storytelling workshops
across the region thanks to funding from the Arts
Council.
We
are working with the indefatigable Dr. Dave Thompson
and nine other voluntary sector agencies in North
Tyneside on “Moving Upstream”. This is
an initiative aimed at helping general practitioners
and other primary care staff to link people to the
services and opportunities that our agencies provide.
Artists
Rassidou Oumorou and Alan Vaughan have been working
with NEMLAC, the North East Museums, Libraries, and
Archives Council, to redesign a travelling ethnographic
exhibition. Thanks to the hard work of Hilaire Agnama
our KARIBU co-ordinator. The launch took place at
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Review
of
2004
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2004 saw 9 exhibitions mounted at Whitley Bay Playhouse,
and a big Studio Exhibition at The Gulbenkian Gallery
in Newcastle.
Over
the year, individual artists continued to develop
their work outwards – including Robert Belilios
who exhibited at The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle, Howard
Laing who led a Community Sculpture course at the Discovery
Museum and Adam Daniels and June Willits who are now
studying for degrees at Sunderland University and Newcastle
College.
Studio artists have been prominent in the continuing
struggle over the Linskill Centre and 2005 might see
us having to move to different premises pending the
outcome of legal battles, negotiations and the mayoral
election.
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January
2005
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The
exhibition until 22 nd January 2005 was a collection
of drawings, paintings, textiles and prints made
by people attending Art Groups provided by Newcastle,
North Tyneside and Northumberland Mental Health NHS
Trust.
From the 22 nd of January 2005 photographic portraits
of Africans in the North East, by Alan Vaughan, as
part of the KARIBU project. All exhibitions are free
to attend.
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February
2005
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Studio
co-ordinator Jocelyn Cassia, has been invited by
10 Downing Street to meet the Prime Minister, in
recognition of her contribution to the voluntary
sector in North Tyneside.
The region's first course
in African Arts and Culture takes place in the Art
Studio:
Wednesday mornings 10.30-12.30
with tutor Ezekiel Williams from Sierra Leone.
The course is free to attend
and is supported by the Workers Educational Association.
To get more details click here .
Thursday afternoons
1pm-3pm
Ceramics class with Sean,
supported by the Workers Educational Association
February 7th-22nd
Glass Artist Lucy Broadhead
will be in the Studio on Mondays and Tuesdays leading
workshops in fused and kiln-formed glass.
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March
2005
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Look out for the oral
history and archive project to be run by KARIBU
in conjunction with NEMLAC, African Community Advice
North East,Teesside Archives and The Captain Cook
and Dorman Museums.
We
will be creating "Archive
Champions" and collecting stories of migration,
as well as re-interpreting items from the museums'
collections and forming a contemporary collection influenced
by Africans here in North East England.
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