Creative Conversations, led by Arts Alive and MediaActive, is a three year partnership development that links experienced agencies for arts, and health, to help establish a new exciting countywide development that aims to establish new opportunities for people, aged 55 and over, to get creative.
One of only four initiatives to be funded in the whole of the Midlands through the Celebrating Age programme, jointly funded by the Arts Council through the National Lottery and the Baring Foundation, the project partnership involves Age UK, Shropshire Council, and Shropshire Provider's Consortium members, including Wem Town Hall.
Activity has taken place in day centres, care homes, and community spaces, giving older people the chance to work with artists and participate in arts activities ranging from storytelling, music, singing, and creative use of technology.
To find out how you can get involved please email cerin@artsalive.co.uk
To find out what's been happening in the project, please take a look at the recent Creative Conversations 2020 Interim Report here - you can also watch a project showreel from 2019 below. In early 2021 a dedicated website, showcasing the project in full, will be launched.
One of only four initiatives to be funded in the whole of the Midlands through the Celebrating Age programme, jointly funded by the Arts Council through the National Lottery and the Baring Foundation, the project partnership involves Age UK, Shropshire Council, and Shropshire Provider's Consortium members, including Wem Town Hall.
Activity has taken place in day centres, care homes, and community spaces, giving older people the chance to work with artists and participate in arts activities ranging from storytelling, music, singing, and creative use of technology.
To find out how you can get involved please email cerin@artsalive.co.uk
To find out what's been happening in the project, please take a look at the recent Creative Conversations 2020 Interim Report here - you can also watch a project showreel from 2019 below. In early 2021 a dedicated website, showcasing the project in full, will be launched.
Creative Conversations at Home
In Spring 2020 the project was interrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic. However, with the support of Community Foundation for Staffordshire & the NET Coronavirus Appeal, Shropshire Council (Arts, Libraries, Museums), Connexus, and The National Lottery Community Fund, it has developed an additional online participatory strand, ‘Creative Conversations at Home’, which will continue through to 2021.
In fact, prior to the Spring lockdown, in direct response to feedback from Creative Conversations’ participants and partners, and inspired by the At My Home Helsinki pilot, we had begun to consider how we might better support people unable to travel to take part in Creative Conversations’s programme of activities.
We simply sought to create new routes to taking part in the arts for those most at risk of isolation and loneliness, by utilising available technology, providing one to one support in using the tech, and by working with artists, performers and cultural organisations to develop “virtual friendly” models of participatory activity. Connexus social housing joined us as a partner and funder. The Creative Conversations - At Home pilot got underway…READ MORE HERE
In fact, prior to the Spring lockdown, in direct response to feedback from Creative Conversations’ participants and partners, and inspired by the At My Home Helsinki pilot, we had begun to consider how we might better support people unable to travel to take part in Creative Conversations’s programme of activities.
We simply sought to create new routes to taking part in the arts for those most at risk of isolation and loneliness, by utilising available technology, providing one to one support in using the tech, and by working with artists, performers and cultural organisations to develop “virtual friendly” models of participatory activity. Connexus social housing joined us as a partner and funder. The Creative Conversations - At Home pilot got underway…READ MORE HERE
Creative Conversations - project showreel from Autumn 2019
Creative Conversations PROJECT LAUNCH
University Centre Shrewsbury
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A packed audience at the University Centre Shrewsbury enjoyed an inspiring afternoon of speakers and presentations of national creative projects for older people including We engAGE, Duckie, Kate Organ (images above) and Curious Shoes...in addition, as promised, the audience also consumed plenty of tea and cake...
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MediaActive Projects C.I.C.
Wem Town Hall High Street, Wem Shropshire, SY4 5DG |
email: info@mediaactive.org
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