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Schools Projects Archive
PROJECTS 1995 – 2004
Project work undertaken by the Community Arts Team since its formation in 1995.
1995

‘The Wild Ones’ – a project for primary schools

 
1996

3/ ‘The River Project’ – Festival. Jul-August 1996

 
  ‘ River Art Trail’ – outdoor exhibition of art work by children, adults, special needs)  
  ‘River Days’ (children’s performance)  
  ‘River Picnic’ (visual art & dance day for schools)  
  ‘Wet’/Random Dance Co.(young people’s dance residency/commission in conjunction with DanceFest)  
  ‘Car’ – Cholmondeleys (Dance performance in conjunction with DanceFest)  
1997

‘The Enchanted Garden’ – visual arts and dance event with Stanley Road School in Fort Royal Park

 
 

‘Manor Park Transport Project’ – visual art and dance with Manor Park Special Needs School

 
  ‘10 th Anniversary Party’ – a commission by Worcester Play Council at Worcester Countryside Centre featuring giant games.  
1998

‘Tolladine Dragon’ – A ‘Chinese-style’ walking dragon for Tolladine Community Centre’s spring festival

 
 

‘Summer Project, Bromsgrove’ – a week long project for children producing giant puppets, a video performance and street parade

 
 

‘Worcester Millennium Project’, – initial concept & planning meetings

 
 

‘Windows’ – A visual art project for schools and community groups producing translucent ‘window’ panels for an exhibition in Worcester Cathedral and the Guildhall, the pieces returning to their own buildings for final installation

 
1999

‘Windows’ – Project completion and exhibitions, Jan - April

  ‘Beacons’ – management of project for Worcestershire County Council; a county-wide sculptural project working with young people in the six districts of the county  
  ‘Worcester Millennium Project’, – research & development phase of large-scale event commissioned by Worcester City Council, ‘Arts Worcester 2000’  
2000

‘Art Worcester 2000’ Millennium Event – Worcester Arts workshop play a major part in the presentation of the Festival

 
  ‘Art & Alchemy’ ( schools visual art project undertaking residencies in twelve schools)  
 

‘The Avenue of Limes’ – a major art trail of the work produced during ‘Art & Alchemy’

  ‘Puppet Parade’ – four giant puppets and a performance by children in Worcester High Street followed by a parade to the main Festival site
  ‘Face 2000’ – banners of children’s self-portraits displayed in Worcester High Street and along North Quay by the River Severn
 

‘Dragon’ – a seventy-feet long ‘dragon’ breathing fire and smoke paraded up and down the River Severn during the celebratory event at the ‘Avenue of Limes’

2001

‘Out of the Ark’ – a visual arts project focussed on the Stanley Road/Wyldes Lane area of Worcester, creating carnival costume, banners and masks for an exhibition in May and a procession during the second ‘Funpac’ multi-cultural festival in June. Participants include Stanley Road Primary

School, Perryfields, Unity House Day Centre and the Horizon Youth Project.

 

Bromsgrove Schools Project – a project in two primary schools in Bromsgrove, informed by the very successful ‘Art & Alchemy’ project, relating art to the natural world and transforming natural elements into works of art.

 

Redditch Schools Architecture Project – a collaboration with MADE (Midlands Architecture Design Environment) exploring the roles of the architect and the artist in developing the built environment; working with two schools amalgamating into one school on an extended site.

2002

‘Home & Place’ – a photographic project with groups from Bromsgrove and Redditch recording impressions of their own and other groups’ environments

  Two weeks of residencies in Bromsgrove primary schools – ‘Between the Land & the Sky’: visual arts and dance (Stoke Prior First); and ‘Plant Life’: visual arts (Charford First)
 

Residencies at Rigby Hall Special School, Bromsgrove (‘An African Adventure’) and Matchborough First School, Redditch (Environmental Art)

 

Golden Jubilee Workshops at Charford First School, Bromsgrove and ‘The Party in the Park’. Poole ( Dorset)

 

Stanley Road Primary School Mural Project – an eight feet circular mural based on designs by children at the school for the ‘Funpac 2002’ event

 
 

‘Making Your Mark’ – Three weeks of residencies at Elbury Mount Primary, Gorse Hill Community Primary and Dines Green Primary schools in Worcester

 

‘After Dark in the Park 4’ – the final event of the current series of park-based events at Fort Royal Park, Worcester: giant lanterns and illuminations on the theme of ‘Modern Art’ plus dance, projections, workshops in Stanley Road Primary School and pyrotechnics

2003

Kidderminster Project, Broadwaters Mill – ‘Thrill at the Mill’, a community celebration: workshops at schools and Kidderminster Youth House making giant lanterns leading to a celebratory event with giant lanterns and illumination, dance (provided by DanceFest), pyrotechnics etc

 

Church Hill Middle School - Residency – banners on a Caribbean carnival theme

 

Rigby Hall Special School – Living Sculpture – a large-scale willow sculpture decorated with plants

 

‘Glass Festival’ – two weeks of residencies in four schools in Wordsley, creating banners and three-dimensional sculptures. Commissioned by Dudley Borough Council

  ‘Rooting Traditions’ – a project to support existing community traditions and annual events and establish new ones – working with community groups and schools. Making lanterns with Stanley Road Primary school for participation in November in Worcester’s Victorian Fayre  
 

Workshops at Forge Mill, Redditch; Meadows First School, Bromsgrove; Beaconsfield First School, Rubery; Stanley Road Primary School, Worcester; Christopher Whitehead High School, Worcester; National Trust, Hanbury Hall, Droitwich.

 
2004

Youth Carnival – Two weeks of workshops with Christopher Whitehead High School and Elgar Technology College, creating costumes for event in summer of 2004

 

Mural Project with Rubery Youth Centre – week-long residency

 
 

Ipsley Middle School, Redditch – ‘Myths, Marks & Legends – two-day residency

 
 

Youth Carnival – Workshops with Youth Centres and schools in Bromsgrove District and co-ordination and management of large-scale outdoor event at Waseley Hills Countryside Centre

 

Rigby Hall Special School, Bromsgrove – ‘Street Arts’ – two-day residency making large carnival puppets

 
  ‘Scream’ – children’s workshops and giant lanterns for Wyre Forest District Council’s late autumn celebratory event  
 

‘Rooting traditions’ – workshops with children from Gorse Hill Community Primary School creating lanterns and a performance as part of the Christmas lights switching-on ceremony in Worcester.

 
 

Xmas Lantern Project – Workshops with two schools in Bromsgrove District

 
2005

Redditch ‘AiR’ Festival – workshops with middle schools in Redditch leading to an opening procession for the Festival; working with first schools to create a ‘field of flowers’ installation for the town centre and Arrow Valley Countryside Centre

 

‘Dreams & Ruin’ – a major community dance & arts project at Witley Court, a partnership with Dance Fest and Motionhouse and ACE dance companies leading to four ‘promenade’ performances seen by audiences ranging from 250 to over 500. Workshops in schools constructing large ‘topiary’ sculptures, other visual elements for the performance and supplied costumes for nearly 200 participants. This was by far the largest community arts collaboration to have taken place in the county and has been highly commended by audiences and funders alike.

 

Sion Hill Middle School, Kidderminster – week-long residency creating 2D and 3D art work including a larger than life-sized installation of ‘Gulliver and the Lilliputians’

 

Northleigh Primary School, Malvern – week-long residency based on a Malvern Hills theme

 

‘Rooting traditions’ – workshops with children from Stanley Road Primary School creating lanterns and a performance as part of the Christmas lights switching-on ceremony in Worcester

 
  Xmas Lantern Project – Workshops with two schools in Bromsgrove District  
2006 ‘Rediscovering Bewdley’ – a commission funded by Bewdley Town Council and Wyre Forest District Council: schools workshops making giant boat lanterns and a ‘shoal of fish’ installation made by children from first and middle schools in the Bewdley area, plus fire jugglers and pyrotechnics
 

Bromsgrove Carnival – workshops with children in three first schools and a youth club in Bromsgrove to produce carnival costume for the 2006 Bromsgrove Carnival

 

Bromsgrove Schools Arts Festival – commissioned by Worcestershire County Council’s Arts Education unit to deliver the visual art content of the Festival. Workshops with eight first schools and two special schools creating fluorescent wire sculptures to be displayed in a black box illuminated by UV light

 

Witley Court – project commissioned by English Heritage; workshops with young people with learning difficulties from Wyre Forest LAFS and Worcestershire Lifelink, using digital photography in the creation of banners to be exhibited at Witley Court

  Diwali/Autumn Equinox Celebration – two days making lanterns for a celebration with pupils of Graiseley Primary School, Wolverhampton  
  Worcester Victorian Xmas Fayre Opening Parade – lantern-making workshops with three primary schools, banners of coats of arms of Worcester and its two twinned towns, Le Vesinet and Kleve, and large ‘swan’ lanterns for an opening ceremony parade.
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