Our Work of Art Outreach 2019 – Helping Older People Engage – through creativity:
Catherine Arnell, Espression Arts CIC supported by Fay Blair, Kent Arts and Wellbeing will be leading this 2019 rural outreach programme, which has four strands:
- RURAL OUTREACH Engage and deliver Arts & wellbeing creative ‘taster’ sessions for the ‘Age of Creativity’ festival period May/ June 2019 outreach and rural locations.
- Up to 18 taster sessions where 180 ‘active ageing’ citizens & older people attend for creative activities; this could be a morning, early afternoon or early evening session. NO PREVIOUS creative/arts experience is necessary; just willingness to have a go!
Later stages of the project (with extra funding being secured) will involve the following:
- VOLUNTEER DEVELOPMENT CREATIVE TRAINING A programme organised for new volunteer recruits with further CPD for our experienced, motivated 2018 ‘champion’ volunteers. 15 new volunteer recruited, involving 6 volunteer ‘champions’ from the 2018 programme
- VOLUNTEER SKILL & PEER SUPPORT NETWORK ‘critical friend’ support and supervision and skills and experience sharing among volunteers who engage in the artist led programme of participant session
4. CREATIVE SESSION PROGRAMME DELIVERY at Age UK Centres Deliver the creative making programmes. 80-100 older people (50+) including elderly frail, engage with the creative sessions regularly (for 5 weeks or more)
This rural outreach project is a partnership project
Funded by Canterbury City Council, and The National Lottery Community Fund (Awards for All)
Led by Age UK Canterbury, Age UK Herne Bay & Whitstable
Delivered by Catherine Arnell,Espression Arts CIC with Kent Arts & Wellbeing.
We invite your Parish Council, or village hall committee and groups , to book your community hall for two free (2-hour) sessions in MAY 2019 or JUNE 2019 to celebrate the ‘Age of Creativity’ Festival – a fun, ‘tea and creativity’ social experience.
Our trained creative volunteers – from #OurWorkofArt2018 that involved over 150 people – will support more, older people from your locality, to ‘have a go’, meet new people, make friends, do something, simple but different. (Activities could be ceramic painting, clay work, ‘decoupatch’.)
We hope your Parish will support this and want to promote and engage older people (over 50’s – 100!) to take part, and for some of the more active people to consider our volunteer training, in doing some in centre support work later. See more information below.
NEXT STEPS: We would love to come and talk to your Parish Council or a representative. We can book to come and see you beforehand, any time now onwards. This is to explain more about what is on offer and see what you would like to do! Please do call us for an informal chat as soon as possible by contacting Fay Blair to find out more: email fay@kentartsandwellbeing.org.uk Tel: 07786 307 664
Our trained volunteers did a similar project in 2018 and it involved over 150 people in ceramic mug and tile mural making. See more here about ‘Our Work of Art’ at www.kentartsandwellbeing.org.uk You may also like to know and see more at:
- A FREE public exhibition at Garage Coffee at Fruitworks, 1-2 Jewry Lane, Canterbury CT1 2RA STARTS: 18th March
- ENDS: 4pm Sunday 31st March 2019.
- will run from Monday 18- Sunday 31st March 2019.
This public exhibition ‘Our Work of Art 2019 – With these Hands’ displays the fabulous work that was made by the volunteers and the older people engaged in the Age UK day centres and community settings at Canterbury, Herne Bay and Whitstable.
- Please do encourage people to come and have a look
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