25/09/2008 by James.

If you get chance, have a look at the Small Pictures Open Exhibition at Salisbury Arts Centre…2nd October to 1st November… it includes a couple of my own collaged/assembled works, one made up on Oare Hill, Wilts. onto a photographic print and map of the hill, and the other put together as part of my recent ‘unpicking’ of home, as a subject for making.

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09/05/2008 by James.

Creative Thinkers=Powerful Minds is a conference for strategy leaders, head teachers, artists, teachers and anyone interested in exploring this belief in children’s and young people’s creative capacities and participation. The conference and workshops will enable you to reflect upon and commit to shaping the future direction of education towards developing creative thinking and powerful minds.

Keynote speakers will address topics including personalisation, participation, mass creativity and transformation. Speakers include: leading authority on innovation and creativity Charles Leadbeater, author of We-Think; artist Richard Wentworth, Master of Drawing, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford; Professor and Professor Anna Craft, Chair of Education, Exeter University, Reader, Open University and Visiting Scholar, Harvard University.

‘For centuries, children have expected adults to believe in them – in their talents, their sensitivity, their creative intelligence and their desire to understand their surroundings. We have to understand them through the things they want to do and show they can do. Children use a 100 languages to teach us and show us. They have an inexhaustible desire to learn.’ Loris Malaguzzi, Founder and Director of Reggio Emilia,1992

More information at www.5×5x5creativity.org.uk

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21/04/2008 by James.

… its been a bit quiet on the blog as I have been setting up a new initiative called ‘Creative Ecology’ (www.creative-ecology.co.uk).

I have set up Creative Ecology to deliver a programme of participatory arts projects and training/consultancy, that supports people in exploring their identity and developing greater environmental awareness, in a hands-on, creative way.

I will continue to work in partnership with schools, community and environmental organisations, and other artists, to set up these opportunities and to share our work to a wider audience through training events etc.

I am back working on 5×5x5 tomorrow, so there will be some more news and photos on the children’s explorations around the village of Pitton later this week.

I am also in Poole for a couple of days later this week, working with reception-age children to explore pattern and texture through rubbings, clay impressions and casting of their local outside space; linking to their recent visit to the Jurassic Coast and theme of fossilisation and dinosaur teeth!

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29/02/2008 by James.

Fantastic one woman show featuring Liz Rothschild on the work and life of writer, scientist and environmental campaigner Rachel Carson… see their website for tour dates and more information….

Rachel Carson wrote “Silent Spring” in 1962 overcoming the opposition of government, industry and her own failing personal health in order to alert the world to the careless use of chemicals in our environment.This theatre piece enables a contemporary audience to appreciate the courage of Rachel Carson once again.

www.rachelcarson.co.uk

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