Thanks to funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund, Postcode Local Trust and Barchester Charitable Foundation Arts Uplift and Sonrisa Arts have joined together in an exciting project called ‘Rewind: 1970’s’: capturing a generation through the arts’, a community arts and heritage project in Coventry and Warwickshire.
We have been delivering 6 fun workshops in care homes, dementia cafes and older people’s friendship groups across Coventry and Warwickshire where we used creative dance, movement, music, reminiscence and popular culture from the 1970’s to inspire the participants to tell their personal stories and memories of growing up in the 1970’s. We have then created a dementia friendly scrap book from the memories which is printed and is available in various libraries across Coventry and Warwickshire and also available online HERE Read our evaluation report HERE
In phase 2 we created a fantastic dance and music show based on these memories and the memories of others groups stories which we performed to the groups that participated with 3 professional artists.
Tuesday 26 September 10.30 am Ettington Lodge 3pm Cedar Lodge care home
Wednesday 27 September 11am Meadow View care home 3pm Galanos House
Tuesday 3 October 10.30am Canley Age Uk Friendship Group 2.30pm Moat House Community Trust Tea&Chat
Wednesday 4 October 10.30am Cubbington Mill care home 3pm Holy Trinity Church, Nuneaton
Rewind: 1970’s
Dust off your flares and platform boots!
Rewind:1970’s, is inspired by real stories and memories of local Coventry and Warwickshire residents who lived through the 1970’s. All woven into a highly entertaining dance and music show celebrating the best and the worst of the decade.
What did you do when school was out for summer? Were you a dancing queen regular at The Locarno?An Angel Delight or a fruit and nutcase?
Rewind:1970’sgives more than a nod to the hit parade, disco dancing toYMCA, glamming it up toGet it On, punk rebellion toI fought the lawand many more…..
Aimed at older adults, this fun interactive show will take you back to re-live your youth…
Rewind: 1970’s Creative Team
Movement Director: Kath Kimber-McTiffen Musical Director, song arrangements & composer: Anthony Kimber-McTiffen Set & Costume Design: Kirsty Harris Creative Producer: Jenny Davis Performers: Katie Albon, Anthony Kimber-McTiffen, Kath Kimber-McTiffen
Stay Calm and Connected and get Creative – from Home!
Are you anxious, fearful or feeling low about all the uncertainty at this time? Would you like to improve your mental health, build resilience and become more creative?
Use your imagination and your smartphone or camera to explore creative ways of seeing and experiencing what is happening around you and improve your mental health and resilience at the same time.
This booklet offers a selection of arts activities to be done mindfully to help improve your mental well-being, including a 7 day Re-frame Your Now Mindful Photography taster by Ruth Davey from Look Again and video links to music, visual arts and crafts activities for you to do at home.
The activities will help you:
slow down your mind and stay calm
deal with some of the fear and anxiety you may be feeling
build resilience and become more adaptable
create your personal photo story, music or artwork
take positive action
All you need is your eyes, a smartphone or camera, simple art materials and an open mind.
This is a FREE resource for you to use thanks to funding from Warwickshire County Council for children, young people and adults. Click HERE for the pdf version.
Click HERE for the Hand-Sewing for Mindfulness resources
Thanks to funding from Warwickshire County Council we are able to offer the CEV group (Clinically Extremely Vulnerable) of people living through this global pandemic a FREE storytelling booklet that has six lessons in it from storyteller Gavin Young.
The following six stories have been placed here to be read at the end of each lesson in the INSIDE STORIES Storytelling Booklet. They can, of course, be read anytime you like, though each story builds on the theme in the lessons, enhancing what you get out of them. Enjoy!
If you live in Warwickshire and are one of the clinically extremely vulnerable people please contact Jenny for the storytelling booklet jenny@artsuplift.co.uk 07946 585978
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