Transitions: past meets future!

 Yarmouth Beach, 1840, by J.B.Crome

TRANSITIONS EXHIBITION

10th-19th November, 2010, 10-17 hrs (not inc. Sunday)

Central Library Exhibition Galleries, Tolhouse Street, Great Yarmouth

 Yarmouth Beach, 2010, by Derek Jackson

Transitions is an eclectic project engaging young people, artists, museums and long-term residents to bring together views about change in Great Yarmouth past and present.

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TRANSITIONS WORKSHOP AT TIME AND TIDE

Transitions: past meets future! Free Art Workshop for the over 55’s and exhibition opportunity!

Saturday 16th October 11am to 3pm Education Room, Time and Tide Museum

Kate Coleman is delivering an exciting and unusual workshop at the Time and Tide Museum on Saturday, 16th October, offering the opportunity to view, discuss and draw selected museum objects not usually on display. These objects include domestic design icons, tools and leisure objects from the past 50 + years, which will no doubt evoke memories and inspiration. You will be able to make pencil, charcoal & pastel drawings and have the opportunity to make exciting prints. In addition to this, poet Rupert Mallin will be there to listen to and record your thoughts about memories raised by the objects. Resulting words and images will be exhibited at the Central Library in November.

Free admission to this workshop for pre-booked participants includes refreshments and materials. Participants must supply their own lunch. Normal admission applies to visit the museum.

Great Yarmouth artists group, ARC, has been funded by Awards for All to run Transitions, with the aim of profiling grassroots cultural life in the Borough, past and present.

Transitions will conclude with an exhibition at the Central Library from 10th-20th November 2010 and the interactive website www.eastcoastnet.org will be used to gather and share materials and as a focus for discussion as the project develops.

To book your place or for more information please conta  Kate Coleman tel: 07765281970 or email here

       In collaboration with Great Yarmouth Museums Service

Free blog training

Free Training Session

Friday,  4^th June 2010, 10.00-13.00 hrs, Lecture Hall at Great Yarmouth Central Library

As part of the Transitions Project, funded by Awards for All, ARC Artists Group are offering  free training on how to create a blog, upload images and post to an interactive website like EastCoastNet.  Assistance will also be available on how to make the most of the archives at the library for research purposes.  One hour training slots will run from 10.00, 11.00 and 12.00 hrs. Anybody interested is welcome to drop in but numbers are limited for each training session, so to book a place please email to eastcoastnet@btinternet.com or phone Bridget on 01493 602698.

TRANSITIONS

Transitions: past meets future!

Great Yarmouth arts group ARC, is delighted to announce an Awards for All grant to run Transitions. This project will enable old and young to delve into the Borough Archive and the Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service’s permanent art collection housed at the Central Library in Great Yarmouth. Looking into the past, participants can seek connections with, or comparisons to, the present and use new media to share their findings with local people. The project will run workshops to look at cultural life in the Borough and bring the town’s creative past into the light. Who knows what might be discovered?

The aim of the project is to raise the profile of the vital grassroots culture in the Borough, past and present. There is a long and distinguished cultural history in the locality but much has been buried and not celebrated. Transitions intends to bring it to life and to cast an optimistic eye on the future thanks to the all the talent currently demonstrated amongst the young people, especially in music, dance and drama.

Rupert Mallin, the lead artist on Transitions, says “With this touchstone to the past, participants will be able to pursue their own cultural response – in any medium – to the present and the future. Captured online at East Coast Net, the work will form a record which others can explore and/or add to in the future. It is a very exciting project.”

Transitions will conclude with an exhibition at the Central Library in November 2010. EastCoastNet will be used throughout the project to gather and share materials and as a focus for discussion as the project develops.

In collaboration with Great Yarmouth Library Service and

ARC Artists Group

Collage Workshop

ARC membership is made up of artists living or working in and around Great Yarmouth who are interested in community arts activity and promoting the arts in the Borough.  All the members have a great deal of experience in organising and leading visual arts workshops such as the popular family workshops that ARC  held at the Time and Tide Museum as part of  The Big Draw 2007.  An example of their activities can be viewed on http://greatyarmouthartists.blogspot.com.  Any enquiries to the Chair here.