Club for over 25′s

          
Youth Club for over 25’s 
Would like to meet new people & try new activities?
Come along to our weekly ‘youth club’ for fun activities, arts & crafts, games, advice and information.
Every Friday,  2pm-4pm, at the Priory Centre.  Refreshments included and all for 50p!!  Occasional day trips & events too!!

Contact Rachael Hardie  for more information!   rachael-hardie@gyctrust.co.uk
Community Projects & Ageless Opportunities Co-Ordinator
Great Yarmouth Community Trust
Priory Centre
Priory Plain
01493 743042
www.priorycentre.co.uk/what-we-do/adults

Gorleston St. Andrew’s 42nd Competitive Music Festival

The Festival will take place 12-24 March 2012, located in the Chapter House, St. Andrew’s Church, Gorleston. For more information see website www.gorleston-festival.org or  tel. 01493 780829.

On 17th March, The Anglia Consort, under the direction of Ron Skins, is giving a special fundraising concert, Music from Contrasting Centuries, in suport of the Festival.  The concert will be held in the Chapter House and starts at 7.30 pm. The first half will be given to music of the 16th century and Baroque and the second half to 20th century composers, including some ragtime and jazz.  Admission will be by programme, price £5, accompanied children free.  Refreshments available during interval.

Circle Dance Workshop for Children

Half-term activity at Bracecamp Hall, Ormesby St. Margaret.  Wednesday 23rd February, 10.15 – 11.45 am.  £2 adult, £1 child. 

The workshop is led by a qualified and experienced teacher.  The dances come from many different countries including South America, Africa, Greece, Hungary, Romania and the UK.  If there is sufficient interest more workshops may follow.  Each child must be accompanied by a responsible adult over 18. Please ring 01493 748830 for further details or to book.

Creative Writing Competition

As part of its Common Values campaign and to mark international Human Rights Day on 10 December 2010, Liberty has launched a Liberty Schools Creative Writing Competition: Write Human Rights.

Why the Human Rights Act? Although the Human Rights Act is often misquoted and maligned in adult society, the rights and values it defends – fairness, equality, privacy, dignity and respect – often mirror those we look to encourage in our children. Liberty hopes that providing an opportunity for real engagement and understanding of the content and meaning of the Act will broaden respect for the essential rights and freedoms it upholds and protects, and what these mean for every one of us. For an interactive guide to the articles of the Human Rights Act and what they mean in plain English, visit www.love.commonvalues.org.uk

Entrants are being asked to write a short piece of poetry or prose inspired by any or all of the articles within the Act. An entry could be as much as the word-limit (150 – 250 words depending on age category) or as little as a sentence.

The winners will be announced in early July 2011. Entries will be judged by a panel of literary experts, including best-selling author and twice Booker-prize nominated author Ali Smith, best-selling children’s author Georgia Byng, author of best-selling teen superspy series Anthony Horowitz and publisher Simon Prosser. The winning entry will receive up to £500 to spend on books for their school and the chance to read their winning entry at a prestigious award ceremony in 2011.

Write Human Rights is open to any student that is a resident of Great Britain and aged between 4-16yrs. There are two categories for entry: ages 4-10 yrs and 11-16 years. Entries must be submitted by a Teacher, Tutor, Mentor, Youth Club Organiser or Parent/Guardian (if home educated) on behalf of their students. Teachers normally submit entries as part of a whole-class activity.

To register your school to take part in the competition please email a contact name, the name of your school, a contact email address and postal address to mailto://schools@liberty-human-rights.org.uk

Registration will close, and the competition will open for entries from Monday 28 February. The deadline for submissions will be 27 May 2011.

The DanceEast Academy

The DanceEast Academy is now recruiting for entry in September 2011.

The DanceEast Academy is a Centre for Advanced Training (CAT) in dance and offers young people with exceptional potential and talent, the opportunity to access high quality dance training.

The Academy is looking for enthusiastic, motivated young people aged 10-16 from the East of England, who have an interest in pursuing dance as a career. No previous formal dance training is required although experienced dancers are also encouraged to apply.

Means-tested grant funding is available for all successful applicants through the Department for Education’s Music and Dance Scheme.

The Norwich Open Days for 2011 entry will be held on Saturday, 26th March. Open Days are free but places must be booked in advance.

For more information: tel 01473 295230, email to academy@danceeast.co.uk or click here

Start Programme Awards Funding

Prince’s Foundation for Children and the Arts: Start Programme – 2011 Round One, Now Open

The Prince’s Foundation for Children & the Arts’ Start Programme provides primary and secondary school students in the UK with the opportunity to engage with the arts.

The Start Programme awards funding for cultural organisations in the UK to develop and deliver arts enrichment programmes for primary and secondary school students.

Grants of up to £15,000 per project for up to three years are available (maximum of £10,500 in year three), although funding can only be guaranteed for one year. However, the Foundation aims to work with all partners and partner schools for up to three years.

Applications are welcomed from cultural and arts organisations in the UK partnering with local schools that currently do not have a strong relationship with a cultural venue.

Successful Stage One applicants will be shortlisted and invited to apply to Stage Two.

The deadline for Stage One applications is 2 February 2011 (5 pm).  For more information click here .  This information has been distributed by Norfolk Arts Forum.

Fusion

Over the past 6 months, the Fusion Youth Group, based on the Middlegate Estate, have been working on a photography project alongside the Comeunity Team and the Middlegate Community Association. The funding for the project was obtained through the Your South Yarmouth, Your Decision 2009-2010 Participatory Budgeting programme, which saw local residents in South Yarmouth vote for and allocate funding towards the project.

During this time, the young people received training in photography from a GY College Tutor, and took hundreds of photos of their local community, which were shown in early November in the Rumbelow Gallery in Great Yarmouth Library.

Apart from the 50 plus photos that were  on display, the young people  also put together a delightful brochure of the photos taken during the project, and this is still available to pick up at the current Transitions exhibition at the gallery, on until the 19th November. 

 The young people also participated in workshops run by poet Rupert Mallin and young filmmaker Jade Yaxley.  The decided they wanted to explore bullying past and present, and did this through cartoon, words, a visit to the Tolhouse Museum, and film.  Emily Payne edited the film material they produced to create a short video posted to You Tube:

For any enquiries related to Fusions, please contact Katie Folkes on 01493 845 929 or at katiefolkes@voluntarynorfolk.org.uk

Schools Carol Concert

Schools in Great Yarmouth are getting together to perform a carol festival at the Hippodrome on 30th November, 7.20-9.30 pm.  There is so much young musical talent in the borough and Rachel Salton, secretary of  Great Yarmouth Schools’ Music, says the festival raises the profile of music and celebrates bringing schools together.  The junior schools are performing with a choir of 300 pupils and the secondary schools with a choir of 120.  Flegg High School wind band and Great Yarmouth Junior Brass Band will also be performing.

Tickets are available from the Hippodrome on 01493 844172.

‘The Grinch’ A Christmas Musical

A Stage Door Youth Theatre  production at the Pavilion Theatre on November 26th -28th Fri and Sat at 7.30pm and Sun at 2.00pm

Tickets £10 and £6.00 concessions with a special Family ticket available.

Box office 01493 662832 or book online www.gorlestonpavilion.co.uk

Entertainment for all the family.

Transitions and ENSFC

There are six students involved in the exciting Transitions project.  We have been to the Great Yarmouth archives and have selected artworks/images that will inspire our responses to the contemporary view of the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston area.  Several students have already identified areas of interest and Enya and Ellen have interviewed members of the public in Great Yarmouth to gain their views on the area. Enya is interested in looking at the contrast between the natural environment and the built environment while looking at and being inspired by the local artist Anthony Aimies. If anyone has any background information of him please add a comment.

  Jack is intersted in textiles and fashion and has made an appointment at Carrow House to look at the collection.  At the moment Jack is interested in Victorian costumes.

Hannah is interested in the equipment and clothing worn by lifeboat men in the past and the present day. 

Charlotte is intersted in beach huts and textured wood.  We are interested in learning what type of belongings people keep in their beach huts.

Ellen is looking for found objects – found on the beach or are marine related for an installation.  Any one with any artefacts or driftwood etc would be appreciated.

Alissa is interested in photographs and local trades and trades people.  How traditional trades compare with modern trades.

Anyone with any comments or images that they can share with us to help us with our research would be greatly appreciated.  Please contact us by comemnt.  Thank you.