‘A Question of Art‘ – Community participatory arts project 2024
Thank you once again to the Tenants Projects Fund that enables us to work in partnership with your amazing staff and the fantastic services provided in BCH Resettlement Housing accommodations. Happy New Year. We look forward to seeing you all again in 2025
https://www.bch.co.uk/news/a-question-of-art-community-arts-programme
December 5th and a few Christmas cards
After a busy year we have just received our Makezines. Available to download for free here. Going to print before Christmas ready to give to BCH residents and community members very soon. Thanks to BCH: Tenants Project Fund (TPF).
And available to view here https://www.flipsnack.com/lastlegsmakeartzine/lastlegs-makezine.html
November 7th/11/2024
October 24th/10/2024
October 17th/10/2024
October 10th/10/2024
Who are you ?
October 3rd/10/2024
A busy afternoon working with families. Creativity promotes health and well being and supports conversation with family members
Making masks and name cards
nearly Halloween
September 12th/09/2024
Mid June 2024 we began a series of community participatory workshops with community members living in and around Blackpool.
The project ‘A Question of Art’ is funded by BCH Tenants Project grant.
Young people do amazing creative work when the chance arises to make time to relax, use colour and new techniques for making art works on canvas.
Be Good, Be Tough, Be Brave, Be Loyal
August 06/08/2024
Certified safe for ‘Dawgs’ today
‘If your feeling down, do not frown
Make a start, do some art’
Tasha
July 23/07/2024
July 16/07/2024
June 25/06/2024
June 24/06/2024
June 17/06/2024
Practicing art skills in a relaxed informal, supported environment using your own ideas, helps open up possibilities for creative thinking skills and encourages long term positive community engagement.
Earlier in 2024
REVOE COMMUNITY MOSAIC OUTSIDE MARY SMITH COMMUNITY HUB
We received word today that the mosaic is finally in situ.
https://lastlegsart.com/category/mosaic/
The art work was originally designed, then made to fit within a window space of the now demolished George Hotel, once situated on Central Drive next to the Revoe community center. The mosaic will now take pride of place outside the Mary Smith House, Revoe-lution Community building. The mosaic depicts iconic local landmark buildings including the George Hotel.
The art work was designed by Mr Dee using the iconic local buildings of Blackpool to inform the work, as discussed and designed with Revoe residents, who worked on the mosaic over a number of years using recycled tiles, donated by Al Murad Tiles.
We would like to thank Pippa Martin who gave us the start up funding, the ‘Hand Grown Un’s’ art group who met at the Revoe Community Center over a period of months and worked together to create the first part of this mosaic’s story, the Mary Smith Art group, Jackie, Barbara Clarke, Anita and Peter, Angie Buss, Suzanne Forbes, Harry, Penny Corney, Brenda Giles, Sue and Sophia and all at Memory Lane Cafe, particularly Carol and Jan, and Kas at Al Murad for the tiles. This mosaic is dedicated to all the people and places in Revoe that are culturally significant to the history of Blackpool.
We are also exited to be working again in the community in Blackpool, thanks to Blackpool Coastal Housing’s Tenant Project Fund, grant for our new Arts Health project ‘A Question of Art’. The project will involve working with staff and tenants of BCH: workshops begin in March 2024.
https://www.bch.co.uk/news/supporting-our-local-communities
VALENTINES WORKSHOP AT THE GRANGE 13/02/2024
We will also be working with families at the Grange on February 12th to create some valentines day items for a celebratory meal at the Grange later that week.
A sample of the work by participants today below was part of the table settings made for the valentines make and share meal on the 14th
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