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Tissue paper stained glass, bunny bunting, collage poetry and more with the Young Producers
Week 4! Are you keeping up with our Young Producers #IsolationCreations? Every day, they've been sharing creative activities to do at home on their Instagram account. They want to provide…
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Van Gogh inspired painting, Funky rock painting, Origami Cranes and more with the Young Producers
Week 3 of our Young Producers #IsolationCreations project! Every day, they've been sharing creative activities to do at home on their Instagram account. They want to provide you with inspiration…
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Watercolour Resist, Rorschach Ink Blots, Tie-dying with Bleach and more with the Young Producers
Last week was week 2 of our Young Producers #IsolationCreations project. Every day, they've been sharing creative activities to do at home on their Instagram account. They want to provide…
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Armchair Gallery – get creative in isolation with our free app
The coronavirus crisis is bringing isolation and social distancing to us all. But for many of the country's older people this experience is not new. In England, more than 2…
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#IsolationCreation with the Young Producers
Our wonderful Young Producers group have decided they want to help people get through this difficult time of self-isolaton and social distancing. Being creative - making art - has lots…
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Photographer Siobhan Jackson captures Nottingham art charities
We were delighted to stumble across this fantastic series of images on Instagram. They were conceived, captured and composed by Siobhan Jackson. Siobhan is a Photography student at Nottingham Trent…
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Silent Orchestra – multi-sensory instruments for people with dementia
City Arts has been supporting artist Jenny Hibberd, music tutor James Sykes and programmer Andrew Johnston to create multi-sensory musical instruments for people with dementia. Their creations are a creative…
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Illustrating Words of Wisdom
In this third and final blog, James Walker discusses the graphics used for our ‘Cheap Gossip for Retail Later’ project, and why it’s never too late to get creative. 'Cheap…
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Choice Gossip for Retail Later
This is the second of three blogs (first here) written by James Walker about our Words for Wisdom project, which aims to bring older and young people together through literature.…
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Cantrell Carnival 2019
For the past four years, City Arts has worked to inspire the children and teachers at Cantrell Primary School in Bulwell. We’ve created carnival costumes with every child in the…
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Mrs Bull and the Importance of Gossip
This is the first of three blogs written by James Walker about our Words for Wisdom project, which aims to bring older and young people together through literature. We commissioned…
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Heritage Hunters: What we learned when 28 youth leaders visited Nottingham
In the spring, City Arts held the second half of our Heritage Hunters exchange project. Twenty-eight ‘youth leaders’, from across Europe, came together for a week-long seminar in Nottingham. The…
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