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We are open to proposals and new ideas for projects that express and support your community.  |
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| HUMA BIRD POETS - VOICES FROM THE MIDDLE EAST | |
Working with Huma Bird Poetry Group, Creative Communities has now published 'Voices from the Middle East' The work encompasses Iranian, Turkish and Urdu poetry traditions. View Project |
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| NE LONDON WEEKENDER 50+ PROJECT | |
The Weekender's Project has now successfully created a beautiful book - Saints & Sinners - that reflects and celebrates the past; Sunday Best, tar soap, chicken in the basket, platform shoes, the Blitz, tin baths, mini-skirts, Sunday school, shillings, Finsbury Park Empire. View Project |
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| BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2008 | |
Come and celebrate Black History Month with us! Live Music - Special Guests - Dance - Poetry - Exhibition - Food 12.45pm - 4pm 21 October 2008 View Project |
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| THE CLAREMONT PROJECT | |
A new and exciting project working with Claremont that is starting in October 2008. View Project |
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| THE PEGASUS PROJECT | |
Creative Communities is pleased to be working with the Pegasus Poetry Group based at the Hillside Centre. We are currently designing an anthology of works that will be available as a book/pdf as well as planning a poetry recital tour of Islington – check back soon for details! View Project - Click through for information |
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| 20 YEARS LATER: LIFE STORIES | |
Following the success of the Latin American Echoes Project, 20 Years Later: Life Stories continued to the celebrate the lives, journeys and experiences of members of the Latin American Elderly Project. Participants designed a beautiful book and dvd which was unveiled at Islington Town Hall in August 2008. Download Book View Project |
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| BOLIVIAN RAYMI | |
Working with BCC the Bolivian Raymi celebrated all things Bolivian! The festival took place over a week in July and included multimedia training, an exhibition of Bolivian folkloric photography, film and documentary screenings, craft workshops, dance, performance, music, food and poetry readings View Project |
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| HOLLOWAY ARTS FESTIVAL 2008 | |
Once again we look forward to seeing you all at the Holloway Arts Festival this year! View Project |
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| NATIONAL STATISTICS | |
National Statistics is an ongoing project that works with individuals across all Creative Communities workshops. The aim of the project is to challenge representations of national identity by providing a personal interpretations of flags and summarising the essence of one’s ‘homeland’ through creative writing and graphic design. View Project |
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| MIXED MESSAGES | |
As the name suggests this project expressed ideas and passions from diverse influences that included Kathak dance, African childhood, Irish memories, journeys travelled and poetry. View Project |
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| A SENSE OF PLACE DIGITAL MAPPING PROJECT | |
Your Community. Your Story. Plot it. Share it. Get Involved! A Sense of Place is an ongoing project with content regularly updated. View Project |
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| ON THE FLIPSLIDE | |
Stories, laughter, music & opinion from the Zimbabwean community. An ongoing and evolving multimedia project View Project |
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| LIFE & LAUGHTER - BLACK HISTORY MONTH | |
A collection of words and images selected by Community Elders to celebrate Black History Month. Exhibition opening times: 2 October - 2pm (Launch Event - All Welcome) 3 October - 3pm - 5pm 4 October - 3pm - 5pm 5 October - 3pm - 5pm Alternatively see the project online: View Project |
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| ENCOUNTERS/REFUGEE WEEK | |
To celebrate Refugee Week 2007 Creative Communities will be running a two-day digital photography project. The theme 'Encounters' is defined as 'an experience through which people of different backgrounds come together to meet, change or influence one another' View Project |
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| COMPOSED | |
Garageband: Six learners. Six weeks. Incredible enthusiasm and results. Stop by and have a listen. April Update: We are pleased to announce the birth of Criteria - an audio project that was conceived during Composed and spans generations and cultures. View Project |
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| BENGAL FLAVOURS | |
Working in partnership with Porshi UK and Manor Gardens Community Kitchens, Bengal Flavours is a celebration of food and memory. Taking traditional recipes as a starting point this project explores cultural heritage, collective memory, personal anecdote, health and nutrition and most importantly flavour. View Project |
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| HOLLOWAY VOICES | |
An ongoing project of diverse and colourful audio recordings in mp3 format. Check back often for new material. View Project |
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| SURESTART HOLLOWAY | |
Local mothers embrace digital video and dvd authoring technology as tools for empowerment to express the validity of SureStart Holloway provision in the face of cutbacks and closure. View Project |
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| LATIN AMERICAN ECHOES | |
Images, poetry, song, anecdotes and recollections spanning continents and generations. Creative Communities is currently working with the Latin American Elderly Project (through workshops and documentation sessions) to produce a richly revealing booklet and accompanying CD that illustrates the lives and journeys of particpants from Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador and Chile. View Project |
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| BIZ KIMZ - WHO AM I? | |
Working with the Turkish Education Group this project explored individual cultural identity. Taking George Ella Lyon’s poem ‘Where I Am From’ as a starting point, participants express facets of their background and experience. View Project |
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| HOLLOWAY 30.30 | |
A six week project that encouraged the documention of the diverse visual layers that exist within the local community. Participants journeyed into Holloway and took a minimum of thirty pictures in a maximum of thirty minutes. This is the community through their eyes. View Project |
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