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The latest edition of our E-news is out now 📢 We have lots of news to share with you this week! 🟢 Attended Social Making 2024? We want to hear your feedback! Fill in the form: https://buff.ly/3ZuOBNA 👂 🟢 Episode 3 of the Social Making podcast is out now: https://buff.ly/3YIjdcM 🔊 🟢 Read about our travels visiting our sister organisation Take A Part Carlow, Blackpool & Birmingham 👣 ➕ The usual opportunities, articles and more 🔗 Read the full newsletter: https://buff.ly/4idLktu 📷 Photography by Ruby Tuner @rubyturner.photography

For today's #ThrowbackThursday we are remembering one month ago, when we took families on a trip to Maker Heights as part of the Democratising Archives project - a collaborating with key partners the Learning Academies Trust to explore, research and interrogate how community archives are put together 🔍 We kicked off by hearing from Lyvinia and Dom from Maker Memories, a "completely community led" archive that collects stories and social history of Maker Camp. We learnt about the many ways to create an archive, from collecting visual artefacts to conducting community interviews. It was inspirational to hear how, after being created in response to fears about development, Maker Memories has be able to capture so many "rich and diverse stories of Maker that exist in living memory", winning Best Overall Community Archive UK and Ireland' in 2019. In the Rame Projects studio we captured our memories with drawing. On a nature walk we got to see how the landscape itself is an archive, recording it's history through it's architectural artefacts. Visiting The Canteen showed again how old buildings are given new purpose create new communal spaces. Finally, we were welcomed into Notch Studio, an active film and photography studio in the Barrack Block, to have these amazing portraits taken by Notch intern Meg Roberts. They really captured the fun feeling of the day demonstrated and built on the techniques what Maker Memories had taught us for building our archives. Thank you to Notch Studio, Maker Memories and all of the Maker Heights Community for such a fantastic day! Funded by National Lottery Heritage Fund 🤞

As part of Ocean City Influencers, each of our Blue Influencers has been thinking about the question: "what makes an influencer?" They've come up with some great responses: 🌊 Someone that is a good role model 🌊 Someone that people listen to 🌊 Someone that inspires others Building on this, they've been making avatars that represent hopes for our blue spaces, embuing them with special powers that could help fight the biggest issues we face 💭 This project is delivered by Take A Part and has been funded by: 🌟 Department for Culture, Media and Sport 🌟 The Ernest Cook Trust 🌟 #iWill Fund 🌟National Lottery Community Fund 🌟National Lottery Heritage Fund 🌟 Plymouth Sound National Marine Park 🌟 Plymouth City Council 🌟 Youth Investment Fund

Social Making Podcast | Episode 3 - jugaad: now available online 🔊 As part of the fifth edition of Social Making, Kim Wide MBE and Anurupa Roy (Katkatha Puppet Arts Trust) led a panel exploring the implications of 'jugaad'. Kim Wide works as the founder and director of Take A Part in the UK. Anurupa Roy works as an award-winning puppet designer and director of puppet-based theatre in Delhi, India. The BBC has described jugaad as “an untranslatable word for winging it”. The word exists in Hindu, Urdu and Punjabi and describes using whatever you have to hand to make something you need; a process of frugal improvisation. At Social Making, Kim and Anurupa sought to legitimise jugaad as an application for frugal innovation that can future-proof and develop the cultural sector. In this episode Sophie Hope and Hannah Kemp-Welch talk to Kim and Anurupa about their workshop; about the nature of jugaad, as a global practice of subversion by radical practice, the collective politics that fuel jugaad; and what it might actually mean in an English, or European, context. This podcast series comprises 7 episodes exploring the context of Social Making 2024 and the future of the UK’s socially engaged arts scene. The series is available on the Social Making website and at MIAAW.net along with episode notes that include references and links to the source material and other relevant documentation on the web. The episodes will also be available for subscription at most major podcast sites including Anchor.fm, Apple podcasts, Google podcasts, SoundCloud and more. 🔗 Listen here now: https://buff.ly/4fQGZdM 🙏 Funded by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

Today marks 30 years since the first National Lottery draw in 1994. Alongside the huge network of people and communities who've benefitted from £49 billion of good causes investment in the last thirty years, we are sharing highlights from projects that have been made possible #ThanksToYou 🤞 Kim Wide, Artistic Director and CEO of Take A Part CIO, had this to say about the impact of National Lottery funding & communities on Take A Part: "The National Lottery has always understood the importance of bringing confidence, skills and cultural democracy to the heart of communities across the country. Be it in art, heritage or community development projects, Take A Part has been very proud to work with the National Lottery funders and the communities we co-develop and co-create projects across the country to have more opportunities to shape their own futures. Through the National Lottery, Take A Part has been able to continually realise a more representative and inclusive cultural country and build a community-first approach to culture." Here's to another thirty years of funding good causes and making change in communities! 📷 1 Credit: Dom Moore #NationalLottery30 #NationalLottery

The latest edition of our E-news is out now. 🗞️ In this special edition we are taking an opportunity to reflect on Social Making: Actions for Agency – Generative Practice During Paradigm Shifts, which took place last month at St Anne’s House, Bricks Bristol 🟢 Mark Leahy, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Take A Part CIO reflects on the reimagining of systems for a more inclusive future that unfolded over the symposium. 🟢 We hear about Megan Clark-Bagnall’s Blue-Sky Thinking workshop, in which delegates “dissolved concerns and played with shades of blue to imagine better futures”. 🟢 Finally, Ellie Shipman & Gretchen Coombs Coombes, two of the 125 delegates in attendance, provide us with their highlights from the symposium, and share other projects, texts and podcasts they are engaging with currently, expanding further on the themes presented at Social Making. 🔗 Head to the link in our bio now to read the full newsletter. ➕ Don't forget you can also listen to episode 2 of the Social Making podcast, which was recorded 🔊 🙏 Funded by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian 📷 Photography by Ruby Turner for Bricks Bristol

You can now listen to episode 2 of the Social Making podcast 🔊 Recorded at St Anne's House, Sophie Hope and Hannah Kemp-Welch during a networking break on the first day of the Social Making Symposium in October 2024, with participants who included Maureen Arhin, Claudia Collins, Damien McGlynn, Tamar Millen, and Claire Tymon FIPM. This episode looks at what brought them all to Social Making, and what lessons they drew from the first set of workshops. They offer a range of views drawn from their reactions and responses. They discuss the terms used in the presentations and how the vocabulary used can serve to frame a debate. 🔗 Listen here: https://buff.ly/3YIjdcM and on miaaw.net. 🙏 Funded by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

Good few days with Take A Part Carlow (founded by TAKE A PART CIO and Carlow County Council in 2016). We were working with key stakeholders and community members and prepare for a publication that consolidates the learning from the application of their own Arts Action Group so they can share it widely within the Irish context. Take A Part Carlow was initiated as part of the learning that supported the launch of The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon's Creative Places programme and informed its 2022 Space, Place and People Policy. We at TAKE A PART CIO are so very pleased and proud that our own approach to grassroots creative community capacity-building has had such a positive and lasting impact on the Irish place-making context.

A Better Proposed Future... Take A Part has collaborated with @Miaaw.net, to hold conversations around our flagship Social Making symposium to imagine new ways of working around global paradigm shifts with delegates in our 2024 symposium. This podcast explores with delegates how the workshops that were offered within the conferences led by @Citizens in Power, The Hale and TAKE A PART CIO resonated with practice. Maiiw.net podcasters Sophie Hope and Hannah Kemp-Welch held conversations around power and equity in the work. This is part of an ongoing series that captures the work of Social Making 2024 and the interest and conversations that emerged from the practice. There will be another 7 iterations of the podcast that will share the panels, the workshops and the future of Socially Engaged Art in the UK. Social Making, and the conversations around the future of Socially Engaged Arts practice we will continue to develop and share as a result of Social Making, have been generously funded by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. LISTEN HERE. https://lnkd.in/gVrVSGv9

A good day with Local Trust with Big Worle and Super Culture in Weston-Super-Mare mapping ideas and support for "Big Wall", a youth-led co-commission programme to support local young people in Worle to develop skills in arts production to realise a legacy commission for the community. ` TAKE A PART CIO have supported a range of projects over the last 4 years in partnership with Local Trust to ensure that local ideas, voices and opportunities are realised. Today we walked and dreamed. The project is early stages but has been commissioned by Big Worle to ensure that young people build their own capacity, ambition and application of a public art project that they have chosen, produced and build skills around.