Activators profiles
Name: Mai Twynham
Company name: Plumleaf07 Arts
www.interculturalarts.co.uk (artist database)
L4 Lime Street Studio’s, Lime Street, Ouseburn Valley NE1
My ambition/dream…
My ambition is to succeed in running my participatory arts practice providing arts into education and in community settings. To create an income that will allow me time to concentrate on developing my Fine Arts Practice and produce exhibition standard work and products for sale.
I am currently focusing on my MAG-BAGS (recycled origami gift bags made out of old local magazines ie: NARC/CRACK/MUSIC and FASHION magazines)
Other projects for 2010:
- Plumleaf07 Arts – Participatory Arts Practice
- Boat Child (Vietnam) Exhibition – personal reminiscence piece’s – Oct 2010
- World Harvest Festival – Oct 2010
- NOAH – Newcastle Oriental Arts and Heritage Centre and Gallery
All the above ideas have been proposed to various organisations in Newcastle and at funding application stage.
making it_ is helping me to address and approach my projects in a more detail with regards to proposal writing and costing’s, advice, contacts, and a business minded approach to a creative sector business.
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Name: Leanne Pearce
Company name: Crafternoon
Contact details:leannepearce@yahoo.co.uk
Ambition/dream…
Crafternoon will be a creative online business, selling craft kits and ready-made craft and art. We also run Crafternoon workshops, teaching craft to the community.
making it_ is helping break down the big idea down into smaller more manageable units, e.g. finance, marketing, customer base.
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Name John McMahon
Company name: All for One Productions
Contact details: mcmahonsjj@hotmail.com
Ambition/dream…
…A Community Film Company that aims to empower groups to tell their story. Our philosophy is to Engage your community, Campaign for your rights, Preserve your heritage. The use of drama and documentary film to give you a voice. Whether we are facilitating participatory arts workshops or creating and producing film we always aim to make the experience creative, informative and fun.
In 2010 we are striving to work with many diverse groups and hope to have projects with
- Mental Health
- Age Concern
- The Mining Community
- Youth groups and forums/schools
- Refugee Centre
How the making it_ programme is helping you to achieve your ambition
The Activate programme has given me the focus I need to kick start our company. Bite size workshops that deal with the issues needed to start up. Activate has been my blueprint. Good facilitation, practical and free. Without it I would still be talking instead of doing.