ROSA funded community projects
During 2018, POW! was awarded a substantial ‘Woman to Woman’ grant from ROSA, the UK charity for women and girls. This grant helped POW! to continue its valuable work with communities in Thanet throughout the year, in the lead up to the 2019 Festival. With this support, we were able to commission a series of placements which enabled artists Tracie Piesley, Kasia Molga, Carli Jefferson plus Lucy Edematie and Sarah Wyld, to run incredibly diverse projects with participants from Pie Factory Music, Copperfields Retirement Home, Oasis and East Kent Mencap. We would like to thank all teams and participants for their valued support and trust during these projects. All the work was revealed in exhibitions across Thanet during this year’s festival.
Jessica Voorsanger - Still We Rise
POW! worked with artist Jessica Voorsanger and local community groups to create a procession celebrating International Women’s Day, afterwards the amazing banners were exhibited at locations around Thanet.
Carli Jefferson - Reclaiming the Power - a ROSA funded community project.
Carli Jefferson ran amazing sessions with women from the Oasis support group. Each week different materials were given to the group to experiment with producing some wonderful moments of creativity. Women found the love for art they once had being revived and inspiration was released to create varied works of empowerment and determination!
Kasia Molga - Sealabs Edition#1 Reactive Jewellery and the Sea - a ROSA funded community project.
Robotic Fusionist Kasia Molga ran sessions with the young girls at Pie factory Music to make ‘Wearables’ - jewellery or clothes that change in some way when you interact with them!
Sarah Wyld and Lucy Edematie - See Me and Hear my Voice - a ROSA funded community project.
Sarah and Lucy spent two months visiting and talking with women from East Kent Mencap to capture life-stories and incredible personal tales. They created wonderful, large images, whilst words and sounds delve deeper revealing snapshots of the incredible different lives and interests that the women have.
Tracie Peisley - Once Upon a Time - a ROSA funded community project.
Tracie Peisley worked with women who are either living with, or are caring for those who are living with memory loss and dementia from Copperfields, Ramsgate, to make beautiful textile memory books. The deeply emotional sessions produced wonderful memory sharing, and books were completed with collage, paintings and real photographs which can be cherished by the women’s families.
Tomorrow’s Great Pageant
Post Workers Theatre (Dash and Nick) and photographer Jason have been led theatre and photographic workshops for young people at Liberty Training to re-imagine a famous political cartoon from a 1909’s Suffragette play! The first day found the young people learning to create live images or Tableau Vivant using simple camera techniques, and talking about what we mean when we think about Gender, Prejudice or Freedom.
