Update on POW!'s community projects
POW!’s Community Projects have been progressing well as the festival approaches
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! Sessions included some tears as memories were released and shared, but there were also tales of joy of the magnificent journeys that some of the women have been on to get to the empowered and safe place that they find themselves in now! Works include a song written and sung by 2 of the group, a film, paintings and collages. Come and see the results on Art Crawl Night in Margate on 7th March.
Kasia Molga - Sealabs Edition#1 Reactive Jewellery and the Sea - a ROSA funded community project.
Robotic Fusionist Kasia Molga has started her 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! Sessions have been lots of fun so far with the girls showing that working with electronics doesn’t have to be dull- as they all took up singing ‘call and response’ songs in unison at the top of their voices while sewing components together to produce an electronic circuit! Go Girls! Come and interact with the finished works at Kasia’s studio in Margate on Art Crawl Night on 7th March.
Sarah Wyld and Lucy Edematie - See Me and Hear my Voice - a ROSA funded community project.
Sarah and Lucy have spent 2 months visiting and talking with women from East Kent Mencap to capture life-stories and incredible personal tales. Wonderful, large images literally which jump out of the frame at you, whilst words and sounds delve deeper revealing snapshots of the incredible different lives and interests that the women have. Join them for the Margate Art Crawl Night end party on 7th March.
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. A recent coffee and cake morning event for other residents and friends of the centre to come and see what has been going on proved popular, with a visiting group spontaneously having fun in a sewing session that Tracie had provided! Come see the works and meet the artist in Ramsgate on Art Crawl Night on 6th March
Tomorrow’s Great Pageant
Post Workers Theatre (Dash and Nick) and photographer Jason have been leading 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 - all this whilst standing still on one leg, being Usain Bolt, or just ‘being’ a random word for the others in the group to guess! Come and see the final images at the Art Crawl Night party at Vinyl Head in Ramsgate on 6th March.
Banners Project
Our Banners project is on its way! Artist Jessica Vorsanger recently led inspiration banner- making talks and everyone went away brimming with excitement! Groups such as Speak Up CIC are now full steam ahead creating a lively, colourful banner to walk with in our Opening Night Procession. Jessica is making more visits this week to take a look and provide more inspiration for all our participants! Come and join us for the procession on 8th March from Margate Station!
