Abbey Community Art Project

another fun day announced

2008-12-19T12:08:00.003Z

at the steering group meeting last night we were told that another fun was planned on 21st March 2009.

a venue has been booked, possible activities have been planned, health iniative funding is available, youth iniative funding is available.

overall budget available is less than for the first, so documental provision has been cut.

a website is being planned for the group, a member of the community is a web designer and is on board to help design and launch the site.

images of Jackson Street

2008-08-20T15:00:00.001+01:00

images of Drewry Lane

2008-08-20T14:59:00.001+01:00

other work happening in the community-Jackson Street

2008-08-20T14:50:00.004+01:00

the planters in Jackson Street were included in the replanting project. The work was carried out by volunteers from Wimbledon, supervised by Verica. Pam and Anne were involved who attracted members of the YMCA to get involved, it was all very lovely.

Maybe communal gardening is a cohesive measure within the community.

other work happening in the community-Drewry Lane

2008-08-20T14:39:00.005+01:00

recently there has been some work carried out on a couple of planters within the community. I feel particularly pleased about this as I suggested to the Residents Action Group that something might happen to the planters as they had been neglected.
At a very personal level for me, the idea came to me while sitting on the bench in Drewary Lane, eating a bag of chips, prior to going to a wake. As I sat there eating, I realised it would be some much more pleasing to the eye if the planters had plants in.
Quite simple I suppose really.

Foot Prints Music Project

2008-08-20T14:36:00.002+01:00

The music project does have a name - "Foot Prints Music Project"

The DVD's are complete and delivered.

I'm interested to see how the project continues to develop. Hopefully there might be another opportunity to return to a future performance to document the progress made.

music project - update

2008-07-23T15:36:00.002+01:00

the edits are nearly complete, the podcast is uploaded for a taster, the frame grabs are done.

Waiting for additional information for titles/credits before progressing to DVD authoring.

Looking forward to finishing and delivery of the discs.

music project pod cast

2008-07-23T13:34:00.003+01:00

here is the music project podcast(after quite a lot of faffing)

community website builder

2008-07-23T12:59:00.001+01:00

there is a free method for building a website for a group running commuinty based projects

music project - the podcast

2008-07-23T12:32:00.007+01:00

There is now a podcast version of the concert.

The performance was on a Saturday afternoon, a date put in the diary at the beginning of the project, so that there was a date to work towards.

This could be viewed as a taster for the full edit.

the attempts to load were unsuccesful. Another attempt will be made later...

music project-documentation progress

2008-07-16T12:22:00.002+01:00

the editing progress is going well, additional information has been requested for the titles and credits.

A taster of the project will be posted on this blog soon.

we documented the performance...

2008-07-07T15:46:00.002+01:00

The weather was hot and "muggy" the reception in the church was warm and welcoming. Thanks to Chris and Graham who helped me to record the events associated with the performance of the music project.
As Cedric said:
"we started this music project eight weeks ago, we put this date in our diary to give us a target."

The process of editting the recorded material has begun.

the music project

2008-07-04T16:19:00.003+01:00

a music project has been happening in the area for a couple of months. Tomorrow, the performance will be documented.

I'm excited to see and hear what it all sounds and looks like.

informed RAG

2008-05-21T12:36:00.002+01:00

At the Residents Action Group forum last night, I showed a slide show of some of the images created on the day of "Abbey Doing It".

The images were well received.

Councilor Asaf is no longer with us in this ward. Some changes are about to happen. The full council meeting is today. Potentially the new people in place will be a backward step for the commuinty as they all get their personal priorities on the table.

Oh well, time will tell.

lots of people attended : )

2008-03-27T13:35:00.001Z

drumming

2008-03-27T13:33:00.000Z

storeytelling

2008-03-27T13:31:00.001Z

painting with spices

2008-03-27T13:29:00.003Z

Other stuff

2008-03-26T12:05:00.002Z

We also had a workshop that involved using spices and PVA. images to follow... and of the storytelling and drumming...

So here are some face painted children...

Minnie & Callam.

Images from the Printing Workshop.

2008-03-26T12:03:00.002Z

Fabric Collage Workshop

2008-03-26T12:00:00.002Z

Some fantastic images were made by all ages!

just an hour to get ready...

2008-03-24T13:18:00.002Z

an hour was enough, would people attend, was the question...

a 9am start to set up...

2008-03-24T13:14:00.003Z

22nd March 2008

2008-03-24T13:10:00.002Z

after two months of actual planning for the event :

a sneak preview of the 'dislikes' image

2008-03-20T12:55:00.003Z

again, work in progress, for Ryan and the guys in the office to see.