Featuring March 2006

City Perceptions banners on display in the Museum of London until March 28th

'City Perceptions' Banners have been on Display in the Museum of London during February and March. Students from 4 secondary schools in North London created digital designs for street banners for the City of London Festival 2005. Their designs used drawings, paintings, collage and photographs inspired by different districts in the City of London.

Schools:

Bodmin Digital Banners
Official opening 6th April

These banners were commissioned for the official opening on 6th April of Bodmin’s new “greenway” which is part of the North Cornwall District Council’s Walk to Work project. The Digital banners were designed by Cloth of Gold from artwork created in the art department by pupils at Bodmin Community School.

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Cloth of Gold Colombia 2006
Fundraising programme of events in London

Cloth of Gold and educators and artists in Colombia have been working together since 2003 and have formed a unique partnership involving cross cultural exchanges and projects. This has included practical creative workshops in schools in Colombian cities and remote rural areas.

Cloth of Gold are returning to Colombia on Friday, 31st March for three weeks of workshops. This trip has been financed by a successful Fund Raising Programme of Events which were held from January to March 2006 in the Cloth of gold art studio in Kilburn. Workshops included:
Textile Printing; Papermaking; Feltmaking; and Bookcrafts.
More details below (in pdf format)

Caribbean Currents exhibiting at the Horniman Museum, Forest Hill, London, UK until April 23rd, 2006.

Recently Cloth of Gold renewed their partnership with the Horniman Museum completing a long term London-wide community project linked to the launch of the museum's important new temporary exhibition 'Amazon to Caribbean' which has just opened. Artists worked with a wide range of different Caribbean community groups in partnership with four local museums in Greater London:
The Cuming Museum in Southwark; Grange Museum in Brent; Wandsworth Museum; and the Newham Heritage Centre.

Virtual Visitors Project
An ongoing arts project for Holocaust Memorial Day held in Cardiff in January 2006.

This online creative arts project is one of the activities organised for the Holocaust Memorial Day held in Cardiff in January 2006.

The project gives pupils the opportunity to receive ‘Virtual Visitors’ to their school and community travelling through time and cyber space. The visitors will initially arrive from war time Europe seeking refuge from Nazi persecution to tell their story ‘first hand’ to their new classmates. During the project they will gradually transform into contemporary characters to help explore and better understand how we respond to all ‘outsiders’ and people whose appearance and customs may be different from our own.

Sense Stories

Each month an archived recent project animation will be highlighted here. Currently we are featuring Sense Stories which is also available on our main site under Recent Projects, Creative Learning, Multi-sensory.

Can a multi-sensory arts project inspire the uninspired writer?

This project was a piece of action research funded by Creative Partnerships London South and CfBT Action Zone - Brixton and North Lambeth and published in "Animating Literacy" and " Many Routes to Meaning" by Centre for Literacy in Primary Education, London UK, 2005.

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