The Groundswell Arts Team had a brilliant time this Summer working at The Green Man Festival running their Pop Up Green Screen Project linked to the theme of dinosaurs Children and families had the opportunity to make and film their dino cup puppets and then film themselves being chased Jurassic Park eat your heart out … Read more
We are currently delivering a new series of events and programmes to support families and responding to their needs in the pandemic following on from work we have developed since May. We were delighted to begin working with a group of 8 families in 1-1 sessions at Woodlands Park Children’s Centre last week. Children and … Read more
We are really excited to announce that throughout the rest of June and July in order to provide some summer socially distanced fun and building on the success of May’s We Are Here socially distanced festival events we have put together a new programme to inspire some more creativity and culture to brighten up our … Read more
Thanks to all of the young contributors who have sent photos taken by young people (and the odd parent) over the last month representing children’s experiences in lockdown, we will leave them up for the next week and will be looking to carry out some new events this month as lockdown continues. So watch this … Read more
Sing Our Story – Connecting through Personalised songs Groundswell Arts are launching our Sing Our Story Project online. During this time of crisis and isolation Groundswell Arts are offering the opportunity to work with one of our professional musicians to create a song with you and for you and your family in your home. This … Read more
How to Take Part in our Rube Goldberg Challenge Recently we have been working on the development of a new project Invention Lab. Now we are all indoors it feels like the perfect time to share it with you. RUBE GOLDBERG was a Cartoonist famous for drawing complicated contraptions and machines to perform simple tasks … Read more
We have been having good fun developing a new project ‘Invention Lab’ with co-learning activities using recycled materials and bits of junk to build Rube Goldberg Machines. The development phase has been lots of fun so far Look out for this new STEAM project in Spring 2020
We were very proud to have our work on our Youth Music Funded Sing Our Story programme recognised this week on BBC as part of the Bring The Noise series. Have a listen to Director Angeline Conaghan’s interview sharing insights into the importance of singing and creating Lullabies for parents. https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/bring-the-noise/the-power-of-lullabies-how-to-create-your-own/z63vnrd
Since September its been very exciting that we have expanded our Youth Music Funded Sing Our Story programme into two new boroughs working in Enfield and Waltham Forest. We have also increased the number of schools repeating the project in Haringey. We have welcomed four new practitioners to our programme this year Emily, Francine, Hugh, … Read more
