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Aycorn East

22/9/2014

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Last Thursday was the first meeting of Aycorn east, arts and young children regional network. I delivered a workshop alongside presentations by Charlottle Arculus of Magic Adventure and Joy Haynes of Norwich Puppet Theatre. 

In the east of England we have a wealth of enthusiasm, expertise and appetite for high quality early years arts practice, across all art forms.  This network will hopefully grow to include other venues, artists, nurseries and organisations with passion for this exciting and crucial sector. 

You can find Aycorn East on Facebook and Twitter to get updates on future events. 

This photo was taken near the end of my workshop. We are all lying on the floor looking up at the extraordinary "thing" we have just made. Tower workshops are not only a great way to work with young children but are a fantastic team building, ice breaking, mind opening activity for everyone. 

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Photo by Maureen Brookson
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Coming up! 

10/9/2014

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Fox's Boxes

29/9/2013

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This is what Charlotte K Arculus, of Magic Adventure fame, wrote about my Towers workshop, which she took part in last year. Charlotte has had a massive influence on my work and continues to do so ! 


" Fox’s Boxes (my term) was a workshop session run by Sophie Fox. It is a piece she has developed for running with family groups. In short, as a group, we built a very large tower together but this risks ignoring the process over the outcome (even though the tower was really, really beautiful). Sophie took us through several exercises and games in order to prepare us for the big task. The group I was in was very large - about 15 people – and what was particularly outstanding is the sense of complicité I felt towards my fellow group members by the end of the session – something I would have previously thought could only be accomplished through group music making and drama exercises – but of course is was musical – it was visual art music! The tower worked on macro and micro levels with some people working on the large structure and overview while others created tiny environments with small toys and others worked on decoration and mark making. This of course is how it would work with parents and very small children together. The tower build was improvised and undirected – which pays testament to Ms Fox’s skills as a facilitator, able to trust in the process she has set up. There will be photos on Earlyarts website – they won’t do justice to the three dimensional space we created together."

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Towers at the Puppet Theatre

30/5/2013

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Just4Dads

13/3/2013

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What a fine tower, not wafty at all but a sturdy bit of team work executed by the members of Just4Dads, a weekly stay and play session for dads and their preschool children. There was a teeny bit of competitiveness which was actively encouraged and the result was the tallest tower built... so far. 

(And they make a mean bacon and sausage sandwich at snack time too!)
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The story of the Earlyarts UnConference 2012

29/11/2012

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Making Towers Together

9/11/2012

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This is just one shot from probably 1300 I took at the Early Arts UnConference this week. I will be making them into a short film of sorts soon. It was lots of fun, as you can see, but there was also a lot of debate and discussion about early years practice and creativity. All good stuff. Got the brain whirring and buzzing and looking for more! 
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Spontaneous Exhibition

3/5/2012

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http://www.nnfestival.org.uk/festival/festival_news/free-workshops-available-as-part-of-spontaneous-communities
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Photo boxes

2/5/2012

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Getting boxes ready for the Spontaneous Communities exhibition at Anteros Gallery in Norwich. 
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The game plan

17/4/2012

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Looks like small world play but in actual fact it is a fairly sized room transformed into a giants games board. We didn't know what the game was before we started but we had our expert under5s and parents to help us discover some of its possibilities. It is a work in progress we will be refining it over the next few weeks. 
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