If you are looking to engage with schools in or around Great Yarmouth on a creative or heritage project, please do get in touch – we have good connections with local schools and a well-established teaching network who we share opportunities with.
We are thrilled to announce the success of a bid to the Arts Council Place Partnership fund and look forward to delivering Enjoy, Learn and Prosper with a cultural partners in Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth. Enjoy, Learn & Prosper is a creative project enhancing cultural education for primary students in deprived areas. East Norfolk Sixth…
Let’s Enjoy ran from Oct 2022 until November 2023, commemorating the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Enjoy-Great Yarmouth Cultural Education Partnership (CEP). The project celebrated the achievements of the past decade with an ambitious programme of creative and cultural activities for children, young people and teachers. Let’s Enjoy provided opportunities to come together,…
Under the project banner of Making Waves Together, Enjoy ran the Culture Schools programme. This saw schools identifying a member of staff as a cultural lead and an areas of arts, culture or heritage to develop. The school was then partnered with an Enjoy member organisation that could best support that development. Five schools signed…
Making Waves Together saw Great Yarmouth Borough Council and East Suffolk Council work together with local creative partners to provide more cultural opportunities in Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft. This was all made possible through the Great Places scheme, funded through National Lottery Heritage Fund, Arts Council England and supported by Historic England Partners included: Marina…
Join us at Time and Tide Museum for playful and creative art sessions. National Saturday Club Art and Design is free and open to 13–16-year-olds of all abilities. A typical session might involve a how-to demonstration from an artist, a tour around the galleries and art activities such as filmmaking or sculpting. Whatever your skills…
New Geographies started in 2017 and was a 3 year project delivered by 9 arts organisations across the eastern region including originalprojects; and Norfolk Museum Services. The first stage invited members of the public to overlook forgotten and overlooked places within Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire. Artists proposed public artworks for those sites…
After Hours was an informal drop-in session at Time & Tide Museum where young people could come to the museum after it closed and get support with their own creative interests. Tell us about your creative interests, photography, drawing, writing etc… and we will be there to support you to develop your work and get…
This project provided an opportunity for teams of young people from local schools and colleges to research the stories of people from Great Yarmouth who experienced the First World War and interpret these stories in creative ways as part of a programme of commemoration. The young people developed a range of skills and gained experience…
A collaboration between Into Opera and four Norfolk primary schools, this project culminated in a world premiere of A King’s Ransom, an operatic piece specifically written for 7-11 year olds by the composer, Patrick Hawes. The story, based on the tale of Robin Hood, explores alternative endings – what happens if Robin doesn’t save the…
The requirement for brollies was quickly replaced with the need for sun lotion as the 2017 carnival bobbed to the beat of ‘Great Yarmouth Rhythms’. We worked with young people from the Creative Collisions youth arts network who, inspired by the theme, set to work making these beautiful flags; from the design stage to stitching.…
Voluntary organisation Silver Darlings received £10,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for its exciting Island Project in Great Yarmouth in 2018. Made possible by money raised by National Lottery players, the project explored the diversity of the town’s population and revealed the fascinating backgrounds of some of its inhabitants. Silver Darlings partners Kevin Hunn,…
Young photographers had the opportunity to develop their talents thanks to a grant from Norfolk Community Foundation’s Youth Social Action Fund. A group of volunteer photographers received masterclasses and mentoring from professional photographers before offering their services to cultural and community groups in Great Yarmouth. Creative Collisions worked in partnership with Voluntary Norfolk to provide these…
This was a Great Yarmouth Minster music outreach project, giving young people courage and the opportunity to find their voice. After a half-term of the early morning singing-and-breakfasting club, on May 18th the group gave their first mini-concert to their families, sharing some of the games and songs they had learnt. In celebration, this was…
Music, blue skies and bright sunshine set the tone for The Big Draw project in Great Yarmouth market place on Saturday 9th June. This free event was hosted by Great Yarmouth Arts Festival, Flipside Festival and Creative Collisions and encouraged people of all ages to join in a number of different creative activities including graffiti, life-drawing…
We worked to support this volunteer run event which provides a great showcase for local talent every June. In 2016 young people from the Creative Collisions youth arts network made giant puppets of some of the Rock and Roll stars that played in Great Yarmouth during the 1960s. This work was inspired by the Halfway…
The swinging sixties returned to schools in Great Yarmouth this summer with a series of Rock and Roll tea parties. Teachers and children learned to Twist and Jive to entertain parents, friends and neighbours. Staff from Norfolk Museums were also on hand to showcase artefacts to help children learn about this exciting time and to…
In the year of the 2016 Rio Olympics FlipSide brought o’espirito do Brazil to Great Yarmouth through its cultural education project, From the Community to the World –an exhibition of life size wooden bandits by Brazilian born artist Ron King. For one week in May, 140 hundred school children aged from 7 – 13 years…
Children from local primary schools worked with the Great Yarmouth Potteries to create a set of fabulous ceramic barrels inspired by local history. The colourful artworks were installed at heritage sites across the town during summer 2016. Visitors used specially designed maps to find the barrels as part of a heritage trail that helped to…
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