Culture Schools
CULTURE SCHOOLS Under the project banner of Making Waves Together, Enjoy is currently running the Culture Schools programme. This sees schools identifying a member of staff as a cultural lead and an areas of arts, culture or heritage to develop. The school is then partnered with an Enjoy member organisation that can best support that…
Making Waves Together
MAKING WAVES TOGETHER Making Waves Together is one of 16 projects funded by the Arts Council and National Lottery Heritage fund through the Great Place Scheme. This is a 3 year programme, lead by Waveney District Council and Great Yarmouth Borough Council, which aims to put arts, culture and heritage at the heart of the…
Saturday Art Club
SATURDAY ART CLUB Creative Collisions are pleased to be continuing their National Art & Design Saturday Club from September 2018 for the third year running! This year, they’ll be starting off the autumn term on Saturday 29th September at Time & Tide Museum. In this term, young people can look forward to getting inspired by…
New Geographies
NEW GEOGRAPHIES New Geographies started in 2017 and is 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 have proposed public artworks…
The Island Project
THE ISLAND PROJECT 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…
Requiem
REQUIEM 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…
After hours
AFTER HOURS MUSEUM CLUB 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…
Great Yarmouth Arts Festival Carnival 2017
GREAT YARMOUTH ARTS FESTIVAL CARNIVAL 2017 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;…
A King’s Ransom
A KING’S RANSOM 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…
Wide Angle Photographers
WIDE ANGLE PHOTOGRAPHERS 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…
The Big Draw
THE BIG DRAW 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…
Singing Breakfast Club
SINGING BREAKFAST CLUB 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…
Great Yarmouth Arts Festival Carnival 2016
GREAT YARMOUTH ARTS FESTIVAL CARNIVAL 2016 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…
Rock and Roll tea parties
ROCK AND ROLL TEA PARTIES 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…
Brazillian Bandits
BRAZILLIAN BANDITS 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 –…
Heritage Barrel Trail
HERITAGE BARREL TRAIL – project completed 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…
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