DOWN COMMUNITY ARTS 2018/19 PROGRAMME LEARN GROW CONNECT A WAY INTO THE ARTS PROGRAMME DETAILS For 2018/19 Down community Arts (DCA) will provide an accessible and inclusive programme of activity promoting the Arts across Newry Mourne and Down District Council. The 2018/19 Programme will deliver activity in line with DCA’s new strategy to benefit Individuals, Communities & How We Live through learning, growing & connecting DCA will deliver: - 4 projects with rural and socially deprived communities - 6 projects with marginalised young people - 6 projects with older people - 6 projects with children and young people with disability Each of the 4 target groups will be provided with 8 workshops per project providing a total of 176 partipcatory workshops throughout 2018/19 The programme will provide activity in the following art forms: - Visual Arts - Ceramics - Short film - Radio Theatre Additionally DCA will be working in partnership with voluntary, statutory and private sector bodies to deliver 3 New Initiatives. As yet the new initiatives are still in the development stage and no funding as yet has been sought to deliver. However it is envisaged that throughout 2018/19 DCA will be taking an active role to ensure that the proposed initiatives are delivered. NEW INITIATIVES Festival Down Arts and Older People Partnership Downpatrick Artisan Market A 4 day Community Festival in Downpatrick in A wider programme of art activity for Older A monthly Artisan Market at Down County partnership with private, voluntary and People within the South Eastern Health and Museum with accessible participatory activity statutory Social Care Trust that promotes benefits of for communities in Newry Mourne and Down bodies providing community music, arts and arts participation District Council Rationale for inclusion: food events. Rationale for inclusion: Downpatrick Community Collective, a collective Rationale for inclusion: comprising of community groups in the wider DCA has been approached by Jeff Scroggie, Downpatrick are seeking to provide a monthly DCA has been approached to be included in a Health development Specialist for Older People Artisan Market in Downpatrick to regenerate festival that will feed into Newry Mourne and from teh South Eastern Health and Social Care the town and Down District Councils Tourism Strategy. It is Trust. Jeff has been made aware of the consist- reprofile the perception of Downpatrick. the feeling of the bodies involved that DCA’s ent level of work DCA has been providing for participation is vital in securing community older people and has invited DCA to join the To many outside of Downpatrick there is a engagement in the proposed arts elements of Arts for Older People Partnership in Ards, North negative perception of the town and the the festival. DCA has agreed in principal to Down, Lisburn, Castlereagh and Down. The pur- community collective is seeking to alter this becoming a delivery partner subject to the pose of partnershipis to: perception. In order to do this they have relevant funding being secured from Newry approached DCA for assistance in providing Mourne and Down District Council. - Engage with older people support for arts elements of a monthly Artisan - Promote the uptake of Arts programmes in Market. The Collective has approached Newry those aged 50+ in the south east area Mourne and Down DC and has so far gained - Promote the benefits associated with support at this stage to deliver a pilot market participation in the arts particularly in relation at Down County Museum. DCA has agreed to health and wellbeing in principal to support the project should the - Initiating and sustaining high quality and relevant funding be in place. accessible arts programmes PARTNERSHIPS Partnership working is vital to the stability and success of DCA’s programme. For 2018/19 the organisation will seek to work in partnership with the following: Voluntary Sector - County Down Rural Community Network - Downpatrick Community Collective - Killyleagh Community Association - Ballynahinch Community Collective - South Down Craft Collective - MACS Supporting Children and Young People - Voices of Young People in Care (VOYPIC) Statutory Sector - South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust - Newry Mourne and Down District Council - Education Authority South East Region Private Sector - The Horatio Group - Downpatrick Racecourse PROGRAMME PROJECTS COMMUNITY Project Name: The Draw Down Project Name: The Draw Down Target Group: Saintfield Communities Target Group: Downpatrick Communities Location: Saintfield Town Square Location: Downpatrick Town Square Partners: None Partners: None Project Details: Project Details: Down Community Arts will deliver 8 open arts Down Community Arts will deliver 8 open arts workshops for the community of Saintfield. workshops in Downpatrick’s Town Square. DCA DCA visual artists will work with individuals to artists will work with individuals to create a create a community arts collection. Participants community arts collection. Participants will have an will have an opportunity to engage in community opportunity to be involved in community painting and painting and drawing workshops producing work for drawing workshops producing work for a collective a collective exhibition. exhibition. Project Output: Individual paintings and drawings Project Output: Individual paintings and drawings for for a Collective Community Exhibition a Collective Community Exhibition Project Outcome: Empowered Community Project Outcome: Empowered Community DCA Strategic Link: Learning and Connecting DCA Strategic Link:Learning and Connecting Link to ACNI Strategic Theme: Promoting Access & Link to ACNI Strategic Theme: Promoting Access & Championing the Arts Championing the Arts Artistic Output: Series of sketches and paintings Artistic Output: Series of sketches and paintings COMMUNITY Project Name: The Draw Down Project Name: Get Spooked Target Group: Killyleagh Communities Target Group: Ballynahinch Communities Location: Killyleagh Castle Location: Market House Ballynahinch Partners: Killyleagh Community Association Partners: Ballynahinch Community Collective Project Details: Project Details: Down Community Arts will deliver 8 open arts Down Community Arts will be providing Halloween workshops for the community of Killyleagh. DCA festival workshops with community groups in visual artists will work with individuals to create a Ballynahinch 6 weeks prior to Ballynahinch’ s community arts collection. Participants will have an Halloween Festival Event Night. Down Community opportunity to be involved in community painting and Arts will deliver a project that will enable individuals drawing workshops producing work for a collective to perform at an interactive Halloween Event. Led exhibition. by Down Community Arts participants will stage and perform in an event for the general public at the Project Output: Individual paintings and drawings for Market House Ballynahinch. a Collective Community Exhibition Project Outcome: Empowered Community Project Output: Live performance DCA Strategic Link: Project Outcome: Empowered community, increased Link to ACNI Strategic Theme: Promoting Access & confidence and well being Championing the Arts DCA Strategic Link: Learning and Connecting Artistic Output: Series of sketches and paintings DCA Strategic Link: Empowering Communities Link to ACNI Strategic Theme: Promoting Access OLDER PEOPLE Project Name: Life Illustrated Project Name: Talking Times Target Group: Older People Target Group: Older People Location: Ballynahinch, Castlewellan, Ardglass and Downpatrick Location: Clough and Crossgar Partners: South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust Partners: Down FM 105 & County Down Rural Community Network Number of Projects: 4 Number of Projects: 2 Project Details: Project Details: DCA will be working to deliver a programme for engagement with Older Continuing from projects delivered at Annsborough in 2016 and People across Newry Mourne and Down District. DCA will seek to Ballykinlar in 2017 DCA aims to deliver another radio play scripted expand its project reach within this working group and increase profile and performed by older people. The play, as with previous plays will by showcasing current work with older people. As part of the group DCA be broadcast on Down FM 105 a local community radio station that will look to provide 4 projects working across 4 locations across Newry broadcasts from SERC’s Downpatrick Campus. Facilitated by Wireless Mourne and Down District Council. Ceramicist Aine McKenna will work Mystery Radio Theatre Company participants will be presented with with groups of older people to produce unique decorative ceramics in an opportunity to script and record their very own play on a topic paper clay that incorporates illustrations produced by participants. The determined by the group. DCA is deliberately not setting a theme illustrations will be representative of the older person’s community past, for the content of the project as the organisation wishes to empower present and future. The finished pieces will be exhibited in venues across participants to do this. Newry Mourne and Down District Council that are yet to be determined. Project Output: Individual paintings and drawings for a Collective Community Exhibition Project Output: Radio Theatre Project Outcome: Empowered Older People Project Outcome: Empowered older people DCA Strategic Link: Learning, Growing and Connecting DCA Strategic Link: Learning, Growing and Connecting Link to ACNI Strategic Theme: Promoting