CONNECTING | Magic Acorns

Acorn Network

Magic Acorns regularly hosts networking events with the goal of building a community of practice around early years arts in the East of England, nationally and internationally funded by Festival Bridge.

Our aim is to bring artists, educators and cultural organisations together to share presentations, workshops and discussions.

Working with organisations, Magic Acorns facilitates and curates meetings to exchange knowledge and skills and forge connections.

Please subscribe to the Magic Acorns mailing list and follow us on social media for details of future networking events.

Network EVENTS

November 2022

Licensed to be creative?
College of West Anglia

Hosted by University Centre West Anglia and The College of West Anglia we explored the importance of nurturing our own sense of creativity so that we can support children's creativity through our work.

The session was held at College of West Anglia campus, with presentations, activities and discussions.

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November 2021

Babies in Museums - In Person

The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

The gallery session will give a chance to be inspired by the incredible art collection and amazing building of the Fitzwilliam Museum, and also offer the opportunity for rich discussions with other artists and educators. More info

May 2021

In-Between Spaces - online sharing

Hosted online

Sharing the recent Arts Council Funded project In-Between Spaces with presentations by Sophie Fox, Abby Page, Oliver Payne and Charlotte Arculus. With films created by Lewis Wickwar.

2019

Fragile Collections and Early Years audiences

Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge

Presentations by Ian Brownlie (artist)
and Roma Patel (digital scenographer)

July 2022

Making Connections - Suffolk Early Years Music Projects

Britten Pears Arts, Suffolk Artlink and Suffolk Libraries co-curated this network day, sharing their ongoing projects around early years music in community settings. The theme for the day was 'Making Connections'. hosted in the beautiful setting of Snape Maltings. 25 of us gathered for a day of 'in-person' networking, workshops and discussions. More info plus the recordings can be found here.

November 2021

Babies in Museums - Online

Hosted Online

Nicola Wallis from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Lucy Turner and Annabel Newfield from the Whitworth Art Gallery will join us to explore encounters between babies and museums. More info

November 2020

Participation & Collaboration: Whose workshop is it anyway?

Hosted online in partnership with Original Projects;

Presentations and workshop by Kaitlin Ferguson (artist) and Genevieve Rudd (artist) and Original Projects; (Kaavous Clayton and Julia Devonshire)

February 2022

Germination - Growing our community of musical play.

As we come to the end of this Youth Music funded project we were delighted to share some of the learning from Germination from multiple perspectives.

This free online network event was a mixture of presentations, creative activities and discussions. More info and to view the recording here

July 2021

Loose Parts and Children's Arts Play

Hosted online

Lousia Penfold and Roma Patel shared their work and thinking behind children's loose parts arts play including digital technologies and aesthetic interactivity.