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PLAYTECH - Artist Opportunity
>>> DEADLINE EXTENDED to midday 6th December 2024 <<< We are looking for an artist to join our PLAYTECH team. PLAYTECH is an open-ended...
Sophie Fox
Nov 6, 20242 min read
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Time & Space Collaboration Opportunities
We are looking for expressions of interest from freelance, socially engaged arts practitioners and theatre makers for our Time&Space...
Sophie Fox
Oct 31, 20241 min read
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Rethinking my connection to movement and music
Hello I’m Nat and I’m an audio-visual participatory artist and between September 2023 and March 2024 I was a trainee early years music...
Nat Whitney
Apr 30, 20243 min read
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I could only hum but others were singing
On the 14th and 15th of July last Summer I took part in Early Years Incubate. This was a two day professional development opportunity...
Sue Parr
Jan 22, 20243 min read
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Artist Bursaries!
This is an amazing opportunity for two artists to join Magic Acorns for creative professional development 'Early Years Incubate' and 'The...
Sophie Fox
May 19, 20231 min read
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Join our Early Years Incubate this Summer!
Early Years Incubate is a very special one-off professional development opportunity to work with Helena Rodrigues of Companhia de Música...
Sophie Fox
May 18, 20232 min read
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Magic Online - Early Years Creation Course.
Join us for this amazing opportunity to learn with theatre maker, designer and performer Joy Haynes on this very special Magic Digital...
Sophie Fox
Feb 2, 20232 min read
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Space & Time to Play
“The drive to play freely is a basic, biological drive. Lack of free play may not kill the physical body, as would lack of food, air or...
Claire Atherton
Feb 17, 20223 min read
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Subtle Sounds and Serendipitous Connections
Reflections on visiting a nursery setting as part of Germination project. I love the serendipitous connections that Germination is...
Xenia Horne
Feb 4, 20225 min read
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Sonic Possibilities - Remembering the art of play
I came to the Germination project with great enthusiasm, armed with my clarinet and voice with a decade of classical training under my...
Charlotte Jolly
Jan 8, 20223 min read
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Submitting to the present moment
The training days and play days at PRIMEYARC in Great Yarmouth were simultaneously inspiring and energising. They prepared us in a very...
Bella Askew
Dec 17, 20212 min read
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Practicing a state of not knowing
Throughout Germination, we have been practicing a state of not knowing, working against the tide of certain teleological thought. For the...
Ruby Holness
Dec 10, 20213 min read
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Loose Parts and Children's Arts Play
We had the pleasure of hosting our third online network meeting on 2nd July with artists and academics Dr. Louisa Penfold and Dr. Roma...
Sophie Fox
Jul 19, 20212 min read
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An observation at In-Between Spaces: A Symphony of Play
The third session of the morning was with a family group of two children, one a toddler (T) and the other possibly 6-8 months (B) they...
Jessica Pitt
Jun 7, 20214 min read
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Sound playtime introduction
This session is a playful exploration of sound. So what is sound, and is it different to music? To me they’re the same thing, but you...
Oliver Payne
Jun 7, 20213 min read
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PLay tiME
Having time to play as an artist, musician or educator is really important, not only for the ongoing care of ourselves as creative...
Sophie Fox
May 27, 20211 min read
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Making In-Between Spaces
This short film is a "fly on the wall" look at the making of ACE funded arts residency "In-Between Spaces". Set in the context of a...
Sophie Fox
May 21, 20211 min read
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Improvisation, Complicité & Care: The Ethics of Aesthetic Practices
The In Between Spaces project explored the aesthetic qualities of a huge disused department store now Original Project's PrimeYarc...
Charlotte Arculus
May 13, 20214 min read
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In-Between Spaces - Exhibition
Ever dreamed of being able to play and dance in a huge empty store? Magic Acorns have been on an extraordinary journey of discovery...
Sophie Fox
May 5, 20211 min read
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In-between spaces artist opportunity
We are very excited to be offering four paid experiential professional development opportunities for emerging,...
Sophie Fox
Mar 11, 20211 min read
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