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Babies in Museums - Walking & Talking
Hello! I'm Nicola, and I'm a Museum Educator specialising in Early Years at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. Recently, I had the huge...
Nicola Wallis
Dec 7, 20212 min read
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Babies in Museums
Nicola Wallis, early years specialist from The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, started the Magic Acorns Network session by offering some...
Sophie Fox
Nov 8, 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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OPPORTUNITY for creative individuals - Paid professional development
Magic Acorns have been granted Youth Music funding to deliver an opportunity for emerging artists, musicians and practitioners to develop...
savaradulovic
Jul 8, 20211 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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In-Between Spaces -Network meeting and sharing
We were delighted to be able to host another network meeting online last week. Artists, musicians, educators and representatives from...
Sophie Fox
May 18, 20211 min read
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Wordless Musicking - Multiple Perspectives
This is the transcript and slides from Sophie Fox's presentation of her dissertation research, presented at MERYC England, Research...
Sophie Fox
Apr 11, 20219 min read
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SALTmusic online training
In January we offered some SALTmusic online training. What is SALTmusic? SALTmusic builds upon the idea that all babies are born with...
Sophie Fox
Mar 11, 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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Whose workshop is it anyway?
In our first online network meeting we asked ourselves and our community of artists, educators and cultural organisation about their...
Sophie Fox
Nov 30, 20202 min read
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Fragile Collections and Early Years Audiences
Kettles Yard in Cambridge hosted this Magic Acorns Network meeting, where we considered the very pertinent topic of fragile collections...
Sophie Fox
Jun 17, 20191 min read
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Sophie Fox
Sep 28, 20180 min read
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