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Intergenerational week - Using the arts to build intergenerarional connections

There is a reason we do intergenerational arts projects, not just intergenerational projects. As well as creative activities having proven health and wellbeing benefits for all ages, they can be used as a vehicle for connection.

Quality Street - Wonderful Wednesdays - picture shows a hand holding a big gold frame, within the frame stand two children and an older black man, all three are laughing.

Intergenerational Week - The Benefits of Continuity

Creating sustainable relationships is at the heart of our wider schools and communities work both through our Arts & Ages programme and our women’s project.

Inside Out 2019 photo by Jenna Selby shows three people sharing the joke, on the left in the background an older man sits in an armchair, just in front of him and older man in a heavy jacket and trilby hat laughs looking up at the young woman perched on the arm of a chair she is also laughing.

Intergenerational Week - Creating Connections

Intergenerational connection is at the heart of what we do. By creating interesting arts projects pupils and older people (some of whom are living with dementia) can work as peers to explore and make.

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Intergenerational Week - The Importance of Community

One of the core aims of Quality Street was to strengthen the connection between George Mitchell Primary School and the wider community. Quality Street provided an opportunity for the school to become an intergenerational hub linking with a number of organisations working with and/or housing older people.

Quality Street - Our Celebration. photo by Chuck Blue Lowry. Showing three people dressed in carnival costumes. In the middle an older black man with a yellow and green carnival collar and red crown, behind him to the left a young boy with a red and yellow collar and red crown, to the right behind him a young black girl in a purple red and green costume with a black headscarf. They are all smiling.

Intergenerational Week - Community, Connection, Continuity & Creativity

This is the first of five blogs we will be sharing throughout #IntergenerationalWeek, focusing on Quality Street(link). Stay tuned across the week as we explore the four C’s - COMMUNITY, CONNECTION, CONTINUITY AND CREATIVITY.

Photo of artwork from Generation Rebellion, collage background with a hand holding an orange post-it note which says 'everyone can do something. Every little contributes. Don't be put off because you can't immediately see a change.

Nazifa Yazmin our first Artworks trainee tells all in this blog...

Nazifa Yazmin our first Artworks trainee has written this blog about her experiences with Magic Me

Photo cropped from a photo by Roxene Anderson showing the hands of a dancing couple, one of the hands is that of an old white man, the other hand is that of a young black woman with red painted nails, a gold wring and a silver watch

Touched by Magic

Our Director, Susan Langford writes her December blog on the theme of 'touch'

Photo: Nick Pinder, 2012 Blue plaques from Where the Heart Is women’s project. The text in praise of each person was written by others in the group. For more details download: Wild, Wild Women report.

Whose stories get heard? Where we are now - June 2020

a blog post by our Director and Founder, Susan Langford

'Magic Monthly' helping to continue connections during the pandemic and beyond