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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

A screenshot of the first online Cocktail Hour zoom party for the After Party

Cheers to Volunteers - Staying Connected – bringing our volunteers together

Cheers to Volunteers in Volunteer Week 2020: Staying Connected – bringing our volunteers together

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Intergenerational Week - Community, Connection, Continuity & Creativity

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

Touched by Magic

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

Cheers to Volunteers - Staying Connected – bringing our volunteers together

Cheers to Volunteers - helping with accessibility

Where we are now - April 2020

Tony's story - Optimistic about the future...

Artist Chuck Blue Lowry talks about why intergenerational arts is so inspiring