Winterlight on Saturday

It's been a busy couple of days working with groups on the Torches for the Winterlight event in Kings Wood on Saturday, which should be a magical event. Come and celbrate with us in these ancient woodlands.

Sophie Cullinan modelling the variation winter torch

 Many hands making ...

Light work!

Come and get the winter glow!

Lifecycle - The Godmonkey Skyhook Amalgamation

A chance conversation and a spur of the moment visit to see Nick Finn's installation at the Rooftop Gallery brought me to the Amalgamation and now I can't believe my luck to be part of such a delicious audiovisual conflagration! 

Band logo by Katy Lindsay

Born on November 14, 2012

Brain child of Nick Finn

In the mix you will find

Mark Brennan, Andy Eathorne, 

Darren Nimmo, Martin Baldock,

 Sian Mabbot, Christina Monteiro,

Katherin Williams, Lynn Davis, 

Donna Faulkner......

there may also be others

....oh yes...and me!

We are trying out our new work 

LIFECYCLE hoping for

audio/visual delights.

Please come along to meet us after the performance.

BRING YOUR OWN REFRESHMENTS 

PERFORMANCE 7.00pm - 9.00pm

at the Rooftop Gallery and Workshops

9 The Links, Queens Square

Corby.  NN17 1PZ

"This audio visual collaboration has been achieved 

in a very short space of time and we'd love to have 

you there to help with feed back etc" says Nick Finn 

"maybe you are interested in joining in the fun"

You can find us on Facebook

You can hear a sample here

Small donation requsted for the 

Rooftop Galleries and Workshops

Then on Friday, December 14th

6.30 pm we will be taking

Lifecycle to the Ex-Servicemen's Club

The Old Village, Corby

This launch event is aimed at engaging our community through popular culture
Fundraising money for Corbys Arts Scene, 

majority of proceeds going to The Rooftop Gallery & Workshops.

TICKETS - £3 or two for A Fiver!!
on sale from @Phillip Anthony | The Alternative Edge

Confirmed :
The GodMonkey SkyHook Amalgamation
BrowneProject
The Flying Mandelas
The Multiversal Concrete Club

Woodcuts and digital image by Carole Miles and are available for sale from the artist.

After my visit to Kew Gardens I was describing the beauty of the water lilies to Ann Leonard, the Office Manager for AES Europe a partnership of freshwater environment experts with a wealth of experience in monitoring and managing water quality and aquatic ecosystems. 

I'm a big fan of the company especially as both Ann and the company donated the stakes and mesh for the Jubilee Tree Planting I organised in Brigstock earlier this year. 

I showed Ann the wild flower seed paper multiples I'd made for Deep Roots Tall Trees. Ann thought something similar might be a lovely thing to send to their clients this Christmas so I used one of the images I'd taken at Kew (see image above). You can see the other images I made for AES to choose from here,  the image above was the one they chose. 

I've been very touched to read Tweets from AES about them, happy customers, happy me!

AES Europe ‏@AESEurope

Received great limited edition prints made by @Digifem for our clients for xmas... they are so lovely. Everyone thrilled with them!

AES Europe ‏@AESEurope

Writing the cards and putting in limited edition prints . . . lucky clients! Prints made by @Digifem

The Performance

A comment from the Deep Roots Tall Trees Facebook Page

"A fabulous night after months of hard work, research, development. 

A tribute to Corby, it's history, people and future"

I have had such a wonderful time singing that I wanted to make a little something to say thank you, so I cooked up 4 different versions of my take on the Deep Roots experience and made a wild flower seed paper multiple for each person. I'm hoping people will plant them next year and set a few new shoots growing

It was a wonderful night and amazing to see / hear Barb, Jenny, Gareth and all the musicians making such wonderful sound! Must give a wave to Paula Boulton and her Complaints Choir who gave us much to smile about! Lastly thank you to the amazing Shusha Walmsley choir buddy and wonderful Homeopathist who brought my voice back from the brink of disappearance with an emergency remedy!

You can see still from the evening here

Come and Wish a Happy Birthday to The Core!

From a very early age I loved to sing, I sang at home, in the bathroom or in front of the mirror, I sang at school - Gilbert and Sullivan, I loved musicals and spent my early teens with a Panasonic Panapet chained round my wrist, life events were punctuated by the pop songs I loved. For a very brief moment I belonged to an a-cappella girl group called the Overtones. Then I started working in schools and colleges, became prone to every cold going and seemed to have perpetual ear infections or sinusitis, I lost my voice and I stopped singing. Occasionally I'd try and make some noise, but noise was all it was, the loss of voice became a secret sadness. 

The cloud catching Cube, home of the Core photograph by Andrew Rushton

Earlier this year I was persuaded to attend a voice workshop lead by Michael Harper at the Water Tower in Brigstock and to my astonishment, something like a voice put in an appearance. My voice and I had a rather emotional reunion. Later Ros Stoddart persuaded me to join her at the rehearsals for a choir that would sing for the Queen during her Jubilee visit to Corby. I wasn't able to take part in the performance but loved the experience. 'What to do next?' I wondered. It wasn't long before Ros had inspired a new project at the Core - Deep Roots, Tall Trees. 

Gareth Fuller

To celebrate The Core at Corby Cube’s second birthday singer and international recording artist Barb Jungr has been working with local musicians, meeting people, collecting stories and making music to create the original Deep Roots, Tall Trees: A Corby Song Cycle. This premiere performance features Barb Jungr and her regular accompanist Jenny Carr together with high quality local musicians and a community choir, celebrating the town in song. 

“Now I've seen Barb Jungr perform lots of times...and she's such a great vocalist, she really is, open your ears, sit back and enjoy. She's brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.” Paul O'Grady

Photograph from last night's rehearsal by Lorraine Maria Dziarkowska

I am one of the many local people taking part as a member of the Community Choir. We have been meeting regularly for the past weeks, learning our parts in the new songs, joining with the musicians and have had the great joy to sing under the the guidance of Choir Master Gareth Fuller. We have also had the privilege to watch and hear Barb Jungr bring out the best in everyone. We are all enjoying the process and feeling slightly nervous as the performance is just over a week away but we are inspired, fired up and ready to give it our all! The songs are uplifting, we are planning to raise the roof - this will be a night to remember so please join us!

The lovely people at The Core are making a special offer to enocourage the community to buy more tickets and are offering them at £8 each, rather than £14.

To take advantage of this offer, you must contact the Ticket Office in person or by phone 01536 470470 (not the internet) and quote the magic words 

"Birthday Offer"

Corby Community Arts

To find out more about the Community Choir

email info@corbycommunityarts.org.

There are regular updates and photographs on the 

Deep Roots Tall Trees Facebook Page

For more about this exciting collaboration please visit 

Rosalind Stoddart, Independent Cultural Engineer 

PS - To all involved a huge thank you for helping me find my voice!

Glorious Kew

I spent a wonderful day with the Green Patch volunteers at Kew Gardens and thought you might enjoy a few images of things seen during the day. 

 

Kew is really a magical place and the current exhibition of sculptures by David Nash was inspiring!

Happy Endings

In October I was delighted to attend the Northamptonshire Community Foundation's Annual Award Ceremony as two projects I worked on had been nominated - New Vistas, Wider Horizons for Back To Books was nominated for an outstanding contribution to the community in the field of Arts, Sport and Culture

and the Wellbeing Walks / Mapping Project by Beanfield Artists - (Jo Dacombe and I) was was nominated for an outstanding contribution to the community in the Transforming Lives category. We were happy to be there to celebrate with all the worthy winners!

The Green Patch "Art in the Sumerhouse" project has come to it's conclusion with all the art works having been installed and a great party on the site last Friday. You can see what we made on the Miles & Dacombe Photo Stream

Beanfield Artists "Light Walks For Dark Days" Project will be concluding in December and our exhibition of the project will open on Thursday 20th December and run until 6th January at Market Street Mews, Kettering.  There will be more details on the Undiscovered Networks Blog in the near future. We are planning a splendid shop installation which will reflect the walks and interventions we have created since the project began last October. Jo and I hope to see you there!