A look back at 2024

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As the year comes to a close, we want to express our gratitude to everyone who has contributed to the Art, Freedom, Care studios and workshops. The artist makers who join us each week, bringing creativity and passion, an amazing group of artist facilitators who do so much to support everyone, and the parents and carers who have become a big part of our community and shared their lives with us.

Update on Arches Development

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Work continues into 2025 as work on site at the Arches in Hastings takes shape. Renovations will greatly improve the Arches, resurface the front yard and provide completely new studio spaces in Arch 3. As part of the funding for the site we have received over £70,000 for a lift and Changing Place facilities from the Hastings Skills Capital Fund. The funders for the Arches development are: Arts Council England, Wolfson Foundation, Garfield Weston Foundation, Clothworkers Foundation, Foyle Foundation, and Levelling Up Partnership funding (who have also funded some of the development work at Trinity Hall as well as the Architectural Heritage Fund).

Residency at Bethlem Gallery

In January 2025 we will launch a residency by Project Art Works across the Bethlem Gallery and the National Autism Unit. The exhibition (Jan 28th – Feb 7th) invites visitors to experience an environment informed by the strengths and interests of people who have been before them. Supported sessions in the pop-up studio will enable a range of people to represent themselves on their own terms through authentic responses which become part of an evolving installation.

𝗦𝗲́𝗴𝗼𝘂'𝗔𝗿𝘁 - 𝗙𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝘂𝗿 𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗿 || URBAN & REGGAE MUSIC NIGHT 𝗱𝘂 𝟰 𝗮𝘂 𝟵 𝗳𝗲́𝘃𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗮̀ 𝗦𝗲́𝗴𝗼𝘂.

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𝗦𝗲́𝗴𝗼𝘂'𝗔𝗿𝘁 - 𝗙𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝘂𝗿 𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗿 || URBAN & REGGAE MUSIC NIGHT 𝗱𝘂 𝟰 𝗮𝘂 𝟵 𝗳𝗲́𝘃𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗮̀ 𝗦𝗲́𝗴𝗼𝘂. Rejoignez-nous au bord du fleuve Niger pour une soirée inoubliable célébrant la musique urbaine et reggae.

Press Release – Michelle Roberts: Red, Blue, Up

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Michelle Roberts: Red, Blue, Up 22 February – 1 June 2025 De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill Image: Michelle Roberts, Hastings, 2009, Acrylic on canvas, 122 x 122 cm. Courtesy Project Art Works. De La Warr Pavilion is pleased to present Red, Blue, Up, a major new exhibition of paintings and drawings by Bexhill-based artist, Michelle Roberts, in the First floor gallery this spring. This solo exhibition is programmed in collaboration with award- winning arts charity Outside In, following the artist winning first prize in its national open exhibition, Humanity, in 2023, and Project Art Works, a neurodiverse collective of artists and activists based in Hastings, of which Roberts is a member.

Le lancement de la 11ème Édition du Concours National Talents de la Cité, étape de Kayes

𝗧𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗦 𝗗𝗘 𝗟𝗔 𝗖𝗜𝗧𝗘́ | 𝗦𝗲́𝗴𝗼𝘂' 𝗔𝗿𝘁 - 𝗙𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝘂𝗿 𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱. Le lancement de la 11ème Édition du Concours National Talents de la Cité, étape de Kayes, a eu lieu ce samedi 09 Novembre 2024 à l'espace TUMBI FARA dans la cité des rails. Organisé par la Fondation Festival sur le Niger dans le cadre de Ségou Ville Creative, Talents de la Cité est une l'une des innovations phares de la 21ème Édition de Ségou ‘Art - Festival sur le Niger.

PAW Christmas Market

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Project Art Works will be setting up a pop up shop at the Observer Building Christmas Market in Hastings on Saturday 7th December. We will be selling original pieces of art works, prints and books. Come down and say hi! Open from 11.00 – 17.00. Find the Observer Building at 53 Cambridge Road here. Can’t make the Christmas Market? You can still buy gifts from Project Art Works via Untitled Gallery.

Changing Place Toilet Funded

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Project Art Works has been awarded the Hastings Skills Capital Fund. We have received over £70,000 for a lift and Changing Place facilities to be installed in the newly built Arch 3 which is due to reopen in summer 2025. Image: Architect drawing of the Project Art Works Changing Place, August 2023, courtesy of Adams & Sutherland (click to enlarge) One of eleven projects designed to support training and boost employability across Hastings and Rother, this funding is a share of Government funding worth £1 million.

Invitation: 24 November Event in Van Abbemuseum

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Join us on November 24th, the final day of the Soils exhibition at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, for a special event dedicated to Watching Cow and Landscape (Kijken naar Koe en Landschap). This project explores questions that are not only relevant to farmers, but concern us all, such as solutions for sustainability. We welcome both experts and enthusiasts to look at the soils with us. How can the museum, and especially the art of seeing and watching, help us answer the important questions?

lancement de Talents de la Cité étape de Kayes

𝗧𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗦 𝗗𝗘 𝗟𝗔 𝗖𝗜𝗧𝗘́ | 𝗦𝗲́𝗴𝗼𝘂' 𝗔𝗿𝘁 - 𝗙𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝘂𝗿 𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱. Le lancement de la 11ème Édition du Concours National Talents de la Cité, étape de Kayes, a eu lieu ce samedi 09 Novembre 2024 à l'espace TUMBI FARA dans la cité des rails. Organisé par la Fondation Festival sur le Niger dans le cadre de Ségou Ville Creative, Talents de la Cité est une l'une des innovations phares de la 21ème Édition de Ségou ‘Art - Festival sur le Niger.

Appel_a_candidature_OFF_Ségou_Art_2025

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SEGOU' ART 2025 | PROGRAMME OFF - APPEL À SOUMISSION L'appel à soumission pour le programme Off du salon d'art contemporain du Mali est lancé.Pour plus de détails, consultez les liens ci-dessous :Appel : http://www.festivalsegou.org/.../appel_a_candidature_off... Formulaire : https://www.fondationfestivalsurleniger.org/.../Formulair...Deadline : 15 décembre 2024Contacts : segouart@gmail.com

COMMUNIQUE DE PRESSE #2

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SÉGOU' ART - FESTIVAL SUR LE NIGER 2025 | COMMUNIQUE DE PRESSE #2Nous vous invitons à consulter le 2ème communiqué de presse via le lien ci-dessous http://www.festivalsegou.org/.../com-press-s_a-fsn_2025... Rendez-vous du 4 au 9 février 2025 à Ségou, sur les berges du fleuve Niger

OIL publication: launch and story so far

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OIL online launch Thursday 7th November 6-7pm GMT This publication has developed from ‘Oil as far as the eye can see – Energy regimes in the everyday’ a tour curated and guided by Rachel Grant that took place across Aberdeen, as part of Myvillages’ Summer Camp titled ‘Who Has the Energy’, commissioned, produced and held at Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Lumsden, July 2023. Join us for a presentation and discussion with OIL publication author and editor Rachel Grant (Fertile ground, Aberdeen), Sam Trotman (Programme & Partnerships Director Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Lumsden, Aberdeenshire), Kathrin Böhm (Myvillages) and Scott Herrett (Just Transition Organiser for Friends of the Earth Scotland and member of Friends of St.

The Stimming Pool

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The Stimming Pool, directed by The Neurocultures Collective (a collective of neurodiverse directors; Sam Chown Ahern, Georgia Bradburn, Benjamin Brown, Robin Elliott-Knowles, Lucy) and Steven Eastwood, has been selected by film festivals nationally and internationally. “The Stimming Pool is a unique film exploring a world shaped by neurodiverse perspectives. The narrative unfolds through an autistic camera, capturing diverse subjects navigating environments both challenging and comforting. Characters, some concealing their autism, others thriving in their communities, share a common goal: finding a space free from societal norms—the Stimming Pool.

I Hear You, Mikhail Karikis

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A film featuring five artists from Project Art Works and those closest to them is currently being screened as part of The Whole World in our Hands in Toronto, Canada. The Blackwood gallery have worked with curator Jacqui Usiskin on this multi site installation across the University of Toronto Mississauga. Images: Mikhail Karikis, I Hear You, 2019/2024. Special edition for The Blackwood. Single-channel video without sound, 20:57. Originally commissioned by De la Warr Pavilion and Project Art Works, UK.

Make Studio Exhibition

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Five of Project Art Works artists have had work selected for an online exhibition, Cordially Invited, curated by Make Studio. Make Studio is a supported studio based in Baltimore and the online exhibition is running alongside a physical one that is open at the same time. The artists whose work has been selected are: Gemma, Lucy Jenion, Mark Lockton, George Smith and Jakob Wright. Visit the online exhibition here: make-studio.