Project :: Marine Machines

Norfolk

Creative Partnerships Norfolk, centering on schools in Great Yarmouth, is being delivered by the Norfolk & Norwich Festival. The Creative education department at the Festival consists of Julia Donat, Creative Education Manager and Rachael Brown, Creative Education Assistant. Both are newly appointed and looking forward to setting up an exciting programme of work:

Education should fire the imagination, make the pulse race and the colours around us look brighter. It should make us want to reach further, see more distant horizons and demand transformation in all we do. It should allow us to illuminate what we know and understand what we don't.

Our education work will be a sustained force - an imaginative and illuminating presence filling every available space from schools and community centres, to venues and public spaces. It will be a celebration of creativity, of the communities and of the region and the development of high-quality international artistic exchange. It will inspire and engage everyone involved, providing high quality education work for the largest possible proportion of the community on a range of levels. Everybody involved should have the opportunity to be transformed and energised by the experience.

Last year the Festival was involved in a large Creative Partnerships project titled 'Marine Machines', inspired by the Barcelona based street theatre company Serruga and developed with schools in Great Yarmouth and the local engineering training company ProTrain. This project culminated in a spectacular event which was performed in a playground in Great Yarmouth and also opened the Festival in Norwich. We plan to do a similar large-scale project in time for the Festival in 2007, this time taking the theme of insects and constructing large spectacular moving structures.