BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Dartford Arts Network - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.dartfordartsnetwork.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Dartford Arts Network REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20150101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220625T120000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220625T160000 DTSTAMP:20260501T170801 CREATED:20220518T090104Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220921T151332Z UID:2363-1656158400-1656172800@www.dartfordartsnetwork.com SUMMARY:DAN presents: The Ice Cream Van Project / Workshop N.2 - Midsummer Celebrations at Huggens College DESCRIPTION:DAN PRESENTS: THE ICE-CREAM VAN PROJECT  \nWORKSHOP N.2 / Midsummer Flower Collage Workshop with Sadie Hennessy at Huggens College \n  \nOn Saturday 25th June 2022\, DAN will be hosting an arts engagement workshop with the residents of Huggens College in Northfleet\, in collaboration with GAS and Northfleet Big Local. It is the second in a series of public engagement activities across the summer in Dartford and surrounding areas led by Dartford Arts Network and funded by Creative Estuary. \nThe workshop is part of the overall Ice Cream Van project\, which looks at arts mobility along the estuary\, but this event will more specifically focus on artist-led activities which engage with older people who may have been negatively impacted in access to culture by lack of mobility and the Covid pandemic. \nOur focus is to challenge this limited access by taking art opportunities to the participants\, with the specific theme of this event being Midsummer\, and the memories and feelings evoked by this time of year. \nWe have commissioned artist Sadie Hennessey to run a flower collage making workshop with the residents of Huggens College. Sadie has worked with the residents before\, and will use cuttings from old magazines and photos to evoke memories of midsummer and past times. The workshop will be a chance for participants to look at images\, chat\, sift\, think\, feel\, communicate and then convey all of this into a final curated art piece\, with help from Sadie. \nLook out for images of the final pieces which will be posted here next week! URL:https://www.dartfordartsnetwork.com/event/dan-presents-the-ice-cream-van-project-workshop-n-2-midsummer-celebrations-at-huggens-college/ LOCATION:Huggens College\, College Rd\, Northfleet\, Gravesend\, DA11 9DL\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Arts Workshop,Community Artwork,Community Reachout ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.dartfordartsnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/WORKSHOP-N-1_workshop-marketing-N2-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190701 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190801 DTSTAMP:20260501T170801 CREATED:20160323T100811Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211007T202108Z UID:436-1561939200-1564617599@www.dartfordartsnetwork.com SUMMARY:Priory Mews Care Home DESCRIPTION:In July 2019 we were excited to be able to visit the Priory Mews Care Home\, to take part in their annual Care Home Open Day\, which this year was themed Celebrating Art in Care. Well-being coordinator Ben contacted us and asked if we would like to be involved and we jumped at the chance to work with elderly patients\, as some of our artists have worked with elderly people in the past and are aware of the rewarding outcomes which can be delivered through carefully curated process and art facilitation. \nWe engaged with a number of residents through both Storytelling and Transient Art; the process of connection and production being the key feature in this project. These methods were used deliberately\, as people suffering from dementia often struggle with restrictive activities. We implicitly encouraged the residents to be free to tell their story in their own way\, and to create self portraits using a variety of free moving objects on a board. \nThe experience was a joy for us as artists\, with residents opening up about their lives through funny\, engaging\, inspiring and fascinating stories. As they chatted to our storyteller Caroline\, Nadia filmed the process and sketched portraits of the individuals. \nMeanwhile\, at the parallel activity where residents were encouraged to work with Kate and create a self-portrait\, people such as Patricia and Bob were able to share their past experiences\, chatting as they worked\, the artistic activity sparking memories. \nIt was\, overall\, an immensely rewarding experience which we hope to repeat in the future! \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n  URL:https://www.dartfordartsnetwork.com/event/priory-mews-care-home/ LOCATION:Priory Mews\, Watling Street\, Dartford\, Kent\, DA2 6EG\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Community Reachout ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.dartfordartsnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Care-Home-12.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180810 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181201 DTSTAMP:20260501T170801 CREATED:20211007T205758Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211007T205758Z UID:2289-1533859200-1543622399@www.dartfordartsnetwork.com SUMMARY:Drastic Plastic Action! DESCRIPTION:Our Drastic Plastic Action! project aimed to convey an action through message – recycle\, re-use and look after your environment locally and nationally! \nThrough our Plastic Fantastic project at the Priory Centre back in 2016\, we were able to discover what happens to our plastics when they end up in the sea. Tragically\, they very often end up in the stomachs of marine life and birds\, who mistake the plastics for small creatures and we found that images showing this explicitly were very powerful in terms of conveying this message to the public. \nWhen the Priory Centre approached us to deliver a follow-on project which resulted in some sculpture pieces\, we immediately saw an opportunity to take our Plastic Fantastic message one step further and to again produce beautiful artworks which would make people stop and think\, through a series of public workshops and the construction/display of large hanging sculptures. \nAcross 2 free public workshops in 2018 we aimed to make 2-3 large-scale sculptures which would hang from the ceiling of the Priory Centre Market Hall and raise the issue of plastics in an explicit and bold way. \nThe largest of these\, a 3-metre-long fish\, was designed and built by local commissioned artist Nicola Claxton\, who constructed the fish’s skeleton and then gathered members of the public to help her\, and the team add the final decorative touches. The workshop tables were full of people busily creating colourful paper scales for the body of the fish\, which they then applied with watered down PVA glue\, as well as applying wet\, torn tissue to the body using a technique called Decoupage. The designs were beautiful\, and all the participants were excited about coming along next week to spot their own handmade scales when the fish was up and hanging from the ceiling of the market hall. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nThe final touches were added when the body was turned over and local discarded plastics collected by Dartford Litterpickers were threaded onto the underbelly of the fish and shown coming from its mouth. These were visible from below when the fish was hung\, and explicitly conveys the message about the impact plastic waste has on our sea creatures – how it ends up being mistaken for food\, or caught around their bodies\, often killing or maiming them irreparably. \nAside from the fish\, participants were helping Sue with the Jellyfish sculpture. The workshop element was in addition to much sewing work painstakingly undertaken by Sue Holmes\, a local DAN artist\, who created the sculpture body from reclaimed net curtains using the traditional ‘Suffolk Puff’ technique. She was assisted in the creation of this by members of the public and by the Dartford Science and Technology College students\, who on their Community Day delighted in helping Sue make the baby jellyfish which hang from the base of the main feature. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nThe puffin was also made by Nicola\, with the body made from wet willow\, the wings from wire mesh while the coverings were black and white bin bags with paper attachments. \n  \nAs well as these main sculptures\, we encouraged the general public to get involved in making paintings/pictures/drawings and adding their thoughts to the work\, some of which we displayed alongside the sculpture on a printed display board. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nThe project was funded by KCC Councillor Jan Ozog\, and opened by the Mayor of Dartford. \n  URL:https://www.dartfordartsnetwork.com/event/drastic-plastic-action/ CATEGORIES:Community Artwork,Community Reachout ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.dartfordartsnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Drastic-Plastic-Action-4.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180501 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180502 DTSTAMP:20260501T170801 CREATED:20160323T113620Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211007T202619Z UID:444-1525132800-1525219199@www.dartfordartsnetwork.com SUMMARY:Dartford Steam Fair DESCRIPTION:In May 2018 we were keen to get involved with the annual Dartford Steam Fair taking place in Central Park. Members came up with the idea of a creative collaboration; something which would engage all age groups and bring families and community together to create a piece of artwork. DAN member and craft artist Nicola Claxton drew a beautiful representation of the original Trevithick engine\, which we used as the basis for our project.  \nThe drawing was scaled up\, printed and then cut into squares which were glued onto foam board pieces. Each square was then able to be removed from the board (which showed the original drawing underneath) and given to a visitor to decorate and complete in their own style. \n  \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nAs well as a stall with lots of engaging art activities to get involved in\, we also brought along DAN artist Marco Ruffoni to undertake a technical drawing demonstration. Marco is skilled in a variety of art techniques\, but has a passion for detailed technical and often mechanical drawings. Visitors were intrigued and impressed by his striking pieces.  \nWe had arrived that morning\, laden with trestle tables and bringing with us a black and white image ready for the public to infuse with their creativity and colour – and that they did! We had a lovely time helping people to complete their squares and had fun with both kids and adults alike colouring\, painting and sticking the collage.  \n  \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nAfter a fun-filled day interacting and engaging with the public\, we stood back and admired the results – the final piece was stunning. “Colourful”\, “abstract”\, “patterned”\, “thoughtful”\, “artistic”\, were some of the comments we had from both DAN members and the general public.  \nThe work was temporarily exhibited in an empty window unit of the Priory Centre in Dartford\, for the public to see the work they had seemingly created individually\, put back together as a whole\, collaborative community artwork.  \n  URL:https://www.dartfordartsnetwork.com/event/dartford-steam-fair/ LOCATION:Central Park Dartford\, Cranford Rd\, Dartford\, Kent\, DA1 1JP\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Community Artwork,Community Reachout,Festival ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.dartfordartsnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/DSC0079_web.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160611 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160925 DTSTAMP:20260501T170801 CREATED:20211007T204808Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211007T204808Z UID:2287-1465603200-1474761599@www.dartfordartsnetwork.com SUMMARY:Plastic Fantastic DESCRIPTION:In 2016\, the Ellandi / Project Dirt grant scheme gave us the opportunity to produce a public work which aimed to stimulate the artistic senses visually\, to educate about environmental crises\, and to facilitate the general public in an artistic collaboration with local artists. \nOur core concept centred around the idea of waste and recycling\, and a specific look at the journey our plastics embark on when we discard them without recycling them. As it stands\, in certain areas our oceans have more plastic in than zooplankton and it is predicted that if waste continues at the current rate\, in 25 years there will be more plastic in the oceans than fish. That is a terrifying prospect and one we are eager to highlight to the residents of our town. \nWe produced two sculptures made from recycled materials\, constructed at interactive workshops in the Priory Centre. \nThe first was a large-scale map of a section of the world displayed on a plinth made from reused pallets and decorated with filled recycled vases made from unwanted CD-cases. Our artists created the map utilising corrugated cardboard to create a 3D display\, using a technique from model-making to build the layers of the map up. We used the map base to graphically convey the journey of a plastic bottle; how it travels from our shores\, swept by ocean gyres to the shores of the Caribbean; how bottles discarded in the USA and Africa are brought together in a ‘garbage patch’ the size of Texas\, and how we can reduce the effect of this by recycling our plastics locally. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nThe second sculpture was a ‘Wishing Tree’ built from reclaimed polypipe and used as a base to attach smaller recycled art objects made both by visitors to the workshops and by members of the group. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nOur goal was to combine both fun and education – to work directly with the public in creating a beautiful artwork which will benefit the area in which it is exhibited – but also\, in collecting the materials and re-appropriating them to produce an artwork\, participants and observers were part of a dialogue about waste and the environment\, both locally\, nationally and internationally. URL:https://www.dartfordartsnetwork.com/event/plastic-fantastic/ CATEGORIES:Community Artwork,Community Reachout ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.dartfordartsnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/DAN-Volunteers-c-Priory-Centre.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR