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Dance Beds: Social Impact of ‘800 Lifetimes’

‘800 Lifetimes’ is a 45-minute contemporary dance, sound and voice performance produced and performed by Pell Ensemble. Created with local communities and inspired by modern myth-making, ‘800 Lifetimes’, uses 360 sound technology Flowfal (a wearable app that allowed dancers to move and manipulate the sound in the space in real-time). The movements, material and words were…

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Made in Queen’s Park – Community Café

For one week only – Saturday 23rd October to Friday 29thOctober –  residents of Queen’s Park benefited from a free pop up café offering fun activities for half term. The free event, at the community centre, gave residents the chance to try out arts and crafts while enjoying some tea and cake. The café continued to…

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Airship Dreams: School Resources

Our Airship Dreams: Escaping Gravity project provides a great way for schools to link local, social history to the curriculum across a range of STEAM subjects.    We have been working closely with Shortstown Primary School to develop a set of resources that are FREE for schools to use.  We’ve called this programme the Airship Dreamers Club.    The resources can be used…

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Case Study: Shortstown Primary School Escapes Gravity

Bedford Creative Arts (BCA) and The Higgins Bedford have collaborated with artist Mike Stubbs to develop a new artwork and community exhibition based on Bedfordshire’s Airship Heritage. One of our goals is to engage the local community in the engineering heritage of the local area, and our links to the airship industry. Children and young…

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Make & Share

As part of our Take Part Queen’s Park  art project, we’ve launched a brand-new campaign called Make & Share. This is your opportunity to get involved and showcase your talents. We are also exploring the mindfulness benefits that making and creating can have on our well-being.   Expressing your creativity makes you feel good and you can do that through cooking up a storm,…

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