General news and updates about Magic Carpet, its people and projects...
Natural Magic
Magic Carpet is having an exhibition of art created by participants in it's Honiton Day Project. The show, called Natural Magic, will feature an exciting range of 2D and 3D work, including pieces on paper, textiles and ceramics. The artists involved have been inspired by the natural world and have produced wonderful work depicting butterflies, birds, flowers, frogs and fruit! The exhibition will be at the Honiton Business Centre from 11th April to the end of June and is open from 8.30 - 5.00 Monday to Friday.
Outside In
Outside In 2012 is a National Open Art competition for people who find it difficult to access the art world, whether due to disability, health, social circumstance or art process. Magic Carpet will be working with Outside In and Exeter Phoenix to run a Surgery Day for artists needing assistance in setting up an online gallery and submitting artwork to Outside In 2012. To download a flyer giving full details click here
Calendars and Cards
We have produced a new range of cards and a calendar, the images were created by our participants in Magic Carpet art sessions. The cards are for sale at £1.50 each, they are blank for you to write your own message. We still have some of our 2012 calendars available at the reduced price of £6.00 each - buy now before they all go! click on the image to the right to view.
Own Two Feet
Own Two Feet is a new project that is focussed on generating regular income for Magic Carpet. We are working on several different ideas, including using Magic Carpet participants art, to create postcards, greetings cards and other saleable products and our new Community Choir.
Short Story published
Scriptor
Derek Keeping, a regular at our creative writing group Scriptor, has published on line a new short story called Sleeprunners. 'Inception' meets 'His Dark Materials' in the first of a series of adventures aimed at young adults.' You can download and read the story for free by visiting the Bibliotastic website Sleeprunners
Murals & Mosaics
Magic Carpet has worked with the after school club at Topsham school to create a tile and mosaic panel and, also with various youth groups in East Devon to create graffiti panels, mosaic benches and murals.
Community Choir
Singing makes you feel good!
Magic Carpet's latest project is a Community Choir, which will take place in one of Exeter's most amazing old buildings, The Hub on the Green, Cathedral Close.
The venue is the perfect space for our new weekly Community Choir, which will start 17th January 2012. It is a daytime choir and will be open to all adults and young people who love to sing. Experience is not essential, more important is enthusiasm and a willingness to sing in a group. To enhance the experience there will be delicious fresh coffee available, for a small donation.
RAMM
Magic Carpet at RAMM
This is an exciting new opportunity for Magic Carpet to work with the newly re-opened RAMM. The project will run a range of arts based activities for people with Mental Health and mild learning disabilities. It will introduce the group to the collections within the museum and use this process of discovery to inform their lives. We aim to motivate our participants to get involved in finding something and everything in RAMM's thousands of artefacts that fires their imagination, encouraging participation and engagement.