A round-up of the latest news from Magic Carpet and its groups and projects.
Calendars and Cards
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- 08 February 2012
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.
Gold Run
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- 30 January 2012
This month Magic Carpet Artist James Lake has been working on a fantastic installation as part of Gold Run, which is an ambitious multi-media performance piece, incorporating film, music and visual art.
Short Story published
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- 30 January 2012
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
Hard Rock and Heavy Metals
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- 30 January 2012
Magic Carpet presents a talk at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter. Hard Rock and Heavy Metals: mining in SW England, past, present and future. An illustrated talk by Dr Richard Scrivener.
Own Two Feet
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- 12 January 2012
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.
RAMM
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- 11 January 2012
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.
Vacancies
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- 11 January 2012
We often have vacancies in our groups. For information on which group meets where please click HERE.
Community Choir
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- 11 January 2012
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.
Scriptor
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- 12 December 2011
Scriptor Fridays 1 - 3pm at the Phew Centre, Bartholomew Street, Exeter
A creative writing group that encourages people to create their own work through taking part in writing exercises, talking about their writing, and, where appropriate, reading out their work. This activity is open to all those interested in creative writing.
Freehand
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- 12 December 2011
Freehand Wednesdays 2 - 4pm Art Studio at Exeter Phoenix
A friendly and lively group offering a wide range of visual and 3D arts activities designed to expand your experience and skills. You will be encouraged and supported to develop your artistic ideas and abilities.
This group is for people with learning difficulties.
Indaba
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- 12 December 2011
Indaba Wednesdays 2 until 4pm Drama Studio at Exeter Phoenix.
People are encouraged to use improvisation, imagination, movement, music and the spoken word to create short, shared "performances" each week. It is a fun, active group that gives a taste of drama in a fun, relaxed way. No previous experience needed and there are no scripts to learn.
Open to all our participants.
Open Arts
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- 12 December 2011
Open Art Studio Mondays 2pm – 4pm Art Studio at Exeter Phoenix.
An opportunity for people who are self motivated and wish to make use of the studio and art materials to work on their own projects and ideas. Guidance and support is always available as required but this is not a "taught" session.
This group is full and has a waiting list. Please contact Magic Carpet to discover when a space is available.
Happy Mondays
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- 12 December 2011
Happy Mondays Art Group
Mondays 10am —12noon Art Studio at Exeter Phoenix.
This group offers people the chance to use a wide variety of art materials to make 2D and 3D art.
For people with learning difficulties. This group is full and has a waiting list. Please contact Magic Carpet to find out more.
Poster campaign
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- 03 November 2011
The images on this page are from our poster project
Our Story: Act 1
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- Say No to Bullying
- 03 November 2011
CLICK ONCE ON THE PHOTO TO SEE THE GALLERY.
Before the summer break, the group invented their own 'soap opera' called 'Exmorado'. Every member created their own character and then worked creatively to find storylines to include them all. Eventually these stories were adapted and rehearsed for a 'pilot' episode that we filmed.
Our Story: Act 2
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- 03 November 2011
After a summer break we re-started the weekly sessions, this time working towards creating a story based on personal experiences within the community. Many improvisations during rehearsals saw the story change several times until, just before Christmas, we were ready to film. We chose the coldest day of the winter to leave the warmth of the Moose Hall to film on location on the streets of Exmouth! Yet the commitment of all the members was strong and we survived!
Our Story: The Film
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- 03 November 2011
'Simply called 'James Story' it is about a man with a disability who encounters some bullies. Not wanting to give too much away, (in case you haven't seen it yet!) it shows the consequences this has on his life.
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- 03 November 2011
Say No.. works with adults with a learning disability enabling them to form their positive and negative experiences of living within our community into a film and performance. This show will address the issues that concern people with a learning disability.
Since the beginning of March 2010 we have been running a regular group at the Moose Hall, Exmouth for adults with learning disabilities; building their confidence in drama, theatre and film-making skills.
Through this process the members have created their own identity and decided to call themselves the 'Exmouth Extraordinary Theatre Company' (E.E.T.C.)
Thurspians
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- 03 November 2011
The group often starts with a 'Newsround' where the members share verbally or re-enact through mime and 'Snapshot' their weekly events. The main activity is often based on going into role and this is done after first deciding on props, costumes, settings, dealing with various issues and through the drama we experiment with ways of resolving them.
Tuesday Club Portfolio
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- 03 November 2011
Some great photos of Tuesday Club in action photographed by Den Elliot. Visit his profile at www.denelliott.moonfruit.com