Transitions: past meets future!
Great Yarmouth arts group ARC, is delighted to announce an Awards for All grant to run Transitions. This project will enable old and young to delve into the Borough Archive and the Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service's permanent art collection housed at the Central Library in Great Yarmouth. Looking into the past, participants can seek connections with, or comparisons to the present and use new media to share their findings with local people. The project will run workshops to look at cultural life in the Borough and bring the town's creative past into the light. Who knows what might be discovered?
The aim of the project is to raise the profile of the uniquely vital grassroots culture in the Borough, past and present. There is a long and distinguished cultural history in the locality but much has been buried and not celebrated. Transitions intends to bring it to life and to cast an optimistic eye on the future thanks to all the talent being demonstrated amongst the young people, especially in music, dance and drama.
Rupert Mallin, the lead artist on Transitions, says “With this touchstone to the past, participants will be able to pursue their own cultural response – in any medium – to the present and the future. Captured online at East Coast Net, the work will form a record which others can explore and/or add to in the future. It is a very exciting project.”
Transitions will conclude with an exhibition at the Central Library in November. EastCoastNet will be used throughout the project to gather and share materials and as a focus for discussion as the project develops.
