There's a worm at the bottom of the garden...

During Summer of last year, we were approached by the National Wildflower Centre to create some exhibition boards for their wormery barn. This project was part funded by Arts Council of England ACE and the National Wildflower Centre.

Here at Halewood Arts Association we like to get the Junior Artists Club involved in as much as possible and wanted to include them in the whole design process. There where to be three exhibition boards, with a different theme for each one, worms, the soil web of life and recycling. We began by running some workshops with the JAC along these themes and asked them to come up with some drawings we could include within the designs. The JAC never fail to dissapoint and came up with some brilliant designs.

Armed with our designs, we spent a week down at the National Wildflower Centre working on the boards there. It was lovely to create the work in the space and have the public give us feedback along the way.

Sophie still has nightmares of Carole repeatedly singing "There is a worm at the bottom of the garden, and his name is wiggly woo" but the final outcome of the boards, makes the nightmares worth while.

Do you like them? If you have visited the National Wildflower Centre, we would love to know what you think.

Arts and Walks in Halewood

If you have ever taken the time to have a wander around Halewood Triangle Park you will know just how beautiful this area of Knowsley is. Earlier this year Halewood Arts Association wanted to publicise this beautiful hidden gem so sought funding from The Big Lottery Fund and Halewood Town Council. We wanted to create an attractive and informative Map showing some of the art works in the park.
 

The publication also includes snippets of poems and information on the history of Halewood contributed by The Windows Project.


The design, writing and photography, were all undertaken by by Carole Trenaman, of HAA.
www.boomtime2003.com

Some copies are still available from the HAA Office. If you would like a copy give us an email, call, or leave a comment on the blog or drop into the office.

The Winter Solstice

A very big thank you to all the contributors of "The Winter Solstice". Halewood Community Choir joined us for the first time and added a very special element to the performance. Their harmonies and acapella singing was beautiful and sounded very professional. Thanks to Mark, their choir master, for setting it up. The groups use of lights to illuminate the park at night, produced some magical pictures

A huge thanks to Kate Cotterell for this beautiful picture taken at the event.

Thanks to Becky Bryson for her artistic lanterns and yummy curry, that went down very well.

Thanks to Strange Case Collective also, for the masks they created for the characters.
The Junior Artists Club masks were fab and the 'blessings' they wrote showed a touching insight.



The actors, Ash, Helen, Katrina and Gemma delivered their poems, blessings and words with feeling.

The performance itself wouldn't have been possible without the direction and organisation from the extremely hard working Carole.

We would also like to thank KMBC and Darren the ranger for his assistance, acting and not forgetting the Community Support Officers.

May the blessings of the Solstice bring you an enlightened and fruitful New Year.

The Winter Solstice

Next Wednesday we will be celebrating The Winter Solstice and would love it if you could come along and join us. 


The Winter Solstice 
at 
Halewood Park
The Environment Centre, Okell Drive, Halewood, L26 7XB

Wednesday 21st December
6pm start

Follow the trail around the park, encounter mythical persons, listen to their stories, and celebrate the longest night of the year.
Join with the Junior Artists Club in distributing environmentally friends gifts for the wildlife,and listen to their wishes for the coming year.
Listen to songs by Halewood Community choir, and feel free to join in if you want!
A very stirring, happy, and thought provoking evening.  
Then join us for mulled wine and refreshments at the Rangers Centre.

What have we been up to...

Its been a while since we have updated our blog, we have been really busy over at Halewood Arts Association. We would like to start by giving a huge thank you to everyone who took the time to vote for us in the Natwest Community Force awards. Unfortunately we didn't win this time, but we are extremely grateful for your supports and votes.

Back in October we attended the Liverpool Lantern Carnival with our wonderful Junior Artists Club. The turn out was brilliant, as always and we all thoroughly enjoyed every minute. Here are some pictures from the night.

We have collaborated with The Liverpool Everyman Playhouse to provide a number of workshops throughout Knowsley for their service user groups. We have loved every minute of it and created some wonderful work, all of which will be celebrated in a final Cinders Ball next week. We cannot wait to attend. Here is some of the wonderful work we produced.

Last but by no means least, we have been hard at work organising Decembers Winter Solstice performance.  It would be wonderful if you could attend this free event, in Halewood Park, on December 21st.

We need your help!

We are up for a Natwest Community Force award and we would love it if you give us a vote.
We could receive upto £6000. This will allow us to really bring Halewood Arts Association up to date and buy some well needed computer equipment. We also want to continue the work we do with the Junior Artists Club by combining the arts and education we provide. We want to run a series of workshops teaching the JAC to appreciate their natural surroundings and learn to love their environment as much as we do. We hope to do this by running a series of workshops developing photography, ICT and web projects. It will include exploring the local Mersey Forest and appreciating the wonderful fauna and flora surrounding us.

As a non profit organisation who functions solely on grants and funding, this could really help us out.


You can vote --------->>>>>>>. HERE (CLICK ME)

You need to register to vote, then confirm the registration when they email you, this can take a couple of minutes but we really really really appreciate you taking the time.

A big thank you from the Junior Artists Club if you have voted!

Something different to do in Halewood

If you are looking for something to get involved in within Halewood then look no further than the Halewood Community Choir Singing Sessions…

Each session takes place at the Halewood Centre for Learning and everyone is welcome - no experience necessary, all abilities and ages welcome!

Cost £2.00 per person per session

Wednesday evenings
7.30pm-9.00pm

28th September
5th October
12th October
19th October
26th October
2nd November
9th November
16th November
23rd November
30th November

For further details contact Carla Simkin at Knowsley Arts and Heritage Service on 0151 443 5619 or Anna Jackson from Halewood Centre for Learning on 0151 477 8830.

Also at Halewood Arts Association we are still looking for a Junior Artists Club Volunteer! Could you help?


Junior Artists Club Workshop Assistant

Do you like art? Are you interested in the environment, ecology or nature? Do you have two hours to spare?

If you can answer yes to these questions then volunteering as a Junior Artists Club workshop assistant could be for you. We need help with the general running of the workshops, accompanying children on trips, distributing refreshments and putting up displays of children's work. The club takes place every Wednesday and is from 3:45 - 5:45. Starting as soon as possible.

Reasonable travel expenses covered for role.

If you are interested, give Carole or Sophie an email on halewoodarts@gmail.com