We’ll be enjoying restful and restorative woodland sessions for anyone living with long term illness for the next 5 Friday afternoons at Target woods (5 mins drive from hexham town centre) with the wonderful Deni Riach - there’s plenty of space for everyone around the fire, under the waterproof canopy or in a tree hammock - so come and join us - all sessions are free and all info including location map can be found here:
compassionart.org.uk/book/
compassionart.org.uk/book/
It’s our last gong bath session this Thursday and then to finish off the project - and just as spring is finally arriving - we start our run of 5 weekly relaxing and rejuvenating woodland sessions next week. The course is going by so fast! If you or someone you know is living with long term illness please follow this link for more details on how to get involved. The project is completely free to access and is supported by the National Lottery via Dilly Arts. We’d love to see you!
compassionart.org.uk/book/
compassionart.org.uk/book/
There’s still time to sign up for our free expressive writing session this week and next (Thursday) then we have our final gong bath the following week, ending the course with 5 weeks of soul healing creative sessions in a beautiful peaceful spot in the woods. If you or anyone you know is living with long term illness in or around Hexham please join us and spread the word to others. All sessions and materials are free. Supported by the National lottery.
compassionart.org.uk/book/
compassionart.org.uk/book/
healthwatchnorthumberland.co.uk/compassionart-creative-sessions-hexham/
To book please follow this link:
compassionart.org.uk/book/
Our new project will be working with people like myself, with long term illness - it’s totally free and you can book for any number of sessions, one to all.... Happy new year! (Ally)Do you or does someone you know in the Hexham area live with a long-term illness? CompassionART is a new project providing creative, soul-feeding, activities. All sessions are free, as are all materials. You can book for one or all of our sessions.
This is a project run by people living with long-term illness for people living with a long-term illness.
To book:
compassionart.org.uk/book/
Dilly Arts new project CompassionART will include creative time in the woods for people living with long term illness, alongside gong baths, fine art and creative writing....
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Woohoo small steps back to working for Dilly Arts director Ally Redshaw-Boxwell after her diagnosis of ME in summer 2015. We have the funding for our project CompassionART working with people living with long term illness in and around Hexham, starting in January 2018 - more details to follow....
Totally shocked to hear of arts council's withdrawal of funding for Locus+. They're a brilliant Newcastle arts organisation with a global reach. I had the pleasure of working with them in 2009 when we were going to bring Richard Wright to Durham for an amazing project - we were working on this at the time he won the Turner Prize - only the shortsightedness of Durham County Council prevented the project from happening. The arts council's decision is unquestionably unbelievable and I hope they reconsider and continue supporting this wonderful organisation - in today's climate they really are too precious and unique to the British art world to endanger. (Ally Redshaw-Boxwell)
Turner prizewinners lead calls to rescue fund that lit up visual arts in the north
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Cuts threaten unique group responsible for daring commission of ‘moon rock’ and a burning grand pianoYou know, it's two years since my diagnosis of M.E - on Monday I saw my lovely friend Julie for the first time since I was 18/19 (I'm now 43). She was asking about what I did, what was my work - I said, arts development officer Newcastle, strategic arts manager Sunderland, director of durham city arts, and then set up my own company, Dilly Arts, specialising in arts with prisoners and their families. In talking about it Graeme reminded me the projects I'd delivered won platinum in the koestler awards for prison arts. We, as DCA delivered the first light festival in Durham called Enlightenment which was my idea, helped along by Kate James and more so ISIS arts when I needed to go off on maternity to have Inigo - that went on to be Durham Lumiere which is a brilliant light festival in Durham. We won awards for the Durham literature festival, which we changed to the Durham book festival and then handed it over to New Writing North as they were much better placed to take the festival forward. As dilly arts we also instigated, designed and managed the play about women prisoners and their lives called 'Key Change' with open clasp theatre co - it turned out to be a nightmare (and aided my illness through stress) as open clasp were very aggressive to work with and wouldn't properly credit dilly arts, beyond our sell out performances at Live Theatre, but the play went on to win best at Edinburgh festival and a run in New York just off Broadway - dilly arts project with Hexham goal also won prizes with Michael Gandham's company and Lalya Gaye.... In amongst all of this we've worked with so, so many people who've got so much out of our projects.... For so so long I couldn't think about work, but I'm slowly getting better, and you know what? I'm fucking proud of the work I've done in the past and what I've achieved even if I or my company weren't always given the credit we deserved! Ally
I'm delighted to share the news that Arcus Studios have won the Professional Excellence: Innovation Award for their animation work in Beyond the Borders, by Dilly Arts, at the Royal Television Awards last week. Beyond the Borders represents the powerful potential of interdisciplinary and participatory creative collaborations between the prison system, our cultural organisations and our arts and creative industries. The award was presented to Arcus Studios with Dilly Arts and Attaya Projects. Huge congratulations to Arcus Studios and Dilly Arts Ally Redshaw-Boxwell, Graeme Redshaw-Boxwell),Attaya Projects Lalya Gaye, Sheree Mack, John Saddler and Hexham Old Gaol, all of whom were a great team to work with! (Posted by Suzy O'Hara)
Category 5: Professional Excellence: Innovation | Royal Television Society
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This award is designed to celebrate the use of content and technology in an expanding and changing world. Entries will demonstrate they are reaching out successfully to new audiences. They will be experimenting with technology and managing content in fresh ways. The award recognises outstanding achi...5 years ago this week I set up Dilly Arts having taken the big decision to leave my post of Director of Durham City Arts. I haven't regretted a moment, even when as a single mum I was skint. The projects we have developed and delivered across north east prisons, are among my proudest and favourite career-long projects, working with some fabulous people, inside prison both staff and prisoners - and working with some brilliant artists, most of which I'm happy to call close friends - as I am my wonderful board Suzy, Graeme and Sheree, it's been fantastic! .... It was all going so well and wonderful until M.E hit me last year and I was told to stop working.... So Dilly Arts happy anniversary, I'll be back as soon as I can!
Ally
We have been doing quite a bit of graphic design work for Jittabugs Durham recently. Here is an example of an A5 leaflet they wanted to produce to advertise their sessions.
If you are looking to have anything professionally designed, ask for a no obligation quote. You'll be amazed at how competitive our pricing is.
Rural arts opportunity lovely people....
www.thestove.org/art_inbetween-a-commission-opportunity-from-the-stove/?doing_wp_cron=1452821240....
Art_Inbetween – A Commission Opportunity from The Stove
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A commission for an artist to work within a larger project exploring practical connections and exchanging knowledge between people working creatively within rural regions across Britain. This is an opportunity for artists interested in: art and activism….art and society….grassroots and big picture….…And if you're in New York....
Key Change presented by Open Clasp Theatre Company- Buy tickets at Smarttix.com
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Key Change - Devised with women in Her Majesty’s Prison Low Newton to tour to male prisons. Winner of the Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award 2015 <br><br> 5***** The Stage “A touching, empowering work that hits the hat-trick of great script, direction and performance" <br><br> 4**** The Guardian "…Wishing all the best to Open Clasp Theatre Co, the wonderful cast and team getting ready to take Key Change to NYC - hope you all have an amazing time! Sending all our love and support, Ally xxxx
Hi all, it's Alison here, hope you're all well. I'm very sad to say that I'll be taking a break from Dilly Arts for the time being on medical advice 'not to undertake any work at all' as my ME/CFS has reached a new level of severity - I was supposed to stop working on medical advice in August but that never really happened with Key Change and our latest project Beyond The Borders already in delivery. I hope to be back working just as soon as possible, but I'm told to be realistic about timescales. In the meantime here's a lovely review of our last project for the time being....
www.chroniclelive.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/prisoners-past-present-hand-new-10547120
Prisoners past and present had a hand in a new attraction in Hexham
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Beyond the Borders is a new installation at Hexham Old Gaol combining centuries-old stories with modern technologyThe online article in today's Hexham Courant, in which the full cover page of section 2 carries a feature about our project Beyond the Borders and the work of Dilly Arts....
www.hexham-courant.co.uk/features/Prisoners-put-new-life-into-old-gaol-59233e78-7f5a-4441-ba5a-9c...
Prisoners put new life into old gaol
www.hexham-courant.co.uk
PRISONERS of the present have been helping to provide fresh insights into the lives of those who did porridge in the past.Please join us for the public opening of the new permanent exhibition at Hexham Old Gaol called Beyond the Borders.
The project devised and managed by Dilly Arts, working with HMP YOI Low Newton, HMP Frankland and HMP Durham and funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, has been working with contemporary prisoners, historians and artists over the past year to bring to life the stories and experiences of prisoners housed within Hexham Old Gaol during the period of the Border Reivers through hand held digital portals using augmented reality.
We'd be delighted if you and your family were able to join us for the public opening at 1pm on Saturday 28th November 2015. We hope to see you there!
Residency opportunity at the wonderful Allenheads Contemporary Arts....
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