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MENDIP TIMES
Academy showcase for Laura Archive project wins anniversary funding
LAurA Shaw, a Year 12 student at Frome College, has had this photograph selected for the highly prestigious royal Academy Young Artists’ Summer Show. Thousands of pieces of work were judged by art professionals with selected works displayed online and onsite at the royal Academy of Arts until August 8th.
Artists celebrate
CompTon Dando Art Group is hoping to resume painting in September, but before then members met up to celebrate the group’s 16th anniversary over coffee and lunch. The celebration included some of the original members pictured (l to r) Trish Baker, Barbara Hooke, Sonia priest, Jean Harnaman, mary Shaw, artist, molly Griffiths and maureen Baker.
Artistic heritage: (l:r) Philippa Forsey, creative wellbeing manager, Sarah James, director, and Pete Crooke, the charity’s longestserving trustee
CreATIVITY Works, the arts and health charity based in radstock, has received a national Lottery Heritage Fund grant of £7,000 for a project to mark its 40th birthday. The project focuses on the preservation and sharing of the oral histories and memories from previous project participants, partners, artists, and volunteers from the past four decades. Creativity Works runs high quality arts projects, increasing health and wellbeing for those living with mental health challenges, and from disadvantaged sectors of society. now the charity would like to hear from anyone who has been involved in any previous projects either under its current name or when it was known as Wansdyke Arts Council, north east Somerset Arts or nesa to get in touch. The aim is to collate oral histories and memories which can be used to inspire future arts projects, curate a free public exhibition and a new online archive. Sarah James, Creativity Works director, said: “We are thrilled to have received this support thanks to national Lottery players. “The 40th year feels like the right moment in time especially coming out of a world pandemic to share how our local community came together 40 years ago to improve conditions for local people (as they did in the pandemic) and the power of creativity to increase positive mental health.”
History of Frome
Frome Society’s Yearbook, its 24th since 1987, has been published, full of fascinating stories about the town and its history. one article looks at the evidence that Shakespeare might have spent a night in Frome. The book is available from Frome museum and Winstones Hunting raven bookshop.
Details: www.fsls.org.uk
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