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PAST FUSION ARTS PROJECTS IN THE COMMUNITY

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Threadz - Textiles for Peace

A unique textile arts project bringing together people of diverse cultural backgrounds to create richly layered community tent celebrating peaceful coexistance and harmony.

Journey through Campsfield

Writer in residence Julia Hollander spent 3 months working with detainees at the Campsfield immigration detention centre near Kidlington.

City Spaces

A joint photography project involving young people not in education, employment or training who were teamed up with a group of students from St John's College to explore thier perspective of the city under the guidence of community artist Ann Rapstoff.

InSite

inSite is a major new Public Art Programme of community-inspired work which contributes to long term environmental improvement/regeneration of the area.

Kaos in the City

The animation film Kaos in the City successfully committed itself to providing young individuals experiencing homelessness/temporary housing and other challenges with a high quality arts experience relevant to their situation.

Pulse

pulse is a unique and exciting action research music programme using music to engage vulnerable youth (14-18 years old). Pulse 1 began a series of ongoing music programmes. Pulse 4 is on it's way!

Dj Tabla

A music project in partnership with Shivanova and Pegasus Theatre aimed to develop Asian music in the community and widen access to Asian music for young people.

Streetscape

Artist Liam Curtin is working with 5 local artists to develop a public artwork for the Cowley Road.

Fastforward

Fastforward was launched in October 2000, the only project delivering arts specifically in conjuction with homeless people, its mission being to promote the power of arts and their positive social, cultural and educational impact.

Talking & Thinking Space

Artists Fiona Bailey and Shona Illingworth worked with young people to create a web-based public artwork as part of the inSite Commissions

The Rest Space

Artists Emily Fuller and Helen MacKeith worked with Mental Health Service Users and other members of the community to create the Trinity Labyrinth as part of the inSite Commissions.

The Outside Space

Artist Ann Rapstoff worked with Refugees and Asylum Seekers in East Oxford, using the arts to help establish their connection to the community.

Family Art Splash

A new source of funding is currently being sought for this popular, intergenerational project.

Dead Space

Young people working with professional artists to address 'dead spaces' in their neighbourhood and come up with creative ideas to improve them through art.

Voyage

A regular art class for vulnerable young women to them the opportunity to try new artistic processes and bond as a group.

One Destination - The Sacred Journey

A film commissioned by Fusion,Oxford's Community Arts Agency and produced by SisterVision, the film features ordinary people's experience of pilgramage in all its diversity. The film was screened throughout the exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum.

The Glow Tree

A 5m high stainless steel sculpture for Blackbird Leys Community Centre inspired by a popular community learning project, and involving community groups in its construction.

Oxford Extra Arts

An Arts Council funded project,Fusion and Pegasus Theatre joined forces to run Oxford Extra Arts (formerly Aesop).

Fun at Fusion

Art Classes designed for the Wednesday Club, Refugee and Asylum seeking children age 5-13 referred by Asylum Welcome.

Pulse 2

The pulse music project set out to encourage and offer musical activity to young people (14-18 years old) who might be considered 'at risk'.

Family Art Fest

Based at Fusion, Family Art Splash led on to Family Art Fest, a Fusion based series of workshops designed to provide a much needed opportunity for family groups to get creative together with a professional artist.

Luminox

Luminox was a special highlight of the Oxfordshire 2007 celebrations, as part of the county's year-long millennium celebration coordinated by Oxford Inspires, with Fusion and Oxford Contemporary Music (OCM). Oxford's historic Broad Street was unrecognisable between 15-17 March as it was transformed into a spectacular fire garden, creating a stirring shared community experience and highlighting the value of Broad Street as a beautiful central piazza and a focus for public gathering and art.

Festive Lanterns

Fusion organised a series of lantern making workshops, as part of the Family Art Fest programme, in November 2006.

In-Tent-City

Giving new meaning to the word 'canvas', the immensely popular In-Tent-City project culminated in a vibrant, thought-provoking show in South Park, Oxford in September 07.
The outstanding success of this project has been the participatory experience and coming together of diverse community groups, who were able to express their thoughts and views in a dramatic and creative way, each tent making a strong visual statement with a commanding physical presence. The project has been incredibly well received and as a result continues to create further interest and projects, inspiring related works and touring exhibitions.

Underhill Circus

Artists: Katy Beinart + Peter Dunn

The Underhill Circus project consisted of designing and creating a unique focal feature and lighting design for the centre of a newly regenerated shopping area and neighbourhood in the heart of Barton.

Art & Health at Manzil Way

Artists Charlotte and Carol of 'Making Marks' and Steve Larkin from 'Hammer & Tongue' ran a series of creative workshops at Fusion in June 2006 to generate themes, images and text for the public art work at the new East Oxford Health Centre in Manzil Way.

Animagic – ‘take aways’ project

ANIMAGIC

This was an animation /short film project FREE for young people!

Fantastic Family Tales

Fantastic Family Tales was a unique and fantastic project held in two primary schools and Fusion Arts Centre’s space.

Faces Between Places

Faces Between Places worked with homeless people, rough sleepers and users of Oxford Night Shelter using the mediums of photography and music as part of Faces of Oxfordshire.

Transition

This project encourages people who are suffering from bereavement, homeless people or refugees.
Thursdays at Fusion Arts Centre
6 drop in sessions from Thursday 8 November until Thursday 13^th December 2007
1pm-4pm FREE
Working with photography, drawing and working on/with paper, and sculpture using metal, clay and stone.

Faces Between Places - Phase 2

Fusion ran a series of music sessions at The gap, Oxford, an organisation which supports homeless people. Participants expressed themselves and shared their experiences through music and digital technology.

Family Art Splash '08

‘Family Arts Splash workshops up and running again thanks to BMW Group Plant Oxford’s support!’

Fusion held a series of free arts and crafts workshops designed to provide an opportunity for family groups to get creative together under the guidance of professional artists.

‘Family Art Splash’ is aimed at all the family at any age, and includes a wide range of art activities. This series focused on visual arts and performance/story-telling children created puppets, turned them into characters and invented and told their story on stage!

The sessions at Rose Hill Children's Centre were held in association with Cowley Road Carnival, and built a giant puppet for the Parade!

In Transition

Three artists, Judie Waldmann, Claire Christie Sadler and Wren Hughes, ran a series of workshops at Fusion exploring the theme of 'transition' with members of the community.

In further collaboration with some of the participants, they prepared for an exhibition entitled 'response to TRANSITION'.

The exhibition was held at the North Wall Arts Centre, South Parade, Oxford.

10th - 28th June; Mondays to Saturdays 11 am - 4 pm

Movies, Music, Magic!

Watch the award winning short film here

Summer Screen Workshop for young people ages 11-19
at Fusion Arts Centre

Creativity, diversity and invention over a weekend of filmmaking, music and animation workshops.

Just bring along your ideas and get creative as you learn to storyboard, shoot, edit and lay down sound!

CARNIVAL IN THE PARK!

Carnival in the Park, South Park Sunday 5 July - procession starting at 2pm

Fusion Arts have been working with artists and children at locals schools creating costumes for Carnival in the Park 2009!

Exhibition - Creating Routes at Campsfield @ Fusion Arts Centre

A selection of work created by immigration detainees at Campsfield House since March 2005, under the guidance of visiting artists.

WinterLight Festival Oxford

Fusion was delighted to take part in the WinterLight festival in Bonn Square on Friday 28th November 2008.
Through Fusion, community artists worked with local schools to create beautiful lanterns for a procession through the city centre.

Diverse City - Drama workshops at Campsfield Detention Centre

Fusion held a weeklong drama project at Campsfield Detention Centre working with detainees. The workshops were extremely well received, an created some intensely emotive and expressive pieces.
Fusin hopes to continue to work with Campsfield and expand project work at the Centre.

Speak Out Theatre Company Workshop!

What did you say?

Saturday 15th November at Fusion Art Centre

2pm-5pm

£15/£10

Encourage your inner poet to speak out... spoken word, writing, performance and vocal techniques.

Marston Northway Children's Centre and Schools Logo Project

Fusion Arts is working with six local pre-schools and schools in the Marston area and Marston Northway Children's Centre with children and their families to create a logo for Marston Northway Children’s Centre, reflecting the link between children and families.

This will be achieved through a series of participatory creative workshops with children and families.
The workshops will involve very young children (most of them under 5 years old) and their families.
There will be a combination of drama to stimulate the children and their families (role playing, words associations…) and visual arts (translation of the drama sessions into visual designs and ideas).

Oxford Extra Arts 2009

Isis and Headington Schools Partnerships are working with Fusion to deliver a series of after-school art clubs on the theme of 'Hone-made' - making costumes, instruments and songs!
Workshops start at the end of April and leading up to Cowley Road Carnival events in July.

This project is funded by the Partnerships

'Witch Way' - Open Set Film Project

What were the spooky goings on in Boars Hill woods last weekend?! The witches and mysterious ghostly figures crashing through the woods were part of a 10 minute film being made by the Open Set crew, an inclusive group of young people working with professional film makers Jewson Film Productions.
The script's come from the young people's ideas and fun hands-on sessions have let them have a go at all the departments and jobs that make up a professional film shoot.

Bernwood Public Art Project, Barton

Public Green Space, Art Interventions

Artist Rob Turner, is currently working with community groups in Barton to generate design ideas for public art pieces as part of the redevelopment of the play area.

Working with Oxford City Council's Parks Department, Fusion is using stone that many Barton residents remember from the old Bernwood School and reusing them as entrance markers, focal features and benches on the site.

The new play area is due to be ready at the end of March 2009.

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