Valley and Vale Community Arts
Physical Fusion Dance Platform
As part of our 30th Birthday Celebrations, Valley and Vale Community Arts is hosting a fun-filled evening of dance performances on February 12th 2012, in partnership with the Grand Pavilion Theatre and supported by The Arts Council of Wales and Bridgend County Borough Council’s Arts and Community Development department.
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Mental Health Matters Workshop Blog
We all suffer from mental strain at some point in our lives whether through the day-to-day stresses of our jobs or something more profound like the loss of a loved one...
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Dance Development in the USA
I was lucky to receive a travelling scholarship from the Lisa Ullmann Fund to support a trip to the west coast of USA to train at the birthplace of the funk styles I live for!
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Gan ddymuno Nadolig Llawen a Blwyddyn Newydd Greadigol i chi
Gan ddymuno Nadolig Llawen a Blwyddyn Newydd Greadigol i chi. Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Creative New Year.
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Being Me: Drama and ADHD
Over the last 6 weeks we have been working in partnership with Bridgend Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services running a pilot Drama and Creative Arts project with children in the Maesteg area with ADHD.
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YOSROC at The Court House
In early 2010 Bridgend YOS ( Youth Offending Service ) in consultation with young people, who were going through the youth justice system, wanted somehow to engage in creative music sessions.
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‘What Happened to Aphrodite?’
We have just finished our most recent youth theatre production ‘In Search of Aphrodite’ and it was a huge success... The performance began as an exploration of sexual promiscuity in Bridgend and beyond.
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‘The Art of Collaboration’ Blog
So I am sitting on the train back to Bridgend from London, having spent a long day at a conference which explored how patients in psychiatric settings use creative media (arts) in their recovery journey...
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Drama for Emotional Literacy Blog
We have been looking at Transactional Analysis as a way of understanding our relationships and discussing how we can relate to others using our parent, adult and child ego states, and how by having some understanding of this we can improve the more dysfunctional relationships in our lives.
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Peer Mediation in Practice
Over the last six months we have been working with young peer mediators from Maesteg and Ynysawdre Comprehensive School and have produced a DVD called Peer Mediation in Practice.
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HMP Parc Music Blog
At HMP Parc everyone was very polite to me, from the prison officers to the inmates. Yes, understandably there was very high security (I had to provide proof of ID, leave certain items locked in a secure area etc) and all for good reasons so I did not mind at all.
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Yami Rowdy Dance Workshop
We hosted workshops throughout Bridgend and Cardiff in October 2011, spreading the funk bug to all who participated. We chose to open up the age categories this time round, allowing younger dancers to take part. Having such a range of ages and abilities enabled a friendly, carefree atmosphere.
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Drama at ESIS Wellbeing Conference 2
We were invited to host a workshop at the Wellbeing Conference for Primary and Secondary teachers in South Wales on 13th and 14th October 2011.
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Tondu Transitions Project
At the beginning of this term two of our local schools have merged: Tondu Primary and Pandy Infants in Aberkenfig. As part of their rolling programme to make the transition as smooth and positive as possible they asked for a Drama workshop to be run with every pupil in the school.
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Drama at the Pupil Referral Unit, Bridgend
We are working in partnership with Bridgend PRU this year to deliver Drama for Emotional Health workshops across Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4.
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Porthcawl Pavilion Art Club Blog
Over the last few years, Tim Smith and I have been working in sunny Porthcawl,... We created paintings, pottery, mosaics, montages and lots, lots more, indoors and outdoors with two fab groups, one group made up of children and the other of adults.
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30 Inspirational Stories – A Moment to Remember
I was facilitating a dance project for Asylum Seekers and Refugees at Trinity Church in Cardiff, getting down and funky with the All Women Drop In session at Trinity Church, teaching them social dances and partner work.
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