Awayday at West Town Farm

The video below was made at West Town Farm on 2/8/2011 where the various educators working with The Devon Carousel Project came together to share their practice and ideas for work that they will be delivering at children's centres and community halls around Devon starting from September.

Carousel @ West Town Farm from Workshops n' Docs on Vimeo.

Profiles

Kevin Cotter from Enthusiastic Education

Kevin is a storyteller looking closer at the world through an intriguing and magical mix of stories, food and farm based explorations along with organic computing! He works closely with Exeter based Love Local Food and organicARTS.

Find out more about Enthusiastic Education at www.enthusiasticeducation.org

Robert Darch

Rob graduated from UWCN, Newport, in 2004 with a degree in Documentary Photography. Although aesthetically his work falls within the contemporary documentary practice, the themes behind the work are more poetic and conceptual in their nature. Creatively he is fascinated by the minutia of everyday life and achieving a sense of place in his work.

Find out more about Rob at www.robertdarch.com

Stuart Dawson

Stuart works as a freelance art worker and delivers film, animation and theatre projects. This could be one day workshops right through to educational film and animation commissions. Most of his work is at a grassroots level and focuses on enabling others self expression and a chance to be creative.

Visit www.myspace.com/raporjects

email him at racontact@hotmail.com

www.vimeo.com/channels/raprojects

Joshua Gaunt

Josh is a community workshop facilitator, media tutor and documentary filmmaker based in South West UK. The work that he does is collaborative & participatory. It focuses largely on community grass-roots projects and incorporates all aspects of the moving image from narrative filmmaking to animation.

You can check out all of the films that Josh has worked on through his Vimeo channel: vimeo.com/channels/workshopsndocs You can also email him at workshopsndocs@gmail.com

Matthew Macklin

Matt is a bboy (breakdancer) from Exeter UK. He has been dancing seriously since 2005 and currently travels over the UK and Europe to compete, jam and perform with his crew, Just 4 Funk. They have won things like Battle Stations (Plymouth) and Seven City BBoy Champs (Southampton), and last year Matt won the Bones to the Stones Concrete battles in Brixton, London.

Matt teaches around the South West (mainly Devon) in schools, youth clubs, PRUs, colleges and universities.

You can find out more about Matt and his crew at www.just4funkproductions.com or you can email him at matt@Just4funkproductions.com

Tamsin Pender

Tamsin Pender is a visual artist. Since completing post-graduate studies at the Royal Academy Schools, Tamsin has exhibited widely, including at the Tate Gallery St Ives, Walsall New Art Gallery and Beaconsfield, London. Recent projects include participatory art and design pieces, exhibited at the V&A Museum of Childhood, The Saison Poetry Library and the Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre.

I am especially enthusiastic about working creatively with the early years community to nurture self-expression, confidence and good communication skills. A sense of playfulness in my work owes everything to my early years and childhood experiences of open-ended discovery.

Felicity Shillingford

Felicity has always worked in education, delivering art workshops tailor made for particular exhibitions, projects and groups. Working for galleries and museums, schools and community organisations. We have done animation, kite making, costumes for Halloween, egg decorating, photograms, made bunting, banners, and desert islands. To name a few.

You can find out more about Fliss and her work at www.felicityshillingford.co.uk

Lizzie Swinford

Dance practitioner Lizzie Swinford gives a new twist to story-time in the library with a physical and energised narration of popular children's books. Her most recent creation, Flim Flam links a traditional format - storytelling - with movement that will fascinate young children and introduce them to new ideas about dance and books.

Scott Walker

My work and the projects I undertake draw on my experience as an illustrator and painter. I'm inspired by the energy and enthusiasm I encounter in schools and the people I meet when I'm presenting my shows. I'm also influenced by eccentric cartoons, improbable colour combinations, outsider and Street art - art that's often as bold as it is transient. Contemporary character design and cartoon play an important part in my art and the shows and workshops that I run. I like to think that visual ideas are bursting to get out of everyone and that, for the most part, the experience should be enriching and fun as well as creative.

You can find out more about Scott and his work at www.mildlyartistic.co.uk

Suzie West

Currently a co-director of SpinDrift Dance Company, community dance artist, teacher and performer Suzie West has extensive technical expertise, and choreographic experience. Her work filters through from professional practice into her community and educational work in the South West. The company facilitate local artists and local creativity in collaboration with their dance performance projects.