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Kettle’s Yard develop a number of landmark projects throughout the year in partnership with other organisations and funders. Please see examples of some of our past projects below.
In Summer 2015 Kettle’s Yard worked with GCSE dance students at North Cambridge Academy to choreograph dance pieces in response to the exhibition Henri Gaudier-Brzeska New Rhythms: Art, Dance and Movement 1911-1915. Inspired by Gaudier-Brzeska’s depictions of dance, the group spent 10 weeks developing pieces with dance artist Filipa Pereira-Stubbs which they performed as part of Castle Hill Open Day
Kettle’s Yard was one three lucky recipients of the inaugural Max Reinhardt Literacy Award, which has seen the Grove Primary School in Kings Hedges and Kettles Yard work with writer Claire Collison to respond to the collection. Children from year 3 worked with the writer and gallery for 6 weeks to develop their creative writing skills. A new learning resource inspired by the project entitled ‘Making Conversations’ has been developed and can be downloaded for free here.
Working in partnership with Arbury Primary and Oxford Archaeology East we devised a cross-curricular arts and archaeology project that utilised the strongest resources from both organisations. The project enabled 50 children to engage with the heritage and history of their local area through archaeological practice and creative activity. The project involved visits to archaeological sites in North Cambridge, visits and workshops at Kettle’s Yard, an archaeological dig on the school grounds and practical family workshops at Castle Hill Open Day 2014. Lasting legacies for the school included a collaborative artwork inspired by the archaeological dig and the Kettle’s Yard collection made by all pupils, artefacts found from the dig and two resource boxes to be used as part of the history curricula at the school. See the project report in the left side bar.
SpaceMakers was a two-year project using creativity and contemporary arts to help pupils from two Cambridgeshire schools to engage with architecture and the built environment, to become ‘SpaceMakers’. Devised and overseen by Kettle’s Yard’s Learning Team, it was primarily delivered by two professional artists working closely with two lead teachers. Please read the evaluation report in the left side bar.