EU Code Week in Cheshire East Libraries
Cheshire East Council’s Shift programme for digital, creative technology and new media has received funding from Google to deliver computer coding based activity as part of EU Code Week. This funding enables us to run public access and schools workshops in partnership with Libraries across the borough over two weeks
Celebrating our Crewe Craft project
Between May 2017 and March 2018, young people in Crewe took part in a series of workshops to re-create Crewe’s historic buildings in the popular game Minecraft. Through the game and using items from Cheshire Archives, they learnt about the history of their town as they reconstructed the designs of
Meet our COSMOS Ambassadors
During the lead up to the bluedot festival, and during the festival weekend, our COSMOS Ambassadors engaged in a series of workshops and research trips out to Jodrell Bank in anticipation of Hidden in Plain Sight by COSMOS artist Addie Wagenknecht. The purpose of the programme was to give an
Pollution Explorers with Ling Tan in Macclesfield
Back in June, the IDST crew, which meets weekly at MaccArtsSpace, were joined by Future Everything Fault Lines artist Ling Tan for a Pollution Explorers workshop. This is a guest blog post by Simon Ross, IDST co-founder. Air quality and how to analyse and understand it, are at the heart of
Children’s creative events in Crewe throughout the summer holidays
In August children in Crewe will be able to take part in a skills initiative which will develop their skills in design, printing, manufacturing and music. Cheshire East’s SHIFT digital activities programme has launched a new events initiative called ‘Make SHIFT Crewe’. This is in partnership with library services and Wavemaker,
Convergence Symposium – films
This February our Convergence Symposium, brought to you by SHIFT and WEAVE, celebrated a year of digital activity across Cheshire East. We had speakers from far and wide exploring the convergence between the arts and the digital, between creativity and tech. You can now see all the talks and in-conversations
TrAction Crewe: A Huge Success
On Saturday 7 July TrAction, Crewe’s festival of science, movement and the arts returned for its third year running. Blending art, transport and technology, the festival took over the centre of Crewe. Live performances as part of Spare Parts Festival mixed into the bustling Crewe shopping centre, allowing members of
Pollution Explorers with Future Everything and IDST!
SHIFT is really excited to be working with Future Everything on two upcoming exciting projects. We are working with some of their Fault Lines artists – a talent development and commissioning programme for art in technology innovation. One will bring an original digital arts commission to Cheshire East – we
Windsocks at Treacle Market
This summer SHIFT was delighted to host new media and electronic artist Laura Pullig at the Treacle Market in Macclesfield. As well as her plant synth workshop, Laura brought one of her wind powered illuminating windsocks. It took Laura a lot of experimentation to finalise the electronic circuits, which used
Watch our full video of the Town Talk with Daito Manabe
Following the World Premiere of Daito Manabe’s COSMOS commission for Jodrell Bank’s Lovell Telescope at Bluedot festival, he joined us in July for our Town Talk to discuss the work. Developed in partnership with Abandon Normal Devices and SHIFT, this inaugural commission for COSMOS, a flagship international artist residency and
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