Crewe: Beyond Ultimate Reality – Calling the artists of Crewe
→Wanted: Calling the artists of Crewe and Cheshire East: Are you interested in getting into digital art and new technologies? Artists are invited to develop their digital skills and participatory practice as part of an Arts Council England grant funded project to develop creative arts experiences for young people
Crewe Beyond Ultimate Reality: Calling the youth of Crewe!
We are looking for a group of young people aged 12-17 to join us to create the future of Crewe together. We’ll meet in weekly sessions (on Monday early evenings), culminating in a big public event in October. What is it? Crewe: Beyond Ultimate Reality is a library creative arts
COSMOS Ambassadors Programme: Open Call
Abandon Normal Devices (AND) and SHIFT are delighted to announce an exciting new opportunity for residents of Cheshire East. COSMOS is a flagship international art-science residency exploring deep space at Jodrell Bank Observatory. Scheduled to take place annually COSMOS invites an international artist to create a new audio-visual work developed
SHIFT and FACT FUTURES at Spare Parts Festival
This weekend we were part of the Spare Parts Festival and the Sandbach Transport Festival, which took place all weekend across Sandbach. Our FACT FUTURES: Future Landscapes 2050 game gave festival goers the opportunity to describe how Cheshire East might look in 32 years time. People choose a series of 3d
Lego Stop Motion Animation Workshops
This Easter we decided to do something different with our family digital workshops programme. The Lego clubs at the libraries across Cheshire East are really well established and successful (see for example our Facebook events page). So we decided to add a digital element to the Lego clubs by training
FACT FUTURES: An update
This year we have teamed up with FACT in Liverpool to create and deliver digital workshops across rural areas of Cheshire East. FACT is a cinema, art gallery and the UK’s leading organisation for the support & exhibition of film, art and new media and they do world-leading digital outreach to
Virtual Reality February Half Term
This February we toured some of the libraries across Cheshire East (we visited Nantwich, Sandbach, Congleton, Holmes Chapel, Bollington and Knutsford) over February half term with our Virtual Reality (VR) playground. SHIFT is working with Dr Jess Symons, a Creative Economy Fellow at the University of Manchester who is using
Lego Stop-Motion Animation Workshops at Crewe Library
Celebrating Digital Creativity in Cheshire East Libraries To celebrate digital creativity in Crewe, Crewe Library held Lego Stop-Motion Workshops in association with Mako Education on Monday 19th February. The workshops were a perfect activity to get young people to discover and show off their creative talents. During the workshops children
February Half Term: Let’s Draw in Virtual Reality
Want to draw with light? Find a library near you over half-term If you are interested in the emerging virtual reality world, then get to a Cheshire East Library over half-term. Researchers from the University of Manchester’s Institute for Cultural Practices are joining forces with SHIFT to do a tour
Dreamy Digital Discoveries: our animation
Last October we took over Little Moreton Hall with Wild Rumpus and sound artist Scanner to create Dreamy Digital Discoveries: a stop motion animation film drawn and created by children with a soundtrack scored by Scanner. Check out the wonderful animation here: The imaginations of the children totally amazed us,
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