Many Hands Make Light Work We worked with lots of other Wellingborough organisations to deliver our ‘Greetings From…’ postcard project. Made With Many are distributing 1000 Greetings From… activity packs to households in three areas of Wellingborough to help empower residents to have a voice by creatively recording how they feel about their neighbourhood on a … Continue reading Many Hands Make Light Work
Re-imagining a Gallery
Re-imagining a Gallery Blog by Helen Willmott, Programme Director, Made With Many A couple of weeks ago I spent a morning in a photography studio in Corby, watching as a photographer and an artist created some stunning images of pottery created last winter by local people in Corby. It was part of a week-long photoshoot, … Continue reading Re-imagining a Gallery
Rediscovering our Doorsteps
Rediscovering our Doorsteps Blog by Helen Willmott, Programme Director, Made With Many With so many of us staying at home, for both leisure and work, one of the more interesting effects of the Covid-19 pandemic is a renewed connection to our homes and neighbourhoods. As someone who works in a different town to my home, … Continue reading Rediscovering our Doorsteps
Cultivating Connections
Cultivating Connections Blog by Helen Willmott, Programme Director. A couple of weeks ago we hosted two online conversations with local artists, to discuss the current situation, the impact on their work and how we can help them. The majority of artists who deliver our programme are self-employed, and have been hit hard financially by COVID-19. … Continue reading Cultivating Connections
COVID-19 Resources for Artists (updated)
COVID-19 Resources for Artists Updated 25th January 2020 Navigating your way through the web of COVID-19 resources isn’t always easy, so we’ve started compiling a page that may be useful to Artists, organisations and community groups who run creative activities. *NEW* Digital Northampton holds it’s inspirational Merged Futures 3 digital conference on 18th June 2021, you can still watch some of … Continue reading COVID-19 Resources for Artists (updated)
The Power of True Stories
The Power of True Stories Blog by Helen Willmott, Programme Director. In the last few weeks, we’ve watched as the world has come out of lockdown straight into mass protest. Even my normally sleepy hometown of Higham Ferrers held its first protest in living memory last weekend. Alongside the brutality and violence shown towards black … Continue reading The Power of True Stories
What do you want to do today?
What do you want to do today? Blog by Sarah Brown, Producer (Wellingborough) I’ve spent the last few months in lockdown asking my family the same question everyday: ‘What do you want to do today?’ Staying at home with kids during lockdown has seemed difficult at times, but we’ve certainly been busy making things – … Continue reading What do you want to do today?
Our Way Forward
Our Way Forward Blog by Helen Willmott, Programme Director Over the last few weeks, we’ve been thinking a lot about what the rest of 2020 will hold. From trying to predict when government guidelines might change to considering how people will be feeling about joining in with activities when they are able to start again, … Continue reading Our Way Forward
THANK YOU to our Volunteers
THANK YOU to our Volunteers It’s Volunteers Week this week, and across the country organisation are saying a massive thank you to the millions of people that give their time freely to help organisations like ours. Normally, we hold an event to say thank you (obviously based around cake!) and this year we had something … Continue reading THANK YOU to our Volunteers
Life in Lockdown
Made With Many is in a period of transition – we’re expanding into Wellingborough and have just launched our new name (we were previously called Made In Corby). We’ve also recruited new members of staff (over Zoom) who have been with us a couple of weeks and we’re saying farewell (until next year) to Vicky … Continue reading Life in Lockdown