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Made With Many is excited about how our Heritage Art Trail project in Wellingborough is progressing. Three artists, Georgina Payne, Alan Howard and Andy Barrett are busy developing a trail that will showcase historical aspects of Wellingborough’s black community. Each artist brings a different art form to this project through audio stories, mural, visual and abstract art.
Under the mentorship of Black Heritage Walks Network the route of the trail is taking shape. Visits to the Northamptonshire Black History Association archives and the Victoria Centre have included community conversations, providing valuable content for the artists to develop their artwork. These community conversations will continue during the week 21st to 28th June as a part of the Windrush celebrations in Wellingborough town centre.
Members of the public are invited to drop in to the unit opposite the Roman store in Swansgate Shopping Centre between 10am and 3pm on 21st and 28th June with your stories, pictures or memorabilia to meet the artists and contribute to the creation of the Heritage Art Trail.
Saturday 21st June: 10am to 3pm in Swansgate Shopping Centre
Meet Georgina Payne – an artist, educator, mentor and Creative Expressive Therapeutic Facilitator working with lino printing, painting, mixed media, illustration, photography, filming, dance and movement, drama and music.
Saturday 28th June: 10am to 3pm in Swansgate Shopping Centre
There will be another chance to talk to Artist Georgina Payne. You will also be able to meet Excavate, a community arts company based in Nottingham that has been producing community storytelling events for the past 25 years, creating theatre performances, films, and audio work. Also in attendance will be Alan Howard an artist, facilitator and educator with over 40 years’ experience of creative and community development work, who painted his first mural in the summer of 1976 on a wall in the main hall of the Rock Street Community Complex in Wellingborough when it was a Youth Club.