Thanks to everyone who came to the Arty Party’s Electro Swing night on Friday and made it such a great evening. As it was Armistice Day we went back in time to the 1940’s and enjoyed an evening dancing to swing and jazz music together with a wartime supper of spam sandwiches! Lots of people [...]
Arty Party conquer public spaces in Prague !
Arty Party performer Mervyn Bradley, performance director Ray Jacobs and creative advocate Richard Edwards will be sharing some of Arty Party’s works and working methods at the Conquering Public Spaces Festival in Prague, from the 9th to the 13th of November. We hope that as well as enjoying the animation ‘Let Me In’ , festival [...]
Arty Party Sponsored Swim Sunday 21st August
Congratulations to everyone who took part in the Arty Party Sponsored Swim on Sunday 21st August. A team of 14 members and staff volunteered to take the challenge of swimming 2 miles in one hour at Madeley Court Swimming Pool. That’s 164 lengths of the pool. With Ricky Owens acting as official starter some of [...]
Visit ‘Unhindered’ at Galleries Live in Telford
Come and visit the Unhindered exhibition! On now until Saturday 11th June. It’s a selection of work produced over the last 3 years from the Work+play visual arts programme. You can find us at Galleries Live, Central Square in Telford Town Centre, come in and have a look next time you’re out shopping! Open Wednesdays [...]
News from Deadly Serious at Blists Hill…
The Deadly Serious exhibition is going well, we’ve had over 200 visitors so far! If you get the chance to come and see us this afternoon you could get involved in our second free workshop and help create a giant textile mural of a Victorian garden. 1pm – 5pm. No booking necessary, just drop in [...]
Free drop in workshops at the Deadly Serious Exhibition
The Deadly Serious exhibition takes place at Blists Hill Victorian Town, at the Old Ticket Office from Saturday 28th May to Wednesday 1st June, and we’re running some fantastic free workshops that will be open to members of the public. Saturday 28th May, 11am to 1pm and 2pm to 4pm Nationally recognised painter Tanya Raabe, [...]
The Launch Party for Unhindered & Deadly Serious!
Tonight’s a big night for Arty Party – we’re combining one of our fabulous social nights with the launch party for ‘Unhindered and Deadly Serious’, a series of exhibitions that we’re putting on across Telford over this week and next. You can find all the info on the 3 exhibitions on our ‘Exhibitions’ page. Hope [...]
Unhindered & Deadly Serious
3 exhibitions across Telford by Learning Disabled Artists ‘Unhindered’ A selection of work produced over the last 3 years from the Work+Play visual arts programme Wednesday 25th May – Saturday 11th June 2011 Galleries Live, Central Square, Telford Town Centre. Open: Wednesday to Saturday 10am to 4pm. The Olive Tree Wine Bar, 29 High Street, Ironbridge. Open: Monday [...]
Arty Party’s animation ‘Let Me In’ goes on the road.
‘Let me in’ ,the fantastic animation you can view at the bottom of our homepage, has been shown to audiences in Wolverhampton, Oxford and Texas USA this month. The animation was received with much laughter and applause at , The Flip festival , Wolverhampton, The Flash Forward festival in Oxford and at Cinema Touching Disability [...]
Fragments of Dark – Review and photos (click on this banner)
Over 750 people came to experience the installation and performance of “Fragments of Dark” at Blists Hill as part of the ‘Ghostly Gaslight Night’ Halloween celebration.Arty Party artists worked alongside the Arty Party performance group members to create sound-scapes, dramatic shadows, and eerie performances. Old keys, bones and strange medical implements swung as if [...]
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