Come on Down 2013

This year we are hosting Come on Down Festival on Tuesday 8th, Wednesday 9th and Thursday 10th October.

If you would like to share something at the festival please get in touch and let us know what it is, and we will consider adding it to the programme. Email us at ComeOnDownFestival@headwayarts.co.uk

Download the flyer here. [pdf]

Blyth Town Fair 20th & 21st July

Seven Stars Performing at Blyth Town Fair 

11.20am Saturday: Seven Stars Learning Disabled Theatre Co. will perform their latest show George and the Worm. The performance will take place in front of the main stage on the marketplace.

Headway Arts will also be running free creative workshops on Saturday & Sunday, 10am-4pm.
Come along to the "market garden" to see some giant prize-winning vegetables children from local schools have created, and make your very own fabulous flower (to take away or add to the display!)

Headway Arts are Moving

Headway Arts has a temporary phone number - 07543 753 733
and a temporary office address -
Headway Arts c/o The Buffalo Community Centre
55 Regent Street
Blyth
NE24 1LL
Seven Stars continue to work at St. Cuthbert's Church Hall.
Read more at www.headwayhq.co.uk or facebook.com/HeadwayArts

We have moved!

Our new address is:
Headway ArtSpace
The Old Church
Waterloo Road
 Blyth
Northumberland
NE24 1BY

Our telephone number is still 01670 351962 and our email address is still admin@headwayarts.co.uk

Arthur's Life

Seven Stars will be performing their latest show Arthur's Life on Thursday 11th October.

If you'd like to attend please contact Headway Arts on

01670 351962 or admin@headwayarts.co.uk

Embrace Create Connect

Andy & Kris of Seven Stars and Alison and Chris of Headway Arts are on their way to Embrace Create Connect conference - a national event about arts and learning disability.

Read more here:
http://www.embracecreateconnect.co.uk
http://www2.le.ac.uk/news
Review by Oska Bright
Review by Heart n Soul

See updates from the day by various people at the conference:
https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/%23EmbraceCreateConnect

See more of our photos here

Seven Stars Newshound Reporters

Tim: "Yesterday we hosted our own festival called Come On Down. This year it was at the Isabella Community Centre in Blyth."

Andy: "We had groups from different places like Berwick Northstar Centre who did line dancing and also Gillian did a tap dance. And also Twisting Ducks had two videos about what they can do. Barndale and Dilston College and also the SpLinter Group came down. Bedlington Day Centre did a puppet show 'the Rose of Bedlington' in the afternoon. We watched a video about last year when we made a hat. We sang I Had A Dream, When I Say Nothing At All and then Ain't No Sugar Left Blues."

Tim: "We wrote Ain't No Sugar Left Blues ourselves."

Ann: "I like meeting people lots. Dinner was very good. Lots to eat. I enjoyed people working with us. I liked the singing and talking."

Gavin: "I enjoyed the videos by Twisting Ducks, especially the cars in the videos!"

Darren: "I enjoyed playing Kroll in our shadow puppet story, and Bedlington's shadow puppet story was good too."

Alan: "Gavin had the Sea Lord and he was good at it. I liked other people's work."

Mark: "I enjoyed playing Killian who was the hero. I enjoyed watching videos and the hat video."

Paula and Anthony's list of materials you will need to create your own shadow puppet play:
card, sticks, tape, scissors, dream music, lights, black pens, a white sheet, light and a 'mint' story.

 Sea Lord preparing to make shadows

Killian's Quest

See more photos from the festival at the Headway Arts blog.

Come On Down - Seven Stars Newshound Reports

Watch out for our Seven Stars Newshound Reports coming soon after a fantastic first day (of three) today of our 8th Come On Down International Festival of Creativity for Learning Disabled People. Brilliant work on show today: Sword & Sorcery Storytelling in self-penned 'Killians Quest' from our very own Seven Stars, who also compared the bill. Local ghost story 'The Rose of Bedlington' with beautiful sound beam music from Shadow Stories. An fine informative film from Twisting Ducks. Then Northstar 'bringing us sunshine' from Berwick topped off with some Hill Billy Rock. Splinter Group & The Stars rounded up the day with a good ole live ukelele sing-along. Did we have a good time? Darn tootin we did! Tomorrow is our Schools Day...

We had a beautiful creative day today and it's not over yet!

Do let us know if you'd like to Come on Down too...

Alison

Alison Walton-Robson
Creative Director