CRAE - Current Projects
June Bianchi
Intercultural Connections
An intercultural project exploring the role of the arts in expressing cultural synergy within a range of socio-cultural contexts. The project links schools in India and Bristol and students from Bath Spa University, as well as Centre Ocean Stream, a Kathakali Company based in Kerala and UK. Further development of current projects is supported by a National Teaching Fellowship (£10K with options for further awards up to £200K).
More than a Body's Work
More Than a Body's Work, an international, interdisciplinary project with young people on identity and visual image, supported by Arts Council (£7.5K), Arts and Business (£2K), ISIS Arts (£1K in kind), The Study Gallery (£3K in kind), Link Gallery (£1K in kind), The Ark Arts Centre (£2K in kind), European Union Social Fund (£1K), SRB partnership (£1K), Beautiful North (£2K in kind support), Middlesborough Council (£2K in kind), Psyche Gallery (£500 in kind), Tyneside Film Theatre Gallery (£500 in kind).
Scarves Reveal and Conceal
Scarves Reveal and Conceal, researching multiple perspectives on the scarf as a signifier of identity, through developing, changing and enhancing our bodily shape, size and appearance by physical manipulation and adornment. The project celebrates social and cultural diversity. Further development of both the above projects to be supported by a National Teaching Fellowship (£10K with options for further awards up to £200K).
Rachael Buchanan
Co-director of the Bath Spa University HEARTS (Higher Education, the Arts and Schools) project funded by Arts Council, Gulbenkian Foundation (£10K) to develop PGCE primary and early years trainees' understanding of the role of the arts in childrens' creative development.
PhD at Roehampton University: "An Interrogation of the Aims of Primary Physical Education through a Critical Analysis of a Range of Movement Programmes and Initiatives".
PGCert in Research Degree Supervision and Research Management (Bath Spa University).
Development of a "Fundamental Movement Skills" teacher resource with play station ideas and activities (commissioned by STEPS PD).
Translation and editing of the book "Des Enfants qui Ressissent" (Children who Succeed) for Micheline Flak, the director of Research on Yoga in Education.
2500 word review of the book "Merce Cunningham" (Roger Copeland) for the journal "Research in Dance Education".
Penny Hay
5x5x5=creativity
'researching children researching the world'
5x5x5=creativity is an arts-based, action research organisation that aims to collect evidence about children's life-wide creative capacities. Initiated in 2000 it originally involved five educational settings, five artists and five cultural centres working in partnership to support young children's creativity. Since then 55 research settings have been involved across 5 Local Authorities: Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset, Somerset and Wiltshire. Thanks to support from the Esm Fairbairn Foundation 5x5x5=creativity is now an independent organisation - a not-for-profit limited company with charitable status. Arts Council England, South West continues to support our work.
The objects of 5x5x5=creativity are the advancement of education in particular by:
- working in partnership with educators and artists, and with museums, galleries, theatres and other artistic and cultural settings to support children in their exploration, communication and expression of creative ideas;
- producing and disseminating research and guidance on creative values, relationships, dispositions and environments in order to help develop children as confident, creative thinkers; and
- providing integrated training and mentoring for educators, artists and those involved in other cultural settings in the above.
The project has been influenced by the creative educational approach of early years settings in Reggio Emilia in Northern Italy, but has developed a unique identity.
HEARTS Project (Higher Education, the Arts and Schools) project funded by Arts Council, Gulbenkian Foundation (?10K) to develop PGCE primary and early years trainees' understanding of the role of the arts in childrens' creative development.
Chris Lewis-Smith
Recently completed: 'Watergate Bay' (2007 film). Part of ongoing investigation into the relationship between, the lens and the moving body. Considerations include aspects of voyeurism, ownership, performance consciousness and re-presentation.
Current project: 'Swimmer', a video installation for the Royal West of England Academy. Part of an exhibition called Night.
http://www.rwa.org.uk/curpro.htm (link no longer available)