Get the Message - Camden Art Centre

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Date 1 Sep 2012/31 Jul 2013

Running since 2002, Get the Message is a collaborative project between young people with learning disabilities, teachers and artists

The project aims to challenge perceptions of disability as a limitation through collaborative activities which champion all forms of communication and self expression. Through encounters with contemporary art practice both in galleries and working with artists, Get the Message offers innovative approaches to working with young people with profound and multiple learning disabilities.

In 2012 artists Emma McGarry and Adam Walker worked with The Bridge School and The Village School to explore the theme of ‘Mapping’. The year culminated with an exhibition of students’ work and a series of events for schools and families to accompany the exhibition.

Alongside Get the Message, Camden Arts Centre was looking to instigate creative and professional development for artists and teachers through the ongoing mentoring scheme (running since 2009) and CPD for teachers and arts educators.

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Get the Message: In Conversation

Tuesday 10 July, 5.00 – 6.00pm

Get the Message proudly celebrated its tenth year of delivering a collaborative arts project between artists and special educational needs schools. Over the course of ten years, Get the Message was been led by five artists and over 200 pupils, bringing together relationships between contemporary art, performative ways of working together and varied forms of expression and communication.

To mark the occasion, Camden Art Centre hosted an in conversation between the two project artists Judith Brocklehurst and Georgie Manly and artist and curator Jeremy Deller. Brocklehurst and Manly have been collaboratively leading Get the Message since 2009, and Deller the co-curator of the current exhibition The Bruce Lacey Experience with art historian Professor David Alan Mellor. The in conversation focused on artists’ collaboration with each other and with broad and varied audiences.

This event was followed by a drink reception and private view of the Get the Message Exhibition in the Artists’ Studio.

Get the Message is currently supported by Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and Outset Family.

Get the Message: Exhibition Preview

Tuesday 10 July, 7.00 – 8.30pm
Get the Message proudly celebrated its tenth year of delivering a collaborative arts project between artists and special educational needs schools.

Preview and drinks reception for the new Get the Message Exhibition where visitors had an exclusive preview of works made in collaboration between artists Judith Brocklehurst and Georgie Manly and pupils from The Bridge School, Jack Taylor School and The Village School. An introduction from Jenni Lomax is at 7.30pm.

Get the Message is currently supported by Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and Outset Family.

Café Curio Discussion: Get the Message

Wednesday 10 July, 5.00 – 6.00pm
Get the Message project artists Emma McGarry and Adam Walker considered how their work as artists generates dynamic content for collaborative learning, in a discussion chaired by Alex Schady, Programme Director at Central Saint Martins.

The event was followed by a special viewing of the Get the Message exhibition in the Artists’ Studio.

Get the Message sees collaboration between young people with learning disabilities, artists and teachers. The work responds to the theme of mapping and is created by students from The Village School in Brent and The Bridge School in Islington.

Get the Message Exhibition

Wednesday 11 – Sunday 15 July 2012

Pupils The Bridge School, Jack Taylor School and The Village School have been exploring the theme of buildings and architecture with artists Judith Brocklehurst and Georgie Manly. We recognise the achievements of the pupils, teachers and artists with a week-long exhibition in the Artists’ Studio.

Over the course of the year pupils have been using performance and role play as a way of testing building materials and tools. Each session has produced a series of playful works in response to Camden Arts Centre and their school environments.

A private view and drinks reception for this exhibition took place on Tuesday 10 July, after a unique ‘In Conversation’ event, to celebrate the tenth year of delivering this collaborative arts project between artists and special educational needs schools.

Get the Message is currently supported by The Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.