Taking part
how to get involved
If you would like a project to take place in your community let us know using the contact us page.
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Work Experience/Internships
As one of the largest arts organisations in the county, we get a number of requests each year to provide work experience places.
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Ancient Salt Making at Anderby Creek – Sunday 25 March 10-4pm
Join artsNK and archaeologists at Anderby Creek on the 25th March 10-4 pm for this free drop in event.
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CANCELLED Birds & Bees ~ Free Animal Box Making Workshop ~ Sat 11 Feb 2012
This event has been CANCELLED due to the adverse weather conditions forecast for tomorrow and Saturday.
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Big Dance ~ Schools Pledge
The Big Dance Schools Pledge is back for 2012 and this year we’re hoping it will be bigger and better than ever before. The world record takes place on 18 May 2012, the same day that the Olympic Torch arrives in the UK.
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Curiosities on The Edge
The aim of this project will be to use the new Structures on the Edge (SOTE) as inspiration for small sculptural artworks. These artworks will be durable so that they can be picked up and handled and their size will fit into an adult hand. They will be stored in three boxes that contain small drawers which can be explored to reveal what treasures it beholds. Each draw will hold one artwork. The boxes will be available for visitors and schools to use when coming to the coast to view the SOTE.
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Local animation group to be launched
Be a part of anIM, an exciting new animation group based in Sleaford, led by Lincoln artist, Gavin Street.
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Luca Silvestrini’s Protein presents… LOL (Lots of Love) @ LPAC
Known for mining witty and profound dance theatre from everyday life, Luca Silvestrini’s award-winning Protein has struck dance gold with LOL (lots of love). This timely, critically acclaimed production delves into the world of electronic communication to look at love and human connection.
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Osbournby Jubilee Bench
Osbournby Parish Council, representing a small village south of Sleaford, have reached deep into their limited resources to help fund a fantastic new bench for the village green as part of their celebration of the Queen’s Jubilee.
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Break into Dance
Are you looking for a fun and creative way for you or your children to keep fit this year? If so, why not try something a bit different with artsNK’s hip hop classes?
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New Dates for Nettles Volunteers – Jan 16, Feb 13, Mar 12
Nettles Volunteer dates for Jan, Feb and March 2012
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Calling all Schools in Lincolnshire ~ The Big Dance Pledge 2012
The Big Dance Schools Pledge 2012 is part of the Big Dance project which is the UK’s biggest ever celebration of dance. The Big Dance Schools Pledge is open to all schools and accessible to all abilities.
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Dance Team Newsletter – Winter 2011
To download a copy of the Dance Team Newsletter for Winter 2011 please click on link
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Thinking Inside the Box!
Artist Alex Murdin is pushing at the edge of digital design and laser technology to create some truly remarkable and beautiful pieces of public art for Wellingore, to the west of Sleaford.
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Excellence, Friendship, Courage, Determination, Inspiration & Equality
Sa Fire celebrated: Respect, Excellence, Friendship, Courage, Determination, Inspiration and Equality. Do these ring a bell?
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Volunteer at The Nettles ~ Oct, Nov & Dec 2011 dates
We are always looking for volunteers to assist with projects. The Nettles in Sleaford is a fine example of what can be achieved when communities come together.
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TRUE MOTION- Lincolnshire County U.Dance Platform 2012
To download an application for U Dance see full story…
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Schools
The arts are an ideal way to enhance the curriculum.
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Dance Company Auditions
Do you enjoy dancing? Would you like to perform? If so, don’t miss out on the chance to share your talent with others! Auditions are being held by two of the county’s award winning youth dance companies – kNacKer’d and Fresh 101.
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TAKE PART ~ TOTT Live! Open Mic Night
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Arts Council England Re-launch Artsmark
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Take Part ~ Sa Fire Gabriel Dawe Workshops
You are invited to join in unique workshops during the week of October 22nd with international textile artist Gabriel Dawe and the artsNK team.
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Take Part in the Sa Fire Intergenerational Choir
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of an intergenerational choir singing two newly written and arranged songs by international musician Jo Freya.
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Take Part in the Sa Fire Craft Workshops ~ Sept & Oct dates
Sa Fire artsNK Visual Arts Workshops will take place in the Craft Workshop at the National Centre for Craft and Design from 10am-3pm on the following dates;
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Unplugged – Experience live acoustic music
Do you enjoy live music? Then why not come along to The National Centre for Craft & Design on the first Tuesday of each month to Unplugged.
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ACTion @ TOTT – Auditions for Wild West Pantomime!
Looking for something a little different to do on dark winter evenings? If so, why not audition for the Terry O’Toole Theatre’s community pantomime on 25 and 27 September?
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Open Mic Night ~ Live @ TOTT
From Sunday 18th September 7pm onwards and every 3rd Sunday of the month thereafter The Mic is yours – Share your songs, your thought, your words.
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Take Part @ TOTT ~ Reading Group and Open Mic Nights
TOTT Reading Group and Open Mic Nights
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Salt of the Earth on the East Coast
Visitors to the Bathing Beauties Festival in Mablethorpe can work with professional artists from artsNK to build listening devices and wind instruments, as well as creative installations with salt on Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 September.
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Come Dancing ~ New dance classes in your area
With the start of the new school term, comes the launch of youth dance classes in North Kesteven – and now’s the time to sign up!
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African drums for all!
Discover fast paced, upbeat, African drum playing every Tuesday at the North Kesteven Centre in North Hykeham.
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Graduate Internship ~ Dance
We are offering an internship to a graduate who is interested in gaining experience of working in the dance sector. The Intern will learn about a variety of different areas of the organisation working at artsNK’s office in Sleaford. They will assist the Dance Development team in the planning, administration and management of TRUE MOTION, Lincolnshire’s U.Dance Platform, which is a level 2 county event.
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4th Spires & Steeples Challenge ~ Sunday 16th October
The fourth annual Spires & Steeples Challenge, which takes place on Sunday 16th October has so far received some very strong support from the local community, in what is rapidly becoming an event attracting national and local participants alike. National entries to this 26 or 13 mile charity run or walk from Lincoln Castle or Metheringham to Sleaford, include participants from London, Essex, Staffordshire, Wiltshire, Sunderland and Glasgow.
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A Fine Bronze – Arts Award
During the week Monday 25th to Friday 29th July, 20 young people between the ages of 11 and 25 will be taking part in a new artsNK initiative leading to an arts qualification
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Oars & Spires ~ Row together from Lincoln to Sleaford
We are looking for volunteers to take their seat on the rowing machine and make a contribution to the challenge and to the creation of an unusual, engaging, intriguing and stimulating Sa Fire experience.
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Sa Fire Craft Workshops @ Branston in June & July ~ New Date added & change of venue
artsNK are looking for residents of all ages, abilities and artistic experience to get involved. We need help with everything from paper- mache to ironing, from singing to sewing.
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Chipping away over time shows the way
Creativity is alive and well in Wellingore.
Last year artsNK ran some taster workshops in Wellingore, as part of the parish Council’s refurbishment of their Mill Green. The residents took to carving like a wood pecker to wood, and have formed themselves into a group, and are currently working with artsNK associate artist Helen Link.
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St Denys steals the show at the Vitality Showcase
Young Hearts Run Free…
Over 300 Vitality members demonstrated that growing a little older does not mean becoming inactive and sedentary. The over sixties movement and music groups from around the county gathered at the Epic Centre, Lincoln, on Thursday 16th June to celebrate their achievements over the past two years.
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On with the Dance!
Introduction to Dance Teaching & Developing Creativity through Dance
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Sa Fire Festival – Visual Arts Workshops @ Nocton in May
Join the Visual Arts Team in a series of workshops to take place at Nocton Village Hall from Monday 16th May – Saturday 21st May (inclusive) at Nocton Village Hall.
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SaFire Festival – Singing Auditions – 26th April
artsNK are holding auditions for two young singers aged 16 to 20 years who have strong voices and are happy to sing unaccompanied
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SaFire – Calling all Budding Actors
If you are a budding actor, come be a part of one of Lincolnshire’s largest cultural events – the SaFire Festival!
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MADD Summer- Shadowing Opportunities for Performing Arts Students
For the past 8 years artsNK and North Kesteven School have worked in partnership to run a successful Performing Arts Summer School for children aged 8 – 14. Music, dance and drama workshops take place throughout the week culminating in a performance for family and friends on the final day.
We are offering 3 students, over the age of 18, (1 Music, 1 Dance and 1 Drama) the opportunity to shadow an established artist at this year’s Summer School. Each student will work alongside a more experienced practitioner to improve their workshop and teaching skills and gain real, hands on experience of delivering music, dance or drama sessions.
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SaFire Festival – Withy Willow Lincoln IMP Workshops
Learn something new this April! Local people are being invited to come along and use a selection of twine, branches and vines to create a large-scale freeform willow sculpture, in the shape of an imp!
Tuition and guidance will be provided by expert weaver, Alison Walling – no experience is necessary, so come and give it a go.
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Cultural Olympiad Programme – SaFire Festival
artsNK have been extremely fortunate to secure funding to enable us to run one of the largest cultural festivals in the County. It is an opportunity for local residents to shape and celebrate what makes their community special and be part of the national Cultural Olympiad programme.
There will be four spectacular festivals taking place along the Spires and Steeples Arts and Heritage Trail between Lincoln and Sleaford beginning in May and culminating in October.
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SoundLINCS – Making Noise at The Hub
After the success of a series of pilot projects around the county, soundLINCS – Lincolnshire Music Development Agency – has launched its ‘Making Noise’ workshops for children and young people with special needs in the Sleaford area.
The music-making workshops are taking place at The Hub on Sleaford’s Carre Street on Sunday afternoons until the end of May, running from 2.00pm to 4.00pm.
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Cultural Olympiad – Sa Fire Festival
The Sa Fire Festival will start in May 2011 and end with a fantastic finale in October. It will bring history to life in a spectacular festival of light, puppets, pyrotechnics, dance, music and extravagant performance.
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African Drums for all
artsNK is offering a FREE session in January to those who’d like to give drumming a go! Prices range from £3 to £5 per session thereafter.
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Food Glorious Food
Food Glorious Food is a taster project in Lincolnshire by artsNK, funded by Renaissance East Midlands and North Kesteven District Council and inspired by the Parish and Partnership Schemes for Washingborough, Heighington and Branston.
It’s about bringing residents together to share stories about food as a relection of our culture and history.
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artsNK deliver Arts Awards
artsNK’s Dance Development Team are now running Bronze and Silver Arts Awards in your area.
If you are interested in learning to dance, learning about being an audience member (of theatre & dance), performing dance and then evaluating what you have done, then the Arts Award is for you!
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Fields of Fashion
artsNK are excited at the prospect of working with the School of Art and Design at Nottingham Trent University and its ‘Fields of Fashion’ research group to develop some projects that explore the history of rural clothing as a reflection of cultural and social change.
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kNacKer’d Dance Group Company
kNacKer’d Youth Dance Company are artsNK’s Youth Contemporary Dance Company
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Woolly Spires – St Denys’ Church on a trip to the Seaside
First public appearance of the 3D woolly version of St Denys Church, Sleaford at the Bathing Beauties Festival.
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Taking Creativity to the Edge
artsNK have been commissioned to co-ordinate new public art commissions on the East Coast and we showcased some of our projects at the fourth annual Bathing Beauties Festival which took place from 17– 19 Sept 2010 between Mablethorpe and Sutton-On-Sea
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New Youth Dance & Hip Hop Classes in North Kesteven
artsNK provides a range of dance classes throughout North Kesteven. All our classes are led by experienced, professional teachers and are open to people of all abilities.
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Community Theatre Group
January saw the successful launch of the Terry O’Toole Theatre’s new community theatre company in-residence, ACTion@TOTT
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Cultural Oympiad Inspire Programme
artsNK and NKDC are keen to encourage village residents, groups and communities to get excited and involved in the Cultural Olympiad, taking place in Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire and Rutland during 2011.
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Community Projects
Community based projects are at the heart of the artsNK programme, offering people the chance to take part, as well as creating artworks that are locally shaped.
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Health classes for the over 60s
If you are interested in maintaining a healthy lifestyle then why not join one of our Vitality Classes?
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African Drumming classes
Whether you’re an experienced African Drummer or want to have a go for the first time then why not come along to one of artsNK’s classes?
