On Monday, our Marketing Manager interviewed musical savant and creative:space regular, pianist Derek Paravicini and his manager Adam Ockelford for our upcoming edition of re:create.
This is a clip of Derek playing L.O.V.E (by Nat King Cole), which is the piece he played at his first big concert at the Barbican, aged 9.
We are delighted to have secured a grant of £62,000 from The Queen’s Silver Jubilee Trust, which is enabling us to develop further two of our major arts projects: a creative arts programme for young carers; and Inside Stories, our creative writing and illustration project for young offenders. The funding will give more than 100 young carers and up to 30 young offenders the opportunity to take part in creative arts activities that will enable them to develop skills to benefit themselves and help others.
This week, three of our projects are drawing to a close for this year with final performances: Speak With My Voice (our creative writing and music project at Deptford Reach in Lewisham for people at the margins of society), which finished today; creative: u~turn (our arts programme for vulnerable women who attend U-Turn Centre), which finished on Monday and creative:voices (our arts project for carers in Lewisham), which finishes this Saturday.
