Spring courses – Apply Now!!!!

FREE CREATIVE COURSES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AGED 13 – 19 (25 WITH DISABILITY)
The project starts on Saturday 14th March with an introductory day with weekly sessions following from March – June 2009

Through participating in this project, you’ll also be able to complete a Bronze Level Arts Award and also get involved with an exciting event to mark the end of the whole project, happening on Newington Green in June.

Remember… anyone can take part. It doesn’t matter where you live or whether you’ve been involved with the Autumn courses.
They are all slightly different to last time so we’d love to have you back!
Booking can be done online through www.newingtongreen-nowandthen.org.uk
If you require any further details please do not hesitate to contact us.

We look forward to seeing you on the course

PHotOGraHY

 

 

 

by Weronika Krojiniak

PhOtOgRaPhY

End event celebration

Hi Guys

HaPpY NeW YEAR, I hope you had a relax two weeks, below are some pictures of the end event which took place in December.

 

Arts Award

We’ve made a new catergory called Arts Award. This page has some general information that will help you with your arts award portfolio for example; I have posted my details about my trip to the women’s Library. Guy’s please feel free and  encouraged to post your comments on the Blog about the Arts Award,  Holla @ u Guy’s L8er,

 See Ya

 Ndidi 

 

My day trip

Arts Award – My Trip

 

My day with the drama group at the Women’s Library was good, funky and inspirational.  My experience felt quite different because the library was so gorgeous that it looked more like a modern day arts museum. This trip was full of so much information and the Library was full of books, magazines, posters, flags, etc of well known women that made an impact during their generation. 

 

We researched about Mary Wollstonecraft she was born 1759 and was a popular feminist. She was extremely well known within the Newington green area especially for her book Vindication of the Rights of Women. We found out that she was married twice and had a daughter also called Mary Shelly who wrote the popular book, Frankenstein

 

We also looked at other saucy information i.e. her love letters, could you believe it that I actually saw her love letters but it didn’t sound so romantic because I found it quite hard to understand. Her letters were over 200 hundred years old( yes extremely delicate)  so we had to be very careful with the way we handled them, I actually felt like somebody doing a forensic test but without the gloves.

 

The trip was lively the Archivist was really good, with one of Mary’s letters, the capital S looked like a f  and the archivist explained that is was due to the typing style for that period. I had a good time in general and I would tell everybody to pop round the women’s Library to find interesting facts about powerful women, so girls give it up for girl power. 

 

Ndidi

 

Talk on Richard Price

For those of you who have been inside the Unitarian church you may recognise the name Richard Price…

He was a remarkable and influential man who was a philosopher and minister at the Unitarian Church.

There is a talk at the Unitarian Church on Newington Green, given by Evan Davis the well known economist, journalist and presenter on BBC Radio 4 Today. (also presenter of Dragons Den)

Book your tickets for the Richard Price Memorial Lecture either at the door, online through the Church’s own Website, or you may phone the number below:

Venue:   Unitarian Church, Newington Green, London N16

Date:     13th Novermber 2008

Time:     7.30 pm

Tickets: £15 / £10.

Phone:   08700 600 100.

Welcome

Welcome to the Newington Green Now & Then blog. This is the first week of the Autumn courses. We will be keeping you updated on their progress over the next few months. So keep popping back to see pictures, read about all the exciting things that are happening and listen to podcasts from the participants.