Collage Arts

Collage Arts logoCollage Arts (formerly Haringey Arts Council) is a leading arts development, training and creative regeneration organisation based in Haringey’s Cultural Quarter. For over 20 years the organisation has created opportunities for greater participation in the arts and creative industries for the whole community through a range of learning programmes, business support services, facilities and resources.

 

We seek to provide greater access and support to under-represented sections of the community including black and minority ethnic communities, asylum seekers, women, people with disabilities and ex-offenders by offering skills, experience and opportunities in music, film, performing arts, visual arts, and multimedia, which can lead onto progression routes in further and higher education, employment and entrepreneurship.

 

As part of our commitment to cultural regeneration Collage Arts has developed two buildings, Chocolate Factory 1 & 2, for the artistic community providing affordable studio spaces. Collage Arts’ vision for the Chocolate Factory complex has been the creation of a vibrant centre in the creative industries where people from all social backgrounds can participate and for this to be the key catalyst within the development of Wood Green’s Cultural Quarter. From two derelict and unusable buildings, a community of over 180 artists and creative businesses has been established, based in the heart of the Cultural Quarter, and this is a thriving hub of creative talent and excellence which produces a diverse mix of artforms including visual arts and design, music, film and technological innovation in varying forms.

 

We have established a range of accredited creative learning programmes over the past 10 years around music, film and performing arts (accredited through the Open College Network and NCFE awarding bodies). Currently, we offer a Level 3 programme in partnership with City & Islington College, the Commercial Music Programme. This course covers business and technical areas of the music industry and is free or subsidised for unwaged people. We also offer professional impartial advice and guidance to anyone with a keen interest in developing a career or business in the Creative Industries.

 

Collage Arts is the lead partner of the ArtWork partnership that is running a pan-London youth project for 16-18 year olds who are Not in Education, Employment or Training and wishing to improve their prospects and opportunities in the creative industries. ArtWorks offers information, advice, training and guidance, followed by a supported 6-months creative industries placement. This project is co-financed by European Social Fund and Learning & Skills Council.

 

We are able to provide a platform for local established and emerging artists, musicians, creative businesses, film makers, writers and designers through regular events like: Open Studios, Urban Academy Jam Sessions, Community Festivals, showcases, conferences and creative industry events.

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Below are video clips of Craig and Daniel, our STEP crossworkers:

 

 

Unheard Voices

‘MISSING'
Short synopsis
 
A boy has gone missing. So what’s it got to do with a group of skateboarders journeying across East London?   We find out that he’s a boy with a bad reputation, always in trouble with the police. We also discover that he has bullied one of the skateboarders. What will happen when their paths cross?
 
Missing is a short cinema film devised and performed by members of the Brampton Manor School skateboard club and shot on HD by a professional crew. The story was developed with the school students in improvisation workshops and is based on their experiences as young skateboarders. They interviewed and chose the director and worked with him and the producer to write the script before performing in the film.
 
Background
 
Made in partnership with Hi8us, Collage Arts Unheard Voices Fund works in collaboration with young people to equip them with the technical and creative skills to tell their own stories through the creation of innovative media products. Besides the participants in front of the camera, the production used trainees on the shoot and the film was edited by an ex-Hi8us trainee. The STEP crossworkers were part of this team supporting the young people throughout the project.