Beyond Words: A case study in AI-assisted artistic evaluation
An example of using ‘beyond-words’ methods as evaluation in action After a fruitful end of term reflection session of Music Garden – a 4-year training project…
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Magic Acorns creates spaces where children, families and artists can flourish through the arts.
Guided by children’s innate curiosity and creativity, we’re helping to shape early years arts practice with moments of joy, connection, and generation.
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Beyond Words: Using creative evaluation in community arts practice
At Magic Acorns we use ‘beyond-words’ methods to reflect on artistic practice – both immediately after each session, and summatively at the end of a…
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Watch Ripple Symposium sessions
Four sessions from the Ripple Early Years Arts Symposium are now available to buy and watch online. The symposium brought together inspiring voices, practical insights,…
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Your regular support helps us to provide free, high-quality creative experiences for babies, toddlers, families, and artists.
Children and families
We run free weekly sessions for 0-3s to explore materials, sound and objects, hosted by our specialist early years artists.
creative training
We deliver inspirational, cutting-edge creative professional development training to early years practitioners, artists and cultural organisations.
RESEARCH
We are creative researchers with an international reputation for boundary-pushing thinking in arts and education. Academic research, philosophy and thinking-with-children reflects and informs all our artistic work.
ARTIST DEVELOPMENT
We offer paid artistic opportunities, mentoring, and residencies to bring artists together with children and families to play, create and develop their practice.
