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"How do songs emerge from the early years process? Who is involved? Who is the composer of a riff born in a workshop context surrounded...
Sophie Fox
Sep 7, 20241 min read
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Memories from First Light Festival with Suffolk Artlink
Image Credits to Suffolk Artlink and Lewis Wickwar. A beautiful sunny day! Me and Natalie Willis met at Stonecutters Way and filled our...
Sue Parr
Aug 12, 20244 min read
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Rethinking my connection to movement and music
Hello I’m Nat and I’m an audio-visual participatory artist and between September 2023 and March 2024 I was a trainee early years music...
Nat Whitney
Apr 30, 20243 min read
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I could only hum but others were singing
On the 14th and 15th of July last Summer I took part in Early Years Incubate. This was a two day professional development opportunity...
Sue Parr
Jan 22, 20243 min read
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What's On at Magic Acorns for families in GY!
We have got some wonderful weekly sessions starting this term for families living in Great Yarmouth! Wednesdays Music Garden is a playful...
Sophie Fox
Sep 5, 20231 min read
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Opportunity - Join us for a creative, playful traineeship!
The deadline for this opportunity has now passed. Please sign up to our mailing list to hear about our next traineeships. We are looking...
Sophie Fox
Mar 15, 20231 min read
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Inside Out Network
Last week at our online Acorn Network Jess Pitt and Barbara Cavanagh shared the Inside Out research project. "The Inside Out research...
Sophie Fox
Feb 3, 20231 min read
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"The first thing that struck me was the vulnerability."
In this final episode of the Germination podcast series Dr. Jessica Pitt is in conversation with Dr. Mary Stakelum, academic, outside eye...
Sophie Fox
Nov 16, 20221 min read
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"Time disappears, this is what it must be like for a child playing"
In the second episode of the Germination Podcast series Jess Pitt is in conversation with Hope Watson, Gemination mentee and early...
Sophie Fox
Nov 9, 20221 min read
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"It felt like it was filling my heart and soul."
Earlier this year we spoke to Bella who was one of the participants who took park in our Germination project. Germination was a...
Sophie Fox
Nov 2, 20221 min read
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Making Connections - Acorn Network
Britten Pears Arts, Suffolk Artlink and Suffolk Libraries co-curated this network day, sharing their ongoing projects around early years...
Sophie Fox
Jul 29, 20221 min read
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Germination Network Sharing
We were so excited to be able to share this Youth Music funded project with the Acorn Network. This free online network event was a...
Sophie Fox
Feb 10, 20221 min read
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Subtle Sounds and Serendipitous Connections
Reflections on visiting a nursery setting as part of Germination project. I love the serendipitous connections that Germination is...
Xenia Horne
Feb 4, 20225 min read
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Sonic Possibilities - Remembering the art of play
I came to the Germination project with great enthusiasm, armed with my clarinet and voice with a decade of classical training under my...
Charlotte Jolly
Jan 8, 20223 min read
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Submitting to the present moment
The training days and play days at PRIMEYARC in Great Yarmouth were simultaneously inspiring and energising. They prepared us in a very...
Bella Askew
Dec 17, 20212 min read
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Practicing a state of not knowing
Throughout Germination, we have been practicing a state of not knowing, working against the tide of certain teleological thought. For the...
Ruby Holness
Dec 10, 20213 min read
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OPPORTUNITY for creative individuals - Paid professional development
Magic Acorns have been granted Youth Music funding to deliver an opportunity for emerging artists, musicians and practitioners to develop...
savaradulovic
Jul 8, 20211 min read
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An observation at In-Between Spaces: A Symphony of Play
The third session of the morning was with a family group of two children, one a toddler (T) and the other possibly 6-8 months (B) they...
Jessica Pitt
Jun 7, 20214 min read
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Making In-Between Spaces
This short film is a "fly on the wall" look at the making of ACE funded arts residency "In-Between Spaces". Set in the context of a...
Sophie Fox
May 20, 20211 min read
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Wordless Musicking - Multiple Perspectives
This is the transcript and slides from Sophie Fox's presentation of her dissertation research, presented at MERYC England, Research...
Sophie Fox
Apr 11, 20219 min read
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