Nat Whitney
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...
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Sophie Fox
Feb 282 min
Magic Online - More Than Adults-in-Waiting
What very young children might tell us about time, music and philosophy if we started asking better questions? Charlotte Arculus is a bag...
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Sophie Fox
Jan 221 min
Magic Online Spring Buffet!
A pick and mix of some of our favourite things! Our Magic Online Spring Programme is here - offering a variety of delights for you to dip...
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Sue Parr
Jan 223 min
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...
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Sophie Fox
Nov 9, 20231 min
Takeshi Matsumoto - Early Years Incubate 2024
Club Origami creator, Takeshi Matsumoto is joining us next February to offer a three-day workshop which invites participants to delve...
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Sophie Fox
May 19, 20231 min
Artist Bursaries!
This is an amazing opportunity for two artists to join Magic Acorns for creative professional development 'Early Years Incubate' and 'The...
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Sophie Fox
May 18, 20232 min
Join our Early Years Incubate this Summer!
Early Years Incubate is a very special one-off professional development opportunity to work with Helena Rodrigues of Companhia de Música...
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Sophie Fox
Mar 15, 20231 min
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...
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Sophie Fox
Feb 2, 20232 min
Magic Online - Early Years Creation Course.
Join us for this amazing opportunity to learn with theatre maker, designer and performer Joy Haynes on this very special Magic Digital...
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Sophie Fox
Nov 16, 20221 min
"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...
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Sophie Fox
Nov 14, 20221 min
Acorn Network - Licensed to be Creative!
Brilliant to spend the afternoon at the University Centre of West Anglia in Kings Lynn last week for our latest Acorn Network. There...
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Sophie Fox
Nov 9, 20221 min
"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...
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Sophie Fox
Nov 2, 20221 min
"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...
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Sophie Fox
Feb 25, 20225 min
Improvisation and the giving of space
The following is a transcript of the presentation of "In-Between Spaces: Improvisation and the giving of temporal and physical space" at...
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Claire Atherton
Feb 17, 20223 min
Space & Time to Play
“The drive to play freely is a basic, biological drive. Lack of free play may not kill the physical body, as would lack of food, air or...
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Sophie Fox
Feb 10, 20221 min
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...
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Xenia Horne
Feb 4, 20225 min
Subtle Sounds and Serendipitous Connections
Reflections on visiting a nursery setting as part of Germination project. I love the serendipitous connections that Germination is...
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Charlotte Jolly
Jan 8, 20223 min
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...
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Bella Askew
Dec 17, 20212 min
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...
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Ruby Holness
Dec 10, 20213 min
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...
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