Join in from Home

Colour photograph of a woman sitting in a wheelchair working at her kitchen table, with craft materials and a cup of tea in front of herWelcome! You can join in with the accessible arts activities here wherever you are in the world, mostly using materials that you will already have at home. If you wish you can share your work with us and our audiences via info@together2012.org.uk  You can also Watch films and Listen to music with us. Click here for further details of our online and phone-based Clubs programme.

Photograph of a canvas banner, with the name Together! 2012 written at the bottom in colourful graffiti, with spray painted symbols above of different art forms such as a palette and brushes, camera, book, needle and cotton, clapperboard, microphone etcJoin in with the:

You can also Join in with Tracy, Join in with Sterre, and join in with the Kitchen Carnival.


Video Introduction:

BSL Video Introduction


ART CLUB
Contribute to our international Hands Project and celebrate your uniqueness and membership of the human race. Full instructions are on the linked page – the photograph is of hands made at the Newham Show in July 2019.

You can also join in with the Together! Art Club from 11am-12 noon on Tuesdays (Make & Natter) and Fridays (Still life) on Zoom – contact info@together2012.org.uk for details. 


DANCE CLUB

The Together! Dance Club meets on the fourth Monday of each month to create masked dance for the screen. We are currently meeting on Zoom from 11am-12noon — contact info@together2012.org.uk for details. You can watch the Dance Club’s very first film here, where they made masks from paper plates, used coloured fabric for costumes and played percussion to create a soundtrack. As you will see, simple movements can still be very effective.

Make your own mask using whatever you have available such as paper plates, bags and boxes — it can be as big or small as you like — and video yourself dancing in it. If you’d like to share it with us and our social media followers, send it to info@together2012.org.uk either as a link or a download (free transfer sites include Dropbox and WeTransfer). For soundtrack ideas, see how to Make Your Own Percussion Instruments.


 


If you are temporarily or permanently chair-based, the warm-up here has been created by our associate wheelchair dance company Folk in Motion, and focusses on relaxing your upper body and improving your breathing.


MUSIC CLUBColour photograph of a recycled plastic water bottle decorated with marker pens and ribbons with buttons and small sticks inside.
The Together! Music Club is currently closed, but we are running Zoom Together! poetry and music Open Mic nights from 7-8pm on the first Thursday of each month (not January). Contact info@together2012.org.uk for more information.

On this website you can learn how to Make your own Kitchen Carnival Percussion Instruments from recycled kitchen materials, and play along with the Summer Together! 2019 Carnival Percussion Workshops with Xi-mali Kadeena-Guscos. Or for the technically minded, Make Your Own Tactile Sound Device and feel your favourite tracks as you listen to them. Share your photographs and films of your work with us (use free transfer sites such as Dropbox and WeTransfer to share films) at info@together2012.org.uk and we will share these with our followers on social media. 


Colour photograph of red trophies with Feng Shui cats on top of each of them, waiting to be presented

PHOTOGRAPHERS AND FILMMAKERS CLUB
The Photographers and Filmmakers Club meets on Zoom from 11am-12noon on the second Monday of each month — contact info@together2012.org.uk for details. We also have a video workshop available from Hazel Brill on making fingers and paper scruffy puppets.

We’d love to see the films you are making at home, whatever the subject or genre (free transfer sites include Dropbox and WeTransfer to info@together2012.org.uk). Why not enter our Film Festival? Remember there are lots of YouTube videos and websites where you can learn and improve filmmaking and photography skills. It’s not how expensive your phone or camera is that matters, it’s what you do with it.


POP-UP POETRY CLUB

The Pop-Up Poetry Club meets from 10.30am to 12noon on Wednesday mornings on Zoom. Contact info@together2012.org.uk for more information. We’d love to see your poems, whether written, Signed or filmed and whatever the subject or length, and to share them with our followers — send contributions to info@together2012.org.uk