More aims completed

Another update now on my aims for the two weeks-

• After a very frustrating day shouting at the laptop in despair and deleting my account and starting over I have now managed to get myself a website up and running, it may need some further tweaking and obviously I shall aim to keep it as up to date as possible but the basics are there! http://www.hayleygreen.portfoliobox.net/

•  I met with Mark Webster at the university yesterday to talk about creating more contacts in the local area, building up my network and events I might be interested in getting involved with.  This was once again another successful meeting. Mark, like Rob Marsden also suggested B-Arts.  Mark was in meetings with one of the directors of B-Arts before he met me to arrange the 'Fringe Festival' which they have coming up. He mentioned a Community Day which is going to be part of the festival, and said that there may be a possibility for me to run some workshops on this day, or just help in general with the festival. So he has said he will email his contact at B-Arts and get back to me on arranging this.  He then suggested PiCL (Partners in Creative Learning) who are an organisation based in Newcastle under Lyme specialising in creative arts in the community, and using creative partnerships and arts council initiatives to engage communities. The next people he suggested that it might be useful for me to talk with were The Cultural Sisters who are a group of artist working creatively in communities, aiming to engage people through creative processes. Although mainly focusing projects on art based creativity they often collaborate with other create people, so this may work as a more diverse range of people to meet with.  Finally Mark discussed some groups in Wolverhampton and a Black Country touring arts company if I want to look further a field. And he has given me the name of someone else in the Creative Communities unit at the university whose focus may be more fitting with theatre, so he suggested a meeting with her.