The youth arts programme at NAE gives young people opportunities to learn, train, experience and work in the arts along with supporting and developing their own ideas. This programme helps young people to develop as artists, curators, promoters, hosts and experience the arts all over the country.
YARD Youth Theatre is a peer led Young Actors Company. Who currently meet twice a week and take part a variety of theatre master classes. The sessions are designed to help young people learn various aspects of acting, singing, voice work, movement, performance theatre and acting for camera. The classes also help boost your confidence, give you the opportunity to work with industry professional and create your own work whilst meeting new people in a warm and friendly creative environment. Through this programme, you also have an opportunity to take part in vibrant creative projects and theatre productions at the New Art Exchange and various other venues around the country.
YARD Youth Theatre meet every Tuesday 5 - 8pm and Wednesday 5 - 7pm and are always looking for new members, so why not come along and give it a try!
For further details, please contact us on rachael@nae.org.uk or our number below.
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New Art Exchange has launched this new and exciting space this Summer. The ‘Central Gallery’ will focus on art produced by local schools, community groups, and Black and Minority Ethnic artists from Nottingham and the East Midlands.
We are currently looking for submissions of art for the Central Gallery. For further details on this, please click here to download submission guidelines.
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Djanogly City AcademyExhibitions of students work
The work on show at New Art Exchange Gallery has been produced by GCSE students from Djanogly City Academy. They are aged between 14 and 16 and develop practical and critical/contextual work using a wide variety and combination of materials, processes and technologies. The students work from broad project outlines but are encouraged to make a personal, informed and meaningful response. The works on display are the final pieces of an artistic journey from starting point to a realised outcome based on themes: Conceptual Shoe Design, Expressions and Pop Art
The students were asked to study the work of such artists and produce their own work based on one of the following: Icons and Idols, Here and Now, Still Life. |
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Tribal StoriesFolk, Tribal and Intuitive Art from India
New Art Exchange exhibits further folk and tribal art from India in our new Central Gallery space. Some of this work was earlier featured in the acclaimed An(other) Story.
23 Jul - 16 Aug |
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CarnivalPhotography
This exhibition by the ENIGMA Youth Project documents the historical roots of, and modern day, carnival. This vibrant exhibition covers carnivals in Nottingham, Leeds, Manchester, Cardiff, and London's legendary 'Notting Hill'.
19 Aug - 17 Oct 2009
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Butterfly ImagesPhotography
Rakha Singh has developed a new photographic technique to produce visceral and lucid, ultra high resolution images of nature's rarest Butterflies and Moths. The detail so fine you can see a closer, almost personal side to these beautiful creatures, produced on a scale never seen before.
19 Oct - 21 Nov 2009 |
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EmigrationMixed media
This exhibition of photo-montage images by local artist / photographer Mervyn Mitchell, explore the issues of migration to the United Kingdom.
10 Oct - 5 Dec 2009
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Contemporary Timeline Portraits of a Jamaican FamilyKim Thompson
Contemporary Timeline Portraits Of A Jamaican Family is a narrative portraiture piece depicting the story of Kim Thompson's grandparents, Stelma and Samuel Miller, from their arrival in Nottingham in the 1950s. 18 Jan - 13 Feb 2010 |
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Platform 2Volunteering in IndiaRuth Sundberg
Platform 2 is a British government run programme that sends young people aged between 18-25 to developing countries around the world to live and work for 10 weeks in a local community. Ruth Sundberg is one such individual that has taken some fascinating photographs whilst working out in India.
22 Feb - 15 Mar 2010 |
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