Last night I was a guest at the final in Reading of the Youth and Philanthropy Initiative. I had not heard about the programme until we were approached by a set of yr 10 students: Jordan, Ketan, Louie and Orlando who wanted to bid for support for jelly through the YPI programme. The programme awards [...]
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Sport, Music and Art on the River Thames – SMART 2012!
SMART is a free, family festival developed by the 2012 Partnership Board. It is a celebration of Sport, Music and Art along the Thames on 'Super Saturday', the middle weekend of the Olympic Games. The event takes place on Saturday 4 August and runs from 12noon to 6pm. During the day the event will celebrate [...]
Time to clean the lenses, get your smart phones ready or just use a webcam – Capture Reading 2012
Remember last year, on what should have been a sunny day in August for the Capture Reading Project? 11.21 on 18.08. The day that it poured with rain but for one minute in the morning and one minute at night different people took part in showing us a second of their life. This day It's [...]
Handmade at The Oracle
We're delighted to be working in The Oracle, Reading again – we have been invited back for a limited period to create an Aunt Elsie's Parlour on the mezzanine on the Upper Level (right by Boots and Body Shop). If you don't already know an Aunt Elsie's Parlour is a special collection/ installation of pieces [...]
A bunting thank you
A big thank you to everyone that came to help us this Saturday finish up our bunting project and to all the people who have donated bunting. There are some great stories around the bunting making from the self titled "old bags" who have been cutting up their old clothes, to the children who have [...]
A little bit more about the jelly “Us”
Writing this post to explain a bit more about the "Us" in jelly reminds me about something I read the other day, about how to validate companies and businesses. Individuals on web pages sometimes refer to the "We" when it's really only one of them. This idea has triggered this post on jelly to explain [...]
Design Jam Reading, 29th October 2011.
Design Jam Reading, 29th October 2011. The Jelly ArtPad, Reading Design Jams are one day design sessions, during which people team up to tackle engaging User Experience (UX) challenges. Similar to developer ‘hackdays’, they aim to get designers together to learn and collaborate with each other while working on actual problems. The sessions champion open-source [...]
Your invitation to The Third Thursday First Birthday
Wow, it’s a year since the 3rd Thursdays started and we’ve had a fantastic time working with so many artists and businesses. To celebrate we have a very special third Thursday on Thursday 17 November with not one, but two events. We are back where it all began as guests of Novotel, celebrating the beginning [...]
In Good Company with Becki Hillman, interview by Luisa Eden Garcia
It’s Wednesday afternoon and I’m waiting to interview Becki Hillman from innovative, Reading based theatre group - In Good Company. I’m at the Coopers Arms which has recently been resurrected by local arts life force – jelly arts. I’m a little early but I don’t mind as I love nothing more than wandering around the [...]
Silence just means we’ve been busy
It doesn’t mean we have been snoozing or anything but just busy. We have been trying to make The Coopers Arms (still need a name for it) more homely or should we say more jelly like… Our new artist in residence, Joy Needham moved in and RASPO moved out (but we’re hoping that is just [...]
