FIND YOUR LEMON
Babies have been observed sucking on lemons, pulling faces at the sharpness, then going back to suck the lemons more. Challenges can be quite exciting. Find Your Lemon creates thinking spaces for people to look afresh at their own space, to consider and reflect on the sharp bits of their lives, to use those challenges to move forward. Mentoring strategies include visual mapping as well as talking, collaboration and unlikely partnerships, peer mentoring.
Sally Lemsford’s mentoring experience:
· Pockets of Time: mentoring for mothers
· 1:1: mentoring artists face to face/skype/phone
· Ofton Festival: trainee festival producers
· Flaming Skirt Festival: cpd/mentoring artists
· Inspiring Enterprise: business mentoring
· Yorkshire Artspace: socially engaged artists’ starter scheme
· Artists’ Voice East Midlands
· Pedestrian: window curators
· WHart: young curators
· Beyond Words: creative evidencing for Arts Award
· Step-up: Creative Partnerships cpd for BAME artists
· Co-mentoring
· Derby City Council: optimising learning environments
SEAFAIR
A non-hierarchical loose affiliation of over 50 socially engaged artists and producers working in the largely rural and isolated area of West Dorset, East Devon & South Somerset.
Connected since a SOCIAL WORKS? Get-Together in October 2018, a commission by Axisweb and Manchester Met University for their socially engaged validation research project SOCIAL WORKS? It was a socially-engaged art fair – a space for local artists to share their way of working rather than as a selling art fair.
SEAFAIR supports artists to make things happen in approachable ways...in diverse, flexible, pop-up ways.
Strategic development
SEAFAIR: 2018-present, support network for socially engaged artist/producers in rural South West
Models of Validation: 2017-present, stakeholder member for Axisweb's research project
Black Shale: 2016-17, executive member of Black Shale cultural education partnership
ePARKERs: 2015-16, seeking artists’ studio spaces in disadvantaged areas
Community groups: 2014-16, supporting development in disadvantaged areas to dispel external stigmas and enhance cultural health
Free University of Liverpool: 2011-13, protesting actively against injustice
AIR activist: 2011, developing actions to support artists
Artists' Voice: 2008-11, developing a nascent advocacy network of East Midlands cross-arts practitioners
AIR Artists' Representation Working Group: 2009-10, devising a membership representation structure
caravan: 2003-07, co-founding the Amber Valley arts organisation for 27 members; securing funding from Arts Council England, Awards For All, local authorities and others; managing projects and budgets. 3CYLINDERS, live art in rural settings around Derbyshire, 7 events, 84 artists, 1623 audience, 66 new works, Playmates arts workshops for very young children.
ARTISTS’ VOICE EAST MIDLANDS
Stand Up, Speak Up!
Fabrika Leicester 2011
Curated performances offering strategies for East Midlands cross-arts practitioners
http://artistsvoiceeastmidlands.blogspot.co.uk/2011_06_01_archive.html