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Monday, 3 April 2023
Thanks so much for organising the visit to the ceramics exhibition at Newstead!
Monday, 6 March 2023
Artspeak first came to my attention in the Autumn of 2019. In January 2020 I saw details of a photography project. It said “ArtSpeak and Age Friendly Nottingham are looking for participants aged 60 and above to be models for a bespoke photography project”. The request was for individuals and groups of over 60’s in Nottingham who were willing to be photographed and would allow the use of the images in promotions by Age Friendly, Nottingham City Council and ArtSpeak.
For many years a group of friends and I have played badminton on Saturday mornings at a variety of venues from Victoria Leisure Centre to Djanogly Academy and at the time John Carroll Leisure Centre in Radford. I suggested to the group that we could offer ourselves as “models”. We submitted our details and were subsequently asked to provide a photo. We posed for the photo at John Carroll on a Saturday in February 2020.
Shortly after Covid-19 swept the country and we went into lockdown. Badminton playing ceased and the project was shelved. The photo remains as a lasting memory for us which would not have been taken but for Artspeak. As the Lockdowns came and went our group continued to meet in the open of course. The photo is also a lasting memory of John Carroll Leisure Centre which sadly was closed by the City Council as they could no longer support a leisure centre and swimming pool in Radford.
For many years a group of friends and I have played badminton on Saturday mornings at a variety of venues from Victoria Leisure Centre to Djanogly Academy and at the time John Carroll Leisure Centre in Radford. I suggested to the group that we could offer ourselves as “models”. We submitted our details and were subsequently asked to provide a photo. We posed for the photo at John Carroll on a Saturday in February 2020.
Shortly after Covid-19 swept the country and we went into lockdown. Badminton playing ceased and the project was shelved. The photo remains as a lasting memory for us which would not have been taken but for Artspeak. As the Lockdowns came and went our group continued to meet in the open of course. The photo is also a lasting memory of John Carroll Leisure Centre which sadly was closed by the City Council as they could no longer support a leisure centre and swimming pool in Radford.
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