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about us
Awakening Arts are a community arts organisation dedicated to working with people from across our community; Exploring human experience through creativity and storytelling; Transforming personal experiences into powerful, poignant works of art and preserving ordinary people's extraordinary stories.
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we are one
We bring people together.
we are creative
We work with music, storytelling and art to explore people's lived experience and memories.
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we are a community
We build friendships and community in the Pennines.
Nice to meet you
Natalie Speake
Natalie is a dancer, choreographer and dance teacher. She specialises in making creative dance and expressive movement possible and joyful for ordinary non-dance mortals. She expertly uses movement as a way to connect with and physically express our inner world.
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Natalie has 10 years' experience of delivering powerful and transformative project work within the community.
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Natalie's delicate and skilful guidance of movement and physical expression offer everyone involved a powerful and meaningful way of accessing self expression through movement.
Kaye Martindale
Kaye is a visual artist with a passion for poetry. She specialises in using creative writing and drawing to explore our human experience from a fresh and profound perspective.
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Kaye started facilitating art groups for people with mental health problems 10 years ago and has since worked on a wide range of national and international art projects.
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Kaye's enthusiasm for creating words and imagery in a experimental and spontaneous way leads people into authentic and surprising creative territory.