Together We Create

Together We Create is a fab little charity that ran award-winning creative workshops for communities across London and the South East between 2009 - 2019.

Since we started in 2009, over 11,000 people of all ages have used our projects to develop their creative skills and build strong, sustainable communities. After 10 years of working with wonderful groups of people across London and the South East we've decided to try something new.
Thank you for all your support and love. It's been a blast!

Registered Charity Number 1140617
[email protected]

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Dates for your diary 2010

December 30, 2009By SarahComments:

Dates for the diary 2010

The work of the Together We Create Team is ongoing. Here are a few dates for your diary for the first part of the year. If you would like to know more please email [email protected] or [email protected]

St Lawrence goes Magnetic! – Digital art project for schools Feltham: 7^th January – 22^nd March

BETT – Innovation and Education Show at Olympia: 13^th – 16^th January

Wii-lympics workshop dates for schools in Hounslow: 18^th Jan – 9^th Feb

National Governors Association Conference: 27^th January

Safer Internet Day: 9th February

BECTA – The learning revolution and the digital revolutionaries conference: 11 February

February Half Term 15^th – 19^th February

Fairtrade Fortnight: 22^nd Feb – 7^th March

Camden Fairtrade Schools Conference: 25th February

BBC News Report Day: 11^th March

Click – Photography Project for Isleworth: Mid March

IADIS International Conference on Mobile Learning: 19 – 21 March 2010

Hounslow Wii-lypmics deadline for submissions from schools: 31^st March

Easter Holidays 1^st – 18^th April

Hounslow Wii-lympics final: 3^rd & 4^th July

Posted in Hold On To Sports (HOTS) • Make Bake Create • TWC News Updates • Windows On

Happy New Year from TWC!

December 11, 2009By SarahComments:

PHEWEY WHAT AN AMAZING 6 MONTHS !:

Four Major Projects, Over 2,000 Young People, Two London Boroughs, Lots of Creativity !

*Windows on Gunnersbury* *Windows on Maiden Lane* *Make Bake Create- Chocolate Communities* *Hounslow Wii-lypmics/ The Hots*

WATCH THIS SPACE FOR MORE INNOVATION IN 2010

Pictures from Make Bake Create Community Day (6th December) and the Hounslow Wii-lympics/ The HOTS Launch (10th December)

Posted in Hold On To Sports (HOTS) • TWC News Updates

Hounslow Wii-lympics Coming to a School near you!

December 1, 2009By SarahComments:1 Comment

The Hounslow Wii-lypmics is a project designed for all schools in the London Borough of Hounslow; primary, secondary and special schools, created to get young people involved in sport through the use of fun technology.

The children who take part in the project will learn how people become top athletes; how they prepare their diet, how they look after their bodies and how they present themselves in the media. The children will work in small groups to research a particular area of the athletes life as either the trainer, dietician, physiotherapist, the PR Manager of the athlete itself. The children will submit their ideas to a judging panel by Easter 2010. The schools that have submitted the best ideas and research will qualify for the Wii lympics final at Hounslow Civic Centre on 3^rd and 4^th July 2010 , where the team athletes will get the chance to play against other schools.

For more details email : [email protected]

Posted in Make Bake Create • TWC News Updates

Fair Trade Chocolate Week & Make Bake Create: What a Celebration!

October 10, 2009By SarahComments:

MAKE BAKE CREATE UPDATE – What a Week : 360 Children, 12 Workshops, 4 Schools, 14 Plus Volunteers, Lots of Chocolate…

WHERE IT ALL STARTED…

It’s Fair Trade Chocolate Week (12th -18th October) and everyone at Together We Create Towers is very excited! Not only do we get the chance to eat tons of amazing chocolate, this week sees the start of Make Bake Create our brand new interactive chocolate education program.

We will be running workshops in four Camden primary schools this week. The schools involved in the project are Argyle Primary, St Michaels CoE Primary, Edith Neville Primary School and St Josephs CoE School.

Massive thanks in advance to our wonderful bank of volunteers who we have roped into our chocolatey schemes, along with Sara from Dubble, Tom from Fair Trade Camden and Anna from South Camden Community School

It’s going to be a brilliantly chocolatey week. Watch this space for more information!

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News Flash: Launch of Make Bake Create

September 18, 2009By SarahComments:

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Connecting Communities with Chocolate: The launch of Make Bake Create.

The Make Bake Create project has been devised to bring together people from across the community with a love that is universal: chocolate!

Initially launched in Camden’s primary schools, the first stage of the project will be chocolate education workshops that will be run in school in conjunction with Dubble and Fairtrade Camden.

In mid november the Make Bake Create Event will be held at South Camden Community School, a chance for all member of the local community to come together to share food, reciepes and stories.

Camden’s chocolate recipes will be collated into a book which is due to be published in January 2010 to celebrate 20 years of Fair Trade.

More details about the project to follow…

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Windows on Maiden Lane Launched

September 15, 2009By SarahComments:

This summer holiday, Fifteen young people joined a project at Maiden Lane Community Centre to create innovative and exciting digital art for their local community.

The project was part of a series of community art projects that have already rolled out across West London. The idea of the ‘Windows on’ projects is simple: give young people the skills and equipment to create artwork which brightens up and enhances their local community. The young people learn how to take photographs and manipulate the photos on computers using filters and special effects. Once completed the artwork is blown up, printed and erected on buildings within the community. The projects so far have revitalised two derelict buildings, one museum, brightened up an old boiler house and involved over 50 young people.

The Maiden Lane Community Art Project , Windows on Maiden Lane was supported by Maiden Lane Community Centre and Liberal Democrat Councillor Ben Rawlings. Councillor Rawlings said “Its great to see the young people being really creative. I have seen a few pieces of the artwork and the results are really stunning. This is an excellent example of local children positively contributing towards their community.”

If you think a Windows on style project would work in your community , contact sarah through [email protected]

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The Maiden Lane Visual Take Over – Coming Soon!

August 25, 2009By SarahComments:1 Comment

Over the next few weeks the Maiden Lane Visual Take Over will be launched at the Maiden Lane Estate, located in the Cantelows Ward of the London Borough of Camden.

Fifteen young people worked together to create a series of visual postcards which reflect the vibrancy of the area where they live.

The artwork once printed will be hung at the entrance to the estate, welcoming all visitors and residents to the Maiden Lane community…

Cynthia Number 2 5cm squared

Posted in TWC News Updates • Windows On

Update: Windows on Gunnersbury installed and looking great!

August 16, 2009By SarahComments:

This weekend (16th August) the Windows on Gunnersbury artwork was installed at Gunnersbury Museum in West London. The images look amazing, well worth a visit to the museum and parkland.

Posted in Windows On

Windows on… Brentford: where it all began

August 5, 2009By SarahComments:

Hello lovely people and welcome to our fabulous new website.

When we see ugly, unloved buildings and unsightly spaces they make us sad. But when we look up and see beautiful art, it makes us smile and skip like loonies. So one day we thought, “Aha! Let’s use art to make ugly buildings pretty.” And so Together We Create (TWC) was born. Now we’re working with young people all over London to create dizzyingly original digital art to reinvent dingy outdoor spaces.

A modern map of Brentford

Here’s how it all started

Whenever Sarah bounced down Brentford High Street to buy her usual six kilos of afternoon chocolate, the nasty building with burnt-out windows opposite Somerfield made her grumpy and much less bouncy. One day she just couldn’t take it any more, and so Sarah assembled the TWC team (that’s us) and recruited 16 local children. She presented them with the artistic challenge of a lifetime: Use your creativity to make this ugly building beautiful.

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And, by golly, they did. What you see here are some examples of the stupendously brilliant art work created by the kids who worked on our very first Windows On… project in Brentford. Soon, TWC were busy making installations for buildings in Isleworth, Gunnersbury and Camden. The art created by the children who took part has transformed the windows and outside walls of some of the areas’ most unloved buildings. Yay!

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