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What you see here is a collection of oddities stretching into the dim and distant past. Most, however, hail from more recent days of puppet making, performing, tinkering with toy theatre, inventing heads for characters, carnival costume. I divide my time between wokring on commissions and projects and developing my own work in my studio in West Dorset.

I enjoy a lot working with other artists - engineers, film makers, choreographers and performners. I also do a lot of projects and workshops with groups and this tends to be in schools, also sometimes prisons, families, people of all abilities. Mostly in Dorset, sometimes in London and sometimes abroad - I spent many years working with children in the former Yugoslavia and in Iran in 1994 -2004.

I also provide training for teachers and practitioners working with children, young people, prisoners. I have a keen interest in historical, cultural and site research, am fairly organised, good at gathering people and not bad at raising the odd bit of money occassionally.

Meanwhile ideas, dreams, procrastinations and proclaimations continue....

MY CV....

If you are considering me for a project or workshops here is a useful CV, last updated July 2012. If you need more details please contact me on sarah@emeraldant.com or 07811 950033

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SARAH BUTTERWORTH - CV
Artist / Arts Manager

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MA Arts in Society
MA Politics, Security and Integration in Eastern Europe
HND Creative Illustration

Email sarah@emeraldant.com
Tel 07811 950033

Specialist Areas

•Carnival arts, street theatre
• Murals, scenic painting
•Arts workshops in schools, prisons
•Training for artists, teachers and social workers in using arts with children
•Project Management in arts development
•Research - arts in social contexts
•Particular knowledge of the former Yugoslavia
•I am a Mentor for the Koestler Trust and an Arts Award Advisor


1) Arts Projects and Workshops 2004-11 (Freelance)

2011

- Willow workshops, Carter Community School, Poole
- School show backdrop with 20 children, Christ the King Primary School, Bournemouth
- Carnival workshops with Portland families, Moving Tides, Weymouth
- Painting of a lifesize Lion, Pride in Bournemouth
- Project Pliosaur, Conceptual Artist, Project Manager, Artist and Performer. Working with artists and scientists, fund raising, planning, budget management. As artist: design and building, painting, walkabout performance.
- Mural, Buckydoo Sq, Bridport, involving 3 schools
- Bridport Arts Centre, shadow puppet workshop with children – creation and performance 'Nutcracker in a Day'
- Carnival Artist, Activate Performing Arts - Light on Time, Poole Quay. Work with 8 classes of Year 5 and Year 6 students, making illuminated costumes and handheld ‘carnival’ pieces.

2010
- Dec - Bridport Arts Centre, masks workshop with adults with special needs
-Dec - Lanterns, Weymouth Christmas Sparkle, Year 5, Beechcroft School
- Nov – Eden Project, Giant Mudmaid Puppet and mini mudmaster and mudmistress lanterns, St Austell Torch-lit Procession
- Sept – Head dress workshop, Bridport Hat Festival
- Aug – Banner and Workshop for ‘Anonymous Festival’ 2010
- Aug - Oct - Artz +, workshops with special needs children, willow, mask making, shadow puppets
- Dorset Extended Services, Family Days – mask making, willow butterflies, silk painting, shadow puppets and performance
- Arrow Congress Carnival, giant puppet, willow workshops with young people, Marjon College, Plymouth
- Masks Workshop, Alenbourne Secondary School
- 'Scarecrows Tea Party' - making workshops with Broadwindsor Primary School,
- May - Mermaid Princess workshops in Poole, making willow structures- fish, sea turtle, sea witch and sea wizard
- 'To Market' Creative research, arts workshops and performance with young people in market places, Satellite Arts
- Shadow Puppets and masks workshops for children, St George’s School, Portland
-Dartington College of Art, Visiting Tutor, site-specific outdoor performance

•Project Management - Satellite Arts ‘To Market’ project
•2009 -Oct - Two puppet witches, Brewers Quay, Weymouth
•Oct -Teacher training, addressing SEAL issues for young children through building carnival structures, DepARTure
•Sep -‘Snowdrop’ mini theatre scenes using beach junk, Year 5, Beechcroft School
•Sep - Project Manager / teacher training in Creative Methods for the Classroom, HMPYOI Rochester, Anne Peaker Centre
•Aug -Lead Artist, Maritime Monsters puppets, Weymouth Carnival
•Jul – Emergency Exit Arts, Lead Artist, carnival workshops St Mary’s School, Southampton
•Jun - Veasta Sea Monster puppet building, Weymouth College
•May -Weymouth Drama Club, Butterfly Puppets with children
•Apr - HMP Bronzefield, ‘Colourful Tales’ Mural Project, Anne Peaker Centre
•Mar - HMP High Down, ‘People Junction’ Wall Hanging Project, Anne Peaker Centre
•Feb - Dartington College of Art, Visiting Tutor, site-specific outdoor performance
•Jan 2009 Teacher training in carnival Lantern Making, Departure, DepARTure
•Dec 2008 Satellite Arts, giant Christmas Angel for street parade, made with young people
•Dec - HMP High Down, Paper Sculpture Project with adult prisoners
•Sep - ‘Tubular Shells’, giant shells, 3D exhibition at B-Side Arts Festival, Weymouth
•Sept - Satellite Arts, Inside Out, Mask and Puppet workshops for the Cultural Olympiad Handover, Weymouth and Portland
•Jul - Lead Artist, ‘Armada on the Esplanada’, Carnival Procession, Weymouth
•Jan-Apr Art facilitator, Street Art Project, Portland YOI; a 3 month project working with young offenders on murals for the prison and local community.
•2007 Lantern Workshops, Damers Primary School, Dorchester
•Creator and facilitator of a travelling, burlesque ‘Exquisite Corpse’ artist’s studio; where families and groups of friends dress up and draw each other. Used at ‘The Big Draw Hillingdon, (Oct 2007), available for schools / events / parties etc
•2006 Emergency Exit Arts (EEA); lead artist, Green Chain environmental project in 8 primary schools, SE London
•EEA Parenting Power project; workshops with Albanian families, using fairy tales to look at mask making, set design, drama, also evaluator of whole project
•2005 EEA; Newham and Eltham Light Up Festivals, lantern workshops with schools
•Rise Phoenix; workshops with young people, Camden
•Eastside Educational Trust; workshops with children and teachers, talks on creative school linking, teacher training workshops
•2004 EEA Runga Rung Street Carnival; lantern and giant puppet workshops with schools, adults with disabilities, Sure Start, Bournemouth
•Walkabout character performance Orchardon Festival, Marge and Mabel, with Trolley Theatre / Melski Mcree



2) Arts Management / Research 2006- 2009

•2007-9 Project Manager/ Evaluator, Free Flow Art, Anne Peaker Centre for Arts in Criminal Justice; arts projects for prisoners aimed at encouraging them to take up education
•2008-10 Satellite Arts , Project Manager / Fundraiser
•2007 Researcher, Oxford Research International; qualitative research and report writing for the United Nations in Bosnia-Herzegovina, looking at the needs and situation of returnees and internally displaced communities affected by armed conflict
•Evaluation - Emergency Exit Arts; evaluation of Parenting Power arts projects in children’s centres, and evaluation of work in Coldbath and Orchard Estates, Lewisham, London



Employment History

•2005- 6Planning and Development Officer, Family Support, Social Services, London Borough of Bromley
•2004 Project Manager, Creative Activities Project, Bam, Iran, World Vision
•2002-3Regional Manager Balkans, Creative Activities, War Child Netherlands, Bosnia and Kosovo
•2000-2Arts Development Officer, Weymouth and Portland, Dorset
•1999-0Project Manager, community arts Action Van Project, Children’s Aid Direct, Macedonia
•1997-8Project Coordinator, Crossing Borders, Council for Education in World Citizenship, in UK, Bosnia, Romania, a schools linking project running joint arts projects (voluntary work)
•1994-6Arts Workshop Leader, refugee and collective centres, Serious Road Trip, Bosnia (voluntary work)

Education / Training

•Forkbeard Fantasy – Puppetry and Automata course, Feb 2010 and 2008, Summer School 2008
•Safe guarding children training-DepARTure-Feb 2010
•Landmark Forum - personal skills development - March 2010
•Certificate in Carnival Crafts Level 2, Weymouth College, (delivered course as well as completed it), 2009
•Emergency Exit Arts – introduction to welding, making puppet heads, 2009
•Training to run educational courses for young offenders, Portland YOI, 2008
•Serbian for beginners, UCL, 2004-5
Arts-based practice with vulnerable and volatile groups in open and closed community settings’, Unit for Arts and Offenders, 2004
•Various training in arts fund raising, project management, marketing, partnership building etc (when arts officer - run by ACE), 2000-2
•War Child Netherlands, project management, running child-centred creative activities, 2001
•Ignite, Training for the Constructive and Creative Use of Conflict, 2000
•Project Cycle Management and Facilitation, MCIC, Macedonia, 1999
•Mime, John Mowat, City Lit, c.1996
•EU Fundraising and Project Management, Bradford University/ Directory for Social Change, c. 1997

Additional Information

•Additional languages: intermediate Serbo-Croatian, some French, some Spanish
•Public Liability Insurance with the Artists Information Company up to £5 million
•CRB Enhanced Disclosure issued Nov 2009

References - Available on request