The Weekly Challenge

We hope that you had a wonderful Christmas time, and are ready to see in the new year (and decade!

The 25th of December is fast approaching and people around the world are getting ready to celebrate Christmas.

Our friends at ethical men’s clothing brand Brothers We Stand asked us to write them a blog post about seasonal crafting that’s both unique and recyclable.

It can often feel like the routines and schedules of daily life leave little time in the day to enjoy our creativity.

What is the local high street like where you live?

It’s beginning to look a lot like…the middle of November!

Every day is full of things.

“The remnants of summer warmth battle it out with the lurking beginnings of winter – and, where the two mix, the weather turns pretty lively.

Eastside are an arts education charity working to develop creative thinking with young people.

This week’s challenge is set by Miacah, the founder of ‘In Mi Own Skin’ – helping people to look and feel great by bringing substance to style.

‘Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it’ C.

This week’s challenge is a Kick in the Creatives!

Hooray, It’s Creativity and Wellbeing Week!

64 Million Artists is lucky enough to welcome new team member Rosie on a paid work experience scheme through community arts organisation All Change.

At 64 Million Artists we believe everyone is creative, and when we use our creativity we can make positive change in our lives and the world around us.

Pens, pencils and sense of humour at the ready…This week’s Challenge is set by our friends at Sketch Appeal!

‘Tis the season of giving…and of recycling our waste!

“Art should not be viewed just as a visual culture but as an essential human process of self exploration and communication.

  It’s a week of firsts and lasts!

This month, we’re going wild!

This month, we’re going wild!

This month, we’re going wild!

  For the next month, we’re going wild!

  It’s our 10th Gateshead challenge this year!

  A picture is worth a thousand words.

  It’s a Gateshead challenge!

  What fun things do you like doing in your local area?

  As the seasons change and we see a little less sunlight, the falling leaves turn yellow and birds migrate to warmer places, we welcome autumn and all it brings.

  We wish people got as excited about innovations in fashion as they do with new iPhones because it’s exciting, dressing the future.

  Welcome back to Gateshead’s monthly Challenge set by the Council’s Culture team.

  This week’s challenge is for people who tell themselves they cannot draw, or those who can draw but are trapped in one style, or anyone else who wants to play with a paradoxical way of stretching your artistic abilities.

  We thought for this week’s challenge we would set an activity here at 64 Million Artists!

  Over the last few months we have been planning and running the project Creativity in Mind.

  As we return to the monthly challenge of Gateshead Council’s Culture team, we remind ourselves of the Angel of the North #Angel20 celebration and re-engage with the statue as a cornerstone of the city and landscape.

  Wow!

  Last week we saw an amazing display of responses to the first of three Weekly Challenges set by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.

  Over the next 3 weeks we will be having an epic Shakespeare take over!

  This week’s challenge was suggested to us by CoolTan Arts, an award winning arts in mental health charity run by and for adults with experience of mental health conditions.

  It’s time for our monthly Angel of the North creative challenge.

  With the sun streaming through the windows, the smell of suncream filling the air and that all important decision about which ice-cream to choose for the afternoon office treat, we are well and truly on our way into the summer season.

  What communities are you a part of?

  Music is all around us.

  In collaboration with Gateshead Council’s Culture team, this year we are dedicating a challenge a month to #Angel20, the Angel of the North’s 20th birthday celebration.

  This week is Creativity and Wellbeing Week and therefore a great opportunity to celebrate the profound effect participation in the arts and everyday creativity can have on health and wellbeing.

  Cardboard Citizens, the UK’s only homeless people’s professional theatre company, recently launched their new #CitizensDo campaign.

  This week we’re inviting you to join a very current debate that celebrates the past whilst encouraging a more positive future.

  It’s been almost a month since our last Gateshead challenge.

We’ve heard Cass Art is on a mission.

  This year we are crowdsourcing our challenges from around the country.

  Over the last few weeks we’ve been working with a fab group of Young Minds Activists to co-devise a creative campaign #WiseUp around mental health in schools.

  It’s that wonderful time again, it’s time for Gateshead Council’s monthly creative challenge!

  This week is Parkinson’s Awareness Week, Wednesday being World Parkinson’s Day.

  Our friends at Creative Tribe @MyCreativeTribe have set this week’s challenge for us… they like nothing better than exploring exhibitions, events, classes and groups in local communities.

  Our wonderful colleague Ed Ikin from Wakehurst (wild botanic garden) is with us as part of The Clore Leadership Programme placement and has kindly set this week’s challenge for us… As the clocks go forward and the days get brighter we hope to be seeing a transition of seasons as we move into spring.

  Last month we introduced the #Angel20 programme in partnership with Gateshead Council’s Culture Team and saw such brilliant Angel of the North birthday cards that contributed to a fantastic 20th celebration.

  In the past we’ve prompted you to creatively self reflect in the real world but we’ve never asked you to reflect in the online world… who are you online?

  Set by Common Vision (an independent not-for-profit think tank), this week’s challenge inspires and opens discussion around identity.

  This week’s challenge is set by Kostas Ntanos, the designer behind the brilliant papercraft shop Ntanos.

  We’re sure you’ll be happy to see our mornings and evenings get brighter and to experience those fleeting moments of sunshine as we move more towards spring.

This week marks the 20th anniversary of Gateshead’s Angel of the North.

  Welcome to the very first Weekly Challenge of the year!