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The Accumulate Photography Workshops 2018 are nearly over for another year. They start in January and end mid-May with the exhibition, and, this year, two things have really stood out, friendship and trust. Friendship: We have people from different hostel groups, different countries and different age groups this year, more so than previously. We have […]
Creativity is at the core of Accumulate, and the start of 2018 has certainly lived up to this. We started off with the “DECAY at The London Art Fair” exhibition where we showcased the creativity of the 11 participants from Evolve Housing in Stockwell who participated in the Accumulate magazine project last year. To say […]
Accumulate has some good news stories to share with you! So what have we been up to?
Over the summer, Accumulate met up with David Tovey – an amazing ex-homeless artist who set up the One Festival of Homeless Arts. The One Festival celebrates, raises awareness and educates about the power of art to transform lives and also showcases the incredible art, talents and creativity of the homeless community. So, all in […]
This week we got a most glorious email in the post telling us that we have won National Lottery Funding to run our Photography workshops next year. Winning funding like this is a real endorsement and celebration of our work, how what we do helps vulnerable young people to improve their lives and the difference creativity […]
The past week we have been running a series of ZINE workshops with residents of Evolve Housing‘s Stockwell hostel. It is always a bit of a stress, not knowing if the project is going to appeal or, worse still, whether anyone is going to turn up and actually do anything. Well, the fears didn’t last […]
This video shows what Accumulate is all about. Our latest exhibition, Made By Us, showcased the photographs of 23 young homeless people and the launch at The Guardian was a huge success.
This is it, the final countdown to what we have been working towards since January – the Accumulate photography exhibition opens at The Guardian space this Thursday, 11th May, at 7pm. So that’s 15 photography workshops, 20 student helpers, 9 hostels, 2 tutors, 23 participants and lots of energy, enthusiasm, love and friendship that has […]
For the first time, since Accumulate started in 2013, we ran a creative writing session with the group. Writing itself often presents its own challenges, with negative experiences about school, literacy issues and dyslexia all becoming reasons not to attend the session. But these fears were set aside and 16 people turned up one Wednesday […]
When this project first started, in 2013, there were 8 participants and the project was based at the North London YMCA hostel in Crouch End, which is in N8. So the 8 was a central focus when we were thinking together of a name for the project. We thought of all the Cre8 options, but […]
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