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Co-creative partnership artist Emma Ainsley and musician John Phillips work together as AinsleyPhillips Projects, delivering activities in care and community settings.

They will be in Orkney throughout May 2022, to deliver a project working alongside people living with dementia in the community and their carers. The project will include open studio days where folk can come along for a jam, to play with ideas, sounds, music and images as everyone makes some work together.

John and Emma will be at the Pier Arts Centre all day on Wednesday 27 April for anyone to drop-in and have a chat with them about the project, or to help them collect material by providing images, stories, video or sound files.

All the project sessions will be informal, friendly and fun, exploring a sense of home. During the gatherings Emma and John will work with participants to make some sound and video sketches using the images, sounds and music given to them and the jams that happen on the day.

As a culmination of the project, their work will be exhibited at the Pier Arts Centre and at the Age Scotland Hub in Kirkwall. John and Emma are asking for people living with dementia in the Orkney community and their carers to help them start gathering some of the material together ready for their jam sessions.

For more information, to find out how you could get involved or to send your ideas and material, email Emma and John at orkney@ainsleyphillipsprojects.com

You can also upload image, video, sound and text files directly here >

The Orkney - A Sense of Home project is funded by the Life Changes Trust, it was originally planned to happen in 2020 but was postponed due to the pandemic restrictions. The project is being delivered by AinsleyPhillips Projects in partnership with the Pier Arts Centre and Age Scotland Orkney.