Previous Projects
The Aesthetica Team have completed many successful projects to date, these include:
The Little A Magazine
This project supports young people in schools and community centres. It encourages literacy, creative thinking, innovation, positive-risk taking, enterprise education, negotiation, teamwork and leadership by presenting young people with new opportunities to learn. The young people do this by creating a magazine that is planned, written, edited and designed entirely by them. So far magazines have been completed for a number of projects that include:
Clifton Library, York Download here
York High School Download here
Burnholme School, York. Download here
The Humber Mouth Festival, Hull
Cannon Lee school, York
The Times Educational Supplement ran a residential in Canary Warf, London for the first pupils from the first project. A short film about their experiences can be viewed on their website. click here
One Minute Animation Challenge
The One Minute Animation Challenge was a task given to a group of 14 and 15 year olds from a high school in Skipton, North Yorkshire. They created a short one minute animation within six hours.
The Alternative Fashion Magazine
This project engages mothers and daughters through the development of an alternative fashion magazine that is planned, written, edited and designed entirely by them. This project takes the mothers and daughters through a journey of natural beauty and helps them to explore their own relationship with body image and redefine beauty.
The Virtual Memory Box
This project is aimed at the elderly community using the medium of memories and creative non-fiction. The stories they create will be included on a website that can be added to continuously and will serve as a virtual time capsule for future generations. Click here.
Gateway to the Quarter
Aesthetica is a guest curator for one month out of each year for the public art space, Gateway to the Quarter broadcast in Finkle Street, York. We use the space to provide publicity opportunities for new artists. The Gateway to the Quarter is planning to have another screen put up in York Hospital in 2007. Download the catalogue to see the work selected.
BA (Hons) Guest Lecture on Arts and Enterprise
Aesthetica held guest lectures at York St John University, Oxford Brooks University, University of Bradford, University of Huddersfield and the University of Leeds on starting your own creative business and how to thrive in the creative sector. The lectures focused on becoming self-employed, collaboration, funding and initiatives to develop your own project ideas.
MA (Hons) Guest Lecture on Creative Writing and Publishing
Aesthetica held a lecture at York St John University on publishing creative writing. The lecture focused on how to approach publishing houses, and aspects to consider when looking for a publisher.
Media Consultants
Media consultants for Arts in Sixth Form: Making Media Project. Collaboration between York St John University and Scarborough Sixth Form.
Media Mentor
Media Mentor for Insight Out Yorkshire Programme in Creative Industries with CIDA.
