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We're now enrolling students for our next Haringey Literature Live workshop series, this time on poetry, don't miss out! Email: kate@collage-arts.org to book your place. £75 for five x 2.5-hour workshop sessions, Thursdays 10am-12.30, Chocolate Factory 2. Testimonials online. POETRY: MY LIFE IN PICTURES 26th February, 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th March 2015, 10am – 12.30pm Workshop practitioner: Jehane Markham Five poetry-making workshops in which we will examine who we think we are. Keeping Shakespeare’s Seven Ages of Man as our rough template and narrowing it down to five, we will examine...


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Welcome to the February newsletter - your quickfire update on events at your favourite, local, community powered venue. It's incredibly important to us that you feel Karamel is your venue - we try and program up an inclusive, varied calendar of events each month and we'd love to know which events you enjoy, and what you'd like to see more off! Read more in the February newsletter


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2014 was a momentous start for Collage Arts and the Talent Match London delivery partnership in North London, that saw 24 young people supported all the way into valuable positive outcomes, whether they were further training opportunities, university places, or, for many, full time paid work. Now entering the second year, that amazing energy shows no signs of waning, and already in 2015, 8 participants have successfully gained employment in their preferred field, including one particularly exciting placement at ITV! With Talent Match’s guidance, Sean, 21, was able to make the right in-roads with...


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"What do you see when you look at a picture? Where does the image take you? The 2014 Flash Fiction Competition at the N22 Open Studios gave entrants this brief: write a complete piece of fiction in no more than 200 words, in response to an artwork on display. It’s incredible to see, reading through the entries, where the imagination takes each individual as they respond to works as diverse as ceramic sculptures, oil on canvas, printmaking, leatherwork, jewellery, tattoo art, photography, and beaded skulls, among other inspirations. Writing to a 200-word limit really focuses the mind...


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Talent Match in North London have had a busy, successful 2014, working on engaging with young unemployed people in the boroughs of Enfield, Haringey, and Waltham Forest. As well as helping over half of our participants complete the programme and achieve positive outcomes, we continue to aid young people with their personal development and help them navigate through the job world. 23 year old Fern Glennie-Smith has been with Talent Match since she moved to Haringey in May 2014. Her time has been spent gaining advice, attending personal development sessions, job skills workshops, 1 to 1 sessions...


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Happy New Year! … Listen closely,  and you can probably still hear the closing notes of Auld Lang Syne somewhere as we gear up for another round of activities, innovations, and celebrations here at the Chocolate Factory, with a brand new load of Quarters to talk about it all. If you can believe it, the Quarter is now into its second year (how time flies when you’re having fun!) and is showing no sign of slowing down yet. We’ll still be delivering all the news on the wonderful and varied arts and music you’ve come to love, and we love to publicise. If you keep reading ‘em, you can be certain...


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