Category Archives: Arts

Engaging in arts, culture and creativity has the potential to help all of us live longer, more fulfilled and healthy lives. We are delighted to announce that Cohere Arts has been awarded funding from The National Lottery Community Fund to help further develop our creative health programme – enabling communities to feel happier, healthier & more connected through engagingContinue reading “Creative health programme”

In July 2021 our creative team gathered with a community chorus to make an audio recording of music theatre piece Witchfinder in the wonderfully atmospheric setting of Walpole Old Chapel. The project was part of a wider programme of work made possible by Heritage Lottery Fund and National Lottery players, and this event marked theContinue reading “Witchfinder – impact film”

We are pleased to offer another chance to listen to our immersive audio performance, recorded at Walpole Old Chapel with a professional cast and community chorus in summer 2021. Witchfinder will be aired on BBC Radio Suffolk’s upload programme at 19:00 on Sat 9th October 2021, and then will be available to listen to fromContinue reading “Witchfinder on BBC Radio Suffolk”

We are delighted to announce that thanks to funding from East Suffolk Council we are launching a brand new creative project for visually impaired people living in East Suffolk. High Spirits will invite community participants to work with professional artists to create a new audio drama inspired by Suffolk’s spooky heritage. The project, based atContinue reading “High Spirits”

Artworks created by attendees of Witchfinder Day were exhibited at a special exhibition at The Hold, Ipswich on 2nd September 2021. Artists were asked to design their own Witch’s familiar or companion animal. Each named their animal and gave it a special power – scan the QR code to hear the artists talking about theirContinue reading “Witch’s Familiar Exhibition”

Cohere Arts had a blast earlier this month staging an immersive theatre event and audio performance at The Hold, Suffolk Archives’ brand new home in Ipswich near the waterfront. Supported by National Lottery Heritage Fund, the event on 2nd September 2021 was attended by teachers from primary and secondary schools across Suffolk, who were introduced toContinue reading “Immersive History at The Hold”

“The flow of the piece carried me through the mansion, which wrapped the sound into another time. At times I found my feet dancing, tapping, sidestepping and twirling.” Audio performance audience member Witchfinder Day, 19th August 2021, was a bit of an experiment. Ipswich Museum had kindly given Cohere Arts access to the wonderful ChristchurchContinue reading “Witchfinder Day at Christchurch Mansion”

After our initial residency in chilly December 2020, it was wonderful to spend another 4 days at Walpole Old Chapel in Suffolk in the glorious July sunshine. This time the goal of our residency was to make an audio recording of Matthew Hopkins-inspired music theatre piece Witchfinder within the wonderful acoustics of the chapel. OurContinue reading “Recording Witchfinder at Walpole Old Chapel”

The most recent phase of our Witchfinder project began in June 2021, with the kind support of Heritage Lottery Fund and National Lottery players. Due to the restrictions the pandemic had placed on live performance, we had decided to develop Witchfinder as an immersive audio performance, and needed an intergenerational community chorus to join ourContinue reading “Community workshops”

Adapting Witchfinder as a purely audio performance has been a new experience for the entire creative team. Our recent rehearsal workshops at DanceEast in Ipswich alongside community theatre company Unscene Suffolk were testament to this; taking each of us on an unexpected journey of refocusing, re-learning and really listening. “Witchfinder has evolved because of theContinue reading “Out of adversity, a truly extraordinary few days”