Issue 57: June/July 2009

Fourways 2, 6 Dilston Terrace, Amble, Northumberland, NE65 0DT editor@theambler.co.uk

Injured Amble Soldier
Amble soldier wounded during Afghan tour

Day Centre reform
Controversy and unease at reform plans

David counts on a bright future
Local lad becomes Fulbright Scholar

Bronze Age burials
Why archaeologists are worried about Low Hauxley's coast

A piece of history
The day the roof fell in

Amble meets Ab Fab
Fashionistas come to town

Help for jobseekers
Jobs board, CV service etc

Amble's community forum
How to join in the fun

Selfridges has Empathy with Amble
Luxury products from the Friendliest Port

Zecca opens doors
New restaurant could put Amble on food map

Beach safety
RNLI concerned about holidaymakers

Links First School
Graduation and recycling

Strawberries and Bubbly
All in aid of a good cause

Your letters and email
Amble Day Centre - Politicians and Council argue it out . Plus what did the Vikings call Amble?

Cycling for charity
Gillian and Tony take a three day challenge

Brambles Celebrations
What these top tots are up to!

Enterprise and Initiative
Year three youngsters show us how it's done

Funday at the Welfare
Healthy fun in the sun at the Welfare

Coronation street party
Do you recognise anyone in the picture?

Attendance allowance
Are you getting what you're entitled to?

Help for volunteers
Country-wide project will help local people

Capt'n Coquet's corner
Lord of the (Coquet) rings!

Comment
How Amble is strutting its stuff

Artograffi
Including why we wake up early only in the holidays

David's Diary
News from Amble Development Trust

Town council report
News and updates from the Town Council

County Councillors reports
Reports from Robert and Jeff

Bringing in the cha-ching
Staff at Kathleen's hold a coffee morning

Amble Churches Together
Keeping things safe

Penny says..
Pity the teachers

Armed Forces Day
Images from the Town Square

Swine 'flu: the facts
Information at your fingertips

Talk to your doctor, guys
Delicate subject delicately discussed

What's On
Local events and activities

Dance Divas and St Cuthberts
Youngsters with a lot going on

Ray King blog
Including a tribute to Bobby Robson

Castles and Islands challenge
Why a hi tec firm supported a local yacht race

Take a trip to the future
A disused shop front in the centre of Amble has been transformed into a futuristic travel agency thanks to the creative talents of a local youth art group.
Complete with the slogan, ‘Travel to Tomorrow Today,’ the window of the virtual travel agency features posters and postcards advertising holidays to exotic locations. But close inspection reveals the locations are in fact images of how the young artists think Amble might look in the future.

The display is the result of a month long project which has seen youngsters from the town’s Artograffi group working with two visual artists on how their home town might look in the future.
Time Flies Team


“We made posters of the Town Square and Queen Street as we imagined it might be in the future,” says Amber Brown, a member of Artograffi.

“We made posters for the old Co-op furniture shop as if it was a time travel agency and covered it in posters of holidays to the future.”

 


“We have really enjoyed working with the young people of the Artograffi group as they had such a lot of enthusiasm, not only for the project but for how they envisaged their home town of the future,” says Marianne Wilde, one of the visual artists involved in the project.

Performance group, The Loons, took to the streets with members of the Artograffi group to help to promote the travel agency with placards and postcards. The young people handed out postcards picturing some of their futuristic visions on one side with requests for local residents to share their own ideas about how Amble should look in the future on the reverse.

“We were pleased with the level of participation from the younger members of the community and hope they will be inspired by the fruits of their creativity,” says Julia Aston, from Amble Development Trust. Inspire Northumberland is a partnership between Northumberland Strategic Partnership and Arts Council England, North East. It is funded by ONE NorthEast, Arts Council England, North East and Northumberland County Council.

See Artograffi’s report on the Time Flies project on their pages and check out Amble on Channel4’s Big Art Mob Project: www.bigartmob.com/view/5542/time-flies

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