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Volunteering at Maindee Library - can you help?
Over the 11 months since re-opening Llyfrgell Maindee Library+ has so far seen 50 people giving up their free time to help continue the library service and a further 27 people have shown interest.
The Chepstow Road Journey - Meeting 28 September
You are invited to a celebration of the successes and reflection on the future opportunities for Maindee Village Partnership. This is a chance to see some of the films and media created over summer 2016.
Street Media update: 'ExtChange' and new projects
Street Media is a media development project for 16-25 year olds based in Maindee. Members make films together and have access to equipment and feedback sessions at Maindee library. We meet weekly. Our last project was called ExtChange. Its a short...
Thousand Voices Project & Job Opportunity in Maindee
We are pleased that CHER (Community House Eton Road) has recently been awarded a 2 year grant of £55,900 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to support for their 'A Thousand Voices' project. A part-time project co-ordinator role is currently being...
Maindee Photographic Survey
Dilip Sinha will be taking photographic portraits of local residents, pedestrians and the wider community of the Victoria Ward.
Celebrating Maindee Mosaics on September 15
Artist Steph Roberts has been working with people to create mosaics which respond to the patterns on the pavements, bridges, roofs and the walls of Maindee. On the evening of Thursday 15 September you are invited to come along to Maindee Library and find out how these...
Using Augmented Reality to Find Maindee
We're working with Andy O'Rourke at Malarky Arts to try out Augmented Reality. Andy's work is centred on the stories from the customers at Sammy's Barbershop on Church Road. We would love you to check out what has been created and help us to refine the model.
Poems by Susan Lewis
After attending an embroidery session with the Coffee and Laughs group at Community House on Eton road. I met Susan Lewis who is a poet. She shared 2 poems that she has written during sessions with Artist Marion Cheung who has been developing a Maindee tapestry over...
Newport Legends found in Maindee
Across the next twelve months, four ‘Legend Maker’ groups will create a performance of a legendary Newport story, and one of these projects will be based in Maindee!
Sound is alive in Maindee, can you hear it?
The sounds alive mission is to build an informal and fun gathering of local music makers, creatives and the acoustically inquisitive.
Finding Maindee by learning from other places
Documenting a way of life...
Who pays the bills?
John Hallam, Maindee Unlimited's Programme Manager, explains in this blog where the charity gets money from to pay its bills: