About the project partners From 2004 to 2013 Magic Me worked in partnership with Mulberry School for Girls, The Women’s Library and older women living in east London to create a unique series of ten annual projects, described in this report. All three organisations were based in Tower Hamlets until January 2013, when The Women’s Library moved to Holborn, central London.
Magic Me Magic Me is the UK’s leading provider of intergenerational arts projects. Our intergenerational groups, young people aged 8+ and older people 60+, meet weekly, in schools, museums, older people’s clubs, care homes, community or cultural organisations. Projects are led by our team of freelance creative artists: musicians, visual artists, photographers, filmmakers, writers and drama specialists. Activities bring together people of different ages, and often also diverse cultures, ethnicities and faiths. Magic Me reaches 600+ local people each year and many more nationally and internationally through research, consultancy and training. www.magicme.co.uk
Mulberry School for Girls Mulberry School for Girls is a high-achieving, over-subscribed, comprehensive school in Tower Hamlets which was judged to be Outstanding by Ofsted in 2013. Our aim is to develop confidence, creativity, leadership and a love of learning in our young women.
Mulberry is a Specialist Arts School and is currently in residence at Southbank Centre. We provide many extra-curricular learning programmes, including Women’s Education and Global Education. The school plays an active part in our local community and we recently launched the Mulberry and Bigland Green Centre to provide more facilities for parents’ learning. www.mulberry.towerhamlets.sch.uk
The Women’s Library The Women’s Library @ LSE is Europe’s largest collection of material relating to the lives of women and a key part of British heritage. The collections document all aspects of women’s lives, with a particular emphasis on the lives of women in the UK and the great political, economic and social changes of the past 150 years. LSE took custodianship of The Women’s Library from London Metropolitan University in 2013. The print collections include over 60,000 books and pamphlets and 3,000 periodical titles. The archive and museum collections include over 500 archives and 5,000 museum objects, including photographs, posters, badges, banners, textiles and ceramics. www.lse.ac.uk/library