dab Arts have worked on many projects, both large and small, with many groups of people. Our artists are all highly skilled individuals who work in a variety of settings ranging from individual professional practice to community and mainstream education.
    2006          
    The Incident          
    dab Arts performed The Incident, a script by Christine Harmar-Brown from devising sessions with the young people of the youth theatre. Dealing with issues of community bullying and exclusion, it tracks the fallout from 'the incident' on a group of young people in an urban environment.

We are trying 'theatre in the round', literally, with a roundabout at the centre of the arena. The time is now......with a few surprises. It is part musical with live and recorded accompaniment.

Directed by Laura Dunton Clarke		          
               
    Performances of SHED          
    Performed at the Young Minds Conference in London with Julian Clary, and at venues in East and West Sussex. The drama has evolved with new members of the cast. We have found it particularly effective when shown alongside the DVD of Sh!!, conceived and directed by Jan Maloney (available via Pulse)          
               
    Sidley Summer Arts Projects          
    Graffiti, animation and percussion workshops, resulting in a short animation video.          
               
    Puppetry workshops          
    Workshops to develop 2 existing characters, teenage parents Carl and Julie, as communicators on the experience of having a baby at so young an age. Workshops include both making/ adapting and use of puppets. Suitable for 12-16yrs.
Booking essential (01424) 431 305 or judy@dabarts.com
 		          
               
    Guerrilla Art          
    Based on the graffitists Banksy and ‘I like Drawing’ (see www.picturesonwalls.com), we start with a giant paper wall and marker pens, and proceed to develop the work onto T shirts and canvases over the four sessions. The last day is devoted to showcasing and documenting the work. We’re charging a fiver, which includes all materials, T shirts, canvases and refreshments (but don’t let this stop you coming, have a quiet word). Dave Reading, graphics designer, who’s done loads of T shirts you see on TV and Judy Dewsbery, painter/ex fashion designer are heading up the project with Nikki Joy, video maker.
Booking essential as there are only 12 places. (01424) 431305 or judy@dabarts.com
 		          
               
    SEPTEMBER 2005          
    RX258          
    A short film set in Hastings featuring puppets, fishing boats and fish n chips          
    Written and directed by Jan Maloney
Cinematography and editing by Jake Scott		          
               
    AUGUST 2005          
    Retail Therapy          
    Q-When is a shop not a shop?
A-When it's a dab Arts interactive installation!		    
    Yes, dab Arts, in partnership with HARC are turning the HARC charity shop in Queens Road, Hastings, into a not-so-serious look at our obsession with shopping. Like to print your own money?
Confess your shopping sins to the High Street Priest?
Or just enjoy this wry look at mall madness?		          
    Pop in to the HARC Charity Shop, Queens Road (Opposite The Curtain Shop)
Open 12pm to 5pm. Sunday 28th and Monday 29th August		          
               
    JULY 2005          
    The Pilgrimage, By Paul Goetzee          
    “Can you tell the sheep from the goats?”
dab Arts’ summer show is coming soon.
The company, who brought you Big Bruvva Backwards and A Lad in Trouble, now presents this exciting drama. It was commissioned by the National Theatre especially for young people. It explores splits in communities and is as relevant to downtown St Leonards as it is to world politics. Featuring masks, poetry and cracking drama, the company explore issues, explode myths and express themselves, leaving you with a memorable experience. 		         
    WALKING THE WORLD An Arts Festival          
    Helenswood Arts WEEK was run by dab Arts alongside the school and loads of other artists!
It all culminated in a show
WALKING THE WORLD An Arts Festival 		         
           
    FEBRUARY 2005          
    A Lad In Trouble          
    Hastings Youth Theatre alternative pantomime.

Written by Jan Maloney
Directed by Laura Dunton Clarke

  
           
    AUGUST 2004          
    Big Bruvva Backwards
An audio/visual romp! Homeless people win houses		    
       
           
    Positive Activities for Young People
January - April 2004
          
   

dab has been working on various after school projects with 8 - 13 year olds at the Bourne School, Oakwood, ETC and Langney Villas Youth Club in Eastbourne. During March we have been developing the project at the Underground Theatre, Eastbourne with workshops held each Saturday. The focus of these workshops has been to encourage young people to express ideas in film, performance and making. The workshops culminated in a show at the Underground Theatre, Eastbourne.

        
           
    Mad Weekend Show
October 2003
          
   

Sussex Hall, White Rock Theatre, Hastings.

"I would certainly do this again and recommend it to my friends"

A group of 23 young people between the ages of 13 and 19 worked together with dab to create a show in just 3 days. A workshop programme including script writing, performing, design and making, music and video resulted in a live performance showcased at the White Rock.

funded by connexions sussex

          
    dabadoo
2004
         
    dab have just completed a pilot series of creative sessions for fifteen 8 - 13 year olds concentrating on issues important to these young people such as bullying, status and peer pressure. It was fully subscribed. Due to the obvious success of this project we are hoping to be able to run a further series in late spring.          
    Mallydams Wood, Fairlight
2003-4
          
   

dab in partnership with the RSPCA held workshops for young people and adults on the theme of marine biodiversity. Participants made colourful banners which are on display in the education centre at Mallydams.

          
    Wishing Well
2003-4
         
   

A pilot project exploring innovative ways of engaging the public in a consultation process focussing on the regeneration of the five key wards in Hastings. The project was launched in Castle Ward with an opening event in Priory Meadow. Watch this space for details of future events in your area.

funded by the community empowerment fund

        
    Wave
2001-4		          
    dab Arts worked with the people of Hastings & St.Leonards to create an exciting project in Hastings Station booking hall.

The theme was “wave” and we asked local people for ideas in the form of words, or images, or both. They sent us their ideas on the back of specially produced postcards, and posted them in postboxes made by our artists.
More than five hundred people responded. Some of the best postcards
were awarded prizes by ConnexSE, while others were used as inspiration
for twelve huge banners hung from the station ceiling.

Meanwhile various community groups participated in our workshops to make five large wall hangings. Finally two semi circular pieces were made to fit the large station windows, and the installation was complete and ready for a special launch event over the Easter holiday 2002, which included drumming, and an exhibition of all the postcards.

A short video was made which included the postcard images and poems and writing, set to music. The station was so transformed that we were asked to leave the installation there indefinitely! 		   
               
               
    New Millennium Micro Village
2003 		         
   

Sunday 14th September, Wellington Place (outside Woolworths) Our Artist-led street theatre took a light look at regeneration in Hastings, with input from young people's 'Do it' workshops which were held during the summer.

The project explored innovative ways of engaging the public in a consultation process which was both entertaining and amusing while providing creative ideas for the future regeneration of Hastings.

Coastal Currents in the street

 

    
   

The Lion and the Unicorn
2002

         
   

Funded by Awards for All, this project celebrated the statues of a Lion and a Unicorn which are at either end of Robertson Terrace, near the seaside entrance to Debenhams in Hastings. Different artists will explore the theme using different art forms.

An exhibition of the pieces was held at the Pine Gallery in October 2002 and was seen again in different locations around Hastings Town Centre as part of an "I Spy" trail.

Children from four local primary schools took part, guided by a specially commissioned " I Spy" style book designed and illustrated by Hastings based artist Ed Boxall.

The Education Action Zone sponsored follow - up workshops in schools, which enabled dab artists to develop ideas with the children, based on their responses to the trail.

        
    Ballroom
2002 		         
    Part of a pilot project initiated by the De la Warr Pavilion, in association with South East Arts “Creativity of Older People Scheme” dab worked with a group of over fifties, on the theme of ballroom. The work was very much a collaboration between the group members and the artists with ideas drawn from the experiences and images surrounding the Ballroom theme.

During a series of four two hour workshops, the group made a small installation which was exhibited at the De La Warr Pavilion in June 2002. It is hoped that this may develop into a larger project this year. 		   
    White Spirit
2002 		         
    Using the White Exhibition at the De la Warr Pavilion as its starting point,
dab Arts worked with students from Bexhill High School to develop work based on the students response to the work in the Exhibition. 		       
    Punchline
2001 		         
    Using a Punch and Judy style booth as their starting point, groups of local children and adults were given a pre-constructed booth and a blank calico cover and invited to put their own contemporary slant on this traditional seaside attraction. Some made giant puppets, some made the booths come alive with writhing snakes and jungle creatures, while poets pinned poems on theirs!    
    Millenium Fishermans Arch
2000		          
    A celebratory arch commissioned by the Millennium Lottery Fund as a development of the traditional arches once built by the fishing community. Workshops with children in situ and with adults making flags to represent each fishing boat.