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Project archive

Daisi’s work focuses on creative partnerships that enable arts and culture to enrich and inspire the lives, learning and futures of children and young people in our region, influencing practice locally, regionally and nationally.

The spirit of collaborative adventure, a core value at inception, remains so today.

Another sustained core value is that of reflective practice, and Daisi has produced a number of reports through our action research projects in the field of arts education. These reports identify and analyse the impact of a variety of approaches to artists working in schools and other young people’s settings.
These projects illustrate the range and quality of Daisi’s recent work.



Exeter Central Learning Community

The Central Learning Community in Exeter worked with Daisi to create the Celebrating Our World Festival 2009 in the summer.

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Fusion: Preventative Partnership

A partnership project, drawing 7 agencies together, about positive activities for young people that create change for them. 

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Art to Start

Art to Start explores child-centred approaches to creativity in the early years foundation stage through growing the relationship between professional artists and setting staff.

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Inspiration Aspiration Partnership

Inspiration Aspiration Partnership is about arts, cultural organisations and schools working together to inspire creativity and increase aspiration by developing young people’s pride in their local surroundings and resources.

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3D A Chance to Dance

3D is a Devon County Council funded organisation that aims to promote high quality dance and provide performance opportunities for school children and young people in Devon.

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Devon Youth Theatre (DYT)

DYT is funded by Devon County Council and aims to bring Devon school students in years 9 to13 the opportunity to work in an innovative, high quality company, with other like-minded students and professionals, to learn more about the art form and discipline of theatre.

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DigitEX

The DigitEX project (2005) was a participatory workshop and performance project for Exeter children initiated to explore personal, community and global identity through arts and new technology in celebration of the reorganisation of Exeter schools.

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Transitions

The Transitions project was developed in 2004-2005, funded by Youth Music.  It explored the issue of continuity and progression for pupils between primary and secondary school, looking at the impact for young people of engagement in music making activities across this transition phase. 

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TREADZ

TREADZ was a multi art form, action research pilot project, initiated by Daisi in 2004. It explored the potential of the arts to increase self-esteem and confidence in young people who are excluded from school and attending Pupil Referral Units, or who are in a young offender’s unit.

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Patterns in the Mind: Patterns in the World

A partnership project led by daisi and theatre practitioner Phil Smith, using physical theatre to explore scientific concepts complementary to and beyond the science curriculum.

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A Real Buzz

A Real Buzz was an innovative, creative partnership between EDF energy, 6 Exeter schools and Daisi in 2003.  Artists in residence and EDF Energy volunteers worked with over 500 pupils to create art works on the theme of human and natural energy for EDF Energy’s new Exeter Customer Service Centre.

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Strengthening School Communities

This project was a response to the introduction of the government’s School Improvement Strategy, and looked at supporting this strategy through forms of artist-led creative activity within schools.

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The Groundswell Project
The Groundswell Project was launched in October 1998 with a wide ranging programme of activities running through to March 2001; its focus was the work of artists in schools. The project research focuses on the impact of artists on pupils’ learning.
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