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Fife supports Kilmaron’s visit to the Scottish National GalleryWest Sussex champions theatrical eventFunded by a Young Arts bursary from Fife DFAS, the pupils and staff of Kilmaron Special School in Cupar were able to visit the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh. In the morning the pupils were taken on a tour of the galleries to look at some of the landscape art on display and For the third year running, West Sussex DFAS Young Arts, with matched funding from the Patricia Fay Memorial Fund, sponsored a theatre performance for children as part of the Petworth Festival. All 500 tickets for Danny the Champion of the World, performed by Illyria Theatre Company, sold out and 50 entries were received for the competition to design the programme. All felt the experience had been joyous.Below: The winning programme cover by Maddie Alffreyin the afternoon there was a creative workshop so they could create their own landscape art using paint and collage materials. The members felt it was a truly enjoyable, stimulating and fulfi lling day for pupils and staff.Above: Making landscape collages using natural materialscopy dates for NADFAS Review 2017Spring 2017: 03/01/17Summer 2017: 20/03/17Autumn 2017: 26/06/17Winter 2017: 04/09/17We are always keen to share stories about Societies’ volunteering work and activities. As well as NADFAS Review, we are using many of them on social media sites like Facebook or Twitter (we are of course mindful when dealing with Young Arts stories not to identify children). Please continue to send us your news and pictures so we can share them across these platforms.Please email your stories to: nadfasreview@nadfas.org.uk.We apologiese to those who have sent in stories that do not appear, but we do try to use as many as possible. Image quality is often key. Photos should be emailed as jpeg or tiff fi les at print-quality high resolution (300dpi /1MB or more). They should not be embedded in emails or text documents, but emailed as separate fi les. Please ensure text and image fi le names include the Society name. Captions are also useful. Thank you.GOING ABROAD? Members would be warmly welcomed at lectures given by Societies in Europe and New Zealand or given by our sister organisation, ADFAS in Australia. Find Societies near your holiday destination at www.nadfas.org.uk (or www.adfas.org.au/societies.html for Australian Societies).Colchester helps children organise their own printwork exhibitionColchester DFAS Young Arts funding has supported Holy Trinity Primary School near Colchester to develop the technique of printing. The whole school spent two days working with Karenza Jackson, a local printmaker, to produce monoprints linked to topics in school. These were framed and the Year Five children helped organise an art exhibition. There was even classical music chosen by the children, and a catalogue of works. The children enjoyed their experience of running a gallery and it is hoped that in addition to developing printing across the whole school, it will encourage more of the local community to visit art galleries in the future. Above: Printmaking with local artist Karenza JacksonIn June, Bolton DFAS (in conjunction with its President, Michael Howard) sponsored prizes in a variety of artistic categories at the Bolton Schools Art and Design Show, which showcases the best artwork from 11 local schools. The support of this annual exhibition is the major event in the Society’s Young Arts Programme. The Society has been celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. Bolton rewards good design ideasSOCIETIES NEWS www.nadfas.org.uk NADFAS REVIEW / WINTER 2016 73