Trails End Garden Party, Sun 30 September

To mark the closing of Wanstead Arts Trails, Snaresbrook Arts Project is organising a Trails End Garden Party on Sunday 30 September from 12 - 5 pm. We would like to invite you, your family and friends and to ask that you help us spread the word of our event.

We are a local non-profit making community interest company that offers training, support and employment for adults with learning disabilities.  Our aim is to enhance confidence, sense of purpose and achievement of the adults who attend our project through our support and the art & craft work.

Even though we work in partnership with the NHS, Redbridge and Waltham Forest councils, we do not receive any funding. So the project relies on the sale of our various handmade arts and crafts, as well as on the generosity and good nature of our local residents to keep on running. We are hoping that you can give us as much support as possible and help on making this coming Sunday a successful day!

As well as an open day at the project when you can come and meet the artists from SAP Studios, we'll have food, drink, arts & craft market, henna, music, bubble making, face painting, arts & craft exhibition and activities for children and lots more fun...

Join us for an afternoon full of fun for the whole family!

Free entry!

We look forward to seeing you.

 Mazhar Malik and the SAP Studios Team

James Bull Annual Art Competition – 2012

Snaresbrook Arts Project

                          is proud to present                              

James Bull Annual Art Competition – 2012

James is a local artist who has excelled in his hobby and converted that into a full time job.

He attends Snaresbrook Arts Project ‘SAP STUDIOS’ which supports, trains and employs adults with learning disabilities.

James would like to invite and encourage young children, aged 7-11yrs and 12-15yrs (2 categories) to express themselves through art by entering his competition.

If you are interested please send your Artwork/Paintings   to the address below:

Address: 34 Hollybush Hill, Snaresbrook, E11 1PS.  

Subject:   Flowers

Closing Date: 28^th of September 2012

Entry cost : £2 (for admin)

Prizes:  Winners will receive a cup and have their paintings displayed in Wanstead Library and The ARC in Harlow. Runners up will receive medals.

The paintings will be judged by local artists, councillor and professionals. The winners will be announced at our 'Trails End Garden Party' marking the closing of the Wanstead Art Trail on 30th September at the above address.

Trails End Garden Party on Sun 30 September

To celebrate the closing of Wanstead Arts Trails, SAP Studios is organising a Trails End Garden Party on Sunday 30 September from 12 - 5 pm.

We'll have Food, drink, arts & craft market, henna, music, bubble making, arts & craft activities for children and lots more fun...

Join us for an afternoon full of fun for the whole family!

Free entry!

We appreciate your support!

Easter Festival Saturday 7th April

Hello from sap studios

Easter is fast approaching and we would very much like you to come to the Easter Fair at The Churchill Rooms in Wanstead Library on Saturday 7th April.

Please come along and support the project, enjoy the food and buy a raffle ticket in aid of the project.

There will be many other stalls for you to buy wonderful goods from.

We are in the Wanstead Village Directory

We are all very pleased and excited at work as our project was featured in the Wanstead Village Directory this month!

We hope it will help raise our profile in the community as we need all the support that we can get to continue supporting adults with learning disabilities.

A big thank you to Donna Mizzi for the support!

Please check out the article in the Wanstead Village Directory print version or online !!!

Private Viewing and Exhibition in Harlow

We are very excited to invite you to the Private View of our first exhibition of 2012 'sap studios collective exhibition' this coming Thursday night 6-8pm at St Johns Arc Gallery in Harlow.

The exhibiting collection is from the staff and workers of Sap Studios, at the Snaresbrook Arts Project. The Project, for those of you that haven't heard us talking about it before, is an arts project which employs adults with learning difficulties who make and sell art and craft items. The staff at the Project are a wide and talented group of people and this exhibition is a chance for them to exhibit their artistic talents along side work from the artists at the studios. It's a wide mix of work from photography, painting, textiles and print so hopefully something for everything.

It would be lovely to see you there. Bring your friends and family

Thank You & Happy Holidays!

We would like to thank everyone who has supported SAP Studios (Snaresbrook Arts Project) throughout 2011, especially

• Mick Parker, Sharon Church and her daughters Kirsten and Chloe for their invaluable support throughout the year;

• Clare Solomon and Nadera for volunteering their time to support us;

• Lucia Molnarova for her continuous support even after moving on to greener pastures;

• Zeeshan Khaliq for the invaluable support by supplying our printing material, including Christmas Cards, free of charge;

• The shops Blush Temples, Heads & Tails, Natural & Simple, Orange Tree and the Cherry Tree Cafe in Wanstead High Street for selling our products;

• Donna Mizzi for supporting the promotion of the project;

• All the staff who train and support our workers;

• All our workers who are the source of inspiration for the project to continue.

We wish you all a very happy Christmas and all the best for the New Year!

A little sparkle at Christmas....

Saturday was the last event of the year so everyone came along to join in the fun and get in the festive spirit at the Sprinkle Fair in Wanstead.....

Here was our table with all our sparkling handmade items...


Our raffle was also a success with five lucky winners! Each got a choice from two of James Bull's paintings, several toys and a Christmas Cake. All the money raised will go to the aid of SAP Studios and Haven House.



Here's the lucky winners of one of James' paintings....


The amazing Christmas cake up for offer....



A big thank you again to Donna Mizzi for organising the fair, and to Hana and Zanaib Malik for making and selling the delicious cupcakes in support of our project!

The Sparkle Fair glimpse.......

Next week end is the Sparkle Fair in Wanstead and we just wanted to give you a glimpse of the great things on offer.

We've got a great selection of Christmas cards designed by our workers. A pack of 10 big (A5 size) assorted cards costs £4.00 and we are now taking orders for them. We could also make a pack with only the cards you chose if you would like to order them! Please get in touch if you would like to place an order.

We also make some delicious cakes, well that's what we've been told and who are we to argue! On offer at the last event was this amazing giant cupcake which was raffled off to one lucky winner. All proceeds from the cake stall go towards SAP Studio, so no excuse not to get stuck in!

James also raffled off one of his unique and colourful paintings, here he is with the winner!

There are loads of great gifts on offer, all made from the workers, like these themed tins which can also be personalised for your loved ones.

Be sure not to miss out on all the lovely items next Saturday and help support the Snaresbrook Arts Project in the process.

Upcoming event.....

come along to our next christmas 'Sparkle Fair' and put some sparkle into your christmas......

Summer Time

We have started summer with lots of excitement and great news.

The whole team at Snaresbrook Art Project got together to create and put together a giant necklace called “Endless Chain” to celebrate Learning disability Week 2011, and once again our work was selected to be exhibited at the Tate Modern on 21 June. We were all pleased and excited to see not only this year’s Necklace displayed, but also to see our Red Bus, which was the winner of 2010, featured at the exhibition.

We are now busy creating our new selection of top quality cards, which are being sold at the Cherry Tree Cafe and in several other local shops, as well as in local fairs and events.

Come and meet the makers.....

Country Living Spring Fair

The sun is finally out so come and feel the joys of Spring at the Country Living Spring Fair.
We'll be there throughout at stand T14 with our great range of spring summer pieces, with an abundance of colour to bring joy to everyone.

For more information on the show click here to visit the Country Living website.

See you there........

New Design

Hi

After Christmas Holiday we start working at new accessories, such as hair bands, kilt pins and brooches. The " workers" are enjoying working at the new ideas and they are helping with design.

Kilt Pins and brooch

Hair bands

New design of cards

Our first entry at Christmas Country Living Fair was very successful. We are planning to entry for Spring Country Living Fair.

We are welcome volunteers at Snaresbrook Art Project. You are most welcome to visit us.

Photographs by Nelum Mudalige

Our Artist - James

Hello to everybody

James is progressing his art skills, he started paint on canvas. Now he is contributing his arts for many exhibitions.His last one was in Tate Modern Gallery.

Beal High School

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Students from Beal High School were attending at Snaresbrook Art Project for work experience. They last work experience was designing Christams cards.

Look at an amazing colours on Christmas cards....

Our Diversity - Exhibition

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Our exhibition of an artwork by adults with Learning Disability

Christmas goodies.......

You've still got time to come and see our stall at the Country Living Christmas Fair. It's been really busy with a great crowd and we've been getting really positive feedback from everyone. So hurry on down and get some Christmas goodies for the whole family or just treat yourself, you know you deserve it!




Here's a few of the great bits that everyone has been working really hard on for the stall: