The Generate Network

26/02/2026

All of the start of the year goings on are now detailed in our Spring newsletter 🤗

We hope you enjoy having a read through of all the activity for the first part of 2026 😁

There are some exciting announcements included in this Spring newsletter with information about all the goings on during the first half of the year as well as offerings from our friends and partners.

26/02/2026

We are so fortunate to be able to showcase 'An I Away From Science' at not one but two international older adult dance festivals this year! 🥳

Our screendance will be shown first at DanceEast HOST Festival in Ipswich on 5th May and Yorkshire Dance Ageless Festival in Leeds on 10th and 11th July 🙌

The Generate Creatives are looking forward to road tripping across the country this summer to meet and dance with lots of other older adults 🤗

26/02/2026

So pleased and proud to announce the Generate Creatives have received funding from the Abderrahim Crickmay Charitable Settlement to produce our newest project 'The Hollows' a site specific dance photography project in the caves of Nottingham 📸💃🌑

We are so grateful to the ACCS for believing in this idea and helping us bring it to life!

We start work in April collaborating with the fabulous David Wilson Clarke at the National Justice Museum with an exhibition at ILKON later in the year

12/02/2026

We're pleased that the Roots and Reels film festival will be showcasing 'An I Away From Science' on Wednesday 18th March at 7pm at Fabric Nottingham

The event is pay what you feel and there are some gorgeous short films on offer during the evening 😊

This screening will happen at FABRIC2 Dakeyne St NG3 2ARWelcome to our second screening of Roots & Reels - Nottingham ecology film festival!We have set out a call for Nottinghamshire-based people and projects using film as a medium to celebrate ecology, raise awareness and inspire climate action.......

18/12/2025

Dance in a Day workshops are back for 2026! 🥳

Join dancers 50+ at Fabric Nottingham on Tuesday 31st March 10am - 3pm for a whole day of dance! We'll start the morning with a release based contemporary class and move on to choreographing and creating our own dance during the afternoon 🤗

If you'd like to book a spot please email karla_jones@outlook.com the cost is £25 per dancer (capped at the 2024 price) 👍

I'm so looking forward to seeing lots of you there! 💕

12/12/2025

Our Winter/end of year newsletter is now live!

I hope everyone enjoys having a read through all the information included and you find it useful 🤗

I thought I would take the opportunity to welcome any new sign ups to the newsletter with a round up of the festival as well as sharing lots of information about all the wonderful contributors who are currently part of the network. I’d also like to wish everyone a restful and peaceful end of the y...

27/11/2025

Today's the day! 🤗🥳😍

We'll be sharing snippets of the festival on our stories all day so keep your eyes on our page!

Fabric Nottingham

20/11/2025

The Generate Festival 2025 is one week today! 🙌

Everything is prepped and ready to go and we can't wait to welcome everyone to Fabric Nottingham next week!

We'll be posting on our stories throughout the day so you can stay ahead of all the goings on if you didn't manage to get a ticket to our sold out event!

14/11/2025

All morning and afternoon workshop requests have now been finalised ahead of the festival!

The final preparations are underway and we couldn't be more excited for 27th! 🙌

13/11/2025

We're pleased to announce the full line up for the Generate Festival Showcase! 🥁🥁🥁

Movement for All will be sharing their most recent screendance 'Are You Dancing? Are You Asking?'

Sky Mirror Dance are showcasing live work choreographed by Kayla Dougan Bowtell

Moving Together will also share live work by Laura Bryan

Nottingham Playhouse Encore Dance have worked with Jo Petch Shrimpton to create their work in progress sharing

50+ Contemporary Dance Sheffield have reworked their Arts Council funded piece 'THE FALLEN'

Plus we'll also debut the Generate Residency screendance 'An I Away From Science'

We are so thrilled to be able to showcase the best older adult dance work in the region and we're privileged to be joined by such wonderful companies, choreographers and dancers!

07/11/2025

Announcing the last in our series of workshop leaders... Laura Bryan from Moving Together, Leicester 🥳

Laura will be leading our Big Boogie morning warm up! She is Practitioner Lead with Moving Together and she is passionate about creating community and making healthy, happy spaces to move in — whether that’s through the Keep Moving Collective for adults who love creative dance and performing, or the Adult Keep Moving classes across the East Midlands where the focus is fun, wellbeing and feeling good through movement.

Laura has been a dancer her whole life, teaching during the week and performing (and even fire breathing!) at the weekends — living the best of both worlds. She trained in Contemporary dance at De Montfort University, graduating with first-class honours before completing her Masters Degree in Digital Art, where she explored the relationship between AI and dance film. After finding school and academia tough, dance has always been her superpower — and it’s never let her down.

The warm up will start with a fun icebreaker game to get everyone connected. Then it’s straight into movement powered by absolute bangers to wake us all up for the day! She'll be leading simple, feel-good repetitive routines that are great for both body and mind — energising, uplifting, and guaranteed to make you smile. Expect some low-impact cardio to get the blood flowing, with plenty of stretching woven in so you feel ready to dive into the festival!

05/11/2025