Vote for Acting Now!

Vote for Rowan and Acting Now Acting Now, a Cambridge based social theatre company has been running fantastic drama workshops at Rowan on Thursdays and Fridays.   You can help them receive £50,000 of Big Lottery Fund cash in the ITV’s The People’s Project TV Competition. The public vote will decide who wins so we […]

Farewell and Thank you to Bridget and Kirstin

Farewell and Thank you to Bridget and Kirstin You may have seen Rowan advertising for a new Marketing and Development Manager. Bridget and Kirstin, who were job sharing the role, are both moving on to exciting new challenges.   Bridget led on the fundraising for Rowan’s recent refurbishment, transforming the building and opening it up […]

e-Luminate at Rowan

e-Luminating at Rowan This year, as part of the annual e-Luminate festival in Cambridge we created a window display for the Creative Windows Competition.   From 10 – 15 February, we displayed work made in the mixed media studio by tutor Lima Rose and Rowan students.                Various discussions took […]

Why I like Rowan

Why I like Rowan I’ve been at Rowan for over 10 years now. My favourite thing about coming here is spending time with my friends (especially my girlfriend!).                  On Wednesday I am in the wood workshops, I like loud noises and sanding my work so it’s smooth […]

I love all the work I make at Rowan

I love all the work I make at Rowan I’ve been doing print making for two years now, and I really enjoy every aspect of it.               When I first started, I rushed my drawings and designs and didn’t spend my time on detail. But with help from Susie […]

Why am I running?

Why am I running the 2017 Cambridge Half Marathon? The main reason I chose this personal challenge is to improve my health and fitness AND raise funds for Rowan.  I decided that 2016 was going to be the year I got back into running. I was going to train to a 5km distance, something I’d […]

Making labyrinths

Rowan is known for many reasons, and not just for our work with learning disabled people. Historically the charity has worked with wood and it is only in the last few years has it included other art forms such as textiles, print and music.    Four years ago, Kay Barrett, a key supporter of the […]

Acting makes me feel great

‘I like the stories. We are using our minds and imagination to be anything we want. We are pretending.’     Traditionally Rowan has focused on using visual art and crafts in its work with learning disabled people. As part of Rowan’s future plans, new progammes of activity are being developed and over the last year, the […]

Visit from Museum volunteers

Volunteers from the Museum of Cambridge come to Rowan As a thank you for for our exhibition in the Museum of Cambridge’s Community Cases, we invited the Museum’s volunteers to come to Rowan and take part in a textile workshop led by one of our tutors Hilary Sugai. We invited one of the participants, Kerry […]

Knitting at Rowan

A new club has started at Rowan, knitting!     The textiles studio was set up at Rowan in 2013, and is now run for 3 days a week with plans to expand. Some of our students have a great affinity with textiles and have been exploring and developing a wide range of skills including appliqué and […]