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Letter from the Editor
MAiL IN
Talking through the arts
Ear to the ground
News, views and information from around the country
Web Wonders
Funding
Courses
Conferences
National Roundup (see facing column)
Columns
Talking through the
arts
In this issue we have two contributions to talking through
the Arts; both from Belfast. Paul Gent
on meeting a young paramilitary mural painter and Heather
Floyd from CAF reflecting on the political context for
community arts in Northern Ireland
Obituary
Neil Palliser
CLiPOUT
How to Lobby
New Starts
The Watershed in Slaithwaite, West Yorkshire
Mark Foord
Willing slaves and helpless computers — art and the new anti-capitalist
resistance
Features
Taking part
Beatriz Garcia reflects on Olympic success
Taking in Strangers
Louise Moyes from Newfoundland describes her own technique of
멶ocudance�
Person Centred Creativity
Training for participatory artists from Valley & Vale
Create
Katrina Goldstone on the development agency for participatory
arts in the Republic of Ireland
Participation
The last in a series of essays by Larry Watson
Why Dance
Penny celebrates 10 years of Chance to Dance in Portsmouth
Love triumphs
Award winning community radio drama
Professional means getting
paid to do it
Aidan Jolly on being a solo artist and a participatory artist
Cultural Planning
Hilary Foster on the work of the cultural commission in Scotland
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national roundup
SCOTLAND
The CCiSS programme has been working alongside the Raploch Urban
Regeneration Company to take workshops into local schools. Working
with writer Christian McEwan, ceramicist Katy West and storytellers
John and Noreen Hamilton they are producing a Big Poem and moulded
panels that will then be placed along the river Forth
Northern Ireland
Strabane is to make the move from cows to culture, with the creation
of a �2.8 million arts and culture centre on the site of the town뭩
old cattle market. Adjoining the new Strabane Library, the centre
will boast a 250- seat auditorium, offering a modern venue for
arts and entertainment as well as community arts development.
North West
Collective Encounters, based in north Liverpool, aims to use
theatre as a tool for social change. As part of their recent Living
Place project, six artists took up residency in six community
centres with the aim of gathering stories, images, sounds and
ideas and responding to them through their creative medium. www.collective-encounters.org.uk
Wales
Aberystwyth Arts Centre뭩 talented Youth Theatre company present
youth theatre present Don뭪 Forget To Write a original piece written
by two members of the company, Gareth Bradwick and Meurig Jenkins.
It is 1939 and Hitler is about to plunge Europe into chaos�. 5�7
December 2005 www.aberystwythartscentre.co.uk
West Midlands
Playbox Theatre Company has received funding to commission top
playwright Sarah Woods to research and develop a new piece, One
Day in the Future. Young people from all over the region will
join in the education project, and the play will be premiered
at the Dream Factory in 2006 as part of the company뭩 20th anniversary
celebrations.
South West
wo years in the making & involving over 60 adults with learning
difficulties from across North Devon. Wolf + Water Arts Company뭩
epic take on the Governmment뭩 밮aluing People� paper on how adults
with learning difficulties should be treated in society was premiered
to a packed Plough Arts Centre with plans to get it shown further
afield. www.wolfandwater.org
North East
A rare opportunity on December 3rd to hear British Art Show
6 artists including Breda Beban and Carey Young present questions
to the show뭩 curators. Tony Godfrey, writer and art historian,
will begin the discussion with an introduction to British Art
Show 6 and the history of this exciting exhibition. www.balticmill.com
Yorkshire
On 9, 10 and 11 February 2006 Leeds plays host to British Dance
Edition, the biennial showcase of UK dance. The three days will
be bursting with a diverse range of Britain뭩 brightest dance
talents, as they perform to major national and international promoters
and the general public.
East Midlands
Thanks to more than �100,000 from Arts Council England, East
Midlands and partnership funding, a run down shop in Southwell,
Nottinghamshire is being transformed into artists� workspaces
and a gallery. Located in the former Allwoods building in Westgate,
it will be a hub for artists and an attraction for local people
and visitors from across the region.
East
The Arts Generate website will shortly be launched at www.artsgenerate.co.uk.
It is planned that over the next few years Arts Generate will
continue to develop as a significant body of work which demonstrates
how the arts contribute flexibly, responsively and creatively
to the creation of vibrant communities where people want to live
and work in the East of England.
London
Eleven artists have been commissioned to respond to the formal
gardens of Polesden Lacey. The artists will be working with a
diverse range of communities, taking inspiration from the Indian
sub-continent seeds and lentils will adorn the earth, and ghostly
etchings appear on the potting shed and cold frames. The exhibition
will open in April 2006.
South East
Throughout the autumn, families will be able to take part in
an exciting variety of creative activities aimed at using our
senses to get to know the new De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill on
Sea. Drop in at any time from 2�5pm on the first Sunday of the
month.
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