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Art meets communities
Street Life
It's urban... Total Theatre Magazine's editor Dotothy Max Prior,
looks at a project where street culture meets theatre in Scotland
Access Pottiness?
When we hear the Turner Prize winner making cracks about residencies
down the pit, is the pendulum starting to swing away from'social
inclusion'? Freelance musician and digital artists, Aiden Jolly
of virtual migrants has a look.
Crossing Boundaries
Integrating chalenging physical theatre with strong participatory
arts practice, with mentors in Moscow and Huddersfield, Manchester-based
Talia Theatre are still happy to go on the road...
Working with offenders
Open Your Eyes
Andy Watson, artistic director of Geese Theatre Company, explains
the company's work with young women at risk and a new probation
service in Bulgaria.
Arts and disability
Art for Arts sake - Value
for money...
Another stab at that age-old problem of the brilliant partnership
arts project which somehow fails to beat the priority trap. Artlink
East's Heather Harker explores.
Outreach
SHOUT!
Should upmarket arts organisations dabble with the inclusion,
participatory and community agendas? That question gets a twist
at Henley's Festival of Music an the Arts. Shout!, the Festival's
outreach programme, isn't just a tick box exercise, says Artistic
Director Stewart Collins.
Principles
Participation, a matter
of degree?
Further up the Thames, Larry Watson of Reading's Rising Sun Centre
suggests that participation shouldn't just mean the sort of easy
win that a short-term project can produce.
Work in hand
Living Place...Culture Capital
Is Liverpool Capital of Culture just about wacky buildings that
might or might not happen? Nick Kelly of Collective Encounters
reflects on the task of engaging effectively with the city's communities.
Mixing it/Moving on
A partnership project linking Creative Arts East with a Pupil
Referral Unit.
With, not for
How to make a resource project work effectively, sustainably and
creatively has always been a problem. Bernie Velvick, of Prescap,
explaina a project that goes back to basics...
Cultural exchange catches
fire
An update with Nottingham's love affair with Valencia's fire sculptures
Building work
Patrick Studios opens.
Reaching out - digitally
Shahina Johnson explains how cr8 studios in Swindon get out more,
through their mobile media project.
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EAR TO THE GROUND
꿬n Bristol, where the
World on Wheels exhibition at the Architecture Centre is showing
until 13 March, with Matt Bridgestock who took a break from his
architecture training to cycle over 16,000 miles, searching for
architecture and adventure. Details on www.worldonwheels.info.
꿢t the University of Central England
(UCL)� where Banner Theatre celebrates its thirtieth anniversary
with a two-day event on Friday & Saturday, 8 & 9 April, entitled
Political Documentary and Contemporary Culture. Included in the
launch will be a new songbook, Singing the Changes, featuring
80 songs by Dave Rogers, together with photographs and articles,
and a CD. Call 0845 458 1909, or
e-mail info@bannertheatre.co.uk
꿬n Glasgow, where claims that
"comedy belongs to Glasgow" will ring true during the Miller Glasgow
International Comedy Festival from 10 to 26 March. Details from
www.glasgowcomedyfestival.com
꿢nd in Leicester, where the
good city's own comedy festival features comedians John Ryan and
Gary O'Donnell, who with Phoenix Arts have been working to discover
an antidote to the intolerable 'Doctor Doctor' style gag. They
met a range of Leicester men as part of their research for the
comedy show which premiered at Phoenix Arts on 6 February. The
show is part of 'Hurt Until It Laughs,' a men's comedy health
project which aims to point men in the direction of the doctor.
Further information available via www.phoenix.org.uk
or www.comedy-festival.co.uk
꿢nd still in Leicester, where
a season of events gets under way exploring the evolving concepts
of the citizen, citizenship and civil rights in the 21st Century,
and culminates in a Citizens Exhibition from 27 April to 25 May
at the City Gallery, in partnership with the Peepul Centre. Contact
Jessica on 0116 266 7673 or e-mail
j.tickell@peepulcentre.co
꿬n Vauxhall, South London, at
the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, where Duckie Nights take place with
Apples & Snakes, for regular Post Gay Vaudeville and Post Punk
Pogo-ing on Saturdays, from 9pm to 2am.
꿬n Pontefract, where the annual
Liquorice Festival, due to take place on 16 and 17 July, is looking
for performers and workshop leaders. Contact Bev Adams by e-mail
at bev@facelessco.com.
꿬n Birmingham, at the mac, where
Sound It Out's flagship project Musical Connections Spring Performance
can be heard at the Parkside Room from 8pm on Friday 4 March,
showcasing original material of varying styles written by members
who are isolated through disability or age.
꿬n Stirling, at the Macrobert,
where Graeae, Britain's leading company of disabled theatre practitioners,
brings their national tour of Diary of an Action Man to a close
on the 18 & 19 March. Details from claire@graeae.org,
or call 020 7609 7324
꿬n Nottinghamshire, where Renee
Salt, a survivor of Auschwitz and Belsen, transferred the memorial
flame from Belsen to light an eternal lamp at the Holocaust Centre
꿬n Cardiff, at the Hilton Hotel,
where the Arts Council of Wales Creative Wales Award ceremony
was held in January, awarding just over �215,000 between 19 professional
artists. For details of winners and background information, go
to www.artswales.org.
...in Alsager, where FEDfest,
the Federation of Worker Writers and Community Publishers' (FWWCP)
Festival of Writing takes place at MMU Cheshire, Alsager Campus,
from 1-3 April. Fedfest is an opportunitity to meet others who
write and perform, to learn, to share and discuss with like-minded
supportive people. Details on 01782 822327,
or e-mail fwwcp@tiscali.co.uk.
꿬n Margate, in the harbour,
where a six-metre high steel obelisk has been installed by marine
engineers to mark the site of Turner Contemporary, a new international
venue due to open in 2007.
꿢t schools around the country,
where Mencap's Spellathon celebrates
its twelfth year of the nationwide spelling contest run in conjunction
with the Oxford University Press and supported by wizard students
James and Oliver Phelps, who play the Weasley twins in the Harry
Potter films. Last year Spellathon raised over �360,000 for Mencap.
For further information and a Spellathon pack call 0845
977 7779 or visit www.mencap.org.uk/spellathon.
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