News Flash
1st May 2010
Promote your arts activity at the AIR Festival
Plans are well under way for a town wide Festival celebrating local arts activity organised by the artsinredditch (air) partnership from the end of August to the end of September 2010. The partnership working in close conjunction with the arts development service at Redditch Borough Council, FLAIR (Fetival of Local Arts In Redditch) and Kingsley College have recently been successful securing a lottery grant for £10,000 and £3500 from Redditch Borough Council to go towards the events. Highlights of the events will be held on the 26th September in the town centre and at Kingsley college on the 19th September, with a whole host of activity across the Borough throughout the whole of the month. Although the not yet finally secured, the artsinredditch partnership are hopeful of securing a local radio license for the period of the festival which will play an enormous part in putting the artsinredditch on a big platform locally.
Do you want to be involved?....Do you have an arts group who want to have their regular session promoted during that period? Do you want to perform or set up your stall at one of our events? Do you want to be pre recorded and then broadcasted on the radio as part of the celebrations?
If the answer is yes to any of these questions then you should come along to a planning meeting on Tuesday 11th May, 7pm at Redditch Town Hall. Please make contact with us before the night by email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and visit www.artsinredditch.com for more details about the partnership and it’s work.
Jan Higgit, chair of the artsinredditch (air) partnership said:
The artsinredditch partnership aims to increase participation in the arts as audiences and as hands on participants across the whole of Redditch. We are proud as a large group of local organisations in our joint achievements and the powerful role that the arts can play in changing people’s lives. We do hope you can join us at the Town Hall on the 11th May at 7pm!”
10th May 2010
Getting ‘People Dancing’!
‘12’ is a 2 1/2 year programme of classes, projects and performances in Worcestershire, commissioned through the People Dancing programme, bringing the county alive with dance.
‘12’ is an artistic collaboration that brings together video artists of international repute with a choreographer, professional dance artists and a composer, their mission is to inspire, involve and amaze. Dancefest is the dance development agency for Herefordshire and Worcestershire and is leading the delivery of the project.
In 2010 two dance squads will work all over the county offering classes to individuals and groups who may not previously have had the chance to dance. With the support of funding through the Health Improvement Fund ‘12’ will be addressing key health indicators NI110 Young people’s participation in positive activities and NI121 Mortality rate from all circulatory diseases at ages under 75. In 2011 will see more classes and opportunities to perform when flashmobs surprising an unsuspecting general public.
In the run up to the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games Worcestershire will stage a site specific video installation performance that will bring people out onto the streets seeing dance on plasma TV’s, shop windows, on buildings and architectural structures, using local dancers and live performance.
This project seeks to truly place Worcestershire on the destination map as well as bringing dance and movement to new participants and audiences. ‘12’ hopes to leave a lasting legacy of partnership and collaborative working to keep dance in the county alive long after 2012.
People Dancing is a three year programme, part of the West Midlands Culture Programme for London 2012, funded by Legacy Trust UK, Arts Council England West Midlands and Advantage West Midlands, aimed at encouraging mass participation in dance and dance related activity across the West Midlands.
This programme is also part funded by Redditch Borough council and the other Local authorities in Worcestershire.
12th June, 2010
Redditch Arts Circle are looking for someone to give a new home to some display screens that they no longer use.
All those who are interested should contact Christine Tansley by the 25th June.
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