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Leytonstone Arts Trail 5-13 July 2008
Come and be stimulated by the visual expressions of our local artists who are opening up their homes and studios - exhibiting in business premises, in the open-space and the 491 Gallery.
All types of art will be on show – look out for it on: walls, in windows, on floors, at Hollow Ponds and hanging from the ceilings!
Join in: ponder, listen, and participate – feast your eyes and heart!
FILM - INSTALLATION - SCULPTURE - TEXTILES - PAINTING – PHOTOGRAPHY- PERFORMANCE ART
We invite you to pick up your copy of a Leytonstone Arts Trail Map and begin your journey of inspiration...
Art Trail maps are available from:
· The Eatery, Harts and Century 21, all in Church Lane;
· The Trifle Café and One Stop Shop, both in the High Street;
· Artists who are exhibiting in their homes or studios
For more information visit www.leytonstonefestival.org.uk
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Leytonstone Festival 5-13 July 2008
The Leytonstone Festival 2008 opens on Saturday 5 July.
8 days jam packed with arts including the Leytonstone Arts Trail and the Youth Fest taking place around E11.
For a full programme of events visit www.leytonstonefestival.org.uk
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Fellowship Arts Festival & Big Dance 2008
Waltham Forest Council, in collaboration with Apex Arts (the Arts Council for Waltham Forest) presents the biggest, freshest, most innovative dance event in the borough. Red Onion Studio‘s Artistic Director, Dee Curtis, has produced this event to showcase the arts that have blossomed over the past few years and provide a platform for local talented dance groups to perform alongside established dance companies.
DiamondGirlz Jennie, Abigail & Nicola, a trio with stunning precision voices, will host this year’s Event. The Big Dance will travel the world in a day, with DJ A.K.A kicking off the event playing RnB, Hip Hip, Soca, Reggae and Soul tunes. Dances from Latin America, Asia, Africa, Europe and America will be featured. Prepare to be amazed by the Gymnastic, Martial Arts Stage and Combat Display, from Sam Tu Dang, Shaolin Gongfu City, RC-Annie and East London Capoeira.
Extreme Artist Ryan Doyle will kick off truly funky Urban Fusion theatre performances from The Manic Boiz, Product, Konspiracy, Randimites, Estate of the Arts and Spirit to name a few.
The Mall provides a taste of America with performances from freestyle dancers and breakers, and a Cheerleading troupe offering some amazing stunts and tricks. High lights of the event can be seen on DiamondGirlz Live from the Red Carpet on SKY channel 186.
The Central Library offers an opportunity to listen to some outstanding performance poets, led by Neal Zetter.
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What is the Cultural Olympiad?
The Cultural Olympiad is a fundamental element of the original philosophy of Baron Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic Games.
The first of the Fundamental Principles of Olympism, as set out in the Olympic Charter, states: ‘Olympism is a philosophy of life, exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, will and mind. Blending sport with culture and education, Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy of effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.’
On 20 November 2007 the Legacy Trust UK was launched as a charitable trust to use funding endowed by the Big Lottery Fund, Arts Council England and the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) ‘to help create and support projects throughout the UK which will create a lasting legacy from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games’.
In response to the Legacy Trust the Greater London Authority (GLA), through the London Development Agency (LDA), has appointed an Olympics Cultural Opportunity Manager to encourage cultural participation in the Olympics throughout London.
The 5 Borough Cultural Festival, entitled CREATE, will take place every July as a series of mainly free, open-air events in the 5 Boroughs. CREATE08 has been coordinated from existing events promoted by the Boroughs but, following the official launch of the Cultural Olympiad on the weekend of 26-28 September 2008, events will also be commissioned through the Legacy Fund UK and other sponsorship initiatives for July 2009 onwards.
The cultural legacy for East London is intended to be an annual East London Festival in the summer, potentially on the scale of the Edinburgh Festival.
The London Cultural Consortium (LCC) has published ‘London culture and 2012: a guide to the opportunities for London cultural organisations and practitioners’ in order to promote and encourage wider participation in the Cultural Olympiad: http://www.london.gov.uk/lcc/docs/culture2012guide.pdf
Celebrating the launch of the Cultural Olympiad
The weekend of the 26-28 September launches a four-year celebration of culture, designed to enable the widest range of people across the UK to participate. It will also launch a number of large-scale creative projects, with organisations and individuals being asked to consider how they might be part of the weekend and over the coming four years.
The concept is to ‘Open up’, the main aim of which is to create opportunities for people across the UK to visit spaces, places and people or to get involved in imaginative, thought-provoking creative activities they may not have done before. Cultural groups and organisations could work together to do something unusual or open up different spaces. Each part of the UK will offer something unique and activities will reflect the personality of the region or country.
To get involved in the weekend fill out the attached form or go to the www.london2012.com/beinspired to see how you can be part of the Cultural Olympiad
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Hitchcock Production Fund 2008-2009 Now Open
Apex Arts, through its Hitchcock Production Fund, has three grants of £3000 for Waltham Forest filmmakers to produce new short films.
Films can be shot on any of the following formats: Mini DV, DVCam, HDV, HD, Beta SP, 16mm, or 36mm. They can be in any genre.
You can enter up to two synopses. The deadline for submission of synopses is noon on Thursday 31 July 2008. Three copies of your submissions should be sent to the address below.
If successful you will be invited to submit a full script, detailed budget and shooting schedule. All films must be completed by 31 March 2009.
For more information on any of the above please contact Martin O’Connor: 020 8496 3591 martin@apexarts.org.uk
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Council Funding to Festivals Increases by 50% for 2008/9
Apex Arts welcomes news that Waltham Forest Council is to increase its support to 2nd Tier Festivals in the borough from £10,000 in 2007/8 to £15,000 in 2008/9, representing a funding hike of 50%. Apex Arts Chair, Tim Bennett-Goodman said, "This is a pleasing outcome to our negotiations with the Council and represents the demonstrable success of the events Apex Arts has supported with the funding it receives from the Council's 1 Community pot for this purpose. This increase will enable us not only to continue support of the borough's existing stock of festivals but to extend it". Events to be supported in 2008/9 are: Big Dance 2008 (a new event), Chingford Village Festival, E17 Art Trail, Leytonstone Art Trail (another new event), Leytonstone Festival and Waltham Forest Drama Festival. Apex Arts receives a further £15,000 from the Council towards the Walthamstow Festival which takes place in Walthamstow Town Centre 11-13 July this year (rebranded as the Fellowship Festival) and overlaps with the Young People's Caribbean Carnival on Sunday 13 July as part of Big Dance 2008.
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McMaster Report Supporting Excellence in the Arts
The eagerly awaited review of support to the arts, commissioned by the DCMS from Sir Brian McMaster, has been published. In the introduction to his report, 'Supporting Excellence in the Arts: From Measurement to Judgement', Sir Brian writes "Funding bodies must move to a new assessment method based on self-assessment and peer review that focuses on objective judgements about excellence, innovation and risk-taking and is made up of people with the confidence and authority to take tough decisions. Funding bodies must also have, as the quid pro quo for removing ‘top-down’ targets, the ability to intervene strategically when an organisation is failing."
To read the report visit:
http://www.culture.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/CA3322E5-42AC-4A83-93FC-08EDAAE83831/0/supportingexcellenceinthearts.pdf
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Fellowship Art Challenge Exhibition
The annual Fellowship Art Challenge Exhibition opens in Waltham Forest Theatre 10 to 27 July 2008. The exhibition will show art work from schools and community groups in Waltham Forest and beyond.
The exhibition is open to the public from 12-7pm on Thursday and Friday and 2-7pm on Saturday and Sunday.
The exhibition is also open for schools to book a visit Monday-Wednesday.
For more information contact Sue Brown (LBWF Arts Development Officer) sue.brown@walthamforest.gov.uk
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Planning Permission Granted For LED Screen
The London Borough of Waltham Forest Council Planning Committee at its meeting on 3 June 2008 granted permission for a giant LED screen to be permanently sited in Walthamstow Town Square and Gardens as one of the Olympic 'Live Sites' in the run-up to the 2012 Games. Work on installing the screen will start in July and it is hoped to be fully operation for the start of the Beijing Olympics in August.
At present screens successfully operate in Birmingham, Leeds, Hull, Liverpool and elsewhere broadcasting BBC programmes such as news, national sporting events and major concerts along with council information and locally made input. The Walthamstow screen will be the first Live Site in London and content will be controlled by a locally-based manager and will have the potential for local visual artists to have their work screened.
The screen will be handed over to the Council post-Games as part of the Olympics 2012 Legacy for Waltham Forest.
For further information contact Jon Widdows at: jon.widdows@walthamforest.gov.uk or 020 8496 6741
(The photo shows the LED Screen in Liverpool)
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London culture and 2012
The London Cultural Consortium (LCC) and the Greater London Authority (GLA) have published 'London culture and 2012: A guide to the opportunities for London cultural organisations and practitioners'.
For copies and further information contact the Coordinator,
Alex Homfray, at ahomfray@visitlondon.com or
visit www.london.gov.uk/lcc for downloadable version and to sign up for regular e-news bulletins.
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Seen theSeer?
Arts website, theSeer, describes itself as a point of reference - a jumping-off point for specialist arts advice and information. theSeer.info which claims not to seek to replace or replicate specialist sites that already exist, rather to promote what is already available, is being rolled out across several London Boroughs. Apex Arts Chair, Tim Bennett-Goodman, presided at the well-attended launch of the Waltham Forest site at the Town Hall on 4 February.
www.theSeer.info
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Forest Philharmonic wins reprieve
Forest Philharmonic Orchestra's recent negotiations with the Council over the cost of hiring Walthamstow Assembly Hall for its concerts have had a successful outcome. The Council is to grant the orchestra funding for the next five years and then, in 2012, it will head the Borough's Cultural Olympiad events
www.forestphilharmonic.org.uk
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Telephone : 020 8496 3591
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