Yorkshire Grand Départ Cultural Festival Submission for Funding

Yorkshire Grand Départ Cultural Festival

Submission for funding

Please tick/highlight which programme area you are applying for:

 Major Commission 

 Animation of the Route Commission 

 Community Commission 

General Information

Name of organisation/artist Regather Co-Operative Limited

Name of project Sheffield En Fête

Lead Contact Gareth Roberts

Address including postcode 57-59 Club Garden, Sheffield, S11 8BU

Email [email protected]

Office tel 0114 2731258

Mobile tel 07939577467

Website www.regather.net

Description

With reference to the information requested in The Brief please describe your project or event. Please include a production timetable. (max 750 words )

Sheffield En Fête will be a celebration of community creativity and the bicycle*.

It will enhance the Grand Départ Cultural Festival by offering highly accessible and participatory cycling and visual art community workshops, culminating in a spectacular, city centre, creative celebration of the bicycle cavalcade finale on the penultimate day of the Grand Départ.

* in all its forms - including the unicycle, tricycle, quadricycle, tandem, disability bike, wheelchair, recumbent, pedal car, gravity car, soap box, cabin bike, freight bike, velomobile, bike rickshaw, sociable, foldable, child carriers and kinetic sculpture…. plus the diverse worlds of cycling fashion, cycling accessories, competitive cycling and the healthy, environmentally sustainable life style choice of being ‘a cyclist’.

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SEF will offer a range of opportunities for the public and communities to engage and experience this celebration of community creativity and the bicycle. There will be four principle event experiences:

1) Cavalcade Finale: A one day Sheffield city centre cavalcade finale - “Sheffield En Fête” - held on the penultimate day of the Cultural Festival. Featuring a car-free road between Devonshire Green and Barkers Pool for participants to display their decorated bicycles, clothing and accessories in cavalcade – creating a vibrant visual expression of celebration, community creativity and cycling – with entertainment, food & drink, street market, cycling related attractions and opportunities for spectators to line the route to watch the cavalcade finale spectacle.

2) Cavalcade Workshop: 16 days of weekend workshops held in a variety of parks and green spaces around Sheffield. Featuring a 2 hour workshop on: a) how to check the mechanical safety of your bicycle; b) how to safely ride your bicycle in cavalcade and c) inspiration and guidance on creative ways to safely decorate your bicycle, clothing and accessories. Aimed at engaging new participants in the essential learning / creative expression opportunities they need to access to safely and meaningfully participate in the cavalcade finale.

Cavalcade workshops will offer a ‘DIY decorate your cycling’ kit designed and manufactured in Yorkshire using 3D printing / additive manufacturing processes, providing participants with a selection of objects and materials that can be attached to their bicycle, clothing and accessories and creatively adapted to safely decorate their cycling experience and ride in the cavalcade finale.

Cavalcade workshops will also feature selected cycling activities and attractions to suit the topography of the location and surrounding areas including downhill mountain biking, leisure cycling routes, off road cycling trails, bicycle powered machines, pedal car racing and bicycle-parts gravity car racing.

‘Float’ cavalcade workshops during holiday periods will target young people living in areas near to the Tour route and also offer workshops focusing on the creation of 3 visually themed trike- mounted floats to lead and tail the cavalcade finale.

‘Hosted’ cavalcade workshops will be hosted by selected events and festivals taking place during the Grand Départ calendar to benefit from raised profile and cross-promotion opportunities.

3) Countdown Event: A late afternoon / early evening event marking the 100, 50 and 21 day countdown points during the Grand Départ. Featuring cycling attractions plus sound, light and projections. Aimed at raising the profile of SEF with the press, media and the wider public.

4) Pop Up Event: Weekend daytime events held in a variety of high footfall Sheffield city centre public spaces. Featuring a high visibility trike-mounted mobile display promoting the SEF and opportunities to participate. Aimed at creating an easily accessible physical location for potential and existing cavalcade finale participants to informally meet up and share working examples, ideas and plans for decorating bicycles and riding in the cavalcade finale.

The Pop Up Event experience will also be available for booking to community locations (schools, youth groups, community centres, churches etc.) and other promotional opportunities still to be confirmed within the Grand Départ. Description & production timetable continued…

DATE REF. LOCATION EVENT TYPE Mar 27 1 Sheaf Valley Park Countdown (100 days) Mar 29 2 Devonshire Green Pop Up Mar 30 3 Endcliffe Park & Whiteley Woods Workshop Apr 5 4 Sheffield Adventure Film Festival, Brown Street Pop Up Apr 6 5 Millhouses Park & Ecclesall Wood Workshop Apr 18 - 21 6-9 Norfolk Park Float Workshop May 3 10 Steel City Series, Greno Wood Hosted Workshop May 4 - 5 11-12 Grenoside Park Float Workshop May 15 13 Sheaf Valley Park Countdown (50 days) May 17 14 Devonshire Green Pop Up May 18 15 Parkwood Springs Workshop May 31 16 Devonshire Green Pop Up Jun 1 17 Concord Park & Wooley Wood Workshop Jun 14 18 Peace in the Park, The Ponderosa Hosted Workshop Jun 14 19 Peace in the Park, The Ponderosa Countdown (21 days) Jun 21 - 22 20-21 Cliffhanger, Graves Park Hosted Workshop Jun 28 22 Hillsborough Park Workshop Jun 29 23 Wincobank Hill Workshop Jul 5 24 Devonshire Green / Division St. / Barkers Pool Finale Jul 6 25 TOUR DE FRANCE, YORK to SHEFFIELD All dates and locations may be subject to change, particularly during and around school holidays (14th – 25th April, 5th May, 26th – 30th May).

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The schedule can be adapted to include only certain types of events. A breakdown of delivery costs by event type is provided in the budget to inform application assessment and decision making.

The project presents opportunities to generate income. These are optional. A list of income streams is provided in the budget to inform application assessment and decision making.

Gareth Roberts, Regather Co-Operative is the creative lead for the project. Trikes for Transport and Engineers Without Borders will assist on design and creative input.

Collaborators currently include:  This Is Sheffield  Trikes for Transport  Ride Sheffield  Engineers Without Borders  Steel City Series  British Federation of Pedal Car Racing  Bike Track  Little Mesters Events  Bike Rehab Supporters currently include:  Sheffield City Council  Sheffield Hallam University  University of Sheffield  Sustran

Other Grand Départ Cultural Festival events and activities still ‘to-be-developed’ can be directed to the SEF programme of dates and locations and benefit from shared use of skills and resources. SEF presents significant legacy opportunities including: a new annual “Sheffield En Fête” festival of community creativity and the bicycle; and development of specialised activities such as a pedal car and gravity car racing for ‘spin-off’ events that utilise the route post Le Tour De France 2014. Event Information

In which local authority area Sheffield are you based? In which local authorities will Sheffield the work take place and at which location/s? What are the main art forms Visual Arts, Sound, Light, Projection, Music, Design in your project? (max 30 words) When does your activity take March 27th – July 5th place? Please provide start date and end date, or advise if this is still TBC. Audience number expected @ 9-10,000 Cavalcade Finale event @ 6000 Cavalcade Workshop events @ 50 x 16 = 800 Countdown events @ 500 x 3 = 1500 Pop Up events @ 250 x 4 = 1000 How many participants are @ 4-500 expected Estimate based on 2 workshop marquees with 8 places each operating 2 x 2 hour workshops per day = 32 x 16 ‘cavalcade workshop’ days = 512. Please describe the Regather Co-Operative is the project lead. relationship with any Collaborators include: partners you may be working  This Is Sheffield: cycling advocacy and co-promotion with. (max 250 words)  Ride Sheffield: cycling advocacy and co-promotion  Steel City Series: workshop hosting and co-promotion  Bike Track: cycling route identification and adaptation  Bike Rehab: bicycle safety checks and safe riding instruction  Engineers Without Borders: design and creative input on cavalcade workshops and finale  Trikes for Transport: design and creative input on cavalcade workshops and finale. Use of recumbent trikes.  British Federation of Pedal Car Racing: pedal car racing activity provider  Little Mesters Events: event production support and delivery Supporters include:  Sheffield City Council: permitted access to parks, green space and city centre public space and officer support o Letter of Support Sheffield City Council  Sheffield Hallam University: student volunteering and faculty support  University of Sheffield: student volunteering and faculty support  Sustran: community engagement and co-promotion Potential match funding in kind or cash value of the above collaboration and support is provided in the budget.

Please tell us what Regather Co-Operative has been responsible for the delivery experience your organisation of a wide range of highly successful community events and or partner organisation has festivals in the Sheffield area over the past 3-5 years. had in delivering projects of Recent relevant examples include: this scale/nature in the last  The Folk Forest - Exploring the finest in folk music and beyond. five years (max 300 words). Started 2011. Annual free ‘festival within a festival’ at Tramlines attracts 8000+ people plus year round sell out gigs. http://thefolkforest.net/  Peace in the Park – Sheffield’s free community arts festival. Started 2003. Annual free festival attracts 10000+ people. Lead delivery partner since 2008. http://www.peaceinthepark.org.uk/  Park Lab – Discovering science and engineering in Sheffield’s great outdoors. Commissioned by the University of Sheffield as part of the Festival of Science and Engineering 2013. Featured interactive participatory workshops in park locations. http://parklab.net  One Sheffield, Many Cultures – Celebrate and Defend Multicultural Sheffield. June 2013. Emergency commission by Sheffield City Council in response to city centre protests. Lead delivery organisation. http://bit.ly/18Yqu9g

Regather Co-operative can offer:  Comprehensive event management services  Fully equipped, qualified and insured for event delivery  Capacity to meet safeguarding and welfare requirements  Established reputation with Sheffield audiences  Proven track record with Sheffield institutions  Excellent relationship with Sheffield suppliers and artists

Please supply a brief outline  Gareth Roberts – Sheffield En Fete Project Manager biography of the main Experience as both practitioner and academic across a range of members of your team. Web disciplines relating to creativity, culture, education, links can be used for this entrepreneurship and technology. Specialties are arts section (max 250 words) administration, event organisation, project management, education & training, creative & digital industries, social networking, community development, self-employment and co-operative enterprise. Download CV | Download Event Profile

 Nick Hamilton - This Is Sheffield / Profile  Henry Norman - Ride Sheffield / Steel City Series / Profile  Steve Taylor - Bike Track  Alex Gunn - Bike Rehab  Michael Woodhouse - Engineers Without Borders  Malcolm Veale - Trikes for Transport  Antony Hawkins - British Federation of Pedal Cars Racing  Olly Galvin - Little Mesters Events  Sara Hill - Freelance