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Economic Development and Regeneration Quarterly Performance Review Quarter 3 1st October 2011 – 31st December 2011 Scrutiny Version - 1 - Executive Summary Area Arts & Leisure Albert Avenue Pools A team from Albert Avenue Pools won the Special Inter Office Ping Pong Tournament for businesses in Hull! Beverley Road Baths The site has instigated a public lifesaving course on a Tuesday evening which is now underway and lasts for 12 weeks. Have played host to two successful swimming events for young children, in collaboration with the Youth Service and Community Play schemes. Beverley Road Baths were successful in obtaining a Sportivate bid with Hull University to fund more students to take part in swimming for fitness. 75 students are expected to attend for 10 weeks. Costello Stadium Hosted a Model Railway show on behalf of the Hull Miniature Railway Society on 12 th & 13 th November. The event attracted exhibitors and spectators from across the North of England. Saturday 19 th November 2011 saw Costello Stadium host the annual Humberside Hounds Association Show. Approximately 200 hounds were shown on the day. Costello Stadium now has new crèche opening hours, Monday, Thursday and Friday 9.30 – 11.30am. East Hull Pools BP Young Leaders Programme Fundraiser event took place on 29 th October with Adam Whitehead, gold medallist swimmer, attending. The event gave the opportunity for families to swim at a reduced rate with a professional swimmer and talk to him about training, diets and commitment etc. Hosted a private booking from Halliwick to deliver a course in September and October. The course was to teach clients with a physical disability to swim and to make them independent in water . The course was successful and has lead to another two bookings for 2012. Ennerdale Leisure Centre Hosted the Alan Ward Dance Competition on Sunday 4 th September, where over 200 dancers participated and over 500 spectators attended. The event’s success will hopefully attract two more events in 2012. Ennerdale hosted a Futsal Open Day on Sunday 25 th September, and a F.A. approved East Coast Futsal (indoor hall football) match on Sunday 20 th November. Ennerdale hosted the Hull Open Gala on Sunday 2 nd October 2011. The Gala was an all day event with over 200 participants and 400 spectators. - 2 - The Hull & District swimming Gala took place at Ennerdale on 16 th October 2011 with over 200 swimmers taking part in this competitive event. On 5 th & 6 th November 2011 Ennerdale hosted the York City Swimming Club Open Gala with over 100 swimmers participating each day. On Saturday 12 th November 2011, Ennerdale hosted a Kingston upon Hull Swimming Club Gala with over 200 participants attending. Ennerdale hosted a Hull Wasps Basketball tournament in the main sports hall, on Saturday 26 th November between 5.00pm – 9.00pm with over 200 spectators attending. Theatre / Halls / Arena Arena Winmau World Darts Masters at the Arena on 1 st to 4 th September proved to be a success with 4 days live world-wide tv coverage through ESPN. Excellent feed-back was received from all the organisations resulting in a proposed return for 2012 at the City Hall or the Arena, subject to agreement on terms and conditions. Pro Venue Box Office Ticketing System was successfully installed at the Arena during mid October. Specified Arena events will now be sold on this system on a phased in basis with a view to all events at Hull New Theatre and City Hall also being available for ticket purchases at the Arena in the New Year – this will result in an expanded service provision to customers. Specials Concert took place on 16 th October with over 3,000 attendees. Hull City Hall As part of the Olympic celebrations, City Hall will be hosting an orchestral event with the Scottish Ensemble and young trumpet player ‘Alison Balsom’ as part of the Music Nation Weekend, the national pre-Olympics Arts. Hull New Theatre The opening night of Blood Brothers was a resounding success with excellent feed-back being received throughout the run. Horrible Histories has well exceeded expected target attendances with an additional performance being put on at short notice for the Saturday to meet customer demand. An all day pantomime launch took place on 19 th October with live tv coverage on both Calendar and Look North, live radio interviews on Radio Humberside and substantial media coverage from newspaper publications. Woodford Leisure Centre A new junior session of Street Games is being held on the outdoor pitch on Friday evenings. The session is in partnership with the Police, Community Wardens, Sports Development and Woodford Leisure - 3 - Centre, and is funded through Sportivate. Community Wardens and Police representatives to attend sessions. Hull Schools Trampoline Competition was held on Sunday 4 th December 2011. This was an all day event with approximately 500 competitors and spectators attending throughout the day. City Cultural Arts Development Development The Leader has requested that the Head of Service initiates a Task Group to develop small, medium and long term plans for the regeneration of Whitefriargate and has requested regular updates on progress. A mapping exercise of the retail units within Whitefriargate has been completed and is now being followed by consultation with the individual business units. Once this is concluded Silver Street and Trinity Market will undergo the same process. Once all the consultation is complete the traders comments will be amalgamated and presented to the Whitefriargate Task Group for consideration. Following the decision by Cabinet to allocate funding to the replacement statue project discussions have re-commenced with the sculptor with a view to agreeing timescales for the completion of the replacement statue and it’s shipping to Hull. Discussion will also be held to explore in more detail the security options outlined and agree with members, which of these will be implemented. Arts Development supported and developed the Freedom Chorus which performed several times at the Freedom Festival. Over 180 people took part in the project. Arts Development also managed the local dance programme for the Freedom Festival. 13 local groups of all ages had the opportunity to perform including dancers from Hull College, Wyke College, the Freedom Centre, Hull KR Cheerleaders, and groups specialising in Indian Classical, Bollywood, Russian, Flamenco and Street Dance. Young people from our Creative Voice youth arts programme had the opportunity to DJ on the Freedom Stage in Queens Gardens during the festival. A young band from Hull ‘The Dead Hormones’, who have been supported through the Creative Voice programme were chosen to represent the Humber Region on the Youth Music Action Zone ‘Power Tour’. They performed at the Junction-Goole, Hothouse-Morecambe, and the Sage-Newcastle during October half term. The project has been supported with a musician funded through the Music 4U programme. Our Music4U programme also enabled young people from the City to take part in the Music Port event in Bridlington. Hull Rhythm Pixies had the chance to work with professional musicians in a master class setting. The Reveal Open Studios event, which is supported by Arts Development, began on the 24 th September. 18 local artists, including a group from Hull College, opened their studios for visitors over two weekends, in the Fruit Market and around the city. ‘Glimmer, the International Short Film Festival’ was held from the 6 th to - 4 - the 9 th of October in venues across the City. City Arts supported the arts element of the international event ‘Black History Month’. There were arts and drama workshops for young people, arts exhibitions and choir and music performances. The activities took place in areas of Hull that had not experienced the event before such as shopping centres and community centres in East Hull. The Creative Voice programme of arts for young people held workshops in dance and music over October half term preparing for future performances at Unite Youth Dance Platform in February 2012 and Musicport in November 2011. The workshops took place in Kingston Youth Centre, Wyke College and Hull College, with financial support from Music 4U and staffing and venues from Youth Development Service, Hull and Wyke Colleges. Hull Truck Theatre has launched a new scheme to attract young people. The ‘GIVE IT A GO!’ scheme has been created by Hull Truck to offer young people accessible ticket prices for live theatre. The scheme is aimed at Young People aged 14-26. Members pay £15 up front and commit to coming to see 3 shows within 6 months. The scheme launched at the end of September and is already very popular. ‘Snow and Lights’ a community art project had its debut screening at the Christmas Lights switch-on. 19 local schools and 10 national and internationally based schools took part. Arts Development arranged for Phoenix Dance to hold 5 workshops with local schools ahead of 2 sell out nights at Hull Truck Theatre on the 15 th and 16 th of November. The company is especially popular with young people, and the work was delivered in partnership with the Hull and East Riding Youth Dance Hub which we are a part of. Hull Truck Theatre has confirmed the announcement of a new 3-year partnership with the Royal Shakespeare Company , aimed at creating a lasting legacy of understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare amongst young people in the city. Hull Truck will join the RSC’s Learning and Performance Network (LPN) in September 2012, for a period of 3 years. The programme involves a close working relationship with a hub secondary school and up to 9 cluster schools in the city. Events Team This years Freedom Festival took place in various locations across the city centre including Queens Gardens, Queen Victoria square, The Fruit Market, Hull Truck Theatre and Hull City Hall.