Heart of 3 Cities Connecting Cultures and Communities2012 elcome W World! 10 days of exciting events in Charnwood this June G A M M E L G A A R D M O N O C H R O M E International Photography Exhibition 2,012 Young Artists Art Comp etition CH ARNWOOD Welcome to the Heart of 3 Cities 2012: …........................................…............................................................. Welcome World! Charnwood Arts was founded in 1976. We are involved in a wide range of arts, creativity and culturally based areas of work and are a key participatory arts organisation in the East Since September 2010 we have been quietly welcoming the world to Charnwood through Midlands with a national and international reputation. our UK2K12 programme and taking the friendship and creativity of Charnwood to far flung Charnwood Arts is core funded by Charnwood Borough Council and places. In January 2011 we defined our mission for the next three years as ‘Connecting Cultures and Communities’ and what better year to celebrate and emphasize this than in an Arts Council England, East Midlands. Olympic year that also welcomes the world to these shores. Leicestershire’s largest When we first heard of the plans for ‘Games Time’ back in 2010, Charnwood Arts were keen independent community to build a festival or series of other events around this special Olympiad performance. With the help of others and the partnership of Charnwood Borough Council, Glastonbudget, arts and media Loughborough University and Déda Producing we have been able to do just that. Our organisation resides in the ‘Welcome to the World’ has become ‘Welcome World’, a ten day ‘week’ of activities and events that will take place in June this year. You will find it as a 32 page pull out featured in heart of the Three Cities the centre of this paper. It’s now time to welcome the world with noise, spectacle, colour! area of the East Midlands. We hope that you, as local residents, will embrace this opportunity as fully as you can! Our main area of work is Already many hundreds of local people are contributing to make these things happen. in Charnwood itself but ‘Friendship’ and ‘Welcome’ are things that the good people of Charnwood seem to excel we also support regional at - not necessarily with extravagance and largesse. We are not a passive community though. We go beyond the surface of ‘tolerance’ and ‘acceptance’ and welcome people developments, work in a grounded way, realistic, practical, without constantly needing to spell out difference. internationally and have Loughborough alone, welcomes large numbers of new people as residents from the UK connections with other and world wide, each year through the University. There still things which keep groups of people apart but there are also many things to bring people together. You will find some organisations and artists significant ones here in our cultural events, the town focal point of the market and shared world wide. activities such as the recent Council of Faiths pantomime! In this issue you will find familiar events such as Picnic in the Park, Loughborough Mela and the fabulous Glastonbudget festival in Wymeswold. There are activities for children Charnwood Arts To bring the benefits of the arts To deliver an annual South through our long running ArtZone partnership programme with Charnwood Museum works: to the fields of health and well Asian arts and literature and a wonderful exhibition partnership in Gammelgaard Monochrome. Crowning it all is being. programme. the fantastic Cultural Olympiad event, Games Time - a truly spectacular and memorable evening for Loughborough, of which, we are proud to be local partners. To develop workshop To support longer term To deliver regular arts and programmes in a wide range community arts projects. media based work with young of art forms with groups of all people at risk. As always we hope there is something to interest, excite and even educate you in this ages. To support cross cultural paper...and a warm welcome...to our events, activities and future projects! projects and events and to To create and publish work for To provide help and advice to promote community print, video and new Kev Ryan artists and groups. cohesion. media distribution. Chief Executive Officer - Charnwood Arts 02 | Heart of 3 Cities 2012 Heart of 3 Cities 2012 | 03 Charnwood: Heart of 3 Cities Contents Welcome ...................................... p 3 Map of Charnwood .................. p 4 Nottingham Contents ....................................... p 5 Games Time!?.............................. p 6 UK2K12 ......................................... p 7-11 Derby 2,012 Young Artists .................... p 12-13 ArtZone ......................................... p 14-15 Pennants Project ........................ p 16 ..................... p 17 A6 Welcome World! A60 M1 p 18 l Welcome World! Programme l Wymeswold l l Hathern l Hoton l l Glastonbudget ............................ p 19-24 l l Prestwold l l l Burton on the Wolds l p 25-29 l Picnic In The Park ...................... l l Cotes Loughborough l l l l Walton on the Wolds l l l l p 30 l l Games Time Online .................. l l l Shepshed l l l Barrow l l l J23 l l Seagrave p 31-33 l upon l Soar Games Time ................................. l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l p 34-37 l l l Games Time Stories .................. l Thrussington l l l Quorndon l Woodhouse l Sileby l l l l l l l l l Ratcliffe l l l l p 38-39 l on the Wreake l AfterGold ...................................... Woodhouse l Mountsorrel l l l l l l Rearsby Eaves l l l l l Cossingtonl l l l l p 40 East Swithland l l l Japan Matsuri Day ..................... l Ulverscroft lRothley l l l l Goscote l l l l l l p 41-43 l Loughborough Mela ................. J22 l Thurcaston Syston l Queniborough Wanlip l l Newton Linford l p 44 South Croxton Jubilee Markets ........................... Cropston l l Barkby Birstall l l l Anstey Thurmaston p 46-48 l Barkby ‘Our Sporting Life’ Exhibition l l Thorpe Beeby l l l A6 Gammelgaard Monochrome ..... p 49-55 Leicester Lightseekers ..................................... p 56 People Making Places ................... p 57-59 The Story Of Me And My Town .. p 60-61 Celebrating Next Level Café ........ p 62-63 27th July to 12th August are the dates of the London 2012 Olympic Games. 29 August to 9 September are the dates of the London 2012 Paralympic Games. 04 | Heart of 3 Cities 2012 Heart of 3 Cities 2012 | 05 CHARNWOOD Are You... Red, Green, Blue, Following the spirit of the UK Cultural Olympiad for a dispersed or Yellow...? festival over a number of years leading up the Games we decided to follow a low cost strategy to do the same. We began in September 2010, developing our own projects and supporting those of others. This current newspaper celebrates some of the past, ...find out on p30! forthcoming and ongoing events and projects linked to our UK2K12 programme. Following are a few of many highlights for us since our launch in London. There will be 26 sports in the London 2012 Olympic Games. There will be 20 sports in the London 2012 Paralympic Games. 06 | Heart of 3 Cities 2012 Heart of 3 Cities 2012 | 07 Haiku at the London Matsuri Everybody’s Reading Festival In September 2010 we launched UK2K12 at the spectacular The first Everybody’s Reading festival took place from Japanese Matsuri day at Spitalfields Market in London the 2nd - 10th October 2010, with nine days of events and attended by the new minister for arts and culture Jeremy activities to get everybody reading in Leicester. The festival Hunt. In an on-line/off-line project with artist Paul Conneally, was supported by Whatever It Takes, Charnwood Arts and we attracted haiku from around the world and ran Leicester Libraries. The second festival in October 2011, workshops within the event to create an 18 foot long Haiku developed in partnership with the Charnwood Arts hosted Wall that was seen by an audience of many thousands. Writing Industries Network, included more than 80 events. Plans are now underway for the 2012 festival which will be held between 29th September - 7th October 2012. Rong Tao – Residencies Charnwood Arts UK2K12 has hosted two, month long residencies with Chinese dancer and choreographer Man of the Heart Rong Tao resulting in new performances, video work Charnwood Arts worked with Sudipto Chatterjee to develop, promote and engagement with hundreds of children and young and document the ‘Man of the Heart’ project that was performed in people as well as adult participants and dancers. As Loughborough and the Barbican in London. Although we were not a result of the residencies and partnership work with successful in attracting academic funding to further this project in the Lakeside Arts Centre in Nottingham, Rong Tao has UK it has been supported for further development in Berlin during introduced dance with people with special needs to his 2011/12. The play focuses on the life and times of Lalon Shah Phokir, home city of Chongqing in South West China. a nineteenth century Bengali Sufi saint and song-maker. It is a multi- media solo-performance incorporating live music, dance, spoken word, video and recorded audio. A World of Stories Hema Acharya, our resident storyteller, frequently Loughborough Mela hosts storytelling sessions in a range of venues Charnwood Arts has been an active partner in the and with a diverse and growing audience. Through Loughborough Mela since it began over a decade ago. We UK2K12 we have run successful and popular groups continued that support through our UK2K12 programme by with Mums and Babies at Mountsorrel Library hosting Mela co-ordinators, running workshops, supporting making story quilts.