Forthcoming Arts Events
General
In and around Wychavon we also have some wonderful
Theatres, so please click on the link to see What's on and Where and Exhibitions pages, Shindig and Summer
Events to give you a look into future performances.
If you would like to leave comments, feedback or ask general
questions regarding Events or any other part of Community Development please visit our
Wychavon Arts, Sports &
Leisure Blog
Wychavon District Council's Arts Development are or have
been involved in interesting and exciting
projects:
Arts For All Day
Droitwich Arts For All day will be on 10th March
2012, and this time the event will be organised by Droitwich Arts
Network in association with Norbury Theatre.
Arts4All will be bigger and better than ever!
We will be using additional venues around Droitwich to give extra
space particularly for arts and crafts.
There will be Performing Arts at the Norbury
Theatre.
And there will be live music in town.
If you would like to be a part of the event
then you can download a copy of the
application form
For more information regarding
Arts for All day please contact Peter Hawkins on 07766
415094
W Factor 2012
There was an amazing amount of talent shown by children and
young people of Wychavon for this years W factor auditions.
From singing, to irish dancing, comedy to musical theatre, it was
incredible and the judges had a very hard job deciding on the
finalists for this years show which is to be held at Number 8
Community Arts Centre, Pershore on 27th February 2012
The categories for this years show are:
- Singing (Under 14yrs)
- Singing (14 - 18yrs)
- Dance
- Musicians
- Alternative
- Film (all entries to be in by 6th
Feb)
- Photography (all entries to be in by 6th
Feb)
Tickets cost £5 each and can be purchased from
Number 8 Community Arts Centre or over the phone by calling
the Box Office on 01386 555488.
For more information please contact
Tracy Grubb on 01386 565168 or email tracy.grubb@wychavon.gov.uk or
Laura Barnard on 01386 565497 or email laura.barnard@wychavon.gov.uk
Pebworth Party in the Park
On Sunday 4th September Pebworth held a Party in the Park Community Games to raise
funds for the Pebworth Village Hall and St Peters Church. It
promised to be a spectacular day of fun and festivities
including
- Live music, theatre, dancing, art and photography
- BBQ's, Teas, Ice Cream, licebsed bar, raffle and tombola
- World renowned Cow Pat Bingo and Egg Splat
- Food festival and Cookery demonstartions
- Games, races, tug of war
- Scrufts dog show
- Produce show
Admission charge was £2.50 (under 16 free)
Pebworth Village Hall
Pebworth
CV37 8XP
For full details and pictures of the event will be on here
shortly
For more information about the event please call Dawn
Adams at dawnlodgeassociates@yahoo.co.uk
Wychavon Party in the Park 2011
The 2011 Wychavon Party in the Park events
were another great success. This year we decided to make it a
celebration of what is available in your community. Many local
clubs and organisations took part in the event, either to showcase
what they do, give out information or be on hand to answer any
questions. Local sports clubs came along and gave taster sessions
for children giving them the opportunity to try the sport and see
if it is something they may like to do. We also had live music with
performances from the children involved in the Youth Music Project
and W Factor, we had face painting, circus skills, henna and a
climbing wall (Evesham & Pershore) which were all local, even
the weather was amainly on our side! It was a great three days and
very well received by all and Wychavon District Council Community
Development Team would like to thank everyone who supported the
event.
For pictures of the event go to Summer
Events Page
If you are a local voluntary or
community group that would like to be part of next years event then
please contact Tracy Grubb on 01386 565168 or email
tracy.grubb@wychavon.gov.uk
12 Moves - Flashmobs
12 Moves is coming to a street near you!
Groups were set up around Worcestershire with the aim of getting
100 people of all ages dancing together on 23rd July 2011 in three
Flashmob events as part of the Cultural Olympaid Open
Weekend.
There were 12 free weekly sessions which people went along to,
three Sunday sessions with all the groups working together with the
12 Moves professional choreographer, Jen Irons, and in the final
week, three evening rehearsals leading up to the big day.. The
flashmobs are to surprise people, for the dancers to have fun and
to inspire other people to dance.
Did you join them for a day of pop up dance in unusual
locations (part of the London 2012 Open Weekend)?
Upload your photographs of the action to www.facebook.com/12moves and
keep in touch with events as they unfold until March 2012
For more information please call Dancefest on 01905
611199, or go to the websites:- http://www.12moves.com/ and http://www.dancefest.co.uk/
Vale Arts Trail
Local arts and craft people are once
again invited to take part in the third Vale Arts Trail and Open
Studios event that will see a variety of artists and crafts people
open their doors to promote and sell their work. There will also be
a wide range of exhibitions showing the creative talent around the
Vale of Evesham and workshops for people to have a go and develop
their talents. The Vale Arts Trail will run between the 9th and
17th June 2012 and is timed to coincide with the Broadway Arts
Festival.
If you would like to get involved or find out more
please contact;
For more information regarding the Vale Arts Trail
please contact Jenny Davis 01386 565396 or e-mail
jenny.davis@wychavon.gov.uk (hours
of work 9-5pm Tues, Wed & Thurs)
If you have any comments, feedback about our service
please visit our Wychavon Arts, Sports &
Leisure Blog
A Window on the Arts
Evesham
Over six weeks Michelle Pogmore delivered arts workshops to
children within three schools across Evesham. Bengeworth 1st
school, Harvington 1st school and Eckington First School.
The theme was the royal wedding and the creation of a royal cake
shop. Although all of the schools worked seperately they worked
toward a combined window display using the colours of the british
flag. The display was shown in a shop front in
the Riverside Shopping Centre.
Droitwich
Arts workshops have taken place in
Droitwich’s youth clubs in connection with the Art in Empty Shops
project thanks to some funding from Droitwich Spa Area Partnership
and Wychavon District Council. Droitwich Youth Zone, Westlands
Youth Club, Droitwich Youth House and Fernhill Heath have been
visited by artist Sarah Edwards and created some great work that
would be part of the second phase of the exhibitions in the empty
shops.
The next round of exhibitions were
started and ran until 2nd August. Dodderhill School also
exhibited some of their GCSE students work and textiles, the youth
club’s project followed on from this and Sarah James, poet and
artist exhibited her work to finish. All of the
exhibitions were displayed at the old Beaubelles shop in
St. Andrews Square Shopping Centre, Droitwich Spa.
Wychavon District Council, For Droitwich Spa,
Droitwich Arts Network, St Andrews Square Shopping Centre and
Droitwich Spa Area Partnership worked together to make this happen.
The partnership wanted to raise the profile of the arts and educate
children and young people at the same time through the workshops.
It also wanted to enliven the town, particularly in these hard
economic times and make Droitwich Spa more attractive.
We want to know what
you thought about the workshops, exhibitions and this project
so you can feed back to us via the Wychavon District Council's
Community Development blog http://www.wychavon.gov.uk/ or
you can comment on
Community Development Facebook Page or
follow us on Twitter - @WychavonComDev
We are also looking for artists that
would like to get involved in the organisation of the exhibitions
so if there is anyone that would like to volunteer for this
contact Jenny Davis on 01386 565396 or email jenny.davis@wychavon.gov.uk.
(hours of work 9-5pm Tues, Wed & Thurs)
Showell Gallery
Artwork by local people are now on display at the
Civic Centre, Pershore and we are inviting you to come in and take
a look. Future exhibitions include:
Click Click Collective (Dec 2011 - March 2012)
Future Exhibitors include:
Vale Arts Trail (March - June 2012)
If you are an artist with 2D artwork and would like to
exhibit your work then we would like to here from you. The artwork
will be on display for 3 months so if you would like more
information and an application form please contact Laura
Barnard on 01386 565497 or at laura.barnard@wychavon.gov.uk.
Further Information
For more information about arts events please
contact:
Jenny Davis
Arts Development
Officer
Tel: 01386 565396
Email: jenny.davis@wychavon.gov.uk
(hours of work 9-5pm Tues, Wed & Thurs)
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