Tight Modern Tour 2012 - Opportunity for disabled and marginalised artists!

So what is the Tight Modern?  Tight Modern is a miniature replica of the iconic Tate Modern Gallery and displays 50 artworks from the UK's most talented disabled and marginalised artists. It measures

We are now looking for submissions for the Tight Modern tour 2012 which will visit venues in Sussex and London with anticipated audiences of 4000.  See the Tight Modern website for more details.  If you know of an artist who may be interested in this opportunity please forward this email to them.

To submit:

Send an original artwork, photograph or computer generated image measuring (18x13cm) OR (13x13cm) to Creative Future.  Email simonpowell@freeuk.com for an entry form and further details

Deadline:

June 4th, 5pm

Selection process:

50 artworks will be selected from amongst the submissions by panel after June 4th

Prizes:

£250, £175 and £75 for the publics favourite three artists (voted for at the tour venues and online).  Voting closes after the last tour leg in Nov 2012.

Entry fee:

£5 per artwork:

If you have any further enquiries call me on 01273 234 780 or 07795 691 579

All the best

Simon Powell - Project Director - 07795 691 579
Creative Future, Community Base, 113 Queens Rd, Brighton, BN1 3XG
www.creativefuture.org.uk

IMPACT ART FAIR
www.impact-art-fair.org.uk

TIGHT MODERN
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp77UHr4tdg
www.wix.com/tightmodern/gallery 

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Inspirational Dialogue - Story Writing Course

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Youth Auditions - July 7 - @City Works

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Sounds of Afrika Summer School 2012 - Coombe Farm, Devon

Come and celebrate the Festival of the Sun with drumming, dance, songs, traditional West Afrikan masks and a lot more !!    
With Ayo Scott from Sierra Leone and Yaw from Ghana.
Camping in a beautiful Devon valley at Coombe Farm, Cove near Tiverton. 
Cost £165 to include workshops, camping and three delicious organic vegetarian meals a day 
Book now as places limited to 45. For further info or to reserve a place email thindo@hotmail.co.uk
      
Only 45 places, so a very special and unforgettable experience to be shared with kindred spirits in beautiful surroundings...... 

Forwarded to us by our partners  World Jungle

Plants for Sale at the Birches - Tewkesbury's Adult Opportunity Centre (AOC), Station Rd, Tewkesbury

THE BIRCHES PLANT SALE


Baskets    from £12
Half Moon Troughs £6
Full Troughs         £10
Gardens (pots, tubs, baskets etc) from £3


Refills:
Baskets   from £10
Tubs/Pots    from         £2.50


Hanging Basket Plants
Bacopa, Bidens, Brachycome, Diasica
Felica, Helichrysum, Lysimachia 60p each or
Nepta, Savolia, Verbena, Perilla, Coleus 3 for £1.50


Fuschia, Million Bells, Surfina 75p each or
Geranium, Trailing Geranium, Begonia 3 for £2.00


Bedding Plants
Busy Lizzie, Lobelia, French Marigolds, £3.50 per tray
Mimulus, Petunia, Verbena, Gazinia


Various Vegetables price as marked




THE GARDEN SHOP WILL BE OPEN:
DAILY  10AM-3PM
(Subject to Staff Availability)

Call Carolyn O'Neill- Assistant Manager on: 01684 293096 to check before setting off!

The Birches provides day care, Monday to Friday, to meet the needs of people with learning disabilities over the age of eighteen. Individual programmes are devised according to the clients needs enabling each to attain their optimum level of independence, thus enhancing the clients quality of life.

The aims of The Birches Client Committee are to, "Come and see friends, do gardening, visit the library, join in the recycling project, learn new skills and many more activities."

So all in a good cause!

Outside In provide a platform for artists to access the art world who may find it difficult due to health, disability or social circumstance

Outside In Outside In provide a platform for artists to access the art world who may find it difficult due to health, disability or social circumstance. Artists that fit the Outside In criteria can create themselves an online gallery on their website with images of their work, and they can choose to submit two pieces of art to go forward for selection for the Outside In: National exhibition to be held in West Sussex from October 2012 to February 2013. For more information visit the website www.outsidein.org.uk, email Jennifer j.gilbert@pallant.org.uk or call 07735 568531.

Physicality exhibition opens this Saturday at New Brewery Arts

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Coleford Festival of Words July 3rd-7th

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Art Classes in Mitcheldean - Mitcheldean Community Centre Help create a mural the first sight to welcome visitors to our village

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'Sail' Exhibition Charlton kings and/or Cirencester

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Lloyds Bank Social Entrepreneurs Programme

LLOYDS BANKING GROUP SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS PROGRAMME
AN EXCITING NEW PROGRAMME SUPPORTING OVER 750 SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS AROUND THE UK OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS


ABOUT THE SCHEME
STARTUP
If you have an idea to improve your local community, ‘Start Up’ will support you in personal development and business skills development to help turn your vision into a reality.
Learning areas include: Setting up a social enterprise, strategy, people & money, marketing, leadership, presentation skills, and social impact.


SCALEUP
If you have an established organisation and are looking to take it to the next level, ‘Scale Up’ will equip you with the tools to develop it further and replicate its social impact.
Learning areas include: Strategies for growth and sustainability, partnerships, staff development, leading in a changing environment, impact and evaluation, and funding & investment for growth.



FUNDING AVAILABLE
In addition to a place on the learning programme, Start Up students will each receive a grant of £4,000 to help them develop their project or business.
Each Scale Up participant will receive a grant of £15,000 to help scale their organisation, and each year one Scale Up student will win a total award of £25,000 as Lloyds Banking Group Social Entrepreneur of the Year.



HOW TO APPLY
If you are passionate about improving your community (or know someone who is) then please visit our website for full details on how to apply: www.the-sse.org/lloydsbankinggroup



ABOUT OUR FUNDERS
The programme, which begins in October 2012, has been made possible by a donation from Lloyds Banking Group. Nominet Trust, the UK-based social investor which advocates the imaginative use of digital technologies to improve lives and communities, is also investing in the scheme.

Free farm visit opportunity for adult groups

Emma Harrison is a commercial farmer operating 4 miles south of Evesham (WR11 7QS), 20 min from Cheltenham. The farm has a mixture of animals, crops and conservation areas. She is an 'open farmer' which means that she is a commercial farmer who hosts group visits. She hosts over 50 visits a year, the groups are largely children either main stream or special needs. Emma would like to host more adult groups.

Emma has a classroom, toilets and a passenger trailer which are wheel chair accessible. She also has several tracks on the farm which should allow a reasonable level of mobility for a wheel chair user.

She can offer the visits for free, may also be able to find help towards the transport costs. The funding finishes in August this year and so ideally the visits would need to take place before the end of July.

The funding has an emphasis on exploring the senses through what the farm has to offer. Emma can offer a range of activities and would be very flexible to offer a visit suitable and enjoyable for the visiting group. The activities don't just have to be about farming as she likes to use the farm as a learning tool for a variety of subjects.

If you would like to take your service users/volunteers or staff on an outing to visit Emma’s Farm and for further information you can either email or call Emma at robharrison37@btinternet.com or on 01386 700482. 

Call for Submissions - hatch: scratch -exciting artists and performance makers

Embrace Arts, Leicester, Sunday 17 June

Deadline for applications: noon on Friday 18 May

 

Hatch are looking for the most exciting artists and performance makers from around the country to share new works-in-progress with a friendly audience. Work in any genre or performance discipline is welcome, especially work which is hard to define, or which falls between several categories.

 

Applications are open to everybody. They particularly welcome applications which are:

• From d/Deaf or disabled artists.
• From artists based outside the East Midlands.
• For short performances or extracts of longer work (10-15 minutes).
• For longer durational performances running all evening, or for work which could later develop into a durational format.

There is a fee of £100 available for each selected performance to help cover expenses. For further information please visit www.hatchnottingham.org.uk.

An invitation to attend the launch event for Gloucester City Council’s newest venture – Blackfriars Priory

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Blackfriars Priory.

The launch will take place on Friday 1^st June, from 4pm onwards.

We will be providing refreshments, and a variety of entertainment.

Blackfriars is the oldest medieval Dominican priory in the UK, dating back to 1270AD, and we look forward to opening it to the public, where we envisage it’s uses may range from weddings, concerts, exhibitions, filming, meetings, educational events and other private hires – and we hope to give you a taste of how some of these may look at the site on 1^st June.

Please RSVP to blackfriars@gloucester.gov.uk

I look forward to seeing you at Blackfrairs!

All the best,
Joe

Joe Schiavon Programming and Marketing Manager                                                                                                                                                                                                                

Gloucester Guildhall                    T:  01452 396389 Gloucester City Council                 F:  01452 396202 23 Eastgate Street,                     Booking@gloucester.gov.uk Gloucester.  GL1 1NS                    www.gloucesterguildhall.co.uk

The Roses has programmed a range of shows and activities designed to keep young minds occupied

With the summer holidays imminent, The Roses has programmed a range of shows and activities designed to keep young minds occupied and stimulated over the long break. 


With shows featuring classic nursery rhymes such as Little Bo Peep (Thursday 16 August); 
the well known tales of Rumplestiltskin (Thursday 26 July) 
and George And The Dragon (Thursday 30 August); 
popular television characters from Milkshake (Wednesday 8 August) 
and children’s stand up comic Ian Billings with his show Dumbs Up! (Wednesday 1 August) 
there is something for all ages and tastes.

For those who struggle with childcare, The Roses hosts two intensive drama course, Play In 2 Days (for 7-11 years old, Tuesday 28 and Wednesday 29 August) 
and Play In A Week (for 11-18 year olds, Monday 20 to Friday 24 August) for those young people who enjoy being part of the action as much as they do watching it. 
Running during weekdays, these workshops not only keep children busy during the long holiday but also provide real enrichment to their extra-curricular education and development.

Play in 2 Days

Play in a week

Contact:

Email: beckie.smith@rosestheatre.org

Direct Dial: 01684 853070

www.rosestheatre.org

Box Office: 01684 295074