Sell out show at the Buxton Pavilion Arts Centre!

For one night only, We Make Our World launched the Youth Arts Network High Peak as a collaborative network of groups. A total of 7 different groups took part, with 25 young people performing live on the night. Take a look here at some first clips of the performance:





This first show from the Youth Arts Network High Peak has involved High Peak Community Arts, High Peak CVS, Residents of Fairfield Dream Scheme, New Mills School, Hope Valley College, Chapel Youth Club Jam Night, Chinley Youth Club, Funny Wonders and College Road Family Centre.

Day 2 of rehearsals, and another sneaky peak!

Day 2 included more making set pieces, and drilling through the performance - over and over again...

 

Day 1 of rehearsals

Take a look at the flavour of things!



More to come on Wednesday - watch this space!

We Make Our World

The first collaboration is about to start up this week - Exciting times!

Check in here to see clips from our rehearsals and feedback from the people taking part!

And come and see the show!

28 October 2011
7.30pm
Buxton Pavilion Arts Centre
FREE tickets from the box office 01298 72190

Ta
Sophie

A stroll round Bugsworth Basin...

Have a look at this little video-aid and start thinking!

Funding & Collaboration meeting

Matt Rowe, from Big Lottery gave his talk and here are some highlights:

-               Awards for All – has more money to distribute than they expected.

-               Reaching Communities – large scale grants

-               New funding streams

-               Forces in Mind – working with ex-servicemen / women

-               Older people

-               Social housing and Financial planning

-               Youth in Focus – deadline just gone, haven’t decided whether there will be another round.

Matt urged applications to show involvement from future participants in the planning and delivery.  They like to see a budget which is ‘front loaded’ – to pay for volunteer training etc., making the work more sustainable.

And check out http://www.biglearningzone.org.uk/ – for ideas and help.

Collaboration planning

After some ‘creative warmups’ we split into 3 groups to dream up ideas for collaborative projects.

Are here are the highlights from our discussions:

A theme for all:  "How landscape has shaped the area".  Need to think of a better phrase!

    (related themes:  History, local industry, beauty spots, canals (dream boats!), quarrying)

Preferred artforms:  Music, performance arts, visuals / projection

Suggested final result:

1)    A final performance which is site specific (Bugsworth Canal Basin suggested) - where the audience take in the different elements created by different groups:  Live music and recorded sound, dramatic narrative, floating artwork, visual projection.

2)    These final pieces also link to participatory events / exhibits in different locations, linked together in a week long festival format.

And we are still aiming for the October half term this year - so no time to delay!

Actions for all:

Does the final result appeal?

Can you already think of something you and your group would like to do?

If so, please get in touch.  In the mean time I'm going to write up some chunks of work to offer out to groups, something more clearly defined with numbers of sessions and time-frames included, so people can decide one way or the other whether it is feasible to get involved.

If you don't get involved this time round - there is always next time, and we will need a nice big audience to witness the end result!

Next meeting to explore collaboration

The next meeting for the

Youth Arts Network High Peak

will be on

Tuesday 10th May 2011,

from 2.30 - 4.30pm
Buxton Opera House - meet @ Box Office

RSVP to sophie@highpeakarts.org

We have booked a talk from Matt Rowe, from the Big Lottery, who will tell us about funding available from Lottery sources - applied specially to Arts Settings.

In the second hour we will talk about the opportunities for collaboration and try to come up with an action plan.  We have some budget to get this work started so all we need now are ideas for a theme and a concrete idea of what form the project might take -  so we can sell it to groups to get involved.

Things to think about before the meeting:

1)   Is there a common event in the calendar around October half term?

2)   Is there a local feature / piece of local history which needs to be celebrated?  Could be something well-known or obscure?

3)   What extra arts skills would you love to add to your activities?  Could be technology based, or combining another artform to yours...