ACCESSIBILITY/ EVENT PLANNING/ LICENSING/ RISK ASSESSMENT/ SUSTAINABILITY

Training held at Compass Theatre, Hillingdon and Willesden Green Library Centre, Brent.

Day One, Monday 29th March, Compass Theatre

ACCESSIBILITY  - how to make your outdoor event accessible to the widest possible audience. 9.30am - 1.15pm

SUSTAINABILITY - make your festival work for the planet. 1.30pm - 5.15pm

Day Two, Tuesday 13th April, Willesden Green Library Centre

EVENT PLANNING - successful event planning from A to Z. 9.30am - 1.15pm

LICENCING - permissions, licensing and hiring a public space. 1.30pm - 5.15pm

Booking and Costs

Each training session costs just £5! To book please contact Compass Theatre box office on 01895 673 200 /compasstheatre@hillingdongrid.org.  Both venues are accessible.

For more information please contact info@westernwedge.org.uk

One year contract.

Contract: £10,000

Location: Flexible location but must be able to access all areas in West London

The West London Story is the major Cultural Olympiad project in West London. Delivered by the Western Wedge1 on behalf of the West London Partnership for the 2012 Games2, it aims to engage artists and arts organisations to work with residents and engage new audiences across West London in the lead up to and beyond the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.

To date, the project has supported West London artists to develop ideas and concepts telling the stories of West London, interpreting these through a variety of art forms.

We are now seeking an experienced and enthusiastic project manager to design and implement the West London Story development plan which will ensure this exciting and innovative project continues to build between now and 2012 and beyond.

You will have experience of managing projects in a partnership environment, have excellent communication skills with the ability to motivate a range of partners and have proven success of securing funding. Experience and / or an interest in culture and the arts is desirable but not essential.

For an informal discussion regarding this position and / or to request an application pack, please contact Helen Fisher, West London 2012 Officer at helen.fisher@brunel.ac.uk or 01895 267576 / 07880585759

Closing date:         12pm, 4 December 2009

Interviews:            15 December 2009

Vacancy Ref:          WLS1

COMMITTED TO EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES AND REPRESENTING THE DIVERSITY OF THE COMMUNITY WE SERVE

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The Western Wedge Winter Festivals Calendar is now available to download from the panel on the right. Choose from a glittering array of festivals across West London from October 2009 to March 2010 - everything including talks and workshops, religious festivals and saints day celebrations, theatre and visual art!

Diwali celebrations in Brent, 2005 Courtesy of Libraries, Arts and Heritage, London Borough of Brent

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Read more about each project below …

THE BURSARIES

The West London Story is a major new cultural programme for West London and underpins the West London Partnership for the 2012 Games Cultural Olympiad.

The programme was launched last September and has already begun to engage artists and arts organisations through ideas forums held at the start of the year. The project has now awarded four bursaries to enable artists to develop their ideas further:

Constantine Gras: A three year project telling the story of West London’s waterways

Cecile Trijssenaar: A video installation that interprets the Olympic creed through the stories of people from the 205 Olympic nations that have made their home in West London

Each artist is being supported by the arts team in a Western Wedge borough, and each will show some work in progress around the Open Weekend, Friday 24th to Sunday 26th July 2009.

THE PROJECTS

Water- Way of Life (Supported by London Borough of Brent)

Watermans, 40 High Street, Brentford TW8 0DS

http://www.watermans.org.uk/

T: 020 8232 1010

Friday 24th July – Sunday 26th July, 12 pm – 12 am

Launch event on Friday 24th July, 6 – 8 pm

Water - Way of Life is an art, ecology and educational project with the aim of connecting people with rivers, canals and other wetland features in West London.   Its first commission is to the artist Jo Roberts, for ‘Tales of the River Brent.’

For the Open Weekend, Constantine Gras, lead artist on Water – Way of Life, will showcase project plans, maps, photos and a short film. Jo Roberts will present stories, images and artefacts collected from walks along the River Brent from the Welsh Harp to the River Thames.

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Thoughts on an Artists’ Book (supported by Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea)

Bradbrook House, Studio Square, Knightsbridge, SW1X 8EL

E. Rebecca.pelly-fry@rbkc.gov.uk/

T. 020 7362 2916

Friday 24th July, 6 - 10 pm

Liane Lang’s project sets out to investigate the history and traces of artists’ studios in West London. It examines the physical and psychological dimensions of the studio space and the relationship between artists and place.

Join a group of artists at Bradbrook House as they present talks, images and excerpts in the first stages of research for an artists’ book.

6pm Drinks reception

6.30 pm Introduction from Kensington & Chelsea Council

6.40 pm Talks and performances, followed by refreshments

Places are limited.  To book a place please contact Rebecca Pelly-Fry, Arts Development Officer, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.  E. Rebecca.pelly-fry@rbkc.gov.uk/ t. 020 7362 2916

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Ray Rankine (supported by London Borough of Hillingdon)

The Great Barn, Manor Farm, Pinn Way, Ruislip, Middlesex, HA4 7QL

http://www.hillingdon.gov.uk/index.jsp?articleid=9599

E: kholliday@hillingdongrid.org

Thursday 23rd & Friday 24th July 11am – 5pm

Summer Party on Thursday 23rd, doors open at 6.30pm

Ray Rankine (painter), Yvonne Watson (textile artist), Steve Cassidy (photographer) and Katrina Williams (mixed media artist) have been working with Brunel University on a moving structure made from high quality materials, which will become a focal point for local communities to tell their visual stories.

Come and see what Ray and the group have been doing, and find out how you can take part.

Free workshops: Thursday 23rd July & Friday 24th July, 11am – 12pm & 2pm – 3pm:

What’s your Route?  Working with maps, draw your journey to Manor Farm and help us create a frieze. Draw a personal landmark from your favourite walk, create a colourful luggage label and add it to the frieze.

West London Story summer party: Featuring Pig Earth.   See the West London Story exhibition and meet the artists, with local band Pig Earth delivering their unique brew of ‘alternative folk.’  Free entry but tickets must be reserved in advance from the Arts Service Box Office: 01895 673 200

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The Good Neighbour (supported by Watermans Art Centre)

Watermans, 40 High Street, Brentford TW8 0DS

http://www.watermans.org.uk/

T: 020 8232 1010

Friday 24th July  6.30 – 8 pm

On Friday 24th July, The Good Neighbour, led by filmmaker Cecile Trijssenaar,will present a short art film project that explores the back stories and examines the changing face of 6 internationals who live divided lives in West London. It will echo one side of the envisaged final cube which will be presented as a scaled model.

Constantine Gras: A 3 year project telling the story of West London’s waterways

Liane Lang: An investigation of the history of artists studios in West London

Ray Rankine: Moving temporary structure which depicts movement through  West London       

Cecile Trijssenaar: A video wall installation that interprets the Olympic creed through the stories of people from the 204 Olympic nations that have made their home in West London

The Dance Zone at Harrow’s Under one Sky Outdoor Community Festival, 2009 (c) Dermot Carlin

Download the Western Wedge Summer Calendar 2009 to find out about over 40 festivals happening across west London, from April to September 2009. 

Compass Theatre, Ickenham, Wednesday 18th February 2009

The History of Immigration

History of West London

Forever Stories – storytelling connecting generations

Lost Stories Festival

Participate – Experiment, Collaborate, Equality, Inclusion, Innovation

Movement in West London

Using Reminiscence to Create Dramatic Events

Lighthouse West, Ladbroke Grove, Monday 23rd February 2009

Arts/ Community involvement in GREENFEST

Collaborations – how can we encourage collaborations between artforms and between creatives and others?

Having a Voice

Identity of West London

The History of Kensington & Chelsea

Collaboration between artforms - west London rivers

Site Specific Work - Finding out about west London’s nooks and crannies

Rivers of West London - History, Landscape and Community

How to develop a grass roots response to Shakespeare Theme

Short documentary exploring the richness and diversity of our communities in West London

Willesden Green Library Centre, Friday 27th February 2009

How can we create community theatre of professional quality and of interest beyond the community?

Participation and Journeys

West Side Stories

Developing projects for collaboration between schools and between schools & artists

How to engage in storytelling at a time of economic downturn

Multicultural Stories Lyndons Art Trust Limited Edition Art Books

Celebrating urban and social issues and creating arts in public space (2012 theme)

- The richness & diversity of west london communities.
- Effective integration, mixed faiths/nationalities, co-existing & mutual respect within mixed communities.
- What makes West London unique?
- What “Being British” means today?”
- Living with disabilities in West London.
- Youth, growing up in West London, future prospects/opportunities, support.

Key points of discussion:

Already part of the Cultural Olympiad

Current Project – ongoing
• Collecting local stories [Identity]
• Multicultural, social, personal aspects
• Based on personal collections – evolved into collages

New Projects
• History of the city through the eyes of children

Other participants talking about new ways to collect, expand, create, listen to stories – as catalyst for Artworks, e.g. books/ installations

Key Actions

• Susie: Elements of Audio – develop into a project
• Lucy Williams – photography
• Pamela Gilmore – written stories (drama). Contact us re. voluntarily helping with this project. As a catalyst for using her skills in Printmaking & Illustration

Lasting outcomes
• Murals, mosaics

Agreed Thursdays are a good day for people to visit Lyndons
Have everyone’s contact details and will work with them over the next year