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THE WEST LONDON STORY FORUMS - DO YOU HAVE A STORY TO TELL?
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Calling all creative and artistic people in West London. You have great ideas. You want to see these ideas happen. We want to invite you to tell the stories of West London. This is your chance to develop artistic projects for a local and international audience.
West London Story Forums are free events where artists, creative people, art organisations, venues, festival and event organisers living and working in West London can hear about the West London Story so far, meet each other and shape the way West London Story develops in the future.
The West London Story will grow into West London’s programme of cultural events for the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games. Join us for the West London Story Forums to help shape the stories we tell, and find out about the West London Story research & development bursaries.
FORUMS:
Register now at one or more of the forums. All forums are free and will run from 9.30am – 5.00pm with lunch and refreshments provided.
Wednesday 18th February, Compass Theatre Glebe Road, Ickenham, Middlesex, UB10 8PD
01895 632 488
Nearest tube: Ickenham (Metropolitan Line)
http://www.compasstheatre.co.uk/
Monday 23rd February, Lighthouse West, 111 – 117 Lancaster Road, London W11 1QT
020 7313 2900
Nearest tube: Ladbroke Grove (Hammersmith & City Line)
http://www.tht.org.uk/contactus/facilities/ladbrokegrove/
Friday 27th February, Willesden Green Library, 95 High Road, Willesden NW10 2SF
020 8937 3400
Nearest tube: Willesden Green. (Jubilee Line)
http://www.brent.gov.uk/officeloc.nsf/Libraries/Willesden%20Green%20Library%20Centre
TO REGISTER download the registration form at the bottom of this post and email it to info@westernwedge.org.uk. We will confirm your registration within one week.
The West London Story Forums are open to all, with priority for those based in the Western Wedge boroughs (Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, and Kenisngton & Chelsea).
All venues are accessible and West London Story is committed to a fully inclusive programme. BSL interpreters and assistance available on request.
WEST LONDON STORY
We want to tell West London’s sotries to the world. The West London Story will create a national and international platform to showcase new work of artistic excellence that is rooted in local, West London stories and experiences. The West London Story will begin in 2009 and run through 2012 and beyond.
WEST LONDON STORY BURSARIES
To help the West London story develop, we are launnching 4 x £1500 research and development bursaries. We are looking for proposals and ideas from artists and companies of all disciplines.
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The Western Wedge is leading on West London’s Cultural Offer for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. It aims to work with local talent on an international scale. West London’s cultural programme is called the West London Story.
The West London Story is supported by:
February 19th, 2009 at 11:53 am
This may not be a very popular view - but I feel that the activities of the western wedge are being hijacked by consultants, LG officers and employment creation schemes all of which are diluting what used to be a good idea!
I’m not a great supporter of the idea that West London exists as an entity - I don’t see that it has much commnality - but leaving that aside there is a lot that can be done within the geography.
In July 2006 the West London Cultural Strategy was published, and to me it seemed clear, simple and manageable. It said two things:
1. Focus on the two world-renowned assets of Wembley Stadium and Heathrow Airport
2. Focus on 4 artistic areas:
Festivals
Dance
Venues
Public Art
I might want to debate that selection - but the virtue of a clear strategy is that it can direct resources and get everyone behind it.
Now that I have attended the West London Story Forums I no longer know what the strategy is. It appears to be “come up with some good ideas and see if we can get them funded”.
Can we please go back to a clear strategy and then develop a “story2 in the context of that strategy and not in the context of individual pet projects!
February 27th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
Western Wedge and West London Story
There seems to be some confusion about the ‘Western Wedge’ and the ‘West London Story.’
The Western Wedge is a partnership of the arts officers in seven local authorities across west London. Our strategy is based on the 2005 consultation document, ‘Western Wedge: Way Ahead’, which recommended we focus on:
• Capacity building and diversity
• Communication and information systems
• Planning Gain
• Workspaces and Venues
You can read some more about our plans and policies here:
http://westernwedge.org.uk/news/the-western-wedge-–-our-plans.html
(or click on
In January 2009 The Western Wedge re-evaluated its terms of reference, and we will post our new terms of reference online soon.
The West London Story is just one part of the Western Wedge’s plans for the next few years. It is the cultural programme of events that the Western Wedge would like to develop to coincide with the Cultural Olympiad that will happen in London in the run up to and during the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The West London Story Forums have been designed to hear from the artists and arts organisations working and living in west London, with the aim that the cultural programme of West London Story accurately reflects the interests and inspirations of the artists from this part of London.
March 6th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
Does anyone have an interesting story living in the Chelsea / Westminster area?