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West London Story Forums Summaries: West Side Stories (27th Feb, Willesden Green Library Centre)

Leader: Unoma Giese
Unoma.giese@gmail.com

Key points of discussion:

A multifaceted arts festival in numerous locations, which include performances, workshops, publications, exhibitions and installations (audio visual), architecture, broadcast (live, pre-recorded and podcast) and misguided tours.

Media used will be visual (photography, illustration, painting), and…

West London Story Forum Summaries:Participation and Journeys (27th Feb, Willesden Green Library Centre)

Leader: Amy Sharrocks
amysharrocks@mac.com

Key points of discussion:

We talked about how to involve different kinds of people – old age and children, unemployed – people who don’t usually get involved
We have to go out to different centres and schools to get them…

West London Story Forum Summaries:How can we create community theatre of professional quality and of interest beyond the community? (27th Feb, Willesden Green Library Centre)

Leader: Vicky Graham
vicky@giltandgrime.co.uk

Key points of discussion:

• Who or what is the community at the centre of a community arts project? How do we identify it?
• Is London one big community, or essentially community-less?
• Is there such a thing as a…

West London Story Forum Summaries:Celebrating urban and social issues and creating arts in public space (2012 theme) (27th Feb, Willesden Green Library Centre)

Leader: Peter Kyte, Fotog
interface@fotog.info

Key points of discussion:
• Need to establish the identity of West London – placing that in 2012 timeline
• Public space – arts led – Creative building and space around
• Water related project – taking forgotten canals, rivers,…

West London Story Forums Summaries: Arts/ Community involvement in GREENFEST in West London (23rd Feb, Lighthouse)

Leader: John Griffiths
info@greenfest.org.uk

Key points of discussion:
•Greenfest – fate, funding, nature
•Kirsty Little: choreography – mothers with babies in community
• Charlotte: art installation involving children
• Vashti: scrap bank – projects for kids
• Linda: conversations mapped out on a large sheet
• Kirsty Adams:…

West London Story Forums Summaries: Collaborations – how can we encourage collaborations between artforms and between creatives and others? (23rd Feb, Lighthouse)

Leader: Tonnny A
TonnyAjoup@googlemail.com – sweetsnsour291@yahoo.co.uk

Key Points of Discussion

• We all introduced ourselves one by one.
• We talked about our experience sharing our practice with the communities – in particular, our experience of working with kids, in schools, in depraved areas…