Family Arts Festival is Back!

The 2014 Family Arts Festival website is now fully up and running, listing a huge range of family friendly arts events that will take place across the country between 17 October and 2 November 2014.

Familyartsfestival.com is a fantastic place for families to find things to do together.  It enables them to find activities in their area, sort by art form or age-range, and find out more about the organisations involved.  The website also displays organisations that have signed up to the Family Arts Standards, pledging that they are able to provide an exceptional welcome to families attending arts events.

If you haven’t uploaded your event yet, don’t worry – you can submit events for approval right up until the start of the Festival.

We are delighted to announce that bestselling author and former Children’s Laureate Michael Morpurgo will be the Patron for the 2014 Festival, and Center Parcs will be our major new partner.  To find out more about the festival, read the full press release, circulated to national and regional arts correspondents, news desks, editors, features writers and more.

Please do get in touch if you have any questions about the Festival, Standards, or how your organisation can benefit from involvement with the Campaign.

Best wishes,

Clair Donnelly | Family Arts Campaign Communications & Administration Officer 

( 020 7557 6750
8 clair@soltukt.co.uk
* c/o Association of British Orchestras, 32 Rose Street, London WC2E 9ET
: familyarts.co.uk
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Clod Ensemble return to Malvern Theatres on Saturday 19th July with Red Ladies.

 

Clod Ensemble return to Malvern Theatres on Saturday 19th July with Red Ladies.

Red Ladies are on their way. Who are they and what do they want?

An undisclosed number of identically dressed women infiltrate the city with a series of mysterious, visually arresting interventions before rendezvousing in the Forum Theatre to perform their ‘theatrical demonstration’ in five movements performed to an original score, featuring live drums and violin. Red Ladies is about connectivity, identity, community, complexity, transformation and love. A poetic investigation into the ways human beings and other animals behave when in groups.

Led by choreographer/director Suzy Willson and composer Paul Clark, Clod Ensemble ‘are a shape-shifting, genre-straddling, media-mixing, experimental, experiential project-based performance group.’ (The Guardian)

 

Visit the Red Ladies event page to find out how to get your half price ticket.

https://www.facebook.com/events/309784059171093/?fref=ts

Artist Development session - Worcester City Museum & Art Gallery

Reflecting On Your Practice
10.45am- 1.30pm, Monday 21 July 2014 - Worcester City Museum & Art Gallery
This free session, facilitated by Elizabeth Hawley, Visual Arts Enabler, is interactive and designed to offer advice, collective problem solving and to encourage ownership and pro-activity towards career development as an artist. Participants will be asked to bring a specific goal or challenge to the session to work through with the group.

There are a maximum of 20 places per session, which will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. Light refreshments will be served.

 

To book please email Annabel Clarke annabel.clarke@bcu.ac.uk quoting which session you would like to attend.

http://www.tpwestmidlands.org.uk/artist-development-events/2014/6/13/reflecting-on-your-practice.html

 

Many thanks,

 

Annabel

Annabel Clarke
Turning Point West Midlands
School of Art
Birmingham Institute of Art and Design
Birmingham City University
Margaret Street
Birmingham B3 3BX
http://www.tpwestmidlands.org.uk/

@tpwestmidlands
E: annabel.clarke@bcu.ac.uk

Please note that I work for Turning Point part time, and will respond as soon as possible.