Up Your Street Needs You
Published on:
21
November 2005
A fun day which aims to offer everyone a new taste of the arts will be held in Alloa later this month.
Up Your Street, hosted by Culture and Community Services, promotes the idea that everyone has something to offer the arts, and that everyone has a creative streak.
A range of artists and dancers will be promoting arts on a budget during the event at the Bowmar Centre. Workshops and taster sessions throughout the day will offer a variety of experiences from making sculpture from junk and renovating furniture to learning more about digital photography and creative writing.
Bowmar Community Centre, Sunday 27th November 2005 10am - 5pm, free entry including Winter Warmer food.
Up Your Street will collect ideas and aims to capture the imagination of the young and old. There will be chances to make something out of nothing and meet talented artist and dancers who at 'Up Your Street' for the day.
Kathleen O'Neill, Clackmannanshire Council's Creative Links Officer, said: "Up Your Street is both an event and question. Would people like more of this up their street? What would people like to see by way of the arts and crafts up their street in 2006? What matters in the arts up your street? How do arts and crafts matter to you and your family?
"Most people do not realise how creative they are or what they have to offer others. Up Your Street is making an effort to change that and as well as changing room, to change streets."
Entry to the event, which is sponsored by the Scottish Arts Council, is free and includes hot food supplied by Hillbillies.
The programme for the day includes:
- Dancers Lisa Dunlop and Martin Barnes
- Scottish sculptor Michael Visocchi, who will be making decorative objects from junk. A graduate of the Glasgow School of Art, Michael (27) has exhibited extensively in Scotland and last year received the RSA's Guthrie Award for the most outstanding work by a young Scottish artist. He is a sculptor who uses many different materials to create objects which allude to architectural and landscape forms.
- StorytellerDonnie Henderson Shedlardz will be in the café area. Donnie performs at storytelling festivals in the United States and in Scotland with stories from two diverse regions of the United States; the Midwest and Appalachia. Her varied repertoire includes plant and folklore; contemporary anecdotes; myths; legends; plus Christian and Jewish stories.
- Plastic Fantastics will be hosting a Sustainable Initiatives workshop.
- Local art and crafts experts will be demonstrating their skills with soft textiles and renovating furniture.
- Photo-artist Kenny Bean will be playing with digital technologyincluding digital photos and computer animation.
- Jan Nimmo will be making creative inflatables with materials provided by Spacecadets. Spacecadets specialise in designing and constructing incredible inflatable structures on a wide range of projects from creating stage sets, inflatable environments, logos, inflatable workshop spaces to devising choreographed performance.
- Professional saxophonist and composer Andy Scott will be promoting his next piece of work on CD.
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For more information contact Mags Cochrane, Communications Unit, tel. 01259 452023.