WORLD COMMUNITY ARTS DAY 17th Feb 2009
"ART AS A CATALYST FOR CARING AND SHARING"
Join us in 2009 and be creative to raise an important issue you believe in.
AIM HISTORY LOGO IMAGES SCHEDULE PRESS
To create a World Festival Society for a day
Picture from Launch of WCAD 2009 Drumatik at Out of The Blue, click to bigger version.
PRESS RELEASE: Moffat Way Mural, Craigmillar Community Arts (CCA)
Briefing for photo call at Moffat Way Mural
Craigmillar Community Arts (CCA)
Date: Tues 17th February 09
World Community Arts Day
Time: 10.00am hrs
Venue:Craigmillar, New Joint Primary School Moffat Way, Wauchope Terr/
Niddrie Mains Rd
Entrance/adjacent perimeter site fence
Purpose
This press call will be attended by Kenny MacAskill MSP at 10.30am.
This highly visible perimeter site fence from Niddrie Mains Rd is at
the entrance of the New Joint St Francis & Niddrie Mill Primary School
Campus. This is Craigmillar's contribution to World Community Arts Day:
http://www.communiversity.org.uk/worldcommunityartsday.htm
Background
CCA has been completing this mural with local participants, and Moffat
Early Years (Nursery) Centre children.
This is to celebrate, and highlight the Agnes Moffat true account, of
lives as children coal bearers. This resulted in testimony to a
Victorian Parliament Commission, which changed the working conditions
for children. The name Moffat is now the place name for the new
school, and an area of housing regeneration for Craigmillar, being
progressed by PARC, which replaces the 'old' Wauchope Square.
The mural commenced with the nursery character, Little Miss Moffat,
assisted by nursery kids and staff, then expands on the true account
story. The mural is in vivid colours, and expected to be 100ft long
and 8ft high when completed.
Chair of CCA, and Community Artist Gus Meechan will be on hand to
highlight this event.
Attendees: Kenny MacAskill MSP
Contact:
Gus Meechan, 07944 14 25 23
Mike Greenlaw Arts Co-ordinator 659 4759
www.craigmillarcommunityarts.org.uk
PRESS RELEASE: WCAD TAKES OFF AT BIRMINGHAM INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
February 12, 2009
WORLD COMMUNITY ARTS DAY TAKES OFF AT BIRMINGHAM INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust has joined forces
with the Creatives Network, to illustrate the role the arts play in mental wellbeing at Birmingham International Airport.
Artists and craftspeople, many of whom are service users, are
displaying their talents in the run-up to World Community Arts Day, on February 17.
Holidaymakers, businessmen and airport workers are being urged to
stick a postcard on a world map to remember a loved-one elsewhere in the world
for Valentine's Day as part of the exhibition on the
arrivals concourse.
Among the exhibitors is Frank Johnson, an artist from Sheldon who has
exhibited his dramatic oil paintings at the airport before, and the woodcraft
group, which is staging public demonstrations in the art of wood carving.
World Community Arts Day aims to highlight ways in which creative arts
can benefit those with mental health issues, by providing an outlet through which to express themselves.
Emma Marks, arts project officer with the Trust's social inclusion
team, said: "This is the first time Creatives Network has been
involved in World Community Arts Day, the idea of people
all over the world doing some community-based arts on one day really
inspired the group.
" The airport is an ideal venue for this because of its obvious
international links, and the idea of sending positive thoughts to
loved ones around the world as Valentine's Day approaches
seems to have captured the public's imagination."
Media are invited to come along to the World Community Arts Day
celebrations at Birmingham International Airport on Tuesday (February 17) between 12pm and 4pm.
John Morris, the airport's head of corporate affairs, said, "We are
supporting World Community Arts Day as we believe that creativity can be a
great way to engage with people and share experiences about issues that are
sometimes stigmatised, like mental health.
" The airport sees around 18,000 people going through its doors each
day so it's an ideal place to hold activities, engage with people and increase
awareness about issues that can affect all of us from time to time."
ENDS
For more information or to arrange interviews at the airport on
February 17, please contact Emma Brady, press and publications officer, on
0121
301 1298 or 07985 883809
Notes to editors
Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust provides a
comprehensive
mental healthcare service for residents of Birmingham and Solihull,
and to communities in the
West Midlands and beyond.
The Trust was created on April 1, 2003 by the merger of the former
Northern and South
Birmingham Mental Health NHS Trusts (which included mental health
services for Solihull).
The Trust have an income of over ?200 million and a 4,000-strong
workforce, making them
one of the largest and most complex mental health NHS Trusts in the UK.
PRESS RELEASE: Press Association: Peopleprint/Beatles song
BEATLES PERFORMANCE RECREATED TO CELEBRATE ART GROUP'S BIRTHDAY
By Emma Foster, Community Newswire
ARTS Beatles Rochdale, 10 Feb 2009 - 16:13
The Beatles performance of All You Need Is Love is set to be recreated
and broadcast across the world by a Rochdale art group, to celebrate
its 25th birthday. Peopleprint Community Media hopes the performance by Beatles
tribute band The Cheatles will set the world record for the largest online
birthday party.
The performance will be broadcast live online at 7pm on February 17
and Peopleprint is encouraging as many people as possible to watch at
www.peopleprint.org.uk.
As well as celebrating the group's 25th birthday the event will also
tie in with World Community Arts Day, which aims to bring art groups
from across the world together to take part in creative projects
around the theme of caring and sharing.
Dawn Pierson, Peopleprint development director, said: "A couple of
years ago we had a terrible time with funding and almost closed down,
but since then we have got our feet back on the ground and decided we
wanted to do something really special to celebrate our 25th birthday." We saw that World Community Arts day fell at around the same time as
our birthday and thought how fabulous and fitting it would be to do
something global to celebrate.
" As part of our work we look after lots of creative people and one of
the bands we have worked with in the past is the Cheatles.
" We thought it would be fun to recreate the Beatles performance of All
You Need Is Love and the band were pleased to offer their help. We're
going to have young musicians playing along with them and we're hoping
to recreate as much as possible the original Beatles performance.
" Our workshop already looks like the original studio used and our
volunteers have been busy making puppets and flowers to make it look
spot on.
" Community arts organisations from countries such as Canada, Mexico,
Northern Ireland, Haiti and Africa will be taking part in World Community
Arts Day. Everyone will be doing their own projects but then hopefully it will
culminate with people from across the world watching
our performance.
"
We're going to have clocks showing the time in all the different
countries on the wall, but the UK clock will be labelled Rochdale not UK!" Not
for profit arts organisation Lets Go Global TV will be helping to broadcast
the performance and Northern Ireland community radio station Homely Planet
has also agreed to broadcast it live on its station.
Peopleprint Community Media is a non-profit community arts and media
organisation that started out offering silk-screen printing and photography
facilities and training to the local community. It now
offers a wider range of training facilities from graphic design to
film making and works with youth groups, schools, social services and
clubs and organisations across the area on creative projects.
Dawn continued: "We believe in helping people change their lives
through creativity. We've assisted many people to achieve their artistic dreams
over the years and, as the song suggests 'there's
nothing you can do that can't be done'."
For more information visit www.peopleprint.org.uk or Peopleprint's
Myspace page at www.myspace.com/rochdaleartsnews.
PRESS RELEASE Feb 2009
3rd
World Community Arts Day 2009 17 Feb
" ART AS A CATALYST FOR CARING AND SHARING"
http://www.communiversity.org.uk/worldcommunityartsday.htm
Aim: To create a World Festival Society for a day.
" We can either react in fear or anger to the state of our world thus becoming part of the problem or respond creatively and become part of the solution."
An
idea that started in Craigmillar is now gathering pace and spreading around
the world. Inspired
by the Craigmillar Festival Society The World Community
Arts Day has asked people around the world "to create a World Festival
Society" by being creative on the 17th Feb, 2009 to promote "Art
as a catalyst for caring and sharing".
Now in its third year it started off to celebrate the live of Reg Bolton, the
first director of Theatre Workshop Edinburgh (1972 -78) and his impact around
the world. Theatre Workshop were responsible for bringing street theatre to
The Edinburgh Festival as well as working in areas such as Craigmillar, Pilton,
Sighthill, etc.
From
Australia to Africa, Asia to America, Africa to Europe there are many projects
planned for the day, indeed the week. From
the street
children of Brasil to Arcobats in Kenya, from Radio broadcasts on Lieth FM
to a Global Drumming for Peace, from a live broadcast of "All
you need is love" to a prayer in Kenya, From A World Community Arts Week
in Newport to a grand concert in Belfast, the growing list goes on and on.
From the social networks of Myspace, Youtube and Facebook come projects as
Happy Postcards, Green Circle and How to make a paperboat.
It is not to late late to get involved. Have a look at the website.
World Community Arts Day 17/02/09
http://www.communiversity.org.uk/worldcommunityartsday.htm
PRESS RELEASE JAN 2009
3rd World Community Arts Day 2009 17 Feb
" ART AS A CATALYST FOR CARING AND SHARING"
http://www.communiversity.org.uk/worldcommunityartsday.htm
Aim:
To create a World Festival Society for a day.
" We
can either react in fear or anger to the state of our world thus
becoming part of the problem or respond creatively and become part of the
solution."
We
are looking for people to get involved with World Community Arts Day. All
we ask is that individual and groups be creative for an issue they believe
in that promotes caring and sharing. The Third World Community Arts Day
has building up throughout the year and is is our biggest to date. A letter
support from Ms Linda Fabiani MSP, Minister for Europe, External Affairs and
Culture, Scottish Government says.
" I applaud World Community Arts Day and urge others to support and celebrate
this event - take part, get creative and above all, enjoy yourselves!"
And words from the well known actor Bill Paterson who says "The
arts have inspired, united and energised communities all over the world."
There are are many ongoing projects from New Mexico to Novia Scotia, Singapore
to Malawi, Northern Ireland to Kenya.Andrew Crummy
World Community Arts Day 17/02/09
http://www.communiversity.org.uk/worldcommunityartsday.htmAndrew Crummy
PRESS RELEASE OCT 2008
INVITATION 3rd World Community Arts Day 2009 17 Feb Please
pass on
World Community Arts Day 17/02/09
" ART AS A CATALYST FOR CARING AND SHARING"
http://www.communiversity.org.uk/worldcommunityartsday.htm
To create a World Festival Society for a day.
" We can either react in fear or anger to the state of our world thus
becoming part of the problem or respond creatively and become part of the
solution."
After the initial success of WCAD 2007 and 2008, it is hoped that you can
join us in 2008 and be creative to raise an important issue you believe
in. The
first years have seen events from as far as Brazil, Slovenia, Scotland,
Australia, USA, Ireland, Mexico and many more. All we ask of you on that
day
is to do an arts project, however small or large to mark this day. If you
can mark the event on your website in the build up to it that would
be great to. Even better contact us with your details so we can share the
event.
Or join one of the social networking groups on Myspace, Flickr, Facebook,
YouTube, etc.
PLEASE GO TO WEBPAGE TO SEE EXAMPLES OF WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN PREVIOUS YEARS
http://www.communiversity.org.uk/worldcommunityartsday.htm
PLEASE PASS ON.