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managed by Sheffield Arts Education
Photographs: Carl Rose & Anwar Suliman Designer: One Dark Angel
After a hugely successful year for the Creative Burngreave Steering Group and Team, we are pleased to announce that we have met all our targets for artist training, mentoring, and artists funding during 2003–2004.
Our second year, 2004–2005, promises to be equally dynamic. We have already funded 16 projects this year: 3 performance based projects; 2 music projects; the Osgathorpe Jam, One Love Festival; 5 visual arts projects; 4 film projects and the Positive Negative Film Festival. Here’s a snap shot of some of the projects we have funded:
Vernon Williams will be presenting Twelfth Night at the Crucible Theatre, with leading Zimbabwean theatre company, Over the Edge.
Matthew Thompkins will be producing a short digital film about a gardener who grows vegetable people at night. This promises to be an eerie drama using dance and music.
Burngreave Photographic Group launched an exhibition of work by Burngreave artists at the Cemetry Chapel.
Natasha McFarlane will be producing a music-recording project culminating in a CD that will be distributed to local A&R scouts.
Chill Foo Front is teaching youngsters basic radio presenting, DJ and street dancing skills.
Cathy Everard is producing a film with local young people, which will detail the leisure opportunities open to them in the Burngreave area. The completed film is to be distributed to schools and youth groups across Sheffield.
The Burngreave Artist Placement Agency, which is essentially a database for artists who live in the Burngreave Area, is proving to be a big hit with artists. This summer we placed 3 artists from our Burngreave Artist Placement Agency, Jennifer Booth, Vernon Williams and Tracey Schawsmidth (all previously on our artisttraining programme) as tutors on the media arts summer school.
The youngsters produced 3 films on drug abuse over the summer which will be submitted to the BBC and hopefully screened this autumn, with a second screening at Sheffield’s Showcomotion Festival in June 2005. With regards to how the course went, Jennifer Booth said, “working with individuals from the creative industries really gave them a chance to explore and expand their own creativity”.
The Creative Burngreave Steering Group
Jackie Drayton, Caroline Veal, Natasha McFarlane, Panni Poh Yoke Loh, Peter Murphy, Vernon Williams, Sarah Fowler, Dianne Senior, Aisha Special K, Tony Tingle, Cassie Limb, and two new members: Farhad Ahrarnia and Jennifer Booth.