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Help us expand our Festival of Arts, this year connecting the villages of the Ribble Valley, promoting art participation widely throughout the borough before returning to Clitheroe again in June.
We are a group of volunteer professionals planning to repeat our three-day Arts Festival CLITHEROE CONTEMPORARY, in June 2024. Our aim is to establish Clitheroe Contemporary as part of Clitheroe's festival landscape. During the festival, there will be workshops, artist’s talks, classes, installations, performances & exhibitions featuring paintings, films, sound art & sculpture – some for sale, some simply to enjoy. With your pledges & the help of local businesses, leisure & hospitality venues, schools & community groups, we will bring to the town a wide range of UK & international artists as well headlining our local talent. Art is for everyone. In 2024 we hope to involve the wider community taking the festival to the villages to help promote and support the local arts groups, helping the stage local exhibitions in their villages and produce a piece of art as a community to be displayed at the main event.
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Why it's a great idea:
Art & culture can energise communities, inform thinking & inspire change. Our aim is for an open-to-all, volunteer-led festival that will generate a sense of inclusion & optimism in an area where, despite wealth there is also need. Exhibitions across Clitheroe in halls, cafes, pubs & restaurants will serve to support the careers of emerging artists whilst raising the Ribble Valley’s profile & lending an economic boost to its leisure & hospitality trade. A collective effort can help fire the imaginations of everyone, young & old, and especially those who might otherwise not experience art. We ask for your support to deliver a festival of creative arts in an area where there is no municipal art gallery, no community focussed arts organisation & no cultural investment strategy. A pledge of as little as £2 will help.
Steps to get it done:
We created Clitheroe Contemporary in order to form a legacy of art within the Ribble Valley, we have ambitions to create a nationally recognised event on a level with Hay-on-Wye. A successful festival will give us a platform to establish the Ribble Valley as an incubator for artists and art led businesses. Increasing participation in the arts for everyone.
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VolunteerWe are a group of volunteer creative professionals and self-confessed art obsessives who believe in the power of contemporary art to inspire and include, to ignite conversation and shift perception.
As many of the town’s shops and restaurants now stand empty in post-pandemic gloom, we remember the groundswell of excitement and optimism as cast and crew animated our streets with singing and dancing during the shoot for “Greatest Days,” an upcoming film based on the Take That songbook. People of every age and background came to see the spectacle and take part in a completely inclusive community event.
We are determined to revive a sense of optimism in the town; to energise unused spaces with film, sound art, paintings and events. We want to create a festival in which people from the whole community and beyond can take part and look forward to in years to come. We want to support the careers of young and emerging artists and to leave a legacy of public artworks and ongoing mentorship programmes.
Project Owner: Clitheroe Contemporary The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.
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