Welcome to Cafe Culture

Café Culture is a networking opportunity for arts and creative professionals from the Winchester area. Established in 2004, by the University of Winchester and Winchester City Council, Café Culture hosts monthly events in the city centre. Each event features a guest speaker who provides a focus with regard to local, national and international arts and creative development. There is also the opportunity for practitioners, promoters and project managers to offer up their own news and publicity.

The atmosphere is relaxed and all are welcome, so if you relish the opportunity to engage in creative debate why not join us? Entrance is free and there is no need to book.

The Cafe Culture online network helps to get information and news around to over 300 practicing artists and those who promote or facilitate Winchester's creative sector.

Café Culture is funded by the University of Winchester with additional support from Winchester City Council

For details of past events please click HERE


The next event is:
Tuesday 27th July
Live Music
The Railway Inn, St Paul’s Hill - 6:30pm
We’ll be meeting upstairs to discuss local arts gossip, to hear about the Freefall festival, a new Café Culture website and social networking, plus your projects that you’d like to discuss with us.

Future Events:
TBC

The Latest Arts News
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Click HERE for Art News 23 July

Performance of Momentum at the Theatre Royal
The Wessex Youth Offending Team and Hampshire County Council would like to invite you to come along to the Theatre Royal to see a very special performance of Momentum. Following on from the intensive three-week project and performance at The Lights in Andover, we are really excited to present Momentum for a second time in Winchester.
Before starting the three week project many of the young people had little or no dance experience. This performance reflects the commitment they made, the challenges they faced and their transformation into an exceptional dance company.
Complimentary tickets are available from the Theatre Royal Box Office on 01962 840 440 and, for more information about the event, please email Clare Hobbs


Creative Partnerships recruiting
Creative Partnerships are looking to recruit more creative practitioners from September 2010 to work on the new CP programmes in the Southampton, Portsmouth and Hampshire area.
If you’re interested then please register on the CP toolkit website but be sure to include 2 referees with full contact information and details of two projects you have worked on with young people aged 0 – 19.
Deadline for registration is 16 July 2010.
Also, please keep 3 September clear for a further information event and then 28 September in case you are short-listed to attend a training day.
NB. If you have already registered then Creative Partnerships will contact you with further details and information on updating your entry with project details as above.
For more information or any queries please email Sally Beattie


Outcomes Framework for Culture and Sport
As you may be aware, IDeA on behalf of Arts Council England, English Heritage, the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, Sport England and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport are currently working on the development of an outcomes framework for culture and sport.
A consultation draft of the proposed framework is attached. This has been developed with the support of a reference group of local authority and, other cultural and sport representatives, and it builds on the research undertaken last year in the first stage of the project.
The arts council particularly want to get feedback from as many local authorities as possible, but also welcome comments from other organisations (private and not for profit) working in the cultural sector.
Responses should be sent to dany.louise@artscouncil.org.uk by Friday 23 July (not 1 August as stated on the document).
The arts council recognises that this is a short timescale at a busy time but things are moving rapidly and people who have been involved to date very much feel the framework will assist them in the difficult budget process so they are keen to progress this quickly. They also recognise that the improvement architecture for local government will be changing over the next few months as the coalition government confirms its intentions, and the framework will of course need to be updated and amended to reflect any changes as they occur.
This stage of the framework development is critical to ensure that the approach IDeA is taking is going to be workable and helpful for a wide audience. Once they have received the initial feedback they will revise the framework and pilot it with a small number of authorities in September, before producing a final version which will also be accompanied by additional tools and guidance to support its use.


Southampton Film Week: Youth Film Festival (13 – 16 October 2010)
Southampton Film Week will again feature an enticing collection of film events and activities, but this year, to add to the mix, City Eye is pleased to announce SFW: Youth Film Festival. This exciting new project will develop a wide and eclectic mix of youth-led activity during this year’s SFW and will aim to generate a genuine interest in film related opportunities amongst the young.

Call for Festival Committee Members
To help this happen we are looking for young people aged 14 –19 to join the festival committee and to be active members of a group of young people who will help programme and deliver this event. This is a wonderful opportunity for a young person with an interest in film and festivals to get involved in a new and exciting arts venture, to enhance their CV and to work towards an Arts Award.
Deadline for submissions for this project has been extended until 21 July 2010.
Please visit Southampton Film Week for more information and downloadable application forms

Call for Film Submissions
Part of this year’s Southampton Film Week: Youth Film Festival will see a new and exciting filmmaking competition for young filmmakers. Filmmakers are asked to submit films of no longer than 6 minutes in 3 age groups, Primary, Secondary and College, of any style and genre which, if successfully short-listed, will be screened at the showcase event on 16 October 2010. Deadline for submissions is 6 October 2010.

Please visit Southampton Film Week for more information and downloadable submission forms. If you need further information please contact City Eye on 023 8067 7167


Life in colour for Alzheimer’s sufferers in Winchester and Eastleigh
An arts based project to support dementia sufferers in the Winchester and Eastleigh areas will use costume based activities to enable individuals to reminisce and share memories with their families.
Platform 4 today receives the only arts based award in this region from the Big Lottery Fund’s Reaching Communities programme for The Costume Connections Project.
Organisers from Platform 4 will expand on a successful pilot working with members of three clubs run by the Alzheimer’s Society in Winchester and Eastleigh. They focus on using art and drama, which has been proved to prompt memories that will help enrich the individuals’ lives as well as those of their families.
Workshops will take place at the Connections Club, Memory Cafe and a newly formed men’s club taking inspiration from people’s favourite clothes, dance and drama to unlock memories through artwork which they can look back at or share with close family and friends.
The workshops will involve local young artists and post-graduates who will be able to gain valuable experience working with older generations and discover how they can bring enjoyment to and help improve the lives of people with other needs.
The project will culminate in a week-long event at Eastleigh’s The Points Art Centre and use empty shop windows to display the creativity of people who suffer from Alzheimer’s and promote to others the benefits of getting involved with Project 4’s clubs for people who have the disease.
Workshops are on-going throughout 2010 – 2011 and will culminate during a week in November 2011 at The Point in Eastleigh.
Throughout the week-long event documentary films involving participants will also be shown and a book published including stories and artistic impressions from project participants.
Catherine Church, Artistic Director Platform 4 said: I am delighted with this news, it enables Platform 4 artists to extend our very special collaborative work for people with early onset dementia and their supporters. This Costume Connections Project will celebrate the participants’ unique stories through installation, film, dance and live art.Through our final celebratory events we can give them a tailor made arts experience and some respite from what is a devastating disease. Thank you.
Alison Rowe, Big Lottery Fund Head of Region said: Platform 4 has developed an innovative way of helping support individuals to continue to enjoy memories and connect with loved ones during very difficult periods in their lives. We are delighted to help fund a project which will keep families connected and draw out family stories which can be remembered by future generations.
Platform 4 aims to create magical performance work that is highly visual and will captivate and involve audiences. Our programme of work seeks to enrich its audience, particularly young and old people, through beautiful, quality arts experiences and unique cross-arts participatory projects.
Platform 4 gratefully acknowledges support from Arts Council South East, Big Lottery Fund, Winchester City Council and University of Winchester.
For more information visit www.platform4.org


One Big Table – Winchester’s big lunch event at Abbey Gardens
Delicious food from around the world, live music and dance is all on the menu at Winchester’s Big Lunch event on Sunday 18 July in Abbey Gardens, next to the Guildhall. For only £2 per three-portion serving, guests will be able to enjoy authentic Indian, Chinese, Thai, Nepalese, Philippine and African dishes prepared by the city’s varied restaurants and community groups so your place at One Big Table! For everyone’s entertainment there will be steel drums, story-telling for the whole family, traditional dance from Nepal, Thailand and China – including lion dancing – plus music from around the world. Entry and entertainment is free and everyone is welcome! There is, however, a charge if you wish to have food from the various cuisines on offer. Here’s how it works: you purchase a ticket, which entitles you to a three-portion serving from one of the six national cuisines. Each ticket costs £2 and portions are small enough so if you want to try dishes from another nationality you pay for another ticket and try another country. For £12 you can try all six nationalities – if you can handle it! Councillor Richard Izard, Mayor of Winchester, will be launching this fun family event. If the weather is bad, the event will move across the Broadway to St. John’s House. One Big Table is a local version of The Big Lunch and has the aim of bringing together and celebrating the increasingly diverse cultural communities in Winchester. One Big Table has been devised by Winchester’s ethnic minority groups including CultureNet and Footsteps, working in partnership with Winchester City Council’s Arts Service, Hampshire County Council’s Community Service and Winchester Area Community Action, with additional funding from Awards for All Lottery grants. We look forward to seeing you in Abbey Gardens. For more information, contact Christopher Newberry on 01962 712858.


Have your say about getting more lottery grants for the arts
You may be aware that the Department for Culture, Media and Sport recently announced a consultation on the return of the lottery shares to their original causes.
If agreed by Parliament, this would re-balance the share of the lottery, restoring arts, heritage and sport shares to their original 20% each by 2012.
This is a very positive move for the arts and Alan Davey, Chief Executive of the Arts Council, would like to encourage you to respond to the consultation document. It's vital that Government hears directly from front line arts organisations about how the distinct benefits of additional lottery funding would help you to deliver your work on the ground. Your views are particularly valuable in light of the reductions to public funding we know are coming in future years, and which will make the lottery contribution to the arts all the more important.
Details of the consultation can be found on the DCMS website.
The consultation closes on 21 August.


Supporting Artists newsletter
Click HERE


Terrible Tales at The Woodland Theatre and Spinney Hollow newsletter
The Terrible Tales of the Midnight Chorus is a cacophonous cabaret of original folk tales woven together with puppetry and live music.
There are only a few tickets left for so make sure you grab a ticket from kate@spinneyhollow.co.uk before they sell out and check out the flyer for more details.
For more information from Spinney Hollow have a look at their newsletter.


London 2012 Open Weekend
With less than four weeks to go until the Open Weekend 2010, the London 2012 team wanted to remind you all that you can join in by setting yourself challenges to complete by Friday 23 July.
Click HERE for more information about how to get involved


Summer Workshops at The Colour Factory
The Colour Factory, located in central Winchester, are offering a range of workshops for 8 – 14 year olds between Monday 26 July – Friday 6 August for only £18 per child.
Click HERE for a form to fill in and return to The Colour Factory as well as more details on what the workshops will entail.
For more information, please call 01962 870789 or email


Artsplan youth art training courses
Artsplan is delighted to have the following youth arts training courses programmed to take place this year in the South East:

• Creative Consultation with Young People – 1st July, Southampton
• Using the Arts to Develop Aspiration, Leadership and Potential – 20th October, Bicester
• Creating Safety: child protection and youth arts – 26th October 2010, Southampton
• *Pilot Course Special Rate£75* – Putting Young People at the Core of Youth Arts – 11th November 2010, Southampton

Please click HERE for more details on each course.

For more information, or to book a place on an upcoming course, please contact the Artsplan team via: 02380 682 535 / artsplan@artswork.org.uk
Fees range from £110 – £150 and there are also limited £55 bursary places available. If you book onto two or more upcoming courses you can request 20% discount off the total course fee (please note this offer excludes the pilot course and bursary places).


Land Draw with Hampshire Wildlife Trust
Take part in a wildlife-inspired design using a variety of materials at Palmer Field in Winchester on Saturday 17 July and Sunday 18 July 2010, kicking off with a dance performance from the Westgate Secondary School on Friday 16 July.
Click HERE for directions
Polly White – Phone: 01489 774 413 Mobile: 07795 320 351 Email: pollyw@hwt.org.uk
www.itchennavigation.org.uk
In addition to this, the Hampshire Wildlife Trust (HWT) is looking for volunteers to assist with setting up marquees and stands, and talking to the public. Anyone who can help for half a day or a whole day would be most appreciated by the HWT as they are anticipating a large crowd.
Volunteers are required on the following days and times:
Friday 2pm – 5pm
Saturday 9am – 6pm
Sunday 9am – 5.30pm
P lease contact Polly White on the aforementioned numbers or email address if you are interested in helping out.


Have your say in the new Community Strategy
The consultation draft of the Winchester District Community Strategy is now available. The Community Strategy is the main strategic document which guides the work of Winchester City Council and many of its partners and sets out what the important issues are for our District and what sort of place we would like it to be like in the future.

We are keen to hear the views of your organisation on the draft strategy, which can be downloaded here: Community Strategy

There are several ways you can give us your views:
• Use the online form at www.winchester.gov.uk/ShowForm.asp
• Email awoods@winchester.gov.uk
• Write to Alison Woods at Winchester City Council, Tourist Information Centre, Winchester Guildhall, Broadway, Winchester SO23 9GH.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact the following officers at Winchester City Council:
• Alison Woods: awoods@winchester.gov.uk 01962 848 347
• Eloise Appleby: eappleby@winchester.gov.uk 01962 848 181
• Jen Anderson: janderson@winchester.gov.uk 01962 848 592
• Robert Heathcock: rheathcock@winchester.gov.uk 01962 848 476
The consultation period ends on 13 August 2010


Free room hire at The Railway in August
The Railway have got a limited number of nights available for hire throughout August for free!

You have a choice between two rooms:
Room 1 – Our fantastic new 60 capacity acoustic lounge has a top spec PA and is suitable for DJs, parties, acoustic music and performance.
Room 2 – Our 120 capacity Main Venue Room also has a top spec PA and is suitable for full live bands, DJ's, parties and performance.

Interested? Then just drop The Railway an email for more details and available dates.

Please note that if you require a sound engineer for your event then please mention so in the email and they will arrange for one to be available. However, they are not free of charge.


The Big Draw 2010 events go live
Big Draw 2010 events can now be viewed on their website by thousands of people. Once you’ve registered you can enter details of your event anytime; but the sooner you do this, the more it can be publicised.

Free Drawing Inspirations DVD
Everyone who registers for the 2010 Big Draw will receive a free DVD packed with inspirational films, slide shows and ideas for drawing activities for different audiences. Even if you’re still at the exploratory stage, it’s worth registering as the DVD could help develop your plans. Our new microsite offers a wide range of case studies, including Drawing Inspiration Award winners. Follow their lead, choose your category and win one of twenty 2010 Awards (worth up to £1000 each).

New Steven Appleby Posters
The Campaign has commissioned top illustrator Steven Appleby to create enticing new poster and flyer templates reflecting this year’s theme: Make your Mark on the Future. They can be downloaded from our website, as can our popular Quentin Blake poster and Big Draw logo.

Play Draw and Fold over
Launched by Posy Simmonds at our Awards ceremony two weeks ago, the online drawing game, Draw and Fold Over has already been played by 20,000 people worldwide. Designed for us by Albion to make the Campaign's message global, it combines the feeling of drawing by hand with the social benefits of the Internet. Try it for yourself!

Read all about it!
We're streamlining distribution of the excellent series of 10 Power Drawing books, including two new titles, Drawing: Active Learning (for primary school teachers) and Drawing: A Tool for Design (drawing in design and construction). Details for ordering can be found on our website.

Daler-Rowney and Cass Art
Cass Art, London’s leading art supplier, has the admirable ambition to ‘fill the town with artists’. Sponsoring The Big Draw furthers this aim, which we hope you will choose to support. Daler-Rowney, the world famous fine art materials manufacturer (established in 1783), is sponsoring The Big Draw to inspire artists of all levels of experience to gather, exchange, and share their creativity. Using our sponsors’ products at your events will encourage them to extend their commitment to our Campaign!


Find Your Talent axed in latest Government funding cuts: a note from Jane Bryant
I am writing to let you know that Find Your Talent is included amongst the projects to be cancelled by the Government in their recent announcement of funding cuts.
We are awaiting the details including timescales and processes for this and will let you know as soon as we have further news.
In the meantime, I am attaching the link to the press release issued by Culture, Creativity and Education – CCE – (the national lead body for Find your Talent) which they issued at the end of last week.
http://www.creativitycultureeducation.org/news/find-your-talent-funcding-announcement,370,AR.html
We would like to thank all of you for your creativity, enthusiasm and commitment to the work of Find Your Talent over the last sixteen months. You have made a real difference to the lives of seldom heard children, young people and their families and enabled many of them to engage with culture for the first time.
http://www.findyourtalent.org/news/2010/06/push-demonstrates-huge-find-your-talent-success
Should you have any queries, please contact your local Development Worker:
Portsmouth – Peter Taylor
Southampton: Amy Eastwood
South Hampshire: Sue Washington