Working with members of a new consortium Thames Arts, Henley Festival will be helping create and deliver a major new project that will result in performances in Henley, Oxford, Reading, Windsor and potentially London in July 2012.
Legacy Trust UK has just awarded a major grant to Thames Arts (Henley Festival, Oxford Inspires, Ciao! Festival and Windsor festival), a collaborative arts organisation set up to programme and promote a series of events along the River Thames as part of the Cultural Olympiad (cultural celebrations of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games) in 2012.
'The Tree of Light' has been selected to be one of only four 'Community Celebrations' by Legacy Trust UK, an independent charity set up to create a cultural and sporting legacy from the London Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Five spectacular events will take place in the Thames region giving more than one thousand participants from 40 schools and community groups in Oxford, Reading, Henley, Windsor and Slough the chance to take part in all the excitement of 2012. The centrepiece of the project will be a giant sculpted Tree of Light lit by low energy LED light and powered by sustainable energy largely generated by cyclists and rowers from each local community.
The yearlong project will not only celebrate the Olympic movement but will also highlight the need to live and work with sustainability and the natural environment and culminate in a major weekend celebration prior to the games. There will also be a strong educational aspect of the programme with schools and community groups from across the region working with environmental scientists and professionals from the worlds of visual arts, music and dance to create a huge performance piece
Brief for Autumn Term Educational Workshops:
The Henley festival would like to commission you to go into one of the 10 ‘Henley Hub’ participating schools or community groups across the region and document the 4 Autumn Term educational workshops for the Tree of Light programme.
The workshops will take place between early October and end of November 2011:
· Session one will be an ‘introduction to trees’ by a tree scientist
· Sessions 2-4 will be creative workshops where students will be able to tell their ‘tree story’ through either physical theatre, film & photography or creative writing.
You will be required to document and report on every session. It is up to you how you document the workshops but it must be creative and informative. The end product could take the form of a video or photographic or written documentation to include a narrative describing the content of the sessions in line with the Tree of Light Evaluation Scrapbook. It could also be in the form of a press release, piece of promotional literature or web page. Your documentary may be published on the Tree of Light website, Henley Festival website or in local/regional press.
Final Deadline for workshop documentation: Monday 5th December 2011
Interim deadlines: After each session you must email Mandy Beard with an update on the event and a brief outline on how you documented the workshops. (You must be willing to adapt your work accordingly)
Budget: We have no budget for this project and therefore you must use your imagination and college equipment to create and document the workshops to the best of your ability without any funds.
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