Latest News from Minerva HQ
Spare Parts Festival Participation in Sandbach and Crewe
In Spring 2019, Minerva Arts were approached to support the team on the Spare Parts Festival with delivering a high quality participation element to the festivals in Crewe and Sandbach in 2020. We were successful with securing funds from Awards for All to support this work and are now starting to deliver this work. The projects will support both the Sandbach Transport Festival, happening on 14th April and the Crewe Traction Festival on the 4th July and will involve professional artists supporting community groups, producing a parade and developing a Young Producers group for Sandbach. Please visit the our Projects page to keep up to date with our progress in producing these exciting projects.
Go International With Minerva Arts
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Last summer we were very pleased and proud to learn that we had been successful in being awarded our first Erasmus+ project, working alongside partners in Italy, Greece and Portugal to deliver the GROW project. This is a performance residency project where 8 artists from each of the partner territories will have the chance to spend 10 days in Melissa, Southern Italy, living and working together to create performance based on myths and legends about the genesis of the world.
All eight places on this project have now been awarded and we will be introducing them to you very soon on our Project blog page right here. |
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Youth Theatre Is Back!
Happy New Year!! We have returned to work at all our Youth Theatres for the new term now and are well underway with the work towards our latest projects. There are, of course, always spaces available so if you would like to come along for a taster at any of the groups then just get in touch via our contact page here. You can find out all about the different groups we run on our Youth Theatre page.
This year we are working towards a headline collaborative show in Malpas, returning to the Sandbach Transport Festival and bringing three of our Chester groups together for the first time to create a brand new version of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, supported by our Art = Action project. Keep you eyes peeled on our social media feed to keep up with all our fab projects.
We are lucky this year to be supported by Sanctuary Housing, The Robert Clutterbuck Trust, the Yapp Foundation, WH Smith Foundation and #iwill and we hope that more funders will continue their support throughout the coming year.
This year we are working towards a headline collaborative show in Malpas, returning to the Sandbach Transport Festival and bringing three of our Chester groups together for the first time to create a brand new version of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, supported by our Art = Action project. Keep you eyes peeled on our social media feed to keep up with all our fab projects.
We are lucky this year to be supported by Sanctuary Housing, The Robert Clutterbuck Trust, the Yapp Foundation, WH Smith Foundation and #iwill and we hope that more funders will continue their support throughout the coming year.
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Art = Action
In October we were informed that we had been successful in achieving funding from the #iwill programme. This is a national programme framed around Social Action, projects that support young people to make change in their community through campaigning, research and being creative. Our project is called Art = Action and will see our Youth Theatre groups in Lache and Kingsway undertake a research project and work with local experts and groups to create a piece of theatre based around their chosen social action theme to help change perceptions or raise awareness.
Stay tuned to the website, social media and our blog site http://minervatumbles.tumblr.com to see updates from the project when it launches in January. If you would like anymore information about this or any of our work, please Get in Touch.
Anniversary Celebrations!!
To celebrate our 10th Anniversary, Minerva Arts is held our first ever Fundraising Event on the 26th October at Tarvin Community Centre. We were supported excellently by the centre themselves, The Ottomen caterers, the Cestrian Community Players, Natalie Pierce Jones and Will Jones, our lovely former Youth Theatre member who's case study can still be read on our Youth Theatre page. Steph wrote a blog about the celebrations and the opportunity to reflect on the last ten years which can be read on our Tumblr here.
Fundraising
We have recently stepped up our efforts to diversify our revenue streams to support the huge expansion that we have had in 2018. Part of this is starting out in the world of online fundraising. We are now live on shopping platform Easyfundraising and donation platform Local Giving. You can find out more about our fundraising efforts and see how you can get involved and support our work on our brand new Fundraising page right here. We will be instigating several other new initiatives throughout 2019 so watch this space!
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