Outline of activities - please see our Interim Report, approved by HGA forum, The Drum, and Pete Hobbs September 2012. Also our timeline for summary of activities
Project/ Event/ Date
|
Provider
|
Participants/ Audience summary
|
More info
|
HGA Contribution/ funding
|
Field for the Olympics/ Torch relay
June to August 2012
|
Drum/HGA/ many other partners - see notes
|
Workshops in a range of settings, age groups across district.large evetns in parks
|
HGA £383 as part of Next Generation application
| |
Kalabarate project
June to August 2012
|
Rogue Play/Drum/HGA
|
HGA directly supported group 8-10 yrs, 15 creators. HGA coordinated 3 additional exhibitions with audience around 75,000
|
See separate Report by Drum
|
HGA - 0
COYD application led by Drum and RoguePlay
|
Moseley Folk Festival
September 2012
|
Moseley Folk Festival/HGA
|
Families and children at Folk festival
|
HGA - 0
MOFO provided free tickets for our volunteers
| |
Paganel Archives
April 2012 to Sept 2013
|
Paganel School, Edgbaston Arst Forum, Northfield Arts Forum
|
School children, their parents and the local community
|
HGA - 0
| |
Willow art
Nov 2012
|
HGA/ Marcus Belben
|
15 children, reception (4 - 5 yrs)
|
HGA - 0
| |
KH Square Drumming
Nov 2012
|
Meddy Ranks/ All saints Youth Project
|
Youth group and stay & Play group at KH All Saints
|
HGA - 0 provision of Mobile arts unit, Meddy and other activities arranged by partners
| |
Xmas Arts Fete
Dec 2012
|
KHCCP/ HGA
|
HGA arts and crafts practitioners, District generally
|
HGA - £200
KHCCP provided additional support
| |
KH ESRC Acting global thinking local
Nov 2012
|
University of Birmingham
|
Community activists, KH
|
HGA - 0
A Univ of Bham project funded by ESRC
| |
HG Winter Market
Dec 2012
|
HG Neighbourhood forum/ HGA/ Meddy Ranks, Pam Bishop, Catriona Hetherington
|
Hall Green Ward residents
|
HGA £200 additional funding from Commmunity Chest through an HGNF application
| |
Emerge Art Gallery
March 2012
|
Ort Gallery
|
Artists in Balsall Heath area, adult audience, Balsall Heath
|
HGA £200 funding to support an Arts Council application
| |
Car Culture
Jan to March 2013
|
KH Neighbourhood Forum/ HGA
|
Primary and Seconday schools across District, starting KH Primary and Queensbridge
|
HGA - £50much work in kind - other support from HGA. Community First application led by KHNF
| |
Making the world fairer
Feb 2012
|
HGA/ Hall Green Secondary School
|
yr9 Hall Green
|
HGA - 0 Volunteer
| |
Space Explorers
Jan 2013 to June 2013
|
HGA/KH Centre for Space Exploration
|
Families across Kings Heath
|
0 HGA /KHCCP applied in partnership with KH Centre for Space Exploration for Near Neighbours funding
| |
Stepping Stones
April to Sept 2013
|
Traditional Arts Team
|
Residents and young people across District
|
HGA £200 to support an Arts Council application
|
Participants = leaders + creators
Project Priorities (1 to 5, 1 being highest priority)
PROJECTS
|
Increase
Res
Attend
|
Increase
adult Res
Particip
|
Contrb
to
Local Arts
|
Build
Capacity
of Local
Artists
|
Partner
with
Local Arts
& Com
Orgs
|
Opportunity for Young
People
0 – 19
years
|
Deliver
Arts &
other
Award
|
Youth
Voice
(up to
24 yrs)
|
Family
Friendly
|
Increase
Non Res
Attend
|
Increase
the profile
of our City
|
Art Surgeries
|
4
|
3
|
1
|
2
|
5
| ||||||
Field for the Olympics
|
5
|
2
|
1
|
3
|
4
| ||||||
Kalaborate
|
3
|
1
|
4
|
5
|
2
| ||||||
Paganel
Archives
|
2
|
5
|
3
|
1
|
4
| ||||||
Moseley
Folk
|
3
|
1
|
4
|
2
|
5
| ||||||
Willow Art
|
3
|
1
|
2
| ||||||||
KH Square Drumming
|
4
|
5
|
1
|
2
|
3
| ||||||
Xmas art fete
|
1
|
2
|
3
|
5
|
4
| ||||||
HG Winter
Market
|
1
|
2
|
3
|
5
|
4
| ||||||
ESRC Acting Local
|
4
|
1
|
2
|
3
| |||||||
Car Culture
|
5
|
3
|
4
|
2
|
1
| ||||||
Making
World Fairer
|
3
|
5
|
2
|
1
|
4
| ||||||
Space
Explorers
|
1
|
4
|
3
|
5
|
2
| ||||||
Stepping
Stones
|
4
|
1
|
3
|
2
|
5
|
Summary of individual projects
All projects and workshops are described in our blog, mapped onto our map and placed on our timeline. Form our timeline and from our Dipity page, you will also find a summary by clicking on the event/workshop/project or viewing the chronological summary list. Below is a brief description and summary of numbers involved
Field for the Olympics
From 29th June to 1st July 2012 the Olympic Torch relay passed through Birmingham. Like the torch relay, ‘Field for the Olympics’ celebrated hosting the Olympics and was a creative response to it - making junk puppets to depict real and imagined Olympic Sports. The workshops took place in schools, community centres, libraries, care homes and parks across South Birmingham, culminating on the day the Olympic starts - 27th July - in Kings Heath Park.
The puppets took part in processions in parks and school for the torch relay and other local Olympic events. This exhibitions in libraries and at events showed some of the many puppets that have been created (more than 400). Please see report for more details
Age
|
Creator
|
Leader
|
Audience
|
Volunteer
|
TOTAL
|
0 to 5
|
178
|
185
|
363
| ||
5 to 11
|
60
|
178
|
238
| ||
12 to 15
|
26
|
6
|
72
|
98
| |
16 to 19
|
1
|
55
|
56
| ||
20 to 24
|
4
|
60
|
64
| ||
25 to 64
|
8
|
415
|
27
|
450
| |
65 and over
|
8
|
1
|
83
|
92
| |
TOTAL
|
273
|
15
|
1,048
|
27
|
1363
|
As a Next Generation application evaluation, comments, more information on detailed Final Evaluation
Kalabarate Project at Paganel
Please see report by Drum.
Hall Green Arts arranged and supported workshops at Paganel Primary School for 15 participants aged 8 to 11, working with photographer Richard Battye and poet Lorna Meehan. We arranged support for the 6 workshops (Marcus Belben). Additionally we exhibited photos and poetry created as part of the project at Paganel Archives Pagalympics event at the school.
Participants were encouraged and supported to comment on the Olympics through photography, poetry and performance.
A touring exhibition was arranged by HGA - Photos from the project, together with other photos from ‘Pagalympics’ week were displayed in an exhibition at Central Library, Birmingham in Aug and Sept (Floor 1) at Paganel School (Nov and Dec) and are at present displayed at Weoley Castle Community Library (Jan Feb 2013)
Figures only for 8 to 11 workshops. In brackets are estimates for Central Library and Weoley Castle figures, based on door count - In 2010-11 Central Library was the second most visited library in the country with 1,197,350 visitors, and our exhibition filled the whole of the library’s prime display space on floor one. for two months throughout August and September.
Age
|
Creator
|
Leader
|
Audience
|
Volunteer
|
TOTAL
|
0 to 5
|
100(5,000)
|
5100
| |||
5 to 11
|
15
|
212(5,000)
|
5227
| ||
12 to 15
|
(5,000)
|
5000
| |||
16 to 19
|
(5,000)
|
5000
| |||
20 to 24
|
100 (20,000)
|
20100
| |||
25 to 64
|
200 (20,000)
|
1
|
20200
| ||
65 and over
|
(20,000)
|
20,000
| |||
TOTAL
|
15
|
80,612
|
1
|
80,628
|
Moseley Folk Festival
Hall Green Arts wanted to promote arts, events and discussion about arts in our area at this, a major annual national festival in Moseley. We ran workshops with volunteers to make wishing wands with children out of willow. We also encouraged children and adults to add comments to a ‘wishing tree’ - what arts/cultural activities do you wish for in you local area?
Age
|
Creator
|
Leader
|
Audience
|
Volunteer
|
TOTAL
|
0 to 5
|
38
|
38
| |||
5 to 11
|
130
|
130
| |||
12 to 15
|
25
|
25
| |||
16 to 19
|
3
|
1
|
4
| ||
20 to 24
|
12
|
12
| |||
25 to 64
|
22
|
3
|
150
|
4
|
179
|
65 and over
| |||||
TOTAL
|
230
|
3
|
150
|
5
|
388
|
Paganel Archives
Although Paganel School is not in the Hall Green District, our partnership in this project has led to further work and support for projects like ‘Kalabarate’ and ‘Field for the Olympics’. It has also led to work for Hall Green District practitioners and work with both Edgbaston and Northfield arts fora.
A pioneering project, setting up the first Repository Archive in a State Primary School in the UK, it is funded by HLF led by Paganel Primary School in partnership with Birmingham Archives and Heritage, Birmingham Museums, Birmingham Library Services and Sellywood House Residential Home for Older People. Work so far has included a several events including Faces and Places (supported by 9 practitioners from HGA), Jubilee (Kings Heath Brethren Morris Dancers and Richard Albutt), the whole school was off curriculum for a week for Pagalympics (which contributed to both Kalabarate and Field for the Olympics, and included more work HGA and local practitioners), Northfield Arts Trail, working with Brian Homer, Timm Sonnenschein, others in 2012, and 2013 planned with Sally Harper at Weoley Castle library.There are a number of links to all the various project parts of the Paganel Archives:
Estimates based on numbers at events, and school numbers, taking into consideration many of the same people will be attending events. Does not include numbers for shared events, like Kalaborate/Pagalympics exhibition at Central Library
Age
|
Creator
|
Leader
|
Audience
|
Volunteer
|
TOTAL
|
0 to 5
|
100
|
100
| |||
5 to 11
|
250
|
30
|
300
|
580
| |
12 to 15
|
100
|
100
| |||
16 to 19
|
50
|
50
| |||
20 to 24
|
500
|
15
|
515
| ||
25 to 64
|
500
|
32
|
532
| ||
65 and over
|
150
|
15
|
165
| ||
TOTAL
|
250
|
30
|
1700
|
62
|
2042
|
Willow Art
Approached by Kings Heath Primary School to work with the Forest School Group we volunteered to support a series of three to four workshops to plant willow tunnel and igloo with the group. Planting time is ideally between November and March and two more workshops will be arranged shortly to complete.
Age
|
Creator
|
Leader
|
Audience
|
Volunteer
|
TOTAL
|
0 to 5
|
12
|
12
| |||
5 to 11
| |||||
12 to 15
| |||||
16 to 19
| |||||
20 to 24
| |||||
25 to 64
|
1
|
1
|
2
| ||
65 and over
| |||||
TOTAL
|
12
|
1
|
1
|
14
|
KH Square Drumming
Initially intended to be a pilot to a larger project across our District, this workshop used the mobile arts unit to support activities in Kings heath Village Square. As the busiest shopping area outside the city centre, Kings Heath, and the Square at it’s centre, is a busy place, ideal for making initial contact with a range of different people in our district.
Working in partnership with the Youth project based in All Saints Community Centre and Parks4 Play, we supported activities with the Stay and Play group, provided a platform for a local band to perform live, and local artist Meddy Ranks ran a drum workshop with local young people.
Age
|
Creator
|
Leader
|
Audience
|
Volunteer
|
TOTAL
|
0 to 5
|
28
|
28
| |||
5 to 11
| |||||
12 to 15
|
30
|
30
| |||
16 to 19
|
5
|
5
| |||
20 to 24
|
20
|
20
| |||
25 to 64
|
20
|
20
| |||
65 and over
|
8
|
20
|
20
|
48
| |
TOTAL
|
71
|
20
|
60
|
151
|
ESRC Debate
The aim of the project is to introduce local residents and organisations to community-based social marketing tools. These tools can be used in existing or future local community projects that seek to influence local behaviours (collective and individual) for positive local change. Even small changes at local level can link to other communities giving them a global resonance.
Organised by Dr Caroline Moraes and Professor Marylyn Carrigan, the project comprised of video interviews and research across Kings Heath at venues like KHCC Community Centre and Library, leading to an interactive, public debate held at a local community meeting place, the Kitchen Garden Cafe, Kings Heath, Birmingham, on 5th November 2012. The topic was to explore and debate issues in Kings heath and how to use social marketing tools for existing or future local community projects in Kings Heath.
Figures are only for elements HGA/KHCCP were involved
Age
|
Creator
|
Leader
|
Audience
|
Volunteer
|
TOTAL
|
0 to 5
| |||||
5 to 11
| |||||
12 to 15
| |||||
16 to 19
| |||||
20 to 24
|
2
|
2
| |||
25 to 64
|
6
|
4
|
40
|
50
| |
65 and over
| |||||
TOTAL
|
8
|
4
|
40
|
52
|
HG Winter Market (8th December 2012)
A glorious day at Hall Green winter market, with over 500 people attending over the course of the day.
HGA provided BCC 'Arts on the move' bus where Meddy Ranks performed all afternoon - Jamaican international superstar you will be able to catch next at Edgewood Hall for a Festive Party. From the start he improvised on the spot singing celebrating all things Hall Green and at the winter market.
Moseley Village Band and Catriona Heatherington provided music and storytelling in the Library all afternoon too. There was balloons, jokes, art & craft, Punch'n'Judy, facepainting, and a great range of market goods - for more of the market and other of the activities organised by Hall Green Neighbourhood Forum, see We Are B28.
Age
|
Creator
|
Leader
|
Audience
|
Volunteer
|
TOTAL
|
0 to 5
|
30
|
30
| |||
5 to 11
|
30
|
30
| |||
12 to 15
|
20
|
20
| |||
16 to 19
|
6
|
20
|
26
| ||
20 to 24
|
20
|
20
| |||
25 to 64
|
3
|
300
|
8
|
311
| |
65 and over
|
80
|
80
| |||
TOTAL
|
6
|
3
|
500
|
8
|
517
|
Xmas Art Fete (20th December 2012)
At KH Community Centre, Father Christmas popped in with some pressies to start our Christmas art and craft fete. 8 stalls offered a range of goodies from fairy cakes to quilted pin boards, from star cushions to melted record bowls, with a range of activities for all the family. Attended by around 100 people.
Age
|
Creator
|
Leader
|
Audience
|
Volunteer
|
TOTAL
|
0 to 5
|
32
|
32
| |||
5 to 11
|
6
|
6
| |||
12 to 15
| |||||
16 to 19
|
1
|
2
|
3
| ||
20 to 24
| |||||
25 to 64
|
60
|
10
|
70
| ||
65 and over
|
10
|
2
|
12
| ||
TOTAL
|
39
|
80
|
14
|
133
|
Emerge Art Gallery
Ort have recently been successful in an arts council bid (feb2013) for a 12 month programme. Ort Gallery has started replacing the ceiling and putting up proper electrics. Then there will be 4 or 5 projects over two months each where local artists will exhibit work reflecting on the kind of area they are in and what unemployment and poverty mean on a human level. This will then be 'translated' into art projects that can be accessed by the general public but with the aim of exhibiting high quality arts, to attract a more critical audience and that way raise the profile of the neighbourhood. Along side the exhibitions there will be a series of talks and workshops - artists will work directly with the local community.
HGA has already contributed £200 to support the project and will continue working with Ort throughout the year. Project will begin shortly.
Car Culture
Following Highbury Youth Parliament (Queensbridge), ESRC debate and death of Hope Fennel on KH High Street, it was clearly identified by adults and children that we needed to work to engage young people in discussions about making our roads safer. Workshops began in January 2013
See more detailed plan. This is a project in partnership with Sustrans and KH Neighbourhood Forum, funded by Community First, working as a pilot initially with KH Primary and Queensbridge Secondary school. Workshops will lead to an event on KH High Street 30th March 2013
Age
|
Creator
|
Leader
|
Audience
|
Volunteer
|
TOTAL
|
0 to 5
| |||||
5 to 11
|
90
|
100
|
1
|
190
| |
12 to 15
|
12
|
100
|
1
|
112
| |
16 to 19
|
50
|
50
| |||
20 to 24
|
50
|
50
| |||
25 to 64
|
100
|
10
|
110
| ||
65 and over
|
100
|
5
|
105
| ||
TOTAL
|
90
|
12
|
500
|
17
|
437
|
‘Making the world fairer’ Convention
Following an initial workshop with one class at Hall Green Secondary School, this project has had to be delayed. This project is in partnership with Fairtrade Association Birmingham, and will also include individuals from organisations like Jubilee Debt, Drum (through Young, Gifted Black), Amnesty International, the Coop, LUCIA Charity and many others.
The project will involve a range of representatives of different local communities and activist groups presenting their ideas to ‘make the world fairer’. The whole of yr 9 will be given the opportunity to develop their own ideas creatively, and then present and debate their ideas to lead to an action plan for the school.
The event, and interviews relating to it, will all be filmed and documented by a programming group from within the school.
Age
|
Creator
|
Leader
|
Audience
|
Volunteer
|
TOTAL
|
0 to 5
| |||||
5 to 11
| |||||
12 to 15
|
30
|
30
| |||
16 to 19
| |||||
20 to 24
| |||||
25 to 64
|
1
|
1
| |||
65 and over
| |||||
TOTAL
|
30
|
1
|
31
|
Space Explorers
The ‘Space Explorers’ Community Conversations project is all about looking at and improving well-being in our lives, by learning about the ways we use the space we have in our homes and gardens. The project is an opportunity to:
- Learn from experts, and each other.
- Improve our well-being, and that of our households
- Be inspired!
Through the project we will be able share what we are doing online, and will also be publishing a guide book to help others run similar projects, so there will be opportunities for both adults and children to learn or improve all kinds of skills including photography, film-making, writing and publishing. We will also bring in experts that you want to hear from, whether that be interior designers, landscape gardeners, philosophers or architects.
Funded by the Church Urban Fund as a ‘Near Neighbours’ project (£4,800), people of all faiths, and of none, are welcome - see http://www.khcse.org/
Age
|
Creator
|
Leader
|
Audience
|
Volunteer
|
TOTAL
|
0 to 5
|
5
| ||||
5 to 11
| |||||
12 to 15
| |||||
16 to 19
| |||||
20 to 24
|
3
| ||||
25 to 64
|
18
| ||||
65 and over
|
Stepping Stones
Led by Traditional Arts Team, we want to build on the existing storytelling capacity, and to bring together some of the elements from our work into a single project in order to raise the profile, range and quality of local storytelling.
The Stepping Stones Project will make a lot more storytelling available to a lot more
people not only as audiences but through participation. We want to encourage and assist people to tell stories and enable the development of emerging tellers. This will happen
through training on a variety of levels from beginners to advanced, linked to a programme of performance opportunities. There will be stepping stones between the different areas of activity and the different skills levels so we are able to shape a network of all of those elements involved in local storytelling regardless of age or ability.
At our events there will therefore often be a mix of professional and novice or emerging tellers. There will be two strands: youth and adult. As training programmes they will stand separately but rather than leave young people in an enclosed environment we want to bring them together with other tellers for performance experiences.
We want to give priority to the work of young people working with two groups, training,
developing and moving them forward to Young Storyteller of the Year and other regional and national festivals. We currently have invitations from Birmingham Young Readers Festival and the Llangollen International Festival. Through such opportunities this programme will
give young people from HG a conduit into the adult world of storytelling with the potential to develop
skills confidence and self esteem.
We want to give value to storytelling by working with a range of audiences from children’s or
family events at parks to elders in day care centres. Storytelling Café is the only storytelling
venue of its type in the area so it would play an important part in presenting performers from
the national and international circuit as role models of excellence in the artform.
HGA are offering £200 in support of this project, for which a larger arts council fund application is being made.
Art Surgeries
This has been the main means of bringing creative people and community activists together in our district, to support the rich range of activities and projects listed. We have run 4 surgeries over the past year in three different venues (Ort Gallery/ Ort Cafe, Kitchen Garden Cafe, HG Library). Sadly the fifth surgery, due to take place in partnership with Edgbaston Arts Forum in Calthorpe Park, had to be called off through bad weather.
The informal, drop-in nature of surgeries, leaving more detailed project discussion to outside the surgeries, have been successful in engaging a diversity of different creative people. We continue our committment to no ‘closed door’ , and flexibility to seek out discussion with the people you want to. It is harder to document conversations in this kind of setting, but a lack of ‘formal agenda’ means we are able to gauge interest, and listen to the ideas and thoughts of more people - see various blogs on the individual surgeries - hallgreenarts.blogspot.com
Surgeries
|
Numbers attending
|
First Ort Surgery
|
10
|
Fletchers Surgery
|
21
|
Second Ort Surgery
|
35
|
HG Library Surgery
|
6
|
HGA Convention
|
39 (5 under 12)
|
HGA Growth and Representation
Since April 2012 HGA has reached many thousands of people through events and workshops, and has grown as an organisation. In April 2012 HGA had 10 members listed and 210 friends on facebook. We have over 81 members on our mailing list and over 597 friends on Facebook. Since April 2012 we began a website which has over 1000 visits a month, and over 8,000 this year. Also we have begun a twitter account with 267 followers.
Our primary objective remains representing, supporting and promoting arts and culture of Hall Green District. For that reason we have spent a considerable amount of time and effort in marketing and researching the needs of practitioners and people in our district, including effective evaluation and feedback, arts surgeries, use of social media and involvement in projects like ESRC/ Univ Bham ‘Acting local, thinking global’ and attending and organising conventions like the HG District Youth Convention, BOSF events, ‘Making the world fairer’ and our own HGA Convention. We are committed to ensuring access to the arts and that is reflected in the structure of our arts surgeries and a commitment to effective documentation and open access through the internet. We have also delivered projects, but all our projects have involved partnership, and many have left other organisations to primarily take on responsibility for delivery.
The organisation relies on administration which is currently taking one day a week, rather than the estimated half a day a week. We are reliant on a significant amount of time being given voluntarily to run the organisation, which may undermine any potential sustainability. Likewise, only 4 or 5 art surgeries across an entire district does not adequately engage practitioners and people. While we have had high numbers of people attending most of our surgeries, in order to maintain and sustain conversations and relationships, 5 or 6 surgeries are needed per Ward, i.e around 30 in the district.
In consequence, although HGA has grown, our growth may be unsustainable - i.e. while projects have run we have raised our profile and worked across our District, but have difficulty maintaining those relationships and partnerships built through our projects and surgeries.
Summary of Budget
Marcus Belben Admin 1500
Xmas Art & Craft 200
Field for the Olympics 383
HG Winter Market 200
Ort Emerge 200
Car Culture 50
Making world 0
Stepping Stones 200 (to be paid on successful funding application)
MB Admin completion 267 ((to be paid on completion of the year)
TOTAL 3000
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