Regional Get Creative Launch Activity across the UK - 19 February 2015

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Published: 17 February 2015

England

1. Blackburn c/o Voluntary Arts

A day of celebration of all that is great about the arts and crafts scene in Lancashire. Dozens of artists and performers from across the county are taking part with hands-on, drop-in craft sessions and performances throughout the day from 10.30 until late. Have a go on a unicycle, learn circus skills, make shadow puppets, lend a hand in creating a huge graffiti wall, join in a pop-up choir or learn about book-making. You can even bid in the Art Auction for your own unique piece of art.

  • Where: The Bureau Centre for the Arts (formerly St John’s Church, near the back of Blackburn Museum)
  • When: 10:30 until 22:00
  • Get involved: drop in throughout the day, it is free for all

BBC Radio Lancashire will feature the activity extensively throughout the day, from a preview package on Breakfast, live broadcast from the venue from 11.00 and both the Afternoon and Drive time shows broadcasting from and looking back at the day’s events.

2. Cumbria - A Picture of Cumbria c/o Voluntary Arts

BBC Radio Cumbria and Up For Arts hope to kindle a passion for painting by creating a huge Paint by Numbers scene at an outside broadcast at Ulverston’s Coronation Hall. Listeners can pick up a brush and be a No.1 (Sky Blue) to a No.22 (Burnt Sienna) and together create A Picture of Cumbria. Artist Geoff Tristram has created the outline - the man behind all the Paint By Numbers for Reeves, who once tried (and failed) to sneak Bakewell tarts into a copy of The Last Supper. He’s traced a photograph kindly donated by Terry Abraham from his mesmerising film about Scafell Pike, Life Of A Mountain, for a classic slice of Lakeland beauty. On BBC Radio Cumbria from 9.00 until 12.00 Kevin Fernihough’s Mid-Morning Show will be inviting all-comers to reconnect with this battery-free pastime, meet local art groups and ask what art can do to revive communities.

  • Where: Coronation Hall, County Road, Ulverston, LA12 7LZ
  • When: 09:00 until 12:00
  • Get involved: drop in anytime, it is free for all

3. Liverpool c/o Up for Arts

BBC Radio Merseyside will creatively feature the Get Creative Campaign with a series of strands on the Breakfast Show and Mid–Morning shows. There will be profiling and showcasing organisations that use art as outreach and as a platform for Health and Wellbeing, looking at how art and craft activity can act as a driver to encourage people to participate and volunteer. An interactive digital painting event will take place at FACT during the first month of the campaign to encourage greater local involvement in this art form, which BBC Radio Merseyside will promote on-air and be there on the day to talk to participants.

4. Kent

The site of an old weather-boarded dock worker’s cottage is the location for the launch of Get Creative in Kent. The former Sheerness Heritage Centre in Sheppey is getting a new name for its relaunch and asking for the local community to get involved in the refurbishment. Many of the rooms are set up as they would have been 100 years ago, but the whole place has been neglected in recent years. The Rose St Cottage Museum has gathered a group of enthusiastic volunteers to help in this adventure. They have will firstly decorate the toilet area with a colourful art depicting a little of the history of the Isle of Sheppey. A mural artist will lead the volunteers to get creative and breathe new life into this historic building.
Come along and paint a tile for the mural:

  • Where: Rose Street, Sheerness, Isle of Sheppey
  • When: 10:00 until 17:00
  • Get involved: Drop in anytime for some micro-volunteering

5. Nottingham

Nottingham What Next? Group in collaboration with Nottingham City Council is coordinating a huge ‘happening’ on the morning of the 19 February. They are inviting voluntary groups, artists, cultural venues and participants to populate 40 carriages of the The Wheel of Nottingham with creative activities such as sewing, reading or playing a guitar. There are over 50 organisations set to take part and raise awareness of the abundance and diversity of creativity in Nottingham.

  • Where: Nottingham Eye, Old Market Square, Creative Quarter Nottingham
  • When: 08:00 – 09:30
  • Get involved: Come and join in

6. Plymouth c/o Voluntary Arts

Help us make a giant collage of Plymouth Sound and the breakwater, and make your own smaller collage to take home! This lively drop-in workshop is part of a project about artists working with museum collections to bring them to life and engaging brand new audiences. Voluntary Arts will join Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, asking visitors to creatively explore the question Why do you Love To Get Creative?, and feeding the results into social media via the #loveto hashtag. Supported by Visual Arts South West.

• Where: Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AJ
• When: 10:30 – 13:00 (last entries at 12:30)
• Get involved: Drop in

7. Walsall c/o Creative Black Country

Bedtime Stories: Circus Family Fun Activity Sessions run by Creative Black Country and Upswing. Interactive circus skills workshops. Creative Black Country is a new audience development organisation based across the Black Country and working in partnership with Upswing a Circus company, to offer a week-long family circus programme during half term, for all families to engage in.

• Where: Forest Arts Centre, Hawbush Road, Walsall, WS3 1AG
• When: 13:30 – 15:30pm on Thursday 19 February
• Get involved: Drop in

8. Oldbury, West Bromwich c/o Creative Black Country

InFamous Community Arts is a collective of professional artists, designers, musicians and technicians from the Midlands who all work across a diverse spectrum of the creative industries. They work with community and within educational settings, with individuals and groups of all ages, by making art and encouraging creativity to enhance both individual and collective experiences. Their goal is to make the arts accessible, inclusive and enjoyable for people of all ages and to promote creative wellbeing.

There will be a mural project, giving local young people the opportunity to work alongside professional scenic artists and assist with the design and completion of 6 x 2.5m mural, which will be on display on the front of InFamous’s building.

• Where: Infamous Arts, Unit 1, Izonz Industrial Estate, Oldbury, West Bromwich, B70 9BS
• When: 10:00 – 14:00, Thursday 19 February and Friday 20 February
• Get involved: drop in anytime, it is free for all

NORTHERN IRELAND - #loveto day

Designed for people who love to do creative things, the launch of BBC Get Creative in Northern Ireland will be an opportunity to participate in a range of. So if you #lovetoPAINT, #lovetoREAD, #lovetoMAKE or #lovetoUPCYCLE then get involved:

9. Derry/Londonderry:
Join Urban Visualz, The Verbal Reading Rooms project and Voluntary Arts Ireland to take part in a special reading room or a live street art painting event.
• Where: The Verbal Arts Centre, Bishop Street Within, Derry/Londonderry, BT48 6PU
• Tel: 028 7126 6946
• When: 12:00 – 14:00 Reading Rooms, 13:00 – 15:00 Live street art, 17:00 New painting revealed

10. Belfast:
Join Studio Souk and Oxfam Ireland for live upcycling demonstrations.
• Where: Oxfam Home Store, 52-54 Dublin Road, Belfast, BT2 7HN
• Tel: 028 9032 5546
• When: 10:00 – 16:00

11. Join FabLab to try your hand as a 'digital' maker with laser cutters, digital printers and more.
• Where: Fablab, Ashton Community Trust, 5 Churchill Street, Belfast, BT15 2BP
• Tel: 028 9074 2255
• When: 10:00 – 12:00

SCOTLAND
12. The BBC is filming with the Glasgow-based Knit Wild voluntary arts group, part of The Children’s Wood on North Kelvin Meadow. Filming volunteers as they install examples of their wool-craft in the woods, this short package will explore some of the benefits to wellbeing and community of being creative in the great outdoors. We’ll also hear about the group’s plans for craft-bombing in this year’s Voluntary Arts Week.

WALES
13. Cardiff
Voluntary Arts graffiti event at Wales’ first dedicated Graffiti and Street Art Gallery in Cardiff where a group of amateur painters are going to taking up spray cans for the first time as part of #LovetoPaint and #bbcgetcreative
• Where: The Boiler House, Unit D, Papermill Business Park, Papermill Rd. Cardiff, CF11 8DH
• When: from 09:30