Arts - Development

Inspire Culture

Be part of the 2012 Games Legacy.  Inspire Culture is Leicestershire's celebration of culture up to and beyond the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.  A new vibrant website has been set up www.inspireleics.org.uk     The Olympic and Paralympic Games in London will inspire people, communities, businesses and other organisations in Leicester and Leicestershire to be the best they can be.  You can sign up to receive the newsletter direct to your email address - see top right hand corner of the home page.   The 2012 games now have a website where you can purchase commemorative gifts, ranging from bedding to badges.  See www.http://shop.london2012.com/ 

Centre Stage

Centre Stage is the Rural and Community Touring Scheme for Leicestershire and Rutland bringing opportunities. Information for professional live touring to village and community venues throughout the two counties.

What is Centre Stage?
Touring companies and performers with regional, national and international profiles who specialise in work for small spaces, tour to venues across Leicestershire and Rutland offering a fantastic night out on your doorstep. These tours include a wide range of theatre, music opera, dance storytelling and poetry, children's theatre, puppetry and comedy theatre with members of the local community hosting the event. When possible and appropriate, allied participatory workshops are offered and these are placed in the local community.

All the shows listed are professional performances subsidised by District Councils:- Blaby, Charnwood, Harborough, Hinckley & Bosworth, Melton, North West Leicestershire, Oadby and Wigston and the two County Councils of Leicestershire and Rutland.

The scheme is co-ordinated by Nottinghamshire County Council on behalf of the Leicestershire and Rutland Arts Development Officers' Forum.  Three Counties now make up the Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Rural Touring Partnership. The scheme is financially supported by the Arts Council East Midlands (Regionally Funded Organisation). 

Three websites exist within the Partnership - www.villageventures.org (Nottinghamshire), www.lincsruraltouring.co.uk (Lincolnshire)

www.centrestagetouring.org.uk  (Leicestershire)

Would you like to become a new promoter? Centre Stage's Touring Programme is distributed to voluntary group members twice a year - in April and October - giving details of shows and artists available along with a whole range of information which help promoters to choose tours most appropriate to their local venue and local audience. Groups select their shows, after which dates are allocated and a tour schedule produced, along with a seasonal leaflet.If you would like further information or would like to become a new promoter please contact Sue Berrisford on 0115 9774589 or email: artsadmin@nottsac.gov.uk

Centre Screen

Mobile Cinema for Leicestershire and Rutland

Centre Screen is part of Big Country, a publicly funded rural cinema network scheme, working across Leicestershire & Rutland. It is a community cinema scheme which enables you to show blockbuster or archive films in a venue on your doorstep.Volunteers within the community select their film, book the venue & sell the tickets & Centre Screen provides the technician & state of the art equipment to run the screening. It is managed by Phoenix Arts, Leicester.

Centre Screen can help you to choose your film, advise on how best to choose something for the type of audience you want to attract, set your ticket price, and create a poster template for your event.

Centre Screen will turn up with all the kit, set it up & run the film screening for you. They can also come & visit your venue beforehand to ensure all will run smoothly.

You need to book the venue, promote the event, sell the tickets and have people at the event to take tickets and serve any refreshments etc

Cost
The screenings cost you a small fee and you split the profit on the ticket sales (not the refreshments, raffle etc) 50-50 between yourselves & the scheme. The money returned to the scheme helps to maintain the kit & keep the costs down.

If you already have a projector, screen & speakers in your venue then Centre Screen can still support you in running a film event.

Further Info
To find out more or to make a booking contact Pete Groschl, Centre Screen Co-ordinator, Tel: 0116 2422845 Email: pete.groschl@phoenix.org.uk. See also the Big Country Rural Network Cinema website www.ruralcinema.net which features faces behind the names, how the scheme works and details of other schemes that are part of Big Country.

Centre Screen is funded by the District & Borough Councils and County Councils of Leicestershire & Rutland.