Arts & Culture: Special Projects

Herald the Games : Call for Artists

We are looking for a team of three or four artists to work with neighbourhoods across Surrey on Herald the Games: a series of projects inspired by the 2012 Olympics. Our ambition is to create work that is both community led and of the highest quality, which is popular and experimental, accessible and challenging. Your precise role will vary according to the needs of the community and the mix of skills within the team. Ideally the team members will, between them, have experience or skills in one or more of the following areas: community mapping, project management, celebratory arts, early years provision, documentation and training. For a full brief please visit www.farnhammaltings.com or contact Jane Friend, project coordinator on 01252 745416 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . The deadline for applications is midday on Monday 19 March and interviews are scheduled to take place in the week commencing 26 March 2012. All projects will take place between May and September 2012. The daily rate paid to Artists is £200 (excluding VAT and including travel expenses). You will also have access to a small budget for materials and other project expenses. We anticipate that each arts practitioner will be allocated between ten and twenty days’ work.
Delivered on behalf of the Arts Partnership Surrey by: Farmham Maltings and Tandridge Trust, Leisure & Culture.

Forgotten Festivals Cultural Revival

Forgotten Festivals brings together a varied mix of existing traditions, old and new. The 2012 Calendar of events shows the weird and wonderful ways we choose to celebrate some of our unique and fascinating local histories; from marking swans to burning sticks, street parades and well dressing.

Arts Partnership Surrey have looked into the specific histories and traditions in their local areas and developed some new celebrations. These projects are artist-led and have used the local museums as a start for research. They involve working with different groups, of all ages and abilities in learning about their local area, engaging in creative discussion and participating in practical workshops.

Theatre Exchange have created a new piece of theatre for Lingfield. The production will take place in venues throughout the village, such as church, pubs and school at the beginning of June, as part of the Queen Elizabeth 2nd Jubilee Celebrations. The story will follow a family as they celebrate occasions and festivities with the community, drawing on old traditions and adapting to new. For more information please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call 01883 724599

A full Calendar of Events is available from libraries and local venues or by calling 01483 519287.
Date: Dates from January to December 2012.
Web: www.artspartnershipsurrey.org.uk

Arts Partnership Surrey

Arts Partnership Surrey (APS) is a strategic alliance of 9 local authorities and trusts representing the boroughs, districts and county council in Surrey.
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Past projects

Making Surrey from April 2011 – December 2011

Making Surrey is a new community craft initiative managed by Tandridge Trust and Farnham Maltings working together.

The project is taking place in 8 communities across the county of Surrey and has been supported by Arts Council England and Arts Partnership Surrey.

Each community is working with specialist craft makers is various mediums, trying our new activities and creating new objects both small and personal and on a grand scale.

Hurst Green is the making surrey community for Tandridge. Here community members are working with Hannah Padgett and Simeon    from Parasite Ceramics.

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Singing Surrey

As partners of Arts Partnership Surrey, Tandridge Trust has co-developed this initiative which is taking place throughout the county.

5 Singing leaders have developed new singing projects in community and school settings. Each project is exploring the benefits of singing on participants’ mental and physical wellbeing. We are working with partners at University of Sussex, Creative Partnerships Sussex and Surrey to research and evaluate this work.

St Catherine’s School in Bletchingley hosts a Singing Surrey choir, for more information about this particular Singing Surrey choir, please click Bletchingley Community Choir.

Creative Communities

Creative Communities was a multi-partnership project managed by Tandridge Trust and Farnham Maltings working together from 2007-2010.The project was funded by 9 of Surrey’s local authorities and Arts Council England.

The project involved 9 different community setting in Surrey, each worked with a different artist or practitioners over the course of a year to explore the identity, heritage and pride of that community.

Each community held a celebration of their work and culminated in a fantastic piece of art work, these included film installation, new choirs, exhibition, books, artwork panels.

Many of the projects linked directly to Strategic development plans for that community and had a profound impact on the participants involved, particularly in integrating young and old to develop creative work together.

The success of this project was further recognised when Tandridge Trust and Farnham Maltings were shortlisted for the South East Community Empowerment Award in 2010.

The Arc

Tandridge Trust Arts team were the professionals behind the design and development of The Arc, an arts and recreational space based in Caterham, Surrey.

Following a period of 7 years of consultation and fundraising the team were very pleased to see the centre successfully open to the public in May 2007.

The centre is now managed by a small theatre company and many committed volunteers and continues to offer extended arts opportunities to Caterham residents and the local area.