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Reuse Project with East Dorset District Council’s Give or Take Day Transforming Jumble and Junk into Art and/or new usable items.

Background
The East Dorset Waste Reduction Team have been successfully running Give or Take Days around village halls in East Dorset for 2 years, the ethos is to bring along any unwanted reusable items from your home and/or to take home any unwanted items away to reuse. Everything is completely free to take. These events have become extremely popular and have successfully saved thousands of items from being sent to landfill. On average, at each event there will be 100- 200 people in attendance diverting about a tonne of waste away from landfill.

Due to the popularity of the events and the frequency they are being held the Waste Reduction Team want to reinforce the reuse message to the public. The whole point of the event is to promote reuse and divert waste away from landfill and we want to reiterate this to members of the public, especially those members of the public who attend every event. Therefore, the waste reduction team would like to add to the core activity of the day by encouraging and inspiring community members to look at new and innovative ways to reuse their unwanted household items and approach this creatively. The mission is to recreate jumble and junk in to a work of art of any scale, through artist led workshops at a pilot Give or Take arts event in August. Alternatively residents could creatively turn some of the old tired looking items into new items that can be taken home and reused, hence giving the item a new lease of life.

The types of items that residents bring are small furniture, kitchenware, tools, DVD’s, books, toys, clothes and bric-a-brac. We do not except any electrical items, hazardous or toxic items or items that are not fit for reuse.

Overall Aims
• To reuse unwanted items from a Give or Take Day
• To use a fun art experience to inspire people what they could do with their unwanted items
• To use art to get the recycling and reuse message across to members of the public in an innovative and inspiring way.

Project Brief
We are inviting Artists to submit a proposal to run workshops all day, that involve members of the public in creating art out of jumble and junk, it may be as a drop in type workshop in the morning and/or it may be something different and more involved with a dedicated group of people in the afternoon, the Artist is free to suggest their desired format and timings for running workshops throughout the day.

The workshop(s) will be held during the Give and Take day at St Leonard and St Ives Village Hall on Friday 27th August. The event runs from 9 – 12 noon.
At 12.30 p.m. there will be a free children’s theatre/storytelling event taking place outside the village Hall as part of this pilot arts/recycling day. Play activities will also be available in the morning for children outside.
The village Hall has two rooms, the larger room will have the tables of Give or Take items for the public to view. There is a smaller room leading off from this hall that can be used for the Artist’s activity, along with some other display stands and teas and coffee. The audience is usually of all ages.

If artists wanted to get more of an idea about how a typical Give or Take day is run there is a Give or Take day on Saturday 5th June at West Moors Memorial Hall, Station Road BH22 0HS.

Time scale: • The artist must be available for Friday 27th August, the workshop is intended as a pilot and if successful the Artist may be approached to run another workshop again in the future (normally held on Saturdays).

Who can apply:
• The commission is open to any artist or individual, all proposals will be considered.

Selection
• The Artist/Artists will be selected by the Council’s Waste Reduction Manager and Arts Officer.

Budget
• Please submit a proposed budget with your application.

How to Apply
• We require a proposed outline of your workshop or workshops with due consideration towards health and safety from interested applicants with examples of previous work. The Officers will shortlist for interview if necessary.

• Applications accepted by email or post by 25th June 2010 an interviews held if necessary on Wednesday 30th June 2010.

• Please send all applications to Arts Officer, East Dorset District Council, Furzehill, Wimborne, Dorset BH21 4HN Email tcooper@eastdorset.gov.uk or gcoles@eastdorset.gov.uk

For any additional information please telephone EDDC on (01202) 886201 ask for Gemma Coles or Tracy Cooper

Photography competition- win Ł25 per winning photograph!

The Arts Service and Adult Social Care Team at Dorset County Council are seeking 20 photographs to exhibit in the Social Care Team’s directorate corridor in Dorset County Hall. We would like a range of photographs that show adults who access Social Care services (Learning Disability, Physical disability, Mental Health, Older People, Carers) in Dorset taking part in the arts (any artform).

We are seeking a wide range of photographs, accompanied by a short sentence of what the picture shows/ a quote from a participant/ an achievement of the group, to bring the corridor to life and show everyone who walks down the corridor the range of exciting work that is taking place across Dorset. Each selected photograph will receive Ł25 for the organisation or artist that ran the workshops, to help promote more work in the sector.

To enter a photograph please do the following:
*Send a copy of the photograph electronically (please do one at a time to avoid it being held up) *Along with a short sentence (less than 30 words) which puts the photograph in context e.g. what the picture shows/ a quote from a participant/ an achievement of the group. *The name of the artist/ organisation that ran the workshops and the community group that took part *Confirm that all those in the photographs have given consent for the picture to be put up in the corridor. *Confirm whether or not those in the photographs consent to the photographs being used for publicity (this is not a requirement but in case local or council media want to publicise) *State the month and year the workshop took place (ideally in the last 12 months) *State the venue the workshop took place. Email: f.curran@dorsetcc.gov.uk
You can send as many or as few photographs as you wish. Each successful photograph will be chosen by The Arts Service and Adult Social Care Team together.

In return you will get:
*Good publicity for you/ your organisation and your work *Exposure in the adult social care teams, where there are a large number of potential commissioners *An invitation to a celebratory event for you to bring along participants who took part in the workshops to see the photographs (we will be inviting the mayor and various heads of service to show off the work). *Ł25 per photographs to put towards the development of your work/ service or to run more workshops. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: Wednesday 23rd June. The Adult Social Care team are expecting to receive a large number of visitors during July and August so would ideally like the exhibition to be up by then.

If you have any questions then please contact f.curran@dorsetcc.gov.uk

Exhibition Space - The Hub Verwood

Hub at Verwood offers a fabulous new free space for artists to exhibit work. The space is open to East Dorset based Artists and Photographers to exhibit for 6 week spaces. Any Artist able to offer workshops, slide shows, talks or any related activity will be particularly sought for this space to assist in promoting the this exhibition project. For a tour of the space or to talk more about the opportunity please contact Tracy Cooper (01202) 639012.

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