 Social cohesion is a priority of the Great Yarmouth Local Strategic Partnership's Community Plan, Great Yarmouth 2020 Vision: the revised path to the future.
.JPG) The Borough has a growing number of residents who might consider themselves to belong to an ethnic minority. The Government’s strategy to increase race equality and community cohesion notes that, along with sport, the arts ‘have a great track record of bringing people together’.
St George's Theatre is housed in a former church, leased to the St George’s Arts Centre Trust Ltd, a registered charity. The Trust is keen to engage with a wider range of local residents, and develop the theatre as more widely-used community space.
The Creative Change project will support the development of community-led programming at St George’s Theatre. The proposed approach is based on best practice developed in this country by Momentum Arts and in the Netherlands by the Theater Zuidplein in Rotterdam. The project will be led by SeaChange , Great Yarmouth's arts development agency.
| Theme | Promoting social cohesion through community-led arts programming | | Aims | To help the St George’s Theatre develop into a space used by a wider range of local people, particularly those from the ethnic minority communities in the immediate neighbourhood. | | To celebrate Great Yarmouth’s cultural diversity, using it to inspire an eclectic mix of arts activities with broad appeal. | | To test and evaluate strategies that might help other community arts organizations in Norfolk build more diverse audiences. | | Target audience | Local residents, especially those from the communities near the theatre who currently do not use it | | Summary | With professional mentoring and project management support, a voluntary committee will be recruited from a diverse range of local community groups, and given a budget to programme weekly arts events. | | When and where | Three pilot events during Black History Month 2006, followed by a season of ten events in early 2007, all at St George’s Theatre. |
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