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Members of ACTIVATE express their gratitude to the following for their support:
National Lottery Awards for All Scheme
Essex County Council Arts Fund
Chelmsford Borough Council Leisure Services
Chelmsford Borough Council Arts Development
French Kier Anglia
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Welcome to 'parkpeople'
A Chelmsford Community Art Project
created and managed by Joanna
Smith, a member of
ACTIVATE
(Chelmsford's Visual Arts Group)
 
 
project photography by: Bob Clayden
Members of Activate
would like to share with you images, ideas, poems, and sculpture combined to create an
expression of how we and Chelmsford residents feel about ourselves and our park.
Project Aim
To create an
awareness and understanding of each others experience of Central Park through the
development of opportunities create images of ourselves
Project Profile
Public
Art Commission
Chelmsford
Borough Council's Parks and Horticulture Department commissioned artist Joanna
Smith, a member of ACTIVATE to create a new
artwork for Central Park, Chelmsford
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- Artist led
workshops
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Led by Joanna
Smith, a team of ten Activate Artists have
developed the project further by sharing skills and developing ideas through workshops
with local adult groups and after-school clubs in venues across Chelmsford, from February
until May 2001.
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- Exhibitions
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Artworks created
by children, adults and the elderly, of all abilities are being exhibited in town centre
venues during the project and here on the project website!
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Who is involved
- Involved in the
project which was commissioned by Chelmsford Borough Leisure Services are:
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 | ACTIVATE:
Chelmsford Borough Arts Forum's Visual Arts Group
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| Adult Education,
Poetry Sunday. Chelmsford Mental Health Services, Womens Aid Group
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| Children,
Chelmsford Youth Arts, Local Schools
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| Elderly,
Community Groups for over 60's
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| Young People,
YMCA, Chelmsford College, Drugs Awareness
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| Chelmsford
Cathedral Festival in the Community,
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| Chelmsford
Borough Council: Parks and Horticulture, Arts Development, Town Centre Management.
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Comments Received
"Many thanks and well done to you
all, what a super project! It is good to see how together you have made a difference
and involved a range of people in a community project. Please pass on my
congratulations to all involved."
Chelmsford Borough Council, Vice-Deputy of Leisure
Contact
Information
If you have
any stories, images, poems, thoughts or ideas about Central Park, Chelmsford that you
would like to share with everyone on the parkpeople website, please contact us at:
- Electronic
mail
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activate@greenlight.freeserve.co.uk
Postal address
Chancellor Hall,
Market Road, Chelmsford CM1 1XA, Essex. U.K
    
Widford Lodge School - parkpeople
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