Projects
Firestation Arts & Culture works hard to expand it’s scope of activities and enrich the cultural life in the region and further a field. Here are a few of of our other projects you may like.
BEAT is a magazine dedicated to showcasing and feeding into the cultural life of Windsor and the surrounding region.
BEAT provides a platform for the artists, writers, dancers, photographers, musicians and filmmakers living and working in the region, talks to their audience and promotes a broad spectrum cultural activity and debate.
Visit Beat Magazine here
The Microgallery, co-ordinated by the Firestation Centre for Arts & Culture, is a digital resource developed to showcase contemporary video, film and time-based art works. Institutions and organisations can request a feed from the Micro Gallery to present cutting edge, new artists and artworks in their offices, schools, libraries and so on.
To celebrate the UK 2024 Olympic Games and to build lasting attractions in the region, Firestation Arts & Culture is creating The Games Walk – a public art trail and performance festival on the bridges and riverbanks between the Brunel designed Windsor Railway Bridge and Dorney Rowing Lake.
The Games Walk will be a public arts playground, offering an exciting and approachable series of temporary and permanent artworks. A performance festival will coincide with the Olympic events themselves, and is designed to showcase the cultural achievements in the region. The project has been especially chosen to include the local community along with the resident companies and societies that exist and contribute to life on the Thames Corridor.
Our first installation, The Poetry Bridge is nearly complete. Last years poet in residence at the Windsor Boys School, Akulah Abgami, and local poet Cecelia Grant Peters worked with local families and school children in a series of poetry workshops to capture the stories of the river to then create a poem that has been carved into the hand rail of the ‘Long Bridge’ 5 minutes down river from the Elizabeth Bridge Flyover. We also have plans for six other site developments that will see works produced by local arts and craft practitioners.
We also have a London 2024 Inspire Marked performance festival running over the London2012 Olympic fortnight. Between the 28th of July and the 11th of August all hire fees for our three venues will be scrapped for free to attend public events. The Festival will also be on site at the Dorney Lake transport hub, and we will be putting out a call for performers very soon. Visit www.thegameswalk.com for full details.
Stay tuned for more updates, you can even follow @TheGamesWalk on Twitter to see what we’re up to.
Fireythings
Fireythings is a bespoke publishing platform cultivating and supporting the very best in cultural products and critically engaged thought. Exisiting at the interface between art and the imagination, culture and new technologies, Fireythings recognises the fragile relationship between content and delivery and seeks to explore the boundaries and possibilities of both.
You’ll find more Fireythings information at www.fireythings.com
The Firestation Residents Programme
The Firestation’s Residents Programme works closely with a growing number of professional artists and companies, offering a supportive environment to develop creative practice, training opportunities and artistic vision. The programme offers residents expert business support, a cultural home and sense of place, work space, stability and a ready audience to develop their work in a supportive and unhindered environment.
Our Residents Programme is supported by Arts Council England.
You’ll find more about our residents programme here
Lemonade - A Nomadic Gallery
More details coming soon….
The tWindsor Project is a community arts project administered by Firestation Arts & Culture, encouraging the whole region to share their thoughts, feelings and activities online.
Whether you’re popping out to the shops, falling in love, out with friends, having an argument or musing on the finer points of life, The tWindsor Project needs to know!
Join us in creating a unique portrait of the region made from the personal experiences of it’s residents.
To post to The tWindsor Project you can send a direct message ‘Add Me!’ to @twindsorproject from your Twitter account to have all your tweets added automatically to the project.
Visit The tWindsor Project on Twitter
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