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IN YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD |
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The company has its base in the City of Brighton and Hove, and has produced various events of varying type and scale here and in the majority of the larger centres of population in the south-east, including Crawley, Basingstoke, Billingshurst, Haywards Heath and Hastings. However, the company is also very aware of the rural nature of much of the region, and rural projects have featured heavily in its portfolio over the years. At a regional level, Same Sky has developed a series of models for supplying integrated arts projects to these smaller communities.
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FINDING EDEN |
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Summers almost over, the nights are drawing in, nothing much on telly, just another ordinary week... Half a mile outside of town a bizarre caravan of explorers, beasts and animals moves slowly along the road in search of paradise. They roam the streets, laden with globes and compasses, looking for the cross on the map. After much kafuffle they arrive at the spot, hooray, but wait, there's nothing there, not a tree, flower or even seed to be found. Hmmm, seems Eden’s going to have to be made"
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Based around the creation of a fantasy garden, ‘Finding Eden’ set up camp in 5 Sussex villages leading parades and processions around each village. The project then provided a week of free and open workshops in making, mending, cooking and music, and hosted a giant celebration and feast at the end. Some villages established permanent community gardens as a legacy of the project.
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‘Finding Eden’ then went to 5 small villages in Normandy, sharing the experience, the tastes and traditions of Sussex with French rural communities. You can find out more about where we went and see what we did at www.findingeden.org.
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Click here for Finding Eden gallery
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EAST BRIGHTON FOR YOU |
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From 2002 to 2005 Same Sky undertook a programme of regenerative arts projects in East Brighton funded by New Deal for Communities. The programme included a period of public consultation, launch events, training courses, writing, making and music projects, exhibitions and finales. One of the highlights of this programme was Whitehawk Fiesta. Following a visit to Valencia for their Las Fallas Festival, Same Sky brought the flavour of the Spanish Fiesta to England with a hallucinatory spectacle featuring giant papier mache statues caricaturing the great and not so good in a riotous pageant of parades and fireworks.
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Communities in Whitehawk and Manor Farm worked with artists to create effigies of the seven deadly sins, which were displayed for public viewing with Spanish music and hot chocolate. The next day the effigies were paraded through Whitehawk to East Brighton Park for a mascleta (daytime fireworks display) by The World Famous. The effigies then created a tableau and although these communities had laboured for weeks to create the statues, they wasted no time in setting the effigies ablaze as part of the climactic fiesta finale. This ancient rite of spring was revisited the following year by other East Brighton communities who resurrected the seven deadly sins, only this time on horseback, to be burned in Wild Park.
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Click here for Whitehawk Fiesta video
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GIGANTIC FESTIVAL |
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Same Sky toured 6 villages in Mid Sussex in a programme of schools workshops and village residencies to create six giants. Pupils and villagers created the giant puppets on recycling and ecological themes – tree woman and tin man, bug woman (Miss Squito) and plastic man, veggy woman and the cardboard king! The giants paraded in their villages with specially commissioned songs to tell their stories. They then met at Victoria Park in Haywards Heath for a gift giving ceremony and afternoon picnic.
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Click here for Gigantic gallery
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CRAWLEY MELA |
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The Mela Association and Same Sky places artists representing the four founding cultures of the Crawley Mela – Hindu, Islamic, Buddhist and Afro-Caribbean - in local schools to help children participate in the Cross Currents parade and to spread the Mela’s message of peace and collaboration. They can make costumes, banners and other objects to wear or carry. These workshops are held by a group of artists from diverse ethnic backgrounds and include artists from the Crawley Melas’ own workshop programme. Initially funded by the Arts Council’s Decibel strand the project works as outreach and as a launch event for the Mela weekend. The event is also part of a ongoing collaboration with the amazing 4x4 Bhangra group who put on accompanying music and dance workshops and play dhol drums in the parade.
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The school outreach programme is not just a Mela festival trailer. We also support a variety of other fully funded offerings to schools to improve multicultural awareness and understanding. Many of these artists, performers and speakers are available to schools for free throughout the year. The project seeks to foster artistic exchange between the various Melas in the south/south east region. The project has also produced collaborations between artists/musicians such as Lucky Mayo and Four by Four in Gravesham, two artists from Asian and Afro Caribbean backgrounds in Crawley and Same Sky.
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Click here for Crawley Mela gallery
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