Friday Night in the Charnie Arnie is Comedy Night organised by Glastonbudget and featuring: 

Jonathan Hipkiss, Maggy Whitehouse, Holly Prescott, Masai Graham, Neil Irving, Lisa Deville, Jim Bayes, David Tandy, Graham Milton and Johnny Connell

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This year’s Charnie Arnie stage presents an unusual and eclectic mix of acts, including progressive pop, folk and electronic indie.

The theme of the marquee is ‘B Movie’. See a ghostly image of yourself appear in a late night classic on the cinema screen! On our stalls, be transformed into a movie monster with special fx make-up or have a 1950s inspired wash-off tattoo!

MUSIC IN THE CHARNIE ARNIE

SATURDAY
13:00 - Brass Bears
13:45 - Bethan and the Morgans
14:30 - Tom and Jimmy
15:15 - Birthrite
16:00 - BB Black Dog
17:45 - Metropolis
19:00 - Egg Ladies
19:45 - Jonezy
20:30 - Nick Jackson
21.30 - Raze (Ricky C)

SUNDAY
13:00 - Harper Follie
13:45 - Bovine Algorythm
14:30 - Ska-Amanga
15:15 - Rice Cakes
16:00 - Ann Duggan Band
17:15 - Echolocation
18:30 - Emily and the Martens
19:15 - Betaris Box
20:00 - Lucy Ward

Loughborough Mela has risen in prominence over the last 11 years from a park based event celebrating the town’s cultural and ethnic diversity, into a popular and important date for everyone in the summer festival season. Taking place in Loughborough Market Place at the heart of the community there is more to Loughborough Mela than just music - the event also features stalls, fairground rides, a diverse range of food, children’s activities and an entertaining programme of dance and street acts. The aim is to ensure that all visitors, young and old, will find something enjoyable to do at this free event.

People have come from far and wide to Loughborough Mela to enjoy performances by stars such as Kebi Dhindsa, Ronak Mela Baaja Band, Irfan Khan and most recently the up and coming Raxstar and Faze. In addition to this, local talent such as singer Maria Verentenina, dancers Saijal Mistry and Desi Bhuv Sharma and various local groups such as Hum Hey Hindustani and the Keating School of Irish Dance have also had the chance to strut their stuff.

This year, Loughborough’s favourite outdoor arts event goes back to its roots as Picnic In The Park - Unplugged! Come join us in the sunshine at Loughborough’s Queen’s Park on Saturday 8th June, 12 noon - 5.00pm.

Where else can you go this June 8th to...

Look for free give-away art to take home with you?

Join film-makers James Chantry and Natalie Chabaud to make your own short film in a tent?

Experience the amazing dance skills of Saijal Mistry?

Join in with and learn traditional Gujarati Folk Dance?

Decorate a tree with hand-made butterflies?

Witness the skill and outrageous performance of Loughborough’s very own Bill Brookman?

Try your hand at Circus Skills?

Encounter the fantastic juggling skills and humour of one of Australia’s top street performers - Mr Spin?

Take part in Fun Games and Sports?

Browse through a diverse range of stalls?

Listen to an afternoon of diverse musical delights?

Delight in the exuberant energy of traditional dance sides?

Be entertained by the remarkable clown Enrico?

Learn to finger knit and join in a ‘yarn bombing’?

Have oodles of simple free fun as a family?

Family Fun and FREE to enter!

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Artists who wish to make work for the free art give-away please join our Facebook page Free Art Friday Loughborough. Or contact
Jemma Bagley jemmab@charnwoodarts.com

A Very Special Picnic...

As part of the Charnwood Arts UK2K12 programme and to celebrate a year when we welcome the world to Britain, this year’s PICNIC IN THE PARK in Loughborough takes on a truly international flavour.

What better way to celebrate the world and our own Queen’s Diamond Jubilee than to join us at our special community arts event in Loughborough’s Queens Park on Tuesday June 5th.

Picnic in the Park, now in its 32nd year, will feature a host of arts and performance events as well as activities for children and all the family.
Join our wonderful Loughborough community and come along to celebrate this monumental event with us. Sunshine, music, laughter.... we hope to have it all! Join in with a host of arts and crafts activities, and sample some great food!

The Loughborough Churches Partnership are also supporting the event by offering a whole range of sports and activities from egg and spoon races, to sack races and the tug of war. The Partnership are also bringing a host of local performance talent.

The fun begins at 12 noon with a procession from Loughborough Market Place to Queen’s Park in Granby Street, Loughborough with activities and performances in the park until 5.00pm....... a whole afternoon of fun for all the family! All Free!!

Why not celebrate in the good old- fashioned way? Bring along your cucumber sandwiches or strawberries and cream and help us to make some buntings to decorate the Park fit for a Queen!

The first ‘Read Me, Write Me, Draw Me, Tell Me Children’s Literature Festival’ comes to Loughborough over half term! We are offering a whole realm of activities and  welcoming some big names when we launch our young people’s festival from May 28th to June 1st. Writers, artists and performers – all leaders in their fields - will be gathering in Loughborough for an exciting week of literary, artistic, and craft workshops in what is thought to be one of the first such festivals in the East Midlands.

Two nationally known figures have agreed to be patrons of the festival - author Alison Moore, shortlisted for last year’s Man-Booker Prize and artist Shona Kinloch - renowned sculptor and creator of Loughborough’s much loved Sock Man.

 And the famous names don’t end there. TV and radio star, poet, writer and comedian John Hegley – once called “One of the funniest men alive” by Adrian Mitchell – will be leading a workshop called ‘Writing and Drawing a Wheelbarrow’. This will be a playful time with some rhyme and not a lot of reason. Everybody will go home with a little book which they can photocopy, sell and make their fortune with! An Edinburgh Festival regular, John Hegley is noted for his exploration of such diverse topics as glasses, dog hair, potatoes and handkerchiefs so wheelbarrows should be no problem!

The illustrator of the award winning “Horrible Science” series (sister books to “Horrible Histories”) is the multi-talented artist and cartoonist Tony de Saulles.  In his workshop ‘How to draw Horrible Science’, he will not only be giving loads of horrible cartooning tips while you sketch but also teach you how to bring a lavatory to life and why a 17th Century scientist ate his own sick… If you like drawing the disgusting and illustrating the inexpressible, this fun family cartoon-drawing workshop is for you!

The whole week is packed with fun for all ages, from 3 to 16, depending on the workshop. For the youngest age group, Dawn Powell (author of “We’re Going On A Bear Hunt”) will be telling tales to make you shiver, giggle and gasp. Rachel Scanlon will be showing the 7-11s not only how to make puppets but how to put them into a story and a play. And if you’re aged 9-16, top author Bali Rai will be showing you “How To Write A Ghost Story”!

Other events include ‘Mista Mojo’s Marvelous Mobile Magic School’, ‘Hand Shadow Puppets’ with Drew Colby, ‘Origami Box’ with Ruth Singer, ‘Giant Comic Strip’ with James Parsons and a whole day of workshops and performances with Lydia Towsey and Tim Bombdog. That’s just a few of the many events on offer from “Read Me, Write Me, Draw Me, Tell Me” between May 28th to June 1st, in venues all round the centre of Loughborough

 Tickets can be booked on www.bookwhen.com/charnwoodarts

Or any enquiries can be directed to Rebecca Abrahams on 01509 821035 or email rebecca.abrahams@charnwoodarts.com

With its modern décor that is sympathetic to its original features, the historic Council Chamber at Loughborough Town Hall is ideal for meetings, seminars and training sessions and can also be used as a breakout room if required as part of a larger conference.

This room has an optional stage, making it ideal for presentations and awards evenings too.

The Council Chamber is also licensed for civil ceremonies, and provides the perfect setting if you're looking for Loughborough Wedding Venues. Holding up to 65 guests, the stag is removed making way for a central aisle, leading to the registrar table under the beautiful feature stained glass window.

Capacities

• Cabaret with trestle tables: 50
• Cabaret with round tables: 45
• Theatre style: 65
• Wedding ceremony: 65
• Classroom: 40
• Boardroom: 30

Facilities

• FREE wifi
• Comfort cooling
• Hearing loop
• Up to 2 wheelchair users
• Licensed for wedding ceremonies

Situated on the west edge of Loughborough, the Church was built originally as a Mission Room in 1888.

The lectern, altar rails and aumbry woodwork all have a matching design and were made by a specialist in this field.  Many of the items in Church have been donated in memory of loved ones.

The mission room was dedicated in the late 1950s as The Church of St. Mary-in-Charnwood – as we know it today. Originally, the Vestry comprised a small area to the left of the Altar.  By 1960 a new Vestry had been built to the side of the Church and this, in turn, was replaced by the Chapter House in 1999.  This is a community resource – it is used by other churches for ‘time away’ for meetings, retreats etc. and also by other groups and individuals seeking a  meeting place.  It is also an ideal venue for children’s birthday parties.

Additionally there is a well equipped kitchen; facilities for the lesser abled (toilet and easy access to the ground floor); large off road car park within the Church grounds; access to the wood (with its viewing point and meeting place); the Memorial Garden which adjoins the Chapter House and a barbeque area in the car park.

For anyone who loves their music. Hand-picked musicians, immaculate sound and an audience that really listens. The venue - The Priory - is comfy and they do good food too and have a big car park.  The event is organised by Howard Coleman (01509 829462) and all proceeds go to OXFAM.

Barrow Community Centre is a lively active centre used by members of Barrow community and local villages. The aim of the Community Centre is to develop and provide both learning and social opportunities for all age groups. The centre has extensive facilities which are also available for private hire on week day evenings and weekends.

Facilities:
Large hall (seats 320) with stage and lighting,
Community Lounge (seats 50),
Arts Theatre (seats 100)
State-of-the-art sports hall
Restaurant, kitchen, community foyer, swimming pool, many classrooms and large sports fields
Large car park, disabled parking, access and toilet.

A partnership project between Charnwood Arts, 501 Xu Space and Yu Dance in Chiongqing, South West China

An Inconvenient Truth’ explored the social and environmental issues of life on Cijin - an 8 kilometre long island off the coast of the port city of Kaohsiung.

Radar is Loughborough University’s contemporary arts programme, enabling creative exploration and furthering critical debate through commissions, films and conversation.  

The University is the largest single site campus in the country and as such offers artists a rich source of material and knowledge to inform and develop their practice.  With each programme artists are invited to tap into this resource, whether that be through a dialogue that informs the conceptual framework or through utilising the technical and production facilities available.  This process of interaction between artist and academic and artist and university is central to the programme.  While the artistic outputs are not confined to one space, or to the campus, the relationship to the context is fixed, providing a bond between the divergent responses.

The artistic outputs are also used to engender further debate and exploration of the ideas contained within the work.  The art works are used to initiate conversations between different disciplines, not only artist and academic but academic and academic and student and academic further encouraging a mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and skills.

Loughborough University Arts has launched a new spoken word and literature strand of activity new for 2012. This programme will offer guest poets, literary reading and spoke word live mic nights.

Loughborough University Arts hosts a concert programme of world class choirs, quartets and ensembles, attracting some of the most exciting musicians working today.  Natalie Clein, the Brodsky Quartet and Steven Isserlis have all recently performed at the University. Tickets for concerts are available from Loughborough Town Hall. Booking Info

A border morris side based in Loughborough.
We practice at The Mission Hut, Storer Road, Loughborough. LE11 5EQ on Sundays from 7pm – 9pm.
Open to all. Dancers and musicians welcome.
Like to join us? Contact the secretary: info@wayofthewyrd.co.uk.

‘Changing Spaces Trading Places’ is a Heritage Lottery Funded project as part of the ‘All Our Stories’ initiative. This project is being hosted by Charnwood Arts and explores the cross cultural and inter-generational legacy of forced and economic migration in the city of Leicester and Leicestershire and in particular the textile trade. It explores industry, commerce, settlement, domestic life, trade and the triangle of relations between India, Africa and the UK.’

During the project we will:

* Train 20 young volunteers in recording and preserving the older generations memories

* Collect archival material from the local community who worked in the textile trade

* Discover how the old factories have changed through a photo story

* Deliver a variety of community events to bring the generations together

* Produce an exhibition, a book and a learning resource for Schools

We will be working with local photographer Kajal Patel, who is recognised internationally for her social documentary work to make a permanent photographic record of the project. (see http://www.kajalpatel.com)

Kajal is currently exhibiting at Format under the theme of ‘Factories.’ We are really excited to have Kaj working with us on this project and bringing her expertise and professionalism!

http://www.formatfestival.com/artists/kajal-nisha-patel

We are looking for volunteers who would like to train in recording, interviewing, research and collating archival material for this project. You will be working in the local community and helping to organise events. You will then learn how to assist with the multi-media production of an exhibition and a book! This is a great opportunity for anybody that wants experience in working in the local community and wants to learn about cultural heritage! If you would like more details contact Leylah Bhamra on 07894880527 or call Rebecca Abrahams at Charnwood Arts on 01509 821035

Sam Brown is a passionate and enthusiastic creative designer, able to work with an array of mixed media software to produce new and inspiring visual works for both advertising and personal design.

“Born in Leicester, England I studied Graphic Design and Interactive media at Leicester St.Margerets College excelling at the highest level.
I have worked with the local Charnwood Arts Department in Loughborough, who are an independent arts and education charity organisation famous for community arts and event projects in the east midlands of England.
Even during my studies I gained a multitude of firsthand experience when I was asked to work with the print department of Leicester College in an advertising campaign to entice high school graduates to consider design in the print industry as an option for further education.

I currently hold a distinction grade at GNVQ level for graphic design as well as Merit level National GNVQ for Interactive media both gained at Leicester College.

My other interests include music film and travel. I am a keen musician and self confessed movie critic. When I’m not designing writing or watching anything in my spare time I like to be out and about, getting involved in voluntary projects...