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Arts & Culture
Welcome to the arts and culture pages. Within Bromley, Develop maintains a presence on the Bromley Arts Panel through Credo Creative Ceramic Designs - an independent local charity working to help individuals recover from a period of mental ill health and have the skills and confidence to return to the workplace.
Our representation and input to the panel enables us to tackle issues arising in Bromley with regard to accessing artistic and cultural activities. We have an interest in ensuring people with mental ill-health have welcoming access and the opportunity to express themselves artistically through the visual, performing arts and other cultural activities.
We should all be involved in promoting social inclusion because:
- Common mental health problems affect up to one in six of the general population at any one time. Almost everyone will know someone who has had mental health problems at some point in their lives.
- People with mental ill-health are equally capable of making valuable contributions to the arts. Picasso, Stephen Fry, Robbie Williams and Spike Milligan all lived with mental health problems and made major contributions to the arts.
In this section you will be able to find:
- Services that support welcoming access to the arts and cultural activities for people with mental ill-health.
- Events - mental health, arts and cultural activities.
- Evidence and policy - Research findings on the value of the arts to mental health and wellbeing and how to improve the organisation you work in to be more welcoming and supportive of people with mental ill-health.
- Guidance and tools that can be used to help people plan to get more involved in the arts and how to develop your organisation to offer a warm welcome to people with mental health problems.
- News - stories about people's experiences of participating in artistic and cultural activity in the borough.
If you would like more information about social inclusion and mental health, Develop can also offer you:
- Discussion Forum - A place to ask questions, find support and obtain advice about finding welcoming and supportive local arts activities or about issues relating to mental health matters in your organisation, group or society. (Available to registered site users).
- Training events about social inclusion and promoting involvement in the arts and about mental health matters generally (from handling stress and promoting mental wellbeing and recovery through to awareness training about mental illness).
DevelopArts has its own website which promotes arts throughout south east London using social mediums.
Volunteer performers needed for London 2012 Paralympic Opening and Closing Ceremonies
16th Jan 2012
The London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympics Games (LOCOG) has today begun a search for enthusiastic and energetic adult volunteer performers to participate in the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the London 2012 Paralympic Games.
Jenny Sealey & Bradley Hemmings, Co Artistic -Directors of the Opening Ceremony and Kim Gavin, Artistic Director of the Paralympic Closing Ceremony, are searching for 5,000 volunteer performers to fill roles as dancers, actors, percussionists and general all-round performers.
Successful applicants will perform in front of a packed stadium and a worldwide broadcast audience for this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be part of one of the largest events ever staged in the UK.
Applicants must be able to participate in up to two auditions that will take place on evenings and weekends in February and March, up to two or three rehearsal sessions each week of up to four hours per session from June, and a number of all day rehearsals in the three weeks leading up to each Ceremony. All of these rehearsals will take place in East London.
Jenny Sealey, Co-Artistic Director of the London 2012 Paralympic Opening Ceremony said: ‘As with the Olympic Ceremonies we’re looking for both disabled and non-disabled applicants and previous performance experience is not required; we’re really looking for enthusiasm and commitment. Anyone with a positive attitude, huge amounts of energy and a willingness to perform in front of a stadium audience and to millions of people around the world should get onto the London 2012 website now and sign up.’
Kim Gavin, Artistic Director of the Paralympic Closing Ceremony, said: ‘For the Paralympic Ceremonies we’ll audition around 8,000 people to get our 5,000 volunteer performers. This is a great opportunity to take part in what will be the grand finale of the entire Games.'
People can find more information and register their interest for this opportunity by completing the online application form www.london2012.com/ceremoniescasting
The deadline for receipt of applications is 13 February 2012 and it is not a first come first served process.
To be eligible applicants must be aged 18 years or older on 1 March 2012. Only one application per person will be accepted and if LOCOG receives over 8,000 applications a computerised draw will be used to randomly create the short list for auditions.
For those who want a chance to see the successful applicants in action there are a limited number of tickets still available for the Paralympic Opening and Closing Ceremonies at www.tickets.london2012.com
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