Join us for a celebration of the arts, creativity and community in Camelon this saturday!
Camelon Celebrates event on Staurday 18th June 1 - 4pm at Camelon Community Centre
CAMELON CELEBRATES
An afternoon to celebrate the end of the current Camelon Arts project, free and open to all, with cake!
Saturday 18th June 1-4pm
Camelon Community Centre
Abercrombie Street, Falkirk FK1 4HA
Camelon Arts is a town-wide community arts project based across Camelon and Tamfourhill. Funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, the project is managed by Artlink Central and the Co-Leads are Aniela Piasecka and Mónica Laiseca.
Over the last three years, Camelon Arts have invited different artists to facilitate participatory projects in the area, engaging with a range of local groups.
This final year of the current project we programmed:
- Local Wonders a community calendar created with photo submissions from local residents and designed by recent Forth Valley College graduate Jakub Bieganski
- Mum’s The Word a textile artwork made by mums in Camelon and Tamfourhill with Rebecca Livesey-Wright displayed at the Mariner’s Centre
- Is Like Waiting For A Bus a bus stop art intervention at Tamfourhill Community Hub with local children and Gallery Malmo artists Gregor Horne and Theo Christy
- All Games Allowed inviting local residents to explore their desired use of public of space through inventing their own games and building a collection of unique line marking designs, run by Mark Bleakley and now installed near the cages by Easter Carmuirs Park
Alongside many other local drop events and school/nursery workshops.
To celebrate the amazing creativity we have witnessed locally, both as part of projects we have run and/or co-run but also happening every single day in lots of special ways, we are organising a day of open workshops, displays of artworks, performances and demonstrations by local groups, and a screening of the community film we have made this year with artist Daniel Cook.
Anticipated highlights will be:
- FLOAT, a mural fur mariners: a workshop led by Camelon born artist Lewis Bissett making paper roses and recording memories to inform an artwork for Camelon Community Centre (workshops also taking place on Friday 10th June 2.30-5.30pm and Friday 24th June 2.30-5.30 at Camelon Community Centre)
- Climate Chaos: a screening of a new VR 360 degree film on the theme of climate change; storyboarded, acted, directed and soundtracked by Falkirk High students with Produced Moon artists Leonie Rae Gasson and Melanie Frances
- Freedom of Mind Community Choir performance: Tamfourhill-based choir created to spread joy through music
Lewis Bissett (project artist) says:
“Visually, culturally and linguistically, the working class community I was brought up within has played a massive part in my creative development as an artist. Spending my childhood in Kemlin, with this strong family connection still existing in the area, and being asked by Camelon Arts to be involved in creating an accessible, contemporary artwork alongside the community means more to me than being included in some dull-white-space-wine-from-a-box exhibition. I will be giving something back to a community I've drawn so much from.”
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VR with Falkirk High and Produced Moon
Falkirk High students trying out VR headsets during a workshop with Produced Moon
(image credit: Aniela Piasecka)
Fashion tote bag design made during a workshop at Camelon Juniors Social Club in January
(image credit: Aniela Piasecka)
Children from Carmuirs Primary build an artwork from a stencil made by local children with artist Alice Dansey-=Wright of the Mariners’ boat during a workshop with Camelon Arts
(Image credit: Aniela Piasecka)
For further information contact:
Aniela Piasecka
E: aniela@artlinkcentral.org
T: 07807900153