Lifting the Fog & Enterprising Efford

Thursday Oct 27 2011, 12pm-4pm - Torridge Way, Efford

 A chance to make some art, watch some film, meet with your community, buy locally, learn new skills and be on radio! Lifting the Fog and Enterprising Efford is coming to you!  

Lifting the Fog - A series of visual arts workshops will be held, along with training opportunities and radio broadcasts, culminating with a ‘micro’ arts festival. The focus for ‘Lifting the Fog’ will be FreesoundFM - Plymouth Arts Centre’s temporary radio station – which will orbit the various districts, bringing with it the chance for local people to take over the airwaves with pre-recorded material, live interviews and programmes made on the day with guidance from sound and radio artists Mark Vernon and Neil Rose. It is hoped that each day will provide a portrait of a community through the voices of its citizens and the sounds of their locality. The station will also include contributions from artists involved in British Art Show 7, the ‘Constellation’ programme and the artists’ Fringe, as well as activities ranging from film screenings to hands-on workshops. There will even be a Grow Efford apple-pressing session!

 The ‘Lifting the Fog’ project can be followed by listening to FreesoundFM on 87.9 fm or online www.freesound.org.uk. The radio station will go live on 22nd October and will continue broadcasting each day until 28th October. 

Enterprising Efford - A wonderful new event for Efford led by the Efford Community Vision Group where Torridge Way will become a bustling market place for a day.  Pannier market stands will line the street with traders large and small.  Grow Efford and Table-top sellers with local produce and crafts, new and upcoming self-starters and entrepreneurs will tout for business and a car boot sale will encourage people to sell gems from their lofts and sheds. The City Enterprise Park and Working Links and Whizz Kids will be setting up stalls to give tips and information about setting up an enterprise, setting up becoming self-employed and making new career choices. 

The day is part of a wider series of traveling arts festivals and recording events across the city and we would like to see you come out to as many or few as you like to get a flavour of each neighbourhood.  

Dates for the Diary

Saturday 22nd October – Stonehouse: Patna Park, as part of Stonehouse Community Action Day

Sunday 23rd October – North Prospect: Halycon Centre, Dingle Road
Monday 24th October – Barne Barton: the Barn, Kit Hill Crescent
Tuesday 25th October – Honicknowle: Honicknowle Youth and Community Centre, Honicknowle Green
Wednesday 26th October – Devonport: Devonport Guildhall as part of All Ways Apple Day
Thursday 27th October – Efford: as part of Enterprising Efford on Torridge Way
Friday 28th October – Whitleigh: Salvation Army, Lancaster Gardens.

Developed by Plymouth Arts Centre in collaboration with Take a Part and supported by On Radio, Deep Blue Sound and Plymouth City Council’s Neighbourhood Regeneration Team, the multi-layered project – titled ‘Lifting the Fog’ – is designed to engage local people and generate dialogue about their own neighbourhoods and the role of creativity and contemporary art.

 For more details of events contact Take A Part via takeapart@hotmail.com or Efford Community Vision coordinator@effordcommunityvision.org

Kim Wide
Community Curator
Heart of Efford Community Partnership:  Take A Part
T: 01626 871270/07952558091