Artists have the chance of a £1,000 bursary aimed at helping to launch the exciting new Emergency Room project at The Y theatre in Leicester. It is a new Artist in Residence Opportunity for artists based in Leicester and theEast Midlands. The project is designed to support the collaboration of a dance or movement artist with an artist specialising in another art form and encourages experimentation and action research.

Amy Christer, Education Officer at The East Street Theatre, said: “We are either looking for two or more practitioners to make a joint application or individuals to express an interest while outlining what other art forms they want to work with and why. “There will be a bursary of £1000 to be shared between the successful applicants, and to be used how they see fit with regards to their project.

“The successful applicants will be consulted in the design of a tailor made package including free use of the space and support from The Y team during the residency.’ ’The opportunity will culminate in a performance showcase at The Y on Friday, January28. The residency builds on the learning of The Y’s regular Emergency! Showcase by providing a more intensive opportunity for artists.

To apply, send your cv, supporting statement, and any other relevant information (DVDs etc) and an outline of your residency proposal to Amy Christer artseducation@leicesterymca.co.uk or write to The Y, 7 East Street, Leicester LE16EY by 5pm, Friday, October 22

E-mail: mathew@barwell.eu

Title: A Candidates’ Life

Hello again and welcome to the second edition of this weekly column, as I continuemy campaign to run as a candidate for the Liberal Democrats in the local electionsnext year.

It has been another very busy week with, at its heart, the annual Barwell Carnivalthis past Saturday-it was, as ever, great fun and a tremendous success. I’m a member of the Barwell Carnival Association-and am its Press Officer. Thousands turned out onto the streets of the village to see the colourful floats process by. There was then a host of stalls/fairground rides, etc on the Carnival Field (on the field of my old junior school, Barwell C of E Juniors) and I reprised my role of last year, providing PA announcements in the field arena-and interviewing some of the performers, etc taking part.

This was a much needed positive shot in the arm for Barwell which has faced its fair share of bad media poblicity in recent years-much of it unwarranted. This year’s Barwell Carnival proved what those of us who live here have long known-that despite its problems Barwell is a good village populated by largely good people. It makes me re-double my efforts to serve the people of this village, to work everyday with and for them-to make our village better, fairer and greener.

All being well, next week myself and the Lib Dem PPC for the borough, Michael Mullaney, will be back out on the doorstep canvassing people for their concerns/issues, etc. I should also have details for you of a special event coming up celebrating the goodwork of many of the youth of the village. So, I’ll see you then.

The 50 community reporters did a great job of capturing the cycling event that saw over 12,500 people enjoy the traffic-free streets of Leicester.

Phoenix Square played host to the film festival with audiences enjoying Jacques Tates ‘Jour de Fete’ and Albert Finney’s debut performance in ‘Saturday Night and Sunday Morning.’ We plan to repeat the Bike Film Festival next year as part of the Ride Leicester Bike Festival.

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If you have an interest in journalism why not join the Citizen’s Eye team and become one of the 2,012 Citizen Reporters recruited across Leicester & Leicestershire to capture all the community news by 2012!

http://www.inspireleics.org.uk/news/2010/08/do-you-want-to-be-a-citizen-reporter

Creative Writing session at Evington Library, 200 Evington Lane, Leicester, LE5 6DH between 2 pm – 4 pm. This will be an informal and enjoyable workshop that gets grey matter fizzing. Join Leicester Libraries’ Book Doctor Alison Dunne and write something that may just surprise you.
Contact: 0116 221 1286

Farmers market, Humberstone Gate, between 10 am – 4 pm. For additional information contact: 0116 223 2371

At the Dogs. Join Age Concern, Clarence House, Humberstone Gate, Leicester for an afternoon of dog racing. Contact Antony Foster on 0116 222 0555 for more information.

From this Saturday (Sept 4) until Sunday 12 September there will be a number of walks taking place across the city and county as part of the national event.

The aim of ‘Leicestershire Walking Week’ is to encourage people to explore the delights of the city, countryside, villages and towns. It is also aimed at getting people fit and healthy and helping to reduce pollution by leaving the car at home.

See more about this story on the Leicester City Council website at:http://news.leicester.gov.uk/newsArchiveDetail.aspx?Id=284

Do you have any concerns about the neighbourhood, do you know of any problems? Come along, enjoy the day and meet the policing team.

When is it?
September 2nd, 2010
10:00 to 14:00

Where is it?
Samworth Enterprise Academy Fun Day
Trennant Road, Leicester

For more information contact
Sgt 1045 Andy Partridge on (0116) 222 2222, follow the instructions to leave a message and when prompted key in the voicemail number 1045.

For more information about Neighbourhood Policing see:http://www.leics.police.uk/

They put in a great effort with their team and have been rewarded with a great article on page 12 of today’s Leicester Mercury – http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/news/Citizens-Skyride-photos-capture-atmosphere-day/article-2589849-detail/article.html

The thisisleicestershire website has a photo gallery of their images -http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/skyridegallery.html

And also BBC Leicester has used their images in a photo gallery – http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/leicester/hi/people_and_places/newsid_8957000/8957174.stm

Congratulations!

John

The apprenticeship bus will be in Humberstone Gate from 9am until 4pm. It is part of the summer-long tour of the region by the NAS that aims to encourage young people and adults to explore the benefits of becoming an apprentice.

In the article there is the following quote from a spokesman for Leicester City Council about potential developments in the city.

“Suggestions that councils share services is an interesting one and one we have been discussing with the county and other public sector agencies for several months.

“With the city facing £100 million of budget cuts over the next four to five years, we will be looking at all of the options available to us.”

To see the full Leicester Mercury article see the This is Leicestershire website at: http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/news/Shared-services-threat-jobs/article-2589943-detail/article.html