EIGHT: second platform event

Launch Text To SpeechSecond Platform Event The EIGHT Project is an Artist in Residence project, taking place in nine schools with nine artists for one academic year. At the end of each term a Platform Event is held to celebrate the progress of the children. The second such event was held at Hartlepool Borough Hall

Posted on 27/03/2004

New Year, New Name and New stART for Arts in Tees Valley

Launch Text To SpeechA New Year, a new name and a New Year party with a difference, is on the cards for Tees Valley Arts. On Wednesday 28 January 2004, the Cornerhouse, Middlesbrough is playing host to Tees Valley Arts’ New Year Party. The evening starts at 6.00pm with the AGM and is then followed

Posted on 27/01/2004

Writing in Action

Launch Text To SpeechWriting in Action is a project managed by Cleveland Arts. It will allow a number of aspiring writers to attend some writing surgeries and some one-to-one sessions with some of Teesside’s more established writers. Rowena Sommerville, Cleveland Arts Literature Development Worker says “We can’t promise fortune, fame or publication, but we can

Posted on 18/08/2003

All Aboard the HMS Trincomalee

Launch Text To SpeechSargasso: A multi-media dance performance event on the HMS Trincomalee On Thursday 13th February 150 children from four Hartlepool Primary schools will be performing Sargasso, a multi media dance performance event on board HMS Trincomalee. Children from Jesmond Road, St Bega’s, Stranton and Throston Primary schools have been working, over the past

Posted on 11/02/2003

Home Grown Gardeners

Launch Text To SpeechHome Grown Gardeners is an evening of competitive poetry to establish the Tees Valley’s most promising performance poet. The winner will be selected by a panel of judges and the audience, and receive unconditional love, the mystery prize and a certificate of accomplishment. The competition is limited to 15 participants who have

Posted on 13/12/2001

Travel writing collaboration puts NE Seaside Town on the Map

Launch Text To SpeechA unique book about an everyday seaside town is about to be launched. A Fortnight in Seaton Carew is the result of a project bringing together poets, writers and designers to capture and represent their views of Seaton Carew, a small town near Hartlepool. Cleveland Arts, an arts development charity who make

Posted on 05/06/2001

One Language helps multi-culturalism on Teesside

Launch Text To SpeechIn the midst of a climate of racial tensions a project on Teesside has provided the chance for people of different cultural identities to work together on a remarkable book. A cross cultural creative writing and translation project for writers living in the Tees Valley is about to culminate in the launch

Posted on 30/05/2001

New Appointments

Launch Text To SpeechCleveland Arts would like to formerly announce the appointment of two new members of staff. Lesley Featherstone has been appointed Programme Manager: Social Inclusion and Tracey Johnson as the new Communications and Systems Officer. Lesley had previously worked for Cleveland Arts on the Articulate programme team before becoming the Programme Manager. Lesley

Posted on 29/05/2001

The Mudfrog Midsummer Booklaunch

Launch Text To SpeechMudfog, Teesside’s very own small publishing press will be celebrating the release of four new pamphlets and one full length anthology of poetry and short fiction by writers living in and around the Tees Valley. Mudfog was established in 1994 to provide an outlet for the work of committed local writers and

Posted on 23/05/2001

Baring backs Cleveland Arts

Launch Text To SpeechThe Baring Foundation, one of Britain’s major grant-giving trusts, has awarded Cleveland Arts £75,000 spread over three years. The money is to be used to support the organisation’s core functions, as opposed to being directed towards specific projects. The Baring Foundation invites organisations to apply for a core grant: the scheme is

Posted on 02/04/2001