News
15 July 2010
Mole Valley's Arts Alive Festival 2010
Street Party on Saturday 25th September
Let the Celebrations Commence!
Mole Valley’s Arts Alive Festival 2010 officially opens on Saturday 25th September with street parties in Dorking and Leatherhead town centres. From 10.00am until 4.00pm both town centres will be filled with an air of excitement when musicians, artists, art groups, actors and festival goers join together to start the street party with a bang.
Throughout the day there will be performances by many local artists and art groups including the Appalachian Clog Dance Group, Bloco Do Sul, Dorking Academy of Performing Arts, singers from Loud & Proud Community Choir, The Milestone Big Band, Pandemonium, Mole Valley Silver Band, the Rampant Rooster Morris Dancers and more! There will also a demonstration and the opportunity to have a go at parkour by the Momentum Community Coaching Academy in Leatherhead.
If that isn’t enough to make you feel artistically inspired, Dorking Group of Artists will be setting up their easels in the streets of Dorking and there will be stalls, face painting, street entertainers and give-aways. The day is guaranteed to leave you eagerly awaiting October’s endless supply of over 100 dance, music, drama, arts and crafts events in Mole Valley.
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11th June 2010
Artists in Residence
Mole Valley District Council has been awarded £10,000 from Arts Council England for an artists project. ‘Artists in Residence’ is a collaboration between four Dorking artists, Mole Valley District Council, the Links Community Partnership and Jonathan Parsons from ARC (the South East Artists’ Resource Centre). The project will enable the artists to create new work which will be displayed in a vacant shop during Mole Valley’s Arts Alive Festival. This provides a unique opportunity for Dorking to develop a reputation as a place that showcases world-class art.
The artists Ackroyd & Harvey, Anne Brodie and Amanda Loomes have well established reputations and have been the recipients of numerous international awards and prizes. They have lived in Dorking for over a hundred years between them, yet have never exhibited together in their hometown. The project will challenge the artists to make a new body of work in response to their hometown and also produce a series of talks around the exhibition.
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25th June 2010
Mole Valley Arts Alive 2010
The Arts Alive Festival is returning for a fourteenth year. The festival runs throughout October. It features a wide variety of arts and community events. Packed with over one hundred art, craft and entertainment events, there is something to appeal to everyone.
Arts Alive officially opens on Saturday 25 September. Street parties will take place in both Dorking and Leatherhead from 10.00am to 4.00pm. During the day, artists, art groups and festival goers will have the chance to join together and start the celebrations with a bang.
The festival patron for 2010 is the English actor, singer and entertainer Anita Harris. Anita is best known of her roles in the Carry On films. More recently she starred in Stepping Out at Leatherhead Theatre.
