Curious Minds

Arts Award and Blaze Partnership – Under the Town

Arts Award and BLAZE – part of the North West’s cultural legacy programme for London’s 2012 Olympics - worked in partnership to present Under the Town; a festival of music, fashion and art for young people by young people at Blackpool’s Winter Gardens on Thursday 1^st September. 

The event was a showcase of young talent, featuring a main stage line-up of local bands, fashion shows, craft stalls, film installations and a chilled out acoustic room lined with deckchairs and bunting, which added a true festival feel.  Six Gold Arts Award participants undertook the core roles of managing the event which resulted in a highly successful day exhibiting Blackpool’s young talent. 

Arts Award hopes to continue working with BLAZE throughout the year on the various projects that are coming up in the North West in the run up to the Olympics. 

Find out more about Arts Award and the BLAZE Blackpool programme at:

http://www.blazeonline.org.uk/

and
http://www.blackpool.gov.uk/Services/A-F/ArtsDevelopment/ArtsAwardsforYoungPeople.htm

Jen Ross
Curious Minds