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Sherwood goes South

Burham Beaches in Buckinghamshire and the New Forest doubled up as Sherwood Forest in the 1991 film Robin Hood

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S.E. Creative Programmer's work programme

The Creative Programmer for the South East is Caterina Loriggio. These are her objectives for the period
June 2008 – March 2009:

1) Create a pathway for the four year programme:

  • Acting as a catalyst and hub, advocate for participation in the Cultural Olympiad amongst key gatekeepers and stakeholders, in particular Local Authorities, Higher Education Institutions as well as cultural venues and buildings, heritage sites and natural landscape.
  • Encourage wide scale participation in Handover Events and the Cultural Olympiad launch weekend, and to work closely with each of the geographic priority areas to ensure there is at least one event in each location.
  • Help formulate the framework for delivery for the South East’s Legacy Trust’s proposal ‘Accentuate’. In particular look for areas of cross over with the Cultural Olympiad and for new opportunities to add to the Legacy offer.
  • Draw up proposals for a commissioning and investment process for Cultural Olympiad activity in the South East. Work with SEEDA and the SEP on the development of the Festival Region proposal.
  • Advocate for professional development opportunities for cultural and community providers of priority areas: outdoor performance, deaf and disability cultural activity, festivals.
  • Advocate for the Cultural Olympiad on the SEP, its working groups and other regional forums.
  • Identify key milestones of the 2012 four year journey.
  • Identify evaluation processes.

2) Encourage and award at least 5 Inspire marks and develop proposals for added value initiatives for successful applicants

3) Work with SEP on the creation of a 2012 Communication Strategy. Once this and the LOCOG Cultural Olympiad communications strategy are in place, devise a communication plan for the work within the South East.

4) Engender a region-wide education event.

5) Engender a region-wide Open Space event to consult and engage the region on the Cultural Olympiad.

6) Draw up proposals for potential region-wide activity such as Children’s Food Festivals which have potential for a scalable programme  to encourage creativity and healthy living. Initial ideas include a programme to include

  • a series of large scale festivals in 4 priority regions
  • 10 smaller events in key cities
  • a tool-kit to support the propagation of events across the region from town centres, to mass picnics, to village greens.

There is an opportunity to work with sponsors and Corporate Cabinet. There is an opportunity to work with artists on huge scale projects such as the Eat London or Feast model.

  • The modern region, a programme of work across the region to celebrate our cutting edge modernity and our history of modernity, celebrating the South East as a region of firsts and promoting our digital creative industries.

Projects could include

    • digital coastal beacon projects
    • renovating and celebrating Bletchley Park as the first communications hub and birthplace of computers,
    • celebrating the Modernists.
At each step the project would look to work with cutting edge technology to profile the region's creative and corporate strength in this area. There are potential links to many members of Corporate Cabinet who may support such a venture.

7) With Sport England, establish sports/heritage/arts networks.