As part of my BAFA executive role I occasionally get asked advice on what's going on, or asked to speak
At talks and workshops. This evening I had the opportunity to meet a new festival and it's family!
Arts-alive is a mixed arts festival, part programmed, part open access, in and around Dorking. It is currently
Coordinated by the council and has been going for about 15 years.
Times are a-changing and Kath (the coordinator) would like to bring the festival Up to date allowing it to flourish and become an event on the World Festival map. The current set up reminds me a lot of how the Brighton Fringe was in 2001, it was part of the International festival, not the council, but it too had come to a point that to give it an identity and do justice to its performers and artists, something radical had to be done.
Arts-alive are in the very early, discussion and workshop phase at the moment, and like in Brighton, half the people were happy with the format (mostly the visual and classical arts) and the other half were up for new ideas. I gave and 'uplifting and motivational' speech about the Brighton Fringe, how the changes happened and how I founded and re-branded it into the 3rd largest fringe in the world.
I also stayed for the workshop, to submit suggestions about ideas for the future, What could change, what's new and what should stay the same. They are a really lovely group of people and it's a festival to watch. Its going through Some exciting times!
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