COLLABORATIONS '19

COLLABORATIONS 2019

Some of the projects we have co-produced with a range of strategic partners.  
Details of the image credits, participants and exhibition catalogues to be uploaded

Pride: STONEWALL SOLIDARITY
(#WeStandTogether Exhibition)

urbanflo Partners: Brighton & Hove Pride
July/August 2019
Brighton & Hove Pride is now recognised as one of the World’s best Pride events 
with visitors coming from across the UK and the globe. Pride has evolved over the years with more and more communities coming together to celebrate every aspect of our city, regardless of sexuality, race, gender, age or ability. Over 300,000 people fill the city’s streets to participate and watch as an all-singing, all-dancing carnival of colour that is the Pride LGBTQ+ Community Parade as it winds its way through the heart of the city.

In acknowledgement of the 50th anniversary of Stonewall, urbanflo artist Elliss Lewin-Turner set up a pop up photo shoot for members, allies and supporters of the LGBTQ+ community who were visiting Vrystaat Arts Festival in South Africa. The international participants hailed from across South Africa and the wider African continent as well as from Australia, Germany, Indonesia, Mexico, Netherlands, Singapore, Switzerland, Tasmania and beyond...

A selection of the pop up portraits were put together as a special addition to the
Brighton Pride neXus exhibition for a collection called 'Stonewall Solidarity'

Pride Cultural Development Fund
(PCDF 2019)

urbanflo Partners: Brighton & Hove Pride
2018 saw the introduction of the new Pride Cultural Development Fund (PCDF), a special initiative that we have developed in partnership with Brighton & Hove Pride to enhance the cultural offer with a more inclusive approach to creative programming.  Our ambition is to develop the parade and ancillary events into a more artistic expression of Pride, involving an even broader cross-section of the community as artists, participants and audiences.
PCDF has two main components:
 
PART 1 is an Artists’ Small Grant Awards scheme which offers seed funding to enable underrepresented communities to get involved in the Pride Arts & Film Programme
-    2018: Granted 9 Individual and Group awards
-    2019: Granted 18 Individual and Group awards  
 
PART 2 is a creative platform for artists to showcase their work each year in curated exhibitions, workshops, screenings and performances;
-    2018: The ‘Colour My World’ programme featured over 80 visual and performing artists, with 2 large-scale city centre exhibitions.  Also, the ‘Pride in Our City’ exhibition featured the work from a local primary school competition that invited pupils to create artwork that represented what they loved about Brighton & Hove.
-    2019: The collaboration with the urbanflo neXus Transnational Exchange provided a unique international opportunity for Brighton artists to tour work to South Africa before appearing in Brighton.  The Pride event featured a large environmental group installation alongside 2 solo exhibitions - ‘Stonewall Solidarity’ and ‘Queer Letters’

STEP:CHANGE 2019
(ENGAGEMENT & INTERNATIONAL DANCE EXCHANGE)

urbanflo Partners: Sussex Festival of Performing Arts 
April 2019
The STEP:CHANGE programme has been developed in collaboration with Sussex Festival of Performing Arts to offer young performers from all walks of life new opportunities in the arts - especially those who currently have limited access. By introducing a dynamic range of new features to the Festival we aim to facilitate high-quality artistic experiences and provide unique pathways for local, regional, national and international aspiring artists to participate.  These new features include some non-competitive activities such as the amazing exhibition performances brought to us in 2018 when South East Dance presented a young group of performers who were very new to the stage and we also welcomed students from the University of West Indies in Barbados who wowed us with their contemporary pieces.  All of these young dancers took away with them wonderful, inspiring experiences that will stay with them for a lifetime and we are now developing other opportunities so watch this space…

For the 2019 STEP:CHANGE we were very proud to once again invite local and international guest performers.  This time the spotlight was on Project Female from Brighton and PowerHouse Studios from Barbados.The groups got together at the amazing Brighton Marina Studios where they watched each other's rehearsals and shared how they developed each piece. They went on to take the Sussex Festival stage by storm with some truly stunning performances.
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