urbanflo: ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Sussex Festival is an annual Dance/Musical Theatre competition providing a professional environment for children & young people to perform and receive constructive feedback from highly experienced industry experts. Over 700 individual performers take part in the festival each year plus over 70 groups compete in a curriculum of 163 different Song & Dance, Classical, Contemporary, Modern, Tap and National classes over an intensive 8-day programme.  In collaboration with Pandora Web Design, urbanflo developed 'master:Class', a bespoke online system to manage all aspects of the festival's administration.

Due to consistently high standards Sussex Festival is considered to be a critical component of the national dance festival circuit, with participants and audiences hailing from 27 dance schools from across Essex, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Surrey and East/West Sussex.  However, despite this success, the festival committee are keen to ensure that they meet their commitment to constantly strive to improve the opportunities and experiences for young performers. urbanflo's other key role here is to take a lead on this engagement initiative, and we have developed a strategy which will include non-competitve activities, subidised access to classes and international exchange opportunities.

urbanflo: PROJECT DOCUMENTARY

July 2018  |  Bloemfontein  |  South Africa

The Pan-African Creative Exchange (PACE), is a 3-day biannual business-to-business arts market and showcase, in South Africa,  developed in partnership with the Vrystaat Arts Festival, for African artists to network and share work with national and international arts presenters and producers. 

Over the course of the 2018 exchange dancers, musicians, theatre-makers and companies, street artists, carnival and spoken word performers presented a combination of full length shows and extracts from their latest productions as well as new and developing work.

Programmed between the performances were a dynamic series of themed discussions and seminars which included opportunities for delegates to develop new contacts and partnerships as well as meet and network with existing colleagues. PACE creates an environment that facilitates discussions, allowing for ideas to flow, partnerships to be formed and collaborations to be created.

urbanflo documented the PACE 'taster' programme in 2017 and also the inaugural biennial event in 2018. 

urbanflo: ARTISTS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

July 2018  |  Bloemfontein | South Africa

The Vrystaat Arts Festival • Tsa-Botjhaba is an Afrikaans language festival that forges creative connections with English and Sotho cultures. "One festival. Many stories" is the vision, and Vrystaat contributes to the exchange of ideas around arts, culture and society through connections with other national and international creative communities.

Goals

• We bring people together
• We support great art
• We develop artists and audiences
• We drive innovation
• We play in the world stage

COMMISSIONED BY:

BRIGHTON & HOVE CITY COUNCIL & BRIGHTON ARTS COMMISSION

urbanflo: PROJECT CONSULTANCY | EVENT PRODUCTION

November 2017  |  The Old Market

Brighton Cultural Framework Summit

The Cultural Framework has at its heart a commitment by Brighton & Hove's creative and cultural sector to cultural, ethnic and social pluralism in their organisations’ practices, processes and policies. This is expressed through a voluntary Inclusivity Charter, which organisations can adopt.  urbanflo Director Jenni Lewin-Turner is the lead consultant on the Cultrual Framework's Inclusion Strand.

urbanflo: PROJECT DOCUMENTARY

May 2017  |  Barbados

HEAT is a groundbreaking new TV drama series by award-winning Director 

Menelik Shabazz, produced in Barbados with an international cast and crew.  Members of the urbanflo team have been involved in the production documenting the 'behind the scenes' activity and also as part of the Continuity department.

HEAT SYNOPSIS

Glamorous Barbados is the mirror into three different worlds. The Moore’s are a white, old money family with a legacy for producing rum. The family name is a deep source of pride to patriarch Somerset. This is challenged with his wife Victoria’s affairs and rebel daughter Philippa. His friend, top barrister Garfield Edwards is trying to establish his own dynasty, but his siblings Errol and Winnie have

other ideas complicated by an extra-marital affair.

On the other side of the track Akilah sells in the market and her partner Willie works for the Moore’s. They are both struggling to make ends meet. Lurking in the shadows is Det. Cumberbatch who wants

to bring justice to an unfair world.

All of these characters are drawn together by a dramatic incident that will transform their lives. What unravels is a web of intrigue involving race, class and sex where all is not what it seems.

Trailer link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVt7UFRMPPY