Acorn Theatre

There are two ways in which the Acorn Arts Centre programme acts at the venue. You can hire the venue and promote the event yourself or the Acorn Arts Centre can book you and take responsibility for promoting the event. The Acorn Arts Centre receives on-going funding from Penwith District Council and Cornwall County Council. This funding equates to just under 20% of the cost to run the organisation.Penzance Town Council supports our Penlee Park outdoor season with an annual project grant.The balance required is raised through ticket sales, hirings, bar sales and fundraising activities. The Acorn Arts Centre is a small, independently run arts venue with charitable status, in the heart of Penzance, Cornwall. In 1987 the trustees of Cornwall Theatre Company Ltd., a small scale touring theatre company, took over the assets and liabilities of the near defunct Penzance Arts Centre. Their aim was to increase and expand the audiences of the old arts centre by injecting a new enthusiasm for the arts into the community and widening the spectrum of arts provided.

Our Ideas

Monday 11th October

Group marketing Meeting:

• Difficult nature- performance/ arty unstallation medium
• Individual working
• would not work- disorganised / unprofessional
• Too late to change ideas- every one work is well developed
• Collective, connect, light and dark
• Square, jigsaw, shape
• Text cut out (display one colour, and then option to change the colour for each individual)

It would be difficulkt to design a single logo due to nature of the show- everyone has different ideas.

Because everyones work is well developed, it is too late to come up with one idea for everyone to do at the show.

Possible names for the logo- collective, connect (something relevant to light and dark). We came to the decision of using 'Collective' as the name for the show.

Logo picture - square, jigsaw.... The picture will be one colour, but individuals have the option in choosing there own so it more individual for each section of our pieces of work. We thought that the jigsaw piece would fit in well with our project as the puzzle piece represents us as in all the pieces are different but yet they make something whole, and with us its the same we all have different pieces of work yet we are still one whole group.

My Ideas

1. My first idea is to do a project on photography. I am researching different photographers and the first photographer i am looking at is Richard Avedon. I like the style he uses and the effect on it. I want to take portraits that is not only just a good picture but it captures there characters as well. I thought this would be a good idea as you hardly see that and i wanted it to be different. Here are some of Richard Avedon's pictures. I think if you study these images you can see there characters out in these photos, which is what i want. I would also put a frame round the photo and put some text at the bottom which i would think is relevant to the picture just to give the photo more of a story, and i would put a quote at the bottom which they have said i think that would be a nice touch. I also looked at another photographer called Henri Cartier Bresson. He also has the same style as Avedon's photos but the majority of Henri Cartier Bresson photos he has more than one person but Richard Avedon mostly has portraits. Another reason why i think this idea would be good is because people may not have the same opinion on my photos they may think the picture is saying they are not just that they may have other qualities to them. For example i could take a photo of someone and i thought it was capturing there playful but other people may think they are annoying or immature.














2. My second idea was to make a music magazine, as i have always liked music and i like creating magazines. The music magazine was going to be a local magazine as i hardly see any of them round for Cornwall. I thought i could even ask the college and leave some in college as so many students go here they would be interested. In the magazine i was thinking about involving the concerts that go on and when bands come into the clubs as well.

Glastonbury Festival

Glastonbury Festival is the largest greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world and a template for all the festivals that have come after it. The difference is that Glastonbury has all the best aspects of being at a Festival in one astonishing bundle. The Festival site has distinct
socio-geographic regions. The more commercial aspects are around the Pyramid, Other and Dance stages, which feels as if the West End of London a Saturday night has been removed to a field and thoroughly beautified. Unlike the West End, visitors are on every guest list, from the night time cinemas to the biggest gigs.
Glastonbury was heavily influenced by hippie ethics and the free festival movement in the early 1970s, beginning with the Isle of Wight Festival, which featured performances by The Who, amongst other artists. Afterward, organiser Michael Eavis stated that he decided to host the first festival, then called Pilton Festival, after seeing an open air Led Zeppelin concert at the Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music 1970 at the nearby Bath and West Showground in 1970 The festival retains vestiges of this tradition such as the Green Fields area which includes the Green Futures and Healing Field.
Here is some of the history of the glastonbury festival going way back to 1970

1970(19th september):

The first Festival was held on the day after Jimi Hendrix died, over a two day period and before long “word had got around”. It was the Blues festival at the Bath & West Showground that had inspired Michael Eavis to begin a festival of his own although on a smaller scale.

Acts included: Marc Bolan, Keith Christmas, Stackridge, Al Stewart, Quintessence
Attendance: 1,500.
Price: £1 including free milk from the farm.

1987 (19th 21st june)

The council’s decision to refuse the licence was overturned in court only in May. 1987 saw the introduction of the Womad stage to the Festival. £130,000 was raised for CND and local charities.

Acts included: Elvis Costello, Robert Cray, New Order, Paul Brady, Michelle Shocked and Van Morrison.
Attendance: 60,000.

Tickets: £21.

You can see that in 17 years so much has changed at first the attendance was 1,500 and in 1987 it went up to 60,000 even the price to get in to the festival had went up to alot so the festival was getting noticed more and more people wanted to go and see the acts that were playing.

Now a days to go the festival last year in 2009 it would of cost you in the hundreds now and the attendance was 135,000 it just shows how popular went from so small and only costing £1 to now where everyone wants to go there because it is the ultimate festival to go to.

The Glastonbury Festival 2009 took place between 24 and 28 June 2009. In marked contrast with previous years, the 137,500 tickets went on sale on 5 October 2008, earlier than ever before, with pre-registered customers able either to pay in full, or place a £50 reserve deposit to be paid by 1 February. Tickets for the festival sold out. The full line up was released on 25

and included headliners Blur, The Dead Weather, Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young on the Pyramid stage. The Other stage was headlined by The Prodigy, Pendulum, Maxïmo Park, Bloc Party and Franz Ferdinand.Other notable performers included Jarvis Cocker, Rolf Harris, Fairport Convention (who played at the very first Glastonbury Festival), Steel Pulse, Doves, Lady Gaga, Jason Mraz, Nick Cave, Pete Doherty, Hugh Cornwell, Status Quo, The Gaslight Anthem (in which Springsteen appeared on stage during their song "The '59 Sound"), Madness, Dizzee Rascal, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Lily Allen, Kasabian, Florence and the Machine, Alejandro Toledo and the Magic Tombolinos. Spinal Tap one of a total of two shows worldwide on their Back From The Dead "World Tour"

Montol Festival 2009 Video

Montol Festival

The Montol Festival is an annual heritage, arts and community festival in Penzance, Cornwall held between the 16th and 22nd of December each year. The festival is a revival or reinterpretation of many of the traditional cornish midwinter customs & Christmas traditions formerly practiced in and around the Penzance area and common to much of Cornwall at one point. Every year the main event, Montol eve is held on the traditional date of the feast of St Thomas the Apostle,usually the 21st of December, which always coincides with the Winter Solstice. The main event of the festival is Montol Eve on the 21st of December every year. During the evening large guisers processions can be seen all over the town, carrying lanterns, wearing masks and traditional costumes. During the festival there are a series of workshops dedicated to the making of lanterns which are used in a large lantern parade on 21 December in Penzance Town Centre followed by the lighting of a beacon at Lescudjack Hill Fort one of the most ancient sites in the Penzance parish. There are also arts events with the theme of light and darkness, disguise, topsy turvy and Cornish traditions.The word Montol originated in 1700 when Edward Lhuyd visited Cornwall noted the phrase Montol, or An Vontol as being the Winter Solstice.The eve of the Winter Solstice has also been celebrated as the date of King Arthur's birthday by the Cornish for over 1000 years.Montol could be considered as the winter equivalent of the towns famous Golowan Festival the celebration of summer solstice on the year's longest day. The lighting of the Mock and other light and fire traditions were held in high importance by local people, often selecting huge logs for burning often made of ash, many antiquarians noted the similarity between the midsummer fires and the midwinter dances, and burnings some producing large studies on the matter.

Young Promoter Scheme

Today we had Ellen Moule from the Young Promoter Scheme, she sat down and told us what scheme of work she works in. She works alongside young people and they organise and promote and put on exhibitions,performances and shows in the local area. The Young Promoters Scheme have 3 different types of budgets to help the young people involved to research their chosen shows, and to meet up with practitioners and put the final show on. The young people that are involved with the scheme also get training in events managing and promoting, and then the scheme help find venues for the shows to be presented.
You can have different shows that can be put on like; live music, dance, stand up comedy , film nights etc...
The web address for the young promoters scheme is http://youngpromoters.org/

Time Managment Plan

The deadline for this unit is very short, and there is a large amount of work to get done for that date. My time will be divided up into twelve weeks, and I have set targets for each week.
Week 1

1. Set up Show blog
2. Mind map possible ideas for final piece
3. Research different techniques and disciplines
4. Research past and present exhibitions and shows
5. Look at how the way work is exhibited has changed

Week 2

1. Further ideas for final piece
2. Interview Ellen Moule from the Young Promoters Scheme
3. Write up a basic list of questions to ask practitioners

Week 3

1. Begin 250 word proposal for final piece
2. Identify and explore further disciplines
3. Research and review the work of one or more practitioners, and explore the relationships with my own work
4. Target audiences

Week 4

1. Research Acorn Arts centre
2. Class debate
3. Bibliography and resources
4. Write a letter to a local newspaper

Week 5

1. Arts Award begins
2. Find a practitioner to work alongside

Week 6

1. Present research
2. Collect and collate all work to date
3. Interviews with practitioners
4. Half term begins

Week 7

1. Cornwall Film Festival
2. Look at the wider context of the show
3. Develop show ideas - venue etc.

Week 8

1. Complete Arts Award
2. Review final piece and make any necessary changes
3. Finish piece
4. Peer group feedback
5. Full proposal has to be finalised

Week 9

1. Risk assessment
2. Market and publicise show
3. Budgeting
4. Plan show
5. Design promotional material

Week 10

1. Press release
2. Publicise event
3. Finalise project plan
4. Present publicity materials
5. Further feedback
6. Rehearsals and troubleshooting

Week 11

1. Set up and run the show
2. Document the show

Week 12

1. Review and evaluate
2. Analyse feedback
3. Portfolio submission
4. Strengths and weaknesses