Projects
Firestation Arts & Culture works hard to expand it’s scope of activities and enrich the cultural life in the region and further a field. Here are a few of of our other projects you may like.
BEAT is a magazine dedicated to showcasing and feeding into the cultural life of Windsor and the surrounding region.
BEAT provides a platform for the artists, writers, dancers, photographers, musicians and filmmakers living and working in the region, talks to their audience and promotes a broad spectrum cultural activity and debate.
The Microgallery, co-ordinated by the Firestation Centre for Arts & Culture, is a digital resource developed to showcase contemporary video, film and time-based art works. Institutions and organisations can request a feed from the Micro Gallery to present cutting edge, new artists and artworks in their offices, schools, libraries and so on.
To celebrate the UK 2024 Olympic Games and to build lasting attractions in the region, Firestation Arts & Culture is creating The Games Walk – a public art trail and performance festival on the bridges and riverbanks between the Brunel designed Windsor Railway Bridge and Dorney Rowing Lake.
The Games Walk will be a public arts playground, offering an exciting and approachable series of temporary and permanent artworks. A performance festival will coincide with the Olympic events themselves, and is designed to showcase the cultural achievements in the region. The project has been especially chosen to include the local community along with the resident companies and societies that exist and contribute to life on the Thames Corridor.
The River Stories Bridge is the inaugural project to get under way. Last years poet in residence at the Windsor Boys School, Akulah Abgami, is working with local families and school children in a series of poetry workshops to capture the stories of the river that will then be inscribed into one of the bridges on the route.
We also have plans for six other site developments that will see works produced by local arts and craft practitioners. The Games Walk is an ambitious community Art project, we will also be creating a interactive digital games station, a sound installation and a secret lock project.
Stay tuned for more updates, you can even follow the #GamesWalk on Twitter to see what we’re up to.
Each installation and artwork will connect a different local sector and profession with the community and there will be unique requirements for each projects completion. Email thegameswalk@firestationartscentre.com if you’re interested in getting involved.
Visit The Games Walk at www.thegameswalk.com
Fireythings
Fireythings is a bespoke publishing platform cultivating and supporting the very best in cultural products and critically engaged thought. Exisiting at the interface between art and the imagination, culture and new technologies, Fireythings recognises the fragile relationship between content and delivery and seeks to explore the boundaries and possibilities of both.
You’ll find more Fireythings information at www.fireythings.com
Lemonade – A Nomadic Gallery
More details coming soon….
The tWindsor Project is a community arts project administered by Firestation Arts & Culture, encouraging the whole region to share their thoughts, feelings and activities online.
Whether you’re popping out to the shops, falling in love, out with friends, having an argument or musing on the finer points of life, The tWindsor Project needs to know!
Join us in creating a unique portrait of the region made from the personal experiences of it’s residents.
To post to The tWindsor Project you can send a direct message ‘Add Me!’ to @twindsorproject from your Twitter account to have all your tweets added automatically to the project.
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