News
Friday, 30 April 2010
Oxford City Council: Bringing Communities Together Through Culture
Oxford has a unique cultural heritage and a voracious appetite for new and challenging cultural activities. Oxford City Council supports the development of the city’s cultural infrastructure by delivering and supporting programmes encompassing visual arts, music, dance, theatre, exhibitions, events and festivals. The Council aims to use culture and the arts as a way of bringing together communities from across our diverse city. Over the coming twelve months they will be doing this in a number of new ways.
The Council are changing the way that the Town Hall is managed and programmed in order to turn it into a resource for the whole community. They have started work on an exciting project to transform the Museum of Oxford, so that it engages the city’s diverse communities in celebrating their role in the city’s development. They are working in partnership with other agencies to improve the city’s arts infrastructure, and finally, they will work on developing cross-cultural opportunities with Oxford’s partners in Belgium, France, Germany, Russia and Nicaragua.
Over the coming year the City Council will be working to ensure that culture becomes a key driver of regeneration in the city, their aim being to increase access to cultural opportunities for everyone, particularly young people.
If you are an artist or local event organiser seeking advice, or simply want to learn more about the City Council and the services that they provide, please contact them on 01865 5249811 or email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), Cultural Development Manager.
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Oxford City Council Summer Highlights
Lord Mayor’s Parade
Monday 31st May
Commencing at the Town Hall, this year’s procession around the city centre will feature pageantry and a re-enactment of the mayor-making ceremony in Bonn Square. The procession will be led by the KG marching band from our twinned City, Bonn. It will finish at Oxford Castle where there will be a mayor’s pic-nic and a host of community performances and exhibits.
Venue: City Centre, Bonn Square and Oxford Castle
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Ollie the Ox’s Activities for Children
Thursdays throughout June, July and August, 11.00am–12.30pm or 2.00-3.30pm
Venue: Museum of Oxford
Tickets: £2-3
Throughout the summer holidays there will be art and craft activities suitable for children aged 5 to 12 years. Workshops include knights and dragons, illuminated ceramics, Victorian optical illusions and much more. Booking is recommended. More Info
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Voices of Oxford – Bring and Sing Mozart Requiem
Saturday 5th June 2010, 2.00pm-9.00pm
Venue: Oxford Town Hall
Tickets: £20, £15 concessions
The event will bring together 700 singers from around Oxfordshire to join together in a scratch performance of Mozart’s Requiem in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support and to celebrate the wealth of musical talent in Oxfordshire. The event is open to singers of all ability. The concert will be conducted by David Lawrence, Guinness World Record Holder for conducting the largest choir in the UK (8000 people) and soloists will include James Bowman, Bonaventura Bottone and Giles Underwood. More Info
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Metal Reincarnation
Tuesday 29th June – Saturday 24th July 2010, 10.00am-6.00pm
Venue: Oxford Town Hall Gallery
Tickets: Free entry
Igor Ivanov is a Russian artist and interior designer whose work promotes natural beauty through metal objects. In an era of heightened environmental concern Igor crafts art works from what would be considered as industrial garbage. The fishes, faces and landscapes – created and hand crafted from metal waste are unique pieces of his fanciful art.
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Big Dance 2010
Sunday 4th July - Saturday 10th July 2010, times tbc
Venue: Headington Hill
Tickets: Free
Big Dance 2010 will include a dance stage with performances and master classes from Oxford’s many youth and community dance groups as well as a new site-specific commissioned dance piece and schools workshop activity. More Info
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