Mini Plant to sponsor Artists and Communities
Theme of Evolving City
Wed 2 Mar, 2005
Oxford Inspires is delighted
to announce that BMW Group Plant Oxford is to be a theme sponsor within
the Evolving City programme. Evolving City, which will be formally launched
later this month, is a year-long programme of cultural events, projects
and festivals. It is funded with lottery money from the Millennium Commission
and Arts Council England through the Urban Cultural Programme.
BMW Group Plant Oxford is sponsoring Artists and Communities, one of five
themes within Evolving City. The theme will focus on the role of the arts
in community development and social regeneration, with a particular emphasis
on East Oxford and Oxford’s outer estates. Alexandra Brooks, Corporate
Communications Manager, said: "BMW Group Plant Oxford is pleased
to tie in its corporate citizenship campaign with Oxford Inspires' year-long
Evolving City programme. As a major local employer, Plant Oxford recognises
that it can support the community through cultural initiatives that concentrate
on social inclusion, diversity and regeneration. This way, we believe
that we're helping the 'Home of MINI' become a more vibrant and diverse
city to live, work and play in."
Oxford Inspires is coordinating Evolving City on behalf of over 100 cultural
organisations in Oxford and Oxfordshire. Rachel Martin, Evolving City
Coordinator, said: "It has always been our ambition that Evolving
City should widen participation in cultural activity and that in particular
that it should support the development of cultural activity in Barton,
Blackbird Leys, Rose Hill and Cowley. BMW Group's welcome sponsorship
of the Artists and Communities strand of the programme will help us to
promote the work being undertaken by individual artists, community groups
and arts organisations like Soundworks, Fusion, Pegasus Theatre and the
Ark-T Centre in these areas."
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