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Leaside Regeneration aims to use the arts, community celebrations and other means to
promote the practical involvement of local people in physical regeneration programmes in
ways that contribute to community and economic development and neighbourhood renewal.
Here are a few examples...
A visual spectacular of virtual bridges created by local people and world-renowned artists.
Come and see the Lea as you have never seen it before!
Three Mills, E3
Tues 14th Nov
7pm
Victoria Park will be transformed into a modern day pleasure garden for a packed weekend full of unmissable events and entertainment in the heart of east London.
Designer Village Fete, Carters Steam Fair, Side Shows, Circus Performances, Fantastic Lanterns, Street Theatre, Secret Gardens, A Fire Concert, Spectacular Fireworks, and much, much more...
Visit the PARADISE GARDENS website for full details of the timetable of events and the companies and acts appearing.
Chrisp Street Market in Poplar now has even more market traders, thanks to an imaginative training scheme set up by Leaside Regeneration. The latest students of the course will be celebrating their graduation on Saturday the 25th March from 1pm. They will be joined at the market by mystery Eastenders stars, to be confirmed, for a fantastic fun graduation ceremony.
The event will also welcome Pearly Kings and Queens and the London Town Crier, to help celebrate the student's success. Local specialist, Premier Cakes, will be presenting a bespoke cake in honour of the students and all the additional regeneration activity that has taken place at Chrisp Street - with free cake for everyone at the end of the ceremony!
On the same day as the graduation the Chrisp Street Idea Store will be hosting SCAN (Structures for Collaborative Audio Networks), an exciting interactive mobile participatory media project located in public spaces as a tool for the promotion, exchange and broadcast of Free Speech.
Listen to the events online, phone in or come and experience Talkaoke and PeacePod for yourself. A free buffet will also be provided for guests. Talkaoke is a spontaneous talk show where anyone can take a seat and share their views at the round table. PeacePod is a mobile spherical forum that is suspended in the public domain to encourage people to meet and exchange ideas. Audio technologies are embedded into these projects to broadcast events live online.
25th & 26th March 2006
1 - 5 pm
Idea Store, Chrisp Street,
London E14
Between May 14 and August 13 Chrisp Street Market will host three large-scale, high-profile themed events alongside a range of smaller, community-based, family fun days incorporating rides, slides and amazing asides. All events are free and run 11am to 4pm.
Saturday 14 May Heads Up! Launch event
A variety of performance artists celebrate the head. Let Osadia, the international street theatre company from Barcelona, unleash its innovative hair-art, as members of the public are invited to take a seat in the barber's chair to be transformed into works of art; watch the world-renowned Natural Theatre Company from Bath showcase its surrealist visual comedy in the form of very strange people doing very normal things, or very normal people doing very strange things; and join in the wonderful origami millinery of Paul-Henri Jeannel?s Magic Chapeaux. No head is safe.
Saturday 21 May Spring Flowers
Welcome in the Spring with flower arranging and planting, pots to decorate and take away and strange interventions from the Bureau of Silly Ideas. Fresh produce and a range of plants, shrubs and cut flowers are always available at the market.
Saturday 28 May Recycling
From the throw-away to the make'n'take, old stuff to re-use and a wealth of trash to entertain with Sparky the Robot, The Rubbish Men and more from the Bureau of Silly Ideas bringing recycling to the masses.
Saturday 4 June Sea the Whale
Circo Rum Ba Ba, a highly skilled all-female theatrical troupe, presents its large scale show, The Whale. The life-size whale hosts a sailor's museum full of weird and wonderful nautical happenings.
Saturday 18 June Sports and Healthy Living
Competitions and ideas from sports to street dance. Something for everyone to make you feel fitter, from information to penalty shoot-outs, and vaudevillian street theatre company Artizani fielding some of the biggest cricketers you're ever likely to see.
Saturday 25 June In The City
Celebrating the market in Architecture Week, looking at both the history and the present day at Chrisp Street with help from Dot Comedy's non-stop rolling news direct from the street.
Saturday 9 July Art and Crafts
Transforming the market into a studio for the day. From nail art to pavement art, canvases to caricatures - join in and brush up on your arts know-how.
Saturday 16 July Food Day
Food-themed fun. Culinary slapstick and absurd acrobatics from Nakupelle the clown. Nakupelle (a Finnish word meaning naked fool) combines the arts of circus, mask and puppetry with the skills of the acrobat, mime and visual artist. His Bon Appetit is an hilarious and tantalisingly tasty show where the comic catches fruits and vegetables on his face and opens wine bottles whilst performing a one arm handstand on the table. Chrisp Street also welcomes the UK premiere of Taraf Goulames, from France, who manage music, mayhem and cooking snails in the (not so) traditional French fashion. Also, the acclaimed Avanti Display presents Mr Lucky's Birthday Party. Mr Lucky is celebrating his birthday but he and his only guest are caught in a perpetual downpour. Party hats and a cake appear but the weather worsens and their mood blackens. In typical Avanti style it concludes with a bizarre, spectacular and unexpected twist.
Saturday 23 July Animals
Whalley Range All Stars brings its phenomenal 30-foot sleeping pig to the market for one day only. In place of her suckling piglets there is a set of ten holes that the public are invited to put their heads through. From the outside these ten people look like a litter of piglets; from the inside you discover a farmyard with a difference, and an interior world of surprises.
Saturday 6 August Market Magic
The streetwise skills of Urban Magik are on hand (and possibly in your pocket) to amaze and amuse.
Saturday 13 August Finale
Closing the season is a new site-specific show from the acclaimed Avanti Display: a wet'n'wild spectacular entitled The Birth of Venus. French musical comedians, Les Grooms, join in the fun by unleashing their wild jazz-playing hotel bellhops on the unsuspecting public, and there's hot air balloon aerobics from Heliosphere.
This celebratory event in the heart of Greenwich included an array of locally based percussionists drawn from East and South East London. They created a stunning welcome for international Company Airvag, with their spectacle Roule Boule et Les Ratatams.
Massive luminous claws reared out of nowhere, while bouncing inflatables triggered confetti explosions as a colossal horn rose up into the night sky. An unforgettable occasion launching a year long programme of arts and cultural events across East and South East London.
Fusion East
Thousands of people from throughout east London flocked to Victoria Park on Friday evening to show their support for London's bid to host the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games
The Tower Hamlets venue was host to the Rings of Fire - a spectacular Olympics-themed fireworks show and pyrotechnics display, which incorporated the borough's annual bonfire night show.
The evening's entertainment began when hundreds of young people formed a lantern parade which made its way from Mile End Park to Victoria Park. The parade was supported on its way by samba bands, dhol drummers and dancers in carnival costumes.
Rings of Fire was organised by Tower Hamlets Council and is supported by the four other 'host' boroughs. Support has also come from London 2012, Fusion East and Arts Council England.
Rings of Fire is the first event to be sponsored by FUSION EAST, a major cultural programme for East London taking place over the next 18 months.
A consortium of three local authorities in East London - Hackney, Newham and Tower Hamlets - have devised the programme, along with the Cultural Industries Development Agency (CIDA) and Leaside Regeneration, who is managing it.
Through a strategic programme of cross-borough and, cross-art form projects, FUSION EAST will bring together communities, artists, organisations, and cultural traditions, in a celebration of the unique cultural vibrancy of east London.
Friday's Rings of Fire event also saw the launch of Transforming the Landscape: Culture in the Spotlight, a document supported by all five east London boroughs. The plan highlights the important part east London-s creativity and diversity would play to the Games.
On Friday 19th November you are invited to come to Trussler Hall to eat, drink, listen to French music, and even learn how to order in a French caf'. You can also have a French manicure, win prizes in the raffle, and find out more about Beaujolais Nouveau wine. Come and celebrate the arrival of Beaujolais Nouveau with a free wine and cheese tasting session.
Saturday 30th October 2004 - 12noon - 6pm
Experience eerie events as evenings draw in with Pumkins and Punch, scary stories, treasure hunts and toffee apples. Bring or buy a pumpkin to enter the pumpkin sculpture competition, vote the best window display, follow the treasure hunt and try the traditional games and rides. With the weird and wonderful to amuse and entertain and bringing a taste of the past to one of London's oldest street markets.
Leaside Regeneration Limited held a one-day Capacity Building Seminar to boost the skills and information levels of local organisations in the summer of 2003. Around 50 attendees from local youth projects, training organisations, community groups, local businesses, enthusiastic residents and Council employees attended a wide range of workshops on subjects ranging from Business Planning, How to Access Funding, Organisational Development, Contributing to the Tower Hamlets Partnerships to Marketing and Promotion.
Workshop hosts included representatives from the Community Organisation Forum, Charity Aid Foundation, East London Business Alliance, Minority Ethnic Regeneration Group, and The London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
To welcome the submission of the Olympic Tender bid and to thank the many local organisations and East End communities for the support they have given to the bid process, Leaside Regeneration Ltd and Greenwich and Docklands Festivals staged a spectacular pyrotechnics show at Three Mills Green.
The local communities celebrated with leading international visual and performance artists at the free show called 'The Bridge'.
'The Bridge' took place on Friday 16th January and brought together fire sculptures, ldhol drummers, video projections and a pyrotechnics display. The event recognised how both the cultural, and physical, space of London's East End has already benefited from the Olympics process. It showcased arts drawn from the diverse cultural groups in the area, whilst the 'Bridge' theme drew on the many bridges planned as part of the Olympic regeneration programme.
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