The British & Irish Modern Music Institute (BIMM) is Europe’s largest, most connected music institute with eight colleges based in vibrant musical cities across the UK and Europe.
urbanflo is working in collaboration with Zero81 agency to develop the long tern Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Strategy for the wider BIMM family of education establishments across the UK, Ireland and Germany that specialise in Music (BIMM) Performing Arts (ICT - Institute of Contemporary Theatre), and Film (SFS - Screen & Film School).
Culture ConneX '22
Pride Cultural Development Fund
(also Colour My World Exhibition)
PRIDE CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT FUND (PCDF)
A new initiative to create new spaces for different stories to be told in different ways from our rapidly changing community.
The 2018 pilot project involved over 70 artists and community organisations.
BRIGHTON PRIDE
Photography & Visual Art Exhibition
Located in 2 city centre venues, the stunning ‘Colour My World’ exhibition featured creative contributions from over 60 artists, filmmakers and activists from the UK, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia and the Americas. Through this array of cultural lenses, the exhibition revealed a range of personal and sometimes raw, intimate and challenging explorations of social and political struggles that some LGBTQ+ communities are still facing...
The Pan-African Creative Exchange (PACE), is a 3-day biannual business-to-business arts market and showcase, in South Africa, developed in partnership with the Vrystaat Arts Festival, for African artists to network and share work with national and international arts presenters and producers.
Over the course of the 2018 exchange dancers, musicians, theatre-makers and companies, street artists, carnival and spoken word performers presented a combination of full length shows and extracts from their latest productions as well as new and developing work.
Programmed between the performances were a dynamic series of themed discussions and seminars which included opportunities for delegates to develop new contacts and partnerships as well as meet and network with existing colleagues. PACE creates an environment that facilitates discussions, allowing for ideas to flow, partnerships to be formed and collaborations to be created...
& DOCUMENTARY
VYRSTAAT FESTIVAL
July 2018, 2017 & 2016
Bloemfontein (SA)
The Vrystaat Arts Festival • Tsa-Botjhaba is an Afrikaans language festival that forges creative connections with English and Sotho cultures. "One festival. Many stories" is the vision, and Vrystaat contributes to the exchange of ideas around arts, culture and society through connections with other national and international creative communities.
Goals
We bring people together
We support great art
We develop artists and audiences
We drive innovation
We play in the world stage
Sussex Festival is an annual Dance/Musical Theatre competition providing a professional environment for children & young people to perform and receive constructive feedback from highly experienced industry experts. Over 700 individual performers take part in the festival each year plus over 70 groups compete in a curriculum of 163 different Song & Dance, Classical, Contemporary, Modern, Tap and National classes over an intensive 8-day programme. In collaboration with Pandora Web Design, urbanflo developed 'master:Class', a bespoke online system to manage all aspects of the festival's administration.
Due to consistently high standards Sussex Festival is considered to be a critical component of the national dance festival circuit, with participants and audiences hailing from 27 dance schools from across Essex, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Surrey and East/West Sussex. However, despite this success, the festival committee are keen to ensure that they meet their commitment to constantly strive to improve the opportunities and experiences for young performers. urbanflo's other key role here is to take a lead on this engagement initiative, and we have developed a strategy which will include non-competitve activities, subidised access to classes and international exchange opportunities.
EXHIBITION VENUE
[Typically Tropical...]
INEXTRICABLE 1, 2 & 3
Ashe
Plastic Funktastic
SupaSistas
Iconic You / Iconic Verse
Brighton Dome & Festival Managers
Delivered in partnership with
Nike Jonah
(Creative Case for Diversity)
Brighton Cultural Framework Summit
The Cultural Framework has at its heart a commitment by Brighton & Hove's creative and cultural sector to cultural, ethnic and social pluralism in their organisations’ practices, processes and policies. This is expressed through a voluntary Inclusivity Charter, which organisations can adopt. urbanflo Director Jenni Lewin-Turner is the lead consultant on the Cultrual Framework's Inclusion Strand.