Fwd: Special Update on Camberwell Arts Festival
Camberwell Business Network Moderator
Dear Friends of SE5 Forum for Camberwell
A special email to update you on the latest news from
CAMBERWELL ARTS FESTIVAL 2012
16th – 24th June
This year’s Camberwell Arts Festival is approaching fast and we’re looking for local volunteers to get involved in the following projects:
TRAVEL GUIDE TO CAMBERWELL
We’re delighted to announce that we’ve just received funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund to create a Travel Guide to Camberwell during this year’s Festival. To help us create this, we’re looking for local writers, photographers and artists – as well as residents who love the area – to get involved.
Whether you are an experienced journalist or someone who hasn’t written anything more than a shopping list since leaving school, we want to hear your take on Camberwell. We want the Guide to be a unique and unusual take on Camberwell by the people who know it best – and are therefore looking for the personal, the unexpected and the quirky as well as traditional travel writing, historical research and reviews of local shops, restaurants, pubs, cafes etc.
Camberwell is a diverse and interesting part of London, with a colourful history, but for many people it’s just a thoroughfare - seen only from the many buses that pass through. Travel Guide to Camberwell is an opportunity to challenge this perception and encourage residents and visitors alike to see Camberwell in a new light.
How to get involved
There are two ways to get involved in the creation of the Travel Guide to Camberwell:
1. Join us for one or more of the following drop-in workshops, led by Samantha Cook and Greg Ward, travel writers for the Rough Guides:
Travel writing workshop
Camberwell Library, 17 – 21 Camberwell Church St, SE5 8TR Monday 18th June, 7pm
Travel photography workshop
Camberwell Library, 17 – 21 Camberwell Church St, SE5 8TR Tuesday 19th June, 7pm
Pub and restaurant review workshop
Crooked Well, 16 Grove Lane, SE5 8SY
Wednesday 20th June, 7pm
2. Email your contributions to: kelly....@camberwellarts.org.uk / kellyo...@london.com
We can’t guarantee to include all contributions in the printed version of the Guide, but we will put all family-friendly contributions online.
The printed version will be launched in September and distributed locally.
CAMBERWELL TOURIST INFORMATION BUREAU
To kick-start the Travel Guide to Camberwell, we have worked with local artists and residents to create a pop-up tourist information bureau on Camberwell Green. This will enable people to sign up for tours of the area, collect artist designed posters and postcards about Camberwell, see what’s happening locally and find out more about this year’s Festival programme.
The Camberwell Tourist Information Bureau will be open from 3 – 8pm every day and we are looking for local volunteers to staff it during these hours. We’re looking for friendly people who love Camberwell and would enjoy promoting the many wonders of the area to residents and visitors alike.
We’ll need to have two volunteers staffing the Bureau at any one time, so if you’re interested in being involved, please email your name, phone number and potential availability during the period from 18th – 24th June
(3 - 8pm) to: kelly....@camberwellarts.org.uk / kellyo...@london.com
We’ll then get in touch by phone to confirm which hours we’d like you to work and to have an informal chat about what will be involved.
OPEN STUDIOS Stop Press
Mat Collishaw will be among the artists opening their studios to the public.
Sat 16th June, 12 - 5pm
Old King William IV
283 Camberwell New Road, SE5 0TF
PICK UP THE BROCHURE AT SATURDAY’S FARMERS’ MARKET ON CAMBERWELL GREEN
OR download it from the Camberwell Arts website www.camberwellarts.org.uk
The full programme can also be viewed online: http://camberwellarts.org.uk/festival.html
AND FINALLY
Camberwell Arts are pleased to invite you to the launch of this year's Camberwell Arts Festival. Saturday 16th June, 7pm. Join us for a specially commissioned Camberwell Cocktail at the Stormbird, 25 Camberwell Church St, SE5
For further information contact Kelly O'Reilly on 07941125901 / kelly....@camberwellarts.org.uk