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Artwave Art Festival
2006
Artists who wish to participate in this year’s Artwave
event must register before April 19th. Lewes District Council’s
annual arts festival will take place this year between August
26th and September 17th. The festival is open to any local (Lewes
District) ‘maker’ (Councilese for artist or craftsman),
who wishes to be included. The Council will co-ordinate the
festival and produce and distribute a brochure and a poster
advertising the event. In the past ‘makers’ have
included corset makers and bookbinders, as well as oil painters
and sculptors. Participants can exhibit their work wherever
they want, whether in a gallery, open house, or outdoor space.
There is no quality control to artworks which can be part of
the festival - this really is art for everybody.
Everybody with a bit of cash to stump up, that is. It is a sign
of the times that this is the first time in thirteen years that
artists are expected to pay for the privilege of participating
in Artwave. Each participant must stump up £50 to be included
in the official listings. Artwave is a not-for-profit festival,
but the Council have recently removed their arts development
budget and got rid of the post of Arts Officer. The project
co-ordinator for Artwave 2006, Paula da Luz, is hired on a part-time
basis. AL |
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Calling all artists: The Council
are looking for artists who
want to exhibit this summer |
