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The Fun Art BusRe-Routed 2012-15

FABA Community Arts Project

The names below have supported this project as follows:

The Lords Giddens, King, Phillips, Rix and Waldegrave and -Sir Alan Ayckbourn, Baroness Bakewell DBE, Peter Boizot MBE DL, Richard Briers CBE, Simon Callow CBE, Sir Ronald Cohen, Sir Christopher Chataway, Antony Gormley OBE, Sir Howard Hodgkin, Nick Hornby, Bob Hoskins, Glenda Jackson CBE MP, Dame Cleo Laine, Roger McGough, Bishop Adrian Newman, Michael Palin CBE, Leon Rosselson Sir Cliff Richard, Dame Diana Rigg, Prunella Scales CBE, Ralph Steadman, Dr. Miriam Stoppard OBE and Sir Tom Stoppard:

“We strongly recommend supporting this post-August, 2011, Inter-Action community development project spearheaded by a multi-arts vehicle. It will visit housing estates and Borough/Town centres to establish self-help groups and create a reality for the participation of residents locally. It will collaborate with Local Authorities (all those selected have welcomed it) and with local agencies seeking similar positive outcomes

We feel that all relevant Foundations, Trusts, Grant-giving bodies, socially responsible Companies and Philanthropists should seriously give this cost-effective project high priority in their deliberations. We also implore the nation's leading creators to join in this important project which could be called:'Great British Artists United for Cultural Fairness'.”

On-going support from HRH the Prince of Wales:

“Inter-Action’s imaginative and refreshingly simple schemes are exactly the sort we aim to encourage”


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Endorsement from David Lammy MP for Tottenham:

“The Fun Art Bus is an inspirational, exciting and valuable project which, through creative and interactive education methods, can have a positive influence on our communities, affirming the vital role of the arts at the heart of our society. The Bus will be travelling through Tottenham, [among many Boroughs/Cities] where children, young people and adults will benefit greatly from the opportunity for engagement with such vibrant and constructive activities, especially as we move forward and recover from the unrest caused by the disorder during August, 2011. I wish the Fun Art Bus and its follow-up community development projects the best of success with this campaign.”


History

In 1972, Inter-Action the Kentish Town-based international community arts project, launched the Fun Art Bus (FAB), under the artistic direction of ED Berman MBE

A Routemaster bus was specially converted to create a small theatre on the upper deck, writing in the windows and on handouts, poetry out of the ticket machine, art works in the advertising spaces roof windows and walls along with a window-box mime theatre, commissioned music through the sound system and a cinema showing short films , videos and slide-shows downstairs.

The Fun Art Bus Book (1973)


HistoryArtists painted, designed and created installations/sculptures. Playwrights wrote short plays, which were performed by a small company of actors and stories were read to children and handed out for them to take home.

The ride and the entertainment were free (the bus ‘tickets’ were poems by writers such as Roger McGough) and disembarking passengers received cut-out paper models of the bus and Alan Brownjohn’s The Big Red Bus Book.

The Fun Art Bus (1972) The Windowbox Mime Theatre

The Fun Art Bus (1972) Henry Goodman as the Clippie


History

The Fun Art Bus (1972) ED Berman in checks (left) and Henry Goodman (right) introduce the moonmen The Fun Art Bus (1972)

A quintuple decker!


History

On the Top Deck: World’s Smallest Proscenium Arch Theatre


History

The FAB became a symbol for a host of Inter-Action activities (high quality professional Arts projects and Arts-Leading-to-Community-Development-objectives). These included:

• City Farms

• The Almost Free Theatre

• Britain’s First Women’s, Gay and Black Theatre Seasons

• The First Community Media Van(featuring a mobile amplified speakerphone which enabled the public to speak to their Local Authority leaders – ‘The World’s Largest Telephone Kiosk’)

• The First Community Sports Programme producing Olympic athletes in the UK

• The First Purpose Built Community Arts Centre in Europe


Inter-Action Fun Art Bus 2012 & 2013

“Inter-Action’s imaginative and refreshingly simple schemes are exactly the sort we aim to encourage”

HRH The Prince of Wales

Statement from the 1979 film about three of Inter-Action’s other projects from the 1970s

Inter-Action, under the aegis of Rose Bruford College and in association with Unfinished Histories, will launch an entirely new Fun Art Bus for the Olympic Year and beyond (2012-13, selected London Boroughs and 2014, selected major UK towns and cities). The bus comprises several neutral theatre, video and art exhibition spaces. The contents will be entirely new art, literary, musical and theatre creations; it is not a revival.A specially selected team of students and staff from Rose Bruford College are converting an old RouteMaster into a mobile multi-arts venue with exhibition spaces, a proscenium arch theatre upstairs, a window theatre for mime downstairs and a portable, outdoor performance platform. Inter-Action will fit the vehicle with large LED video screens and as much modern technology as possible for sound, projections, digital arts and IT.The new Fun Art Bus will draw on Inter-Action’s years of experience in both the arts and social enterprise/community development. This time, the Bus will not only be a vehicle for the arts and entertainment, but its other function will be as a vehicle to introduce community development especially in the arts, social, self-help and cultural activities. The workers for the preparatory and development phases are called ‘Lone Rangers’ who will arrange workshops in self-help as well as literacy/numeracy, theatre, art, drawing, etc.


The Lone Rangers are specially trained workers who combine community arts, self-help and arts workshop skills. They carry the responsibility for the community arts development aspects of this Fun Art Bus project via the first of a four phase programme: Contacts and Liaisons.

These workers will liaise with the person appointed by the Local Authority to provide contacts. The contacts will be approached by the ‘Lone Rangers’ to collaborate and/or help with the programme.

The Inter-Action Fun Art Bus Project is not asking Local Authorities for any funding and the visit of the Fun Art Bus and its follow-up training/workshops is free of charge. We are attempting to raise the funding from socially responsible businesses, Arts and Foundation sources.

The Fun Art Bus: Lone Rangers

Who Will Participate

Locally?


F.A.B. Key Elements

How Can YouParticipate in

Self-Help Locally?

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

DIALOGUE

CONTACTS & LIAISONS

SUPPORT & INFORMATION

www.inter-action.

uk.com

What Do You NeedTo

Participate Locally?

TRAINING


After the initial contacts and liaisons, the Lone Rangers will do the following:

• Prepare for the visit of the bus with local Officers, representatives of voluntary agencies and local people• Roam through the audience asking what people think they want• Explain that they will be given training to set up their own self-help group(s) or training workshops• Arrange for the follow-up training visits to establish self-help groups(s)• Set up the website for each visited location• Give out contacts and training sheets for social, local arts and cultural activities/training

The Fun Art Bus: CONTACTS AND LIAISONS


Self-Help Locally?


The Lone Ranger makes arrangements for the arrival of the Fun Art Bus, and establishes a connection between the Local Authority, local community and arts groups, charities, businesses and residents of the specific Housing Estate.

During the Fun Art Bus visit, the Lone Ranger interacts with the audience helping them to work out what cultural, community education, arts and social resources they might want to try to obtain locally and run through their own self-help groups. The Lone Ranger will also provide more specific contact points for information and will set up a future meeting to discuss organising self-help groups, training schemes, literacy/numeracy trainers and work opportunities.

The Fun Art Bus: CONTACTS AND LIAISONS


Self-Help Locally?

Phase 1 (Pre-F.A.B.visit):

Phase 2 (The F.A.B. visit):


The Fun Art Bus: ARTS & ENTERTAINMENTThe Fun Art Bus is a mobile, multi-arts centre -- a group installation on wheels. Up to 60 artists will be invited to submit writings, paintings, sculptures, cartoons, music and plays. These will be selected and co-ordinated by the project’s Artistic Director.

Well known artists will ‘front’ for emerging artists who will be introduced to the public. Artists who contribute will retain the ownership and copyrights of their creations. It is intended to have an exhibition of all of the artistic contributions in a secure, central London location after year one.

For the special pre-launch offer (May – October, 2012), featuring your local artists and performers, please e-mail us at [email protected]

Each FAB visit provides an introduction to a range of arts/cultural activities including:

• Theatre• Painting• Drawing• Film• Story-telling• Photography• Poetry• Concrete Poetry• Zumba• Street Dance

• Mime• Sculpture• Cartoon• Dance• Music• Reading• Hip-hop• Video• Digital Art• Writing


The Fun Art Bus: DIALOGUE

If the Local Authority agrees to appoint someone to field questions, then an amplified speakerphone will enable residents, surrounded by their friends and neighbours, to gain information orally and directly from their Local Authority.

Once residents have been given the confidence to speak to their Local Authority, it is hoped that some will feel confident to continue and become more active participants locally and in self-help groups.


Following on from the work undertaken in the first and second phases -- Contacts & Liaisons, theLone Rangers carry out Phases 3 and 4 of their work:

This approach enables positive cultural engagement and/or participation within a community, many months and years after the F.A.B. has moved on…

The Lone Rangers return to facilitate follow-up sessions. This may bea creative workshop, a training session in social enterprise or how to set up and run their own self-help groups for various cultural/educational or social purposes. This will be followed by an open meeting to take new suggestions and to answer questions.

The Lone Rangers will hand out leaflets guiding people to their own section of Inter-Action’s website where there will be tailor-made arts/social/educational/cultural information for their community and contact details for Inter-Action’s support team.

The Fun Art Bus: Training

What Do You NeedTo

Participate Locally?

Phase 3 (The follow-up visit):

Phase 4 (Website and Phone Contact):


The Fun Art Bus: SUPPORT & INFORMATION

Inter-Action will provide and maintain tailor-made sections of its website for each estate/venue visited. These will provide the following:

1. Photographs and videos of local people participating in the Fun Art Bus visit2. Borough specific information3. Support for the training/workshops/self-help group sessions4. Evaluations – qualitative and quantitative5. Regular updates among all participants

www.inter-action.

uk.com


“The riots in England will cost the taxpayer more than £133m in policing and compensation for businesses hit by the violence, the home affairs select committee has been told.”

Tuesday 6th September 2011

This does not include the cost of the judiciary or imprisonment

Wednesday 2nd November 2011

Scotland Yard is facing a possible bill of up to £370 million for the four days of unrest that swept the capital in August.The bill includes compensations claims from firms whose properties were damaged or destroyed in unrest of between £200 to £300 million.At the same time the cost of police overtime and drafting in reinforcements and the bill for the criminal enquiry could top £71 million.

At the same time the cost of police overtime and drafting in reinforcements and the bill for the criminal enquiry could top £71 million. Officials say that while the Government is expected to pick up much of the bill so far nothing has been agreed. There are fears that the cash-strapped Met will be left facing a shortfall of millions of pounds. John Biggs, the London Assembly budget committee chairman, said: “Whatever happens there will be a cost from the disturbances which will be born by Londoners.”

Earlier the Evening Standard reported:

Monday 28th November 2011

This Interim Report sets out the “Financial Recovery for Individuals and Businesses” as follows: “The final bill may be around half a billion pounds” !!

The report also states that: “330,000 tourists have been predicted to go elsewhere, cutting tourism spending by £520m”

At first The Guardian reported this:

September 2012- August 2013

• Barking and Dagenham• Croydon• Camden• Enfield• Greenwich• Hackney• Haringey

NB: 1. Other Boroughs/Cities for visits will be considered upon request

2. Additional follow-up sessions for workshops & self-help training for estates visited will take place from November - March 2012 and 2013

September 2013 - December 2014 (6 of the following)

• Birmingham• Bristol• Liverpool• Manchester• Nottingham• Salford• Peterborough

Proposed Boroughs/Cities For Visits 2012-2013


• Hounslow• Lambeth• Newham• Southwark• Tower Hamlets• Waltham Forest• Wandsworth

The Fun Art Bus – A Timely Initiative

We believe that the Inter-Action Fun Art Bus and its surrounding project, provided under the aegis of Rose Bruford College and in association with Unfinished Histories, has a timely role to play in collaboration with Local Authorities, local voluntary organisations and local residents on housing estates.Inter-Action will draw on its own experience and the experience of the Local Authorities to ensure that the hard to reach and disadvantaged gain contacts with the social, arts, educational and cultural activities in their wider areas as well as workshops and self-help training. In light of the events of August, 2011, we believe that the Inter-Action Fun Art Bus project can make a contribution to the activities that Local Authorities and Voluntary Agencies will be implementing. It will collaborate with Local Agencies and involve local people in planning the visits and follow-up training. Local artists of all kinds are welcome to perform on the Bus.Perhaps the most important part of this project is its self-help and self-improvement follow-up training. This will be enhanced by tailor-made online advice and photos/videos of people participating on each estate. We hope that the overall FAB project will make a small, but meaningful, contribution to the reconstruction of skills, community education, attitudes, opportunities and aspirations of many local children, young people and adults regardless of their previous isolation, skills gaps and confidence levels.


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