19Nov
I want to summarise the main messages of this expanding website:
1: the triple-horizontal bar at the top of the screen takes you to the main menu.
2: The 'Blog' takes you to the series of ideas I've had for possible contents of the planned festival. As you will see I want the festival to celebrate the rich cultural heritage of the West Wight from the Jurassic and Neolithic through Robert Hooke to the Victorians and on to recent 20th century creatives and to creative people working now in the 2020s.
3: the festival will be made and 'performed' or presented by young people
4: the festival will contain a wide range of performances, exhibitions and practical workshops designed for young people to discover and polish their creative skills
5: We intend to create an interactive 'peer-learning network' to put young creatives in touch with other learners, and with experienced media-designers and other professional content-creators who can help.
6: We plan to establish a charitable trust or other not-for-profit social enterprise, to build a business-plan, and then to raise money from the Arts Council, the National Lottery and other possible funders to deliver a WestWight Culturefest. As part of this we will be looking to recruit an entrepreneurial 'director' or facilitator who will be employed to bring the festival to sustainable fruition, so that it can grow year by year and provide a permanent learning-resource for young creatives in whatever area they wish to explore.
7: The world's creative industries are expanding rapidly to accommodate new technologies (like ChatGPT & AI) and newish skills like blogging, content-creation, short-form video, influencing, Python, Javascript and Type-Script. And we want our CultureFest to provide a permanent resource to facilitate these skills.
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