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| AOF/PL001 |  BREWIN DOLPHIN BORDERS BOOK FESTIVAL: 16TH - 19TH JUNE, 2011 Since its launch in 2004, the Borders Book Festival has grown rapidly in popularity and stature and has become established as one of the top five literature festivals in the country and one of the Scottish Borders' most prestigious events. Consistently praised by the national press for its quality, the festival has delighted audiences of all ages year on year by bringing many distinguished, entertaining and high profile writers to the picturesque town of Melrose in June each year. It also nurtures new talent by providing a platform for debut writers and local authors. In 2010 Rory Bremner, Jim Naughtie, former Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo and Gervase Phinn returned to dazzle audiences, along with John Simpson, John Prescott, Sarah Raven, Lord Hurd, William Fiennes and Dame Shirley Williams. This is in addition to a long list of other fascinating, influential and entertaining authors. "Add the prestigious Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards 2010, the new £25,000 Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction, the Family Book Festival and a variety of other events and activities and you can see why the festival attracted 10,000 visitors in 2010. A range of packages exist for the Brewin Dolphin Borders Book Festival 2011 that offer a fun opportunity to market your products and services to our growing audiences, entertain your clients or reward staff through an association with the festival. It also provides the opportunity to demonstrate corporate social responsibility by supporting a significant cultural and educational event that promotes literacy, social inclusion and participation. More information is available on request". Contact: Mrs Sarah Mathieson. Address: Vantage, Renwick Suite A, High Street, Melrose TD6 9PB. Tel.: 01896 800720. E-mail: sarah@vantageevents.co.uk link to website
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| AOF/PL002 |  EXETER CITY COUNCIL - EXETER SUMMER FESTIVAL Companies based in - or near - Exeter can put themselves in the spotlight by supporting the Exeter Summer Festival. This year's Summer Festival takes place from 25th June to 10th July, 2010. It is the highlight of the city's cultural year. As usual, there will be over forty events, including classical events in the beautiful Exeter Cathedral. There will also be music, theatre, dance, comedy, children's events and free family activities. "In exchange for event sponsorship in the region of £2,000 - £4,000, you can benefit from having your company name associated with our success. Sponsor benefits include the provision of hospitality venues (subject to availability), perhaps in the historic Guildhall - something to really wow your clients or your selected group of employees. For more details contact marketing@exeter.gov.uk and please mention that your attention was attracted by this website". Contact: Noreen Medland, Marketing & Development Officer. Address: Civic Centre, Paris Street, Exeter EX1 1JJ. Tel.: 01392 265176. Fax: 01392 265625. E-mail: noreen.medland@exeter.gov.uk. link to website
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| AOF/PL003 |  FILM EDUCATION: NATIONAL SCHOOLS FILM WEEK National Schools Film Week is the world's largest festival for cinema and young people. The 2009 event comprised 400,000 attendees (4-19 years), 500 locations across the UK and 2,500 events. It receives widespread media coverage and continues to benefit from a media partnership with CBBC. "We are searching for a major sponsor in 2010 to help expand this wonderful event even further. Promotional opportunities include • in-cinema posters and displays (10 million views) • schools marketing (2 million students) • media campaign (11 million total audience). Contact: Derek Ray-Hill, Development Director. Address: 91A Berwick Street, Soho, London W1F 0BP. Tel.: 020 7292 7330. Fax: 020 7287 6970. E-mail: derek@filmeducation.org. link to website
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| AOF/PL004 |  GRIMM UP NORTH HORROR FILM FESTIVAL The producers of Grimm Up North promise sponsors the red carpet treatment at Manchester's blood-curdling festival of horror. Grimm Up North is rapidly growing and tipped to rival London's annual horror event, Frightfest. The festival's core audiences are the tech savvy 18-35 age group and, with lots of media coverage, big promotional benefits are offered. With the festival run by film and TV professionals, sponsors are offered tailor-made multimedia packages with take-away promotional tools. • Last year: with the promise to be "Big, Bold and Bloody", Grimm Up North was launched during Halloween 2009, the first festival of its kind in the North West. The opening gala premiere was The Descent 2, followed by three days of spine-chilling preview screenings and events. Last year's highlights included Zombie Aid 2, Bob Keen's Monster Exhibition, book signings with the legendary horror authors Ramsey Campbell and Iain McKinnon, a Q&A with zombie movie Colin director Marc Price and a Hellraiser signing with Doug Bradley, aka Pinhead. • New this year: Grimm Up North will return in 2010 hosting a bigger and better festival between 28th and 31st October. "We have partnered with The Manchester Literary Festival and the Manchester Science Festival for a fascinating programme of events". Contact: Cybele Rowbottom, Sponsorship Manager. Address: Not A Number Productions, 4 Acton Square, Salford M5 4NY. Tel.: 0161 737 2127. E-mail: Cybele@grimmfest.com link to website (2010 festival) link to website (2009 festival)
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| AOF/PL005 |  LIMETREE MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL Limetree Music & Arts Festival is now in its third year and is becoming well respected in the Festival arena, having been nominated for Best Small Festival and Best Live Performances in the 2008 and 2009 Festival of the Year Awards. The festival attracts a mature, professional audience with its core appeal being to young families. The business's turnover is doubling year on year and in 2010 is expected to hit all its targets for attendees. Operated and managed by a small team headed by Sean Birdsall, a Finance Director in a successful construction company, the festival has attracted masses of good PR and publicity which can be viewed online or sent to anyone who registers an interest. Sponsors will have exclusivity and various options can be discussed. "We are now getting national coverage in print and will be expecting some TV coverage in the near future. The festival would be particularly attractive to a drinks company, as Limetree operates its own bars and could offer a fully exclusive deal with a drinks operator, including them in all direct marketing materials (100,000+ A5 flyers) and incorporating a full web presence. Bespoke deals are available, so please do get in touch". Contact: Sean Birdsall, Managing Director. Address: 10 Scarthingwell Park, Barkton Ash, Leeds LS24 9PG. Tel.: 01937 557812. Fax: 07941 477067. E-mail: sean@limetreefestival.co.uk. link to website
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| AOF/PL006 |  SEEDTIME PROJECTS "Would you like to promote your products or services to 7,000+ local people in Dagenham and the surrounding areas? One that promotes community cohesion to meet your corporate social responsibility aims?" In the Mix is a community cohesion festival, in the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham, aimed at bringing about better understanding and harmony in the community, especially across race, age and religion whilst celebrating talent and diversity. This year's event will take place on 7th August in Parsloes Park, Dagenham. The last event of this kind in 2008 had a footfall of 3,500. Projections for 2010 are a footfall of 7,000+. The event is advertised in the local press and also via a full advertising campaign on the local radio station that reaches 29,000 adults per week. The project is initiated by the charity Seedtime Projects. "We believe that by bringing the entire community together to celebrate diversity through music, art and entertainment, there will be better understanding between various groups of people living in the community. Community cohesion is a buzz word in Barking and Dagenham and In The Mix is truly becoming on of the main events for connecting the local community. Seedtime Projects has various sponsorship packages available from £50 - £30,000. Further information is available on request. Get Ready ... get In The Mix!" Contact: Dawn Quye-Joyce, Community Engagement Manager. Address: 5a Parsloes Avenue, Dagenham, Essex RM9 5PA. Tel.: 020 8596 0106. Fax: 020 8526 7011. E-mail: dawn@seedtimeprojects.org.uk. link to website
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| AOF/PL007 |  UK CHOCOLATE ONLINE MAGAZINE LAUNCH AT THE NOTTING HILL CARNIVAL 2010 UK Chocolate online magazine has already attracted 500,000 pre-launch subscribers. In order to maximise brand recognition and visibility, the UK Chocolate Media Group is undertaking a major PR campaign at this year's Notting Hill Carnival - 1.5 million people will be reached over the two days of the festival. For those not familiar with this event, the Notting Hill Carnival annually attracts over 1.5 million visitors from around the globe, being one of the world's largest, most respected and most truly global street festivals. The UK Chocolate promotion ladies will be adorned in UK Chocolate branded T-shirts and will descend on patrons and carnival-goers alike, distributing goodie bags containing marketing products supplied by their sponsors, as well as UK Chocolate-branded marketing material. "We would like to invite you to both participate in and celebrate our launch with us as an official partner/sponsor of our launch issue. Join with us as we go on the road with a month long and intense marketing/PR campaign, including, but not limited to, an official launch event, press releases, and more. Whether you simply wish to include marketing materials in our branded goodie bags or if you would like to benefit from the full range of sponsorship and marketing opportunities presently available, we have tailored various packages to suit your precise needs. Each package is aimed at delivering maximum exposure and benefit to each of our partners regardless of partnership levels and I invite you to peruse the attached document for further information on existing packages. I am positive that we can be of benefit to each other and look forward to establishing a working relationship with yourself and your company. If I can be of any further assistance, please do not hesitate to call me - I will only be too happy to handle your queries". Contact: Jules Bowen. Address: 4th Floor, 22 Park Street, East Croydon CR0 1YE. Tel.: 0203 3260429. E-mail: bowenj@ukchoc.com link to website
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| AOF/PL008 |  WAYS WITH WORDS LITERATURE FESTIVAL Ways With Words is an annual, ten-day literature festival which takes place in the glorious buildings of Dartington Hall in Devon. The mediæval courtyard at Dartington, with its Great Hall, Barn Theatre and on-site accommodation, makes a perfect setting for a high quality, civilised and most enjoyable festival. The festival is run in association with the Telegraph Media Group who offer substantial editorial coverage and promotional space to the festival in the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, online and to their subscribers list. Ways With Words takes place in July each year and during the course of the ten days there are about 120 different events, with over two hundred speakers giving talks, readings, performances and taking part in discussions. The speakers who attend are leading authors in the UK and abroad, politicians, commentators, journalists and personalities from the media world. Past speakers and regular attenders include Joan Bakewell, Roy Hattersley, Martin Bell, Kate Adie, Michael Buerk, Melvyn Bragg, Baroness Warnock, A.C. Grayling, Salley Vickers, Rageh Omaar, Blake Morrison, Michael Frayn and Claire Tomalin. During the festival about 20,000 audience members attend. A typical audience member will be 45+, well-educated with some disposable income and interested in new ideas and intellectual improvement. There is access to exclusive hospitality facilities. "There are many opportunities for sponsors to tailor a package which suits you and your clients". Contact: Kay Dunbar or Stephen Bristow, Directors. Address: Ways With Words, Droridge Farm, Dartington TQ9 6JG. Tel.: 01803 867311. Fax: 01803 863688. E-mail: kay@wayswithwords.co.uk. link to website
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| AOF/PL009 |   WEZIMBABWE WEZIMBABWE is a UK based charity and its premier event is called Zimfest™. This is an annual festival which has been held successfully over the last six years. Zimfest has grown to become one of the biggest African festivals and last year attracted over 5,000 people. Testament to the success of the event is that strategic partnerships have been established to give the event a unique global presence and it now takes place in five cities across the globe: London, Cape Town, Perth, Brisbane and Bulawayo, attracting Zimbabweans as well as locals in a truly multicultural celebration of Zimbabwean music and culture. "We are very proud of this achievement", says Head of Marketing Mike Tashaya, "and would like to offer you the opportunity to join us in the continued success of the festival. To this end we would like to discuss the possibility of your joining us as one of the sponsors and partners of this event. We currently receive extensive coverage in both local and national press, as well as several community focused publications. With Zimbabwe being the subject of constant debate we are assured of wide press coverage and have in the past been covered by, amongst others, the BBC, Virgin Media, the Sunday Independent, TNT Magazine and InLondon as well as several online publications and media services. We also provide a good opportunity to have your brand on thousands of computer screens via our website and our social media presence online. Over the last couple of years the event has been supported by Qantas, Coca-Cola, Western Union - to name just a few of the companies who have worked with one or more of the festivals around the world. Please take a look at the documents which provide you with a brief history of WEZIMBABWE and a detailed sponsorship proposal for Zimfest. If you are interested in finding out more or in discussing this opportunity further, please do not hesitate to contact me via the contact details provided". Contact: Mike Tashaya, Head of Marketing. Address: 54-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4JX. Tel.: 07876 430182. E-mail: mike.tashaya@wezimbabwe.org link to website
Current sponsorship opportunities Principle Sponsor (global) Local Sponsor Hospitality Sponsor (local) Guest Sponsor In return for sponsorship support, WEZIMBABWE will offer extensive promotion of the sponsor's brand as a named sponsor on all appropriate media releases, marketing material and online and social media marketing. This also extends to banner advertising on the day. More information is available on the event website.
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| AOF/0001 | ASHFORD FEDERATION OF ARTS The organisers of this year's Arts at St Mary's combined arts festival in Ashford are looking for financial help or sponsorship support to aid an ambitious programme. Ashford is within an area of cultural deficit, with regard to professional arts, so any assistance from sponsors would be much appreciated. Contact: Jane M. Lawrie, Chairman. Address: 32 Hardinge Road, Ashford, Kent TN24 8HA. Tel.: 01233 634718. Fax: 01233 665318. E-mail: jane_mary_lawrie@hotmail.com.
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| AOF/0002 | BATH FRINGE FESTIVAL The Bath Fringe Festival has been running for 21 years and is one of the largest Fringe Festivals in the country. The Festival is organised by local artists, promoters and many willing helpers. Offering a range of both popular and alternative art forms, the Festival is seeking commercial sponsorship to fund expansion of its activities - sponsorship could cover the whole programme or individual events/venues. Contact: Wendy Matthews, Administrator. Address: 103 Walcot Street, Bath BA1 5BW. E-mail: admin@bathfringe.co.uk. link to website |
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| AOF/0003 | BATH INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL Inaugurated in 1948, the Bath International Music Festival has an illustrious artistic history and is a well-established event of national significance and international reputation. It takes place annually over seventeen days in late May/early June, presenting a range of high quality events including orchestral, chamber and contemporary classical music, contemporary jazz, world music and new electronica. The programme takes place mainly in city venues and also includes free-to-the-public outdoor events. A selection of events additionally take place in the surrounding towns and villages of the North East Somerset local authority area. Over the last sixty years the festival has been host to many internationally acclaimed artists and has showcased many spectacular events, including the now famous collaboration between Yehudi Menuhin and Ravi Shankar. 2009 dates are 22nd May to 6th June, when more than sixty events will be staged in a number of Bath's outstanding venues, including the art-deco Forum, regency Assembly Rooms and Guildhall, and the magnificent Bath Abbey. Projected audience numbers are over 24,000 and there will be extensive Radio 3 recordings and live broadcasts. The first Friday in the Music Festival sees the Party in the City event, which itself is a festival within a festival, being a celebration of local and community talent alongside internationally-renowned performers. There are outdoor and indoor events with over thirty venues in use for that one evening and outdoor busking culminating in an impressive firework display. Contact: Ruth Knagg, Development Director. Address: Abbey Chambers, Kingston Buildings, Bath BA1 1NT. Tel.: 01225 462231. Fax: 01225 445551. E-mail: ruth.knagg@bathfestivals.org.uk. link to website
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| AOF/0004 | THE BELFAST FESTIVAL AT QUEEN'S Address: Festival House, 25 College Gardens, Belfast BT9 6BS. Tel.: 01232-667687. Fax: 01232-663733. E-mail: festival@qub.ac.uk link to website
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| AOF/0005 | BRIGHTON FESTIVAL SOCIETY LTD. Brighton Festival Society organises Brighton Festival, which boasts a position as England’s largest mixed arts festival, and since 1999 has managed Brighton Dome, the South Coast's premier arts venue. Annually, the charity reaches over 500,000 people and has an education unit delivering a groundbreaking programme of events and workshops to schools and community groups. Brighton Festival can claim to be the largest festival in England, second only to Edinburgh in the UK. This year audiences spent £800,000 attending over 700 performances in just 23 days, say the organisers, enjoying a record-breaking number of world premières and exclusives. The festival is at the cutting edge of artistic programming, bringing the very finest in national and international art to the city and the south-east. Stunning, unique and versatile, Brighton Dome is firmly established as the leading arts and conference centre for the south coast. Since undergoing a multi-million pound refurbishment, it has played host to an extraordinary range of events from classical concerts to stage-fighting workshops. It is committed to involving all sectors of its community in the arts through presenting artistic and education events of the highest quality that appeal to a wide group of residents and visitors alike. Sponsorship of Brighton Festival and Brighton Dome enables companies to support the provision of an international arts programme of the highest standard, whilst delivering on key business objectives. There are all kinds of tailored sponsorship opportunities available to match differing needs and budgets. Contact: Lynne Richards, Head of Sponsorship & Development. Address: 12a Pavilion Buildings, Castle Square, Brighton BN1 1EE. Tel.: 01273 260809. Fax: 01273 707505. lynne.richards@brighton-festival.org.uk. link to Brighton Festival website link to Brighton Dome website
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| AOF/0006 | THE BRISTOL FESTVAL COMMUNITY GROUP - THE BRISTOL FESTIVAL The Bristol Festival 2009 - now entering its second year - is the south west's hottest new music, arts and culture festival, organised by volunteers to showcase a massive range of local talent. Attracting 14,000 last year, with a capacity of 30,000 for this year, the Bristol Festival is a cultural melting pot of the city's diverse communities of all ages and backgrounds, brought together through the shared enjoyment of music, dance and food. This year 2,000 performers and 300 volunteers join together on Friday, 18th to Sunday 20th, September, for the festival located in the heart of the city centre. The festival has two parts • Brizzolfest - a large outdoor site located within the Amphitheatre, including seven stages of live bands, world music, dance, cabaret, street theatre, kids' areas, workshops, interactive digital projections, fire shows and world foods • Rave-on-Avon sees the crowds move into ten nightclubs for the evening. The event is the highlight of the group's year round charity work, including free workshops in arts, music, dance and theatre, with local community groups and schools involved in performances. The group also offers volunteer training, event industry work experience, skills swapping and house local artists in subsidised studios throughout the year. The Bristol Festival has massive public support in the region and receives unprecedented levels of press coverage including BBC and ITV, every local radio station from Community FM to BBC Radio Bristol, front pages and extended features in local press such as Venue Magazine and the Evening Post and over 3 million website hits a year. Bristol has one of the most edgy and alternative under-30s demographics in the UK and is home to the wealthiest students outside of 'Oxbridge'. "Sponsorship opportunities offer excellent value for money, with advertising across all our publicity. We are flexible and happy to incorporate your ideas when promoting your brand in association with our fantastic project". Contact: Poppy Stephenson. Address: 4th Floor, Bush House, 72 Prince Street, Bristol BS1 4QD. Tel.: 0117 328 1492. E-mail: info@thebristolfestival.org link to website
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| AOF/0007 | B.SUPREME - INDEPENDANCE LTD. B.Supreme is the only UK hip hop festival dedicated to Women in Hip Hop. The festival launched in September 2006 at the South Bank Centre, London and platformed the work of 121 of the best international hip hop artists, to an audience of 3,400. The festival - designed to showcase the talent of women in all aspects of hip hop as well as the younger generation of female hip hoppers - also ran six month education initiatives with young women throughout the country, giving opportunities to young and emerging artists. As well as being covered by publications such as The Guardian, The Independent and Time Out. B.Supreme also featured on BBC1Xtra, which broadcast live from the festival to an estimated 1.5 million listeners. TV companies such as MTV Base and Just Fabulous TV also filmed the event to be screened later in 2007. Hip hop is becoming increasingly popular due to its exciting, accessible and inspiring format. It is the voice of young people and refuses to go away. B.Supreme aims to continue to inspire young women and showcase hip hop dance theatre, DJs, films, music, battles and education work in an annual celebration of Women in Hip Hop. B.Supreme offers a multitude of potential opportunities and, with ideas for future tours and branding, is set to grow rapidly in momentum, taking the festival to levels of success reached by no other hip hop event in the UK. Contact: Holly Shanks, Festival Manager. Address: Independance, Brixton Hill Methodist Church, Elm Park, London SW2 2TX. Tel.: 0208 671 8811. Fax: 0208 671 0066. E-mail: holly@independance.co.uk. link to website
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| AOF/0008 | CATHEDRAL QUARTER ARTS FESTIVAL The Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival has been bringing a feast of literature, theatre, comedy, music, circus, street theatre, film, family events, visual arts and more to the Cathedral Quarter area of Belfast's north city centre annually since May 2000. It presents arts events in informal, often unfamiliar spaces, such as theatre productions in pubs, poetry in cafés, music in a boat on the river, opera in St. Georges Market and circus on the street. The culmination of all this activity is that for a period during April and early May every year, Belfast starts to resemble a cosmopolitan, culturally confident city in the European model. Guests to date have included authors Frank McCourt and Nick Hornby, comedians Dylan Moran and Jerry Sadowitz, and musicians such as Patti Smith, Billy Bragg and David Holmes. The organisers are keen to hear from dynamic and imaginative sponsors who recognise what the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival has to offer and would like to work creatively with a young, energetic arts organisation. For sponsors, there are several different levels of involvement and benefits available - from offering your service as sponsorship-in-kind, to sponsoring an individual event or an entire section of the programme (e.g. music, theatre, comedy, etc.) - right through to potential title sponsorship. If you would like to discuss potential involvement in Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival, simply email your Expression of Interest and contact details to info@cqaf.com. Contact: Sarah Hughes, Audience Development Officer. Address: 1st Floor, 35 Donegall Street, Belfast BT1 2FG. Tel.: 028 90232403. Fax: 028 90249142. E-mail: sarah@cqaf.com. link to website
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| AOF/0009 | CONNECTING YOUTH CULTURE Sponsorship opportunities are available in connection with the project's youth arts festival. Contact: Jo Wingate, Fundraiser. Address: NYCC, County Hall, Northallerton, North Yorks. DL7 8AE. Tel.: 01609 780780. Fax: 01609 778772. E-mail: jowingate@hotmail.com link to website
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| AOF/0010 | CORSHAM FESTIVAL Corsham Festival is a seven day arts festival held in Corsham, Wiltshire in late June. The organisers tell us that it was named by the Daily Express as being one of the top fifty arts festivals in the UK and by the Financial Times as one of the UK's emerging arts festivals. Sponsorship is now sought for individual arts events or for the festival as a whole. The Corsham Festival has a particular focus on contemporary music and the work of composer Sir Michael Tippett, who lived in the town for ten years. Contact: Nicholas Keyworth, Festival Director. Address: Osborne House, 1 Station Road, Corsham, Wiltshire SN13 9EU. Tel.: 01249-713509. Fax: 01225-464898. E-mail: corsham.festival@virgin.net. link to website
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| AOF/0011 | DISCOVERING LATIN AMERICA FILM FESTIVAL The Discovering Latin America Film Festival ("DLA Film Festival") is London's largest Latin American film festival. With a professional format, it comprises feature films, documentaries, shorts and film and culture events. It is both well established and critically reviewed. All films are pre-viewed by the festival and programming directors and sent to critics prior to the festival for reviews. An audience award is conferred. The programme also includes retrospectives, shorts and an industry forum, for an overall total of fifty-one screenings. The festival is launched with a film screening and party in late September. The venues which screen the films can include the Odeon West End, Ritzy (south London), Tate Modern (South Bank) and the Everyman Cinema (north London). Through this and other activities and events it organises, DLA, a non-governmental organisation (registered charity number 1106705) formed in London in August 2002 and composed of ninety volunteers from fifteen countries, collects funds to finance solidarity projects in Latin America. Previous festivals have raised around £30,000 for charities in Mexico, Peru, Argentina and Colombia. Sponsors will have the opportunity to reach a large audience interested in Latin American culture and in the arts. The DLA Film Festival's main audiences are young adults (46% 25-34 years old, 23% 35-44), and includes professionals and the well educated (60% ABC1, 15% graduate/post-graduate students); it is international and multicultural. The organisers are particularly interested in long term sponsors and are willing to work together to structure a sponsorship package appropriate for each. Various levels of sponsorship and benefits are available, with varying exposure throughout the festival and its marketing campaign. Details are available on request. Contacts: Hugo Cruz (07769932427, hugo.cruz@citigroup.com; Claudia Trosso (07736072301, claudiatrosso@hotmail.com; Jorge Garayo (07803047175, jorge@discoveringlatinamerica.org. Address: 21c Westbourne Park Road, London W2 5PX link to website
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| AOF/0012 | DROGHEDA YOUTH ARTS PROJECT Droghead Youth Arts Project (D.Y.A.P.) has been running an annual hip-hop based festival in Ireland for the past six years on the site of Ireland's Battle of the Boyne, from where the present day troubles take their roots. Young people from north and south as well as overseas visitors from the UK and US attend each year and spectators average over 1,000 annually. The event is covered by national and regional newspapers, state TV and radio and has featured in UK magazines such as Hip Hop Connection, Graphotism (both with a circulation of approximately 25,000), BBM magazine (circulation 10,000) - UK and Ireland - and Blaze magazine (USA - circulation unknown). Contact: Darrin Finnegan, Secretary. Address: 1 Grange Rise, Drogheda, Co. Louth, Ireland. Tel.: 00 353 86 2472663. E-mail: darrinfinnegan@eircom.net. |
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| AOF/0013 | EDINBURGH'S WINTER FESTIVALS Edinburgh's Christmas and Edinburgh's Hogmanay are two world class celebrations that take place annually in the spectacular setting of Scotland's capital city. Edinburgh's Christmas events and activities include the Festive Lights Switch On, the Winter Wonderland Ice Rink and the Edinburgh Wheel and Carousel. Many opportunities exist for sponsorship, sampling, promotions and advertising to an extensive audience comprised of Edinburgh residents and weekend visitors from the rest of the UK and overseas. Edinburgh's Hogmanay is a four day festival of music, cinema and street theatre and its flagship event, the Edinburgh's Hogmanay Street Party, brings together 100,000 people to celebrate the midnight moment and to welcome in the new year. Sponsorship is available of large scale public events as well as smaller sponsorships, and advertising opportunities in the brochures and on the website. Contact: Tania Alonzi. Tel.: 0131 529 3169. E-mail: tania.alonzi@edinburgh.gov.uk link to website (www.edinburghschristmas.com) link to website (www.edinburghshogmanay.com)
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| AOF/0014 | GFEST - GAYWISE LGBT ARTS FESTIVAL GFest - gayWise LGBT Arts Festival is recognised as London's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Arts Festival For All. GFest provides an unrivalled and much needed platform for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer performers, artists, filmmakers and designers to express, inspire and empower attendees and participants. GFest features queer artists and talent across performance events, short film screenings and visual arts exhibitions. Connecting these strands are social and networking events, workshops, debates and seminars with leading LGBT artists, workshop facilitators and academics in the UK. GFest takes place in November and is organised by arts charity Wise Thoughts. Contact: Mr S. Rathod. Address: Wood Green Central Library, 2nd Floor, London N22 6XD. Tel.: 020 8889 9555. E-mail: info@wisethoughts.org link to website
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| AOF/0015 | GAINSBOROUGH RIVERSIDE FESTIVAL Every year in June Gainsborough comes alive with The Riverside Festival, an arts event taking on a different theme each year. It includes a stunning opening parade, music, dance, street theatre, stalls and displays, evening concert and firework display, vintage vehicles and lots of things to do. All these activities are provided free of charge to the public as Gainsborough is striving to regenerate itself, and this festival highlights the work done by the local community to this end. The festival is a community event which involves many groups, clubs and societies from the whole area. The organisers run many public art and performance workshops in advance of the event. The festivals's organisers are looking for financial support for these activities to ensure that they can keep them open to the widest range of people, regardless of their ability to pay. Contact: Julie Willoughby, Secretary. Address: Trinity Arts Centre, Trinity Street, Gainsborough DN21 2AL. Tel.: 01427 676655. E-mail: RiversideFestival@west-lindsey.gov.uk.
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| AOF/0016 | HARROGATE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL The Harrogate International Festival offers a wide range of sponsorship packages and corporate hospitality opportunities. It has been acclaimed by The Times as the "north of England's leading arts festival". Each summer during July and August a world class programme features international symphony orchestras, celebrity concerts, jazz, ballet, modern dance, world music, comedy and street theatre. Contact: Jess Dolan, Development Manager. Address: 1 Victoria Avenue, Harrogate, North Yorkshire HG1 1EQ. Tel.: 01423-562303. Fax: 01423-521264. E-mail: william@harrogate-festival.org.uk. link to website |
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| AOF/0017 | LONDON INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL The London International Animation Festival (LIAF) is a celebration of the very best international and local animation. It showcases the painstaking and amazing work of artists and filmmakers who have discovered that in this medium they can go anywhere their imagination leads them. LIAF has very quickly become the largest animation festival in the UK and a vital and unique event, expanding the diversity of London's film and cultural scenes. The festival is broad in scope and content with competitive screenings, kids sessions, the latest digital computer animation, animated documentaries, retrospectives and specialised theme sessions as well as workshops, seminars and discussions. The festival screens over six days and nights at the Curzon Cinema Soho in the heart of London. The festival attracts significant national press coverage. LIAF seeks to form a partnership with a small number of presentation sponsors to bring the world's best animation to some of London's most exciting and valuable audience groups. There are a variety of levels of involvement available including Title sponsorship. Contact: Carolyn Thompson, Sponsorship Co-ordinator. Tel.: 07805 244482. E-mail: liaf@blueyonder.co.uk. link to website
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| AOF/0018 | LONDON INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF THEATRE Since 1981, the London International Festival of Theatre has brought the best of the world's contemporary theatre and performance to theatres and outdoor locations across London. LIFT events have been staged in over thirty London venues as well as numerous sites: streets, disused buildings, the river, parks and open spaces. And a far-reaching portfolio of developmental and educational programmes has offered insights about exchange and creativity to many different people, from schoolchildren to captains of industry. Highly respected and acclaimed for its pioneering work, LIFT can offer companies meaningful sponsorship opportunities in relation to its core year round programme of theatre, its Education/Teachers Forum and its Business Arts Forum. Contact: Sarah Tuck, Director of Communications & Development. Address: 19/20 Great Sutton Street, London EC1V 0DR. Tel.: (44) 20 7490 3964. E-mail: saraht@liftfest.org.uk link to website
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| AOF/0019 | MERSEYSIDE DANCE INITIATIVE Merseyside Dance Initiative is an agency working to develop dance throughout Merseyside. A partner of Dance Northwest, the national dance agency for the region, MDI works in partnership with artists, promoters and other agencies and organisations to provide opportunities to participate in, create and see all kinds of dance. The charity is deeply involved in the community of Merseyside and believes that dance is integral to not only the physical well being of the community but also their mental health. MDI is committed to bringing dance to the region and each year holds its two-week contemporary dance festival, LEAP, at various locations across Liverpool. It recently held the first of its biennial festivals of African and Caribbean dance called Cultural Awakening Festival, which runs concurrently with Cultiv8, its seminar to discuss the cultural integration of African and Caribbean arts in the UK. As an arts agency in the north west, MDI is reliant upon charitable donations, sponsorship and funding from organisations. "If you think you or your organisation can assist us in upholding the the promise we assert in our strapline, 'Inspiring People Through Dance', we'd love to hear from you". Contact: Karen Gallagher, Director. Tel.: 0151 708 8810. Fax: 0151 707 0600. Address: 13-15 Hope Street, Liverpool L1 9BQ. E-mail: info@merseysidedance.co.uk. link to website
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| AOF/0020 | PAW - PARTY FOR ANIMALS WORLDWIDE PAW is an annual one-day music festival set up in aid of animal welfare. All money raised from the festival itself and associated fundraising is split between selected animal welfare projects from around the world. These projects are highlighted throughout the day at the festival to give the public an insight into the project's work and to show how money raised will be spent, etc. Many sponsorship opportunities are available. Contact: Katie Hobbs. Address: Murraytone House, Looe, Cornwall PL13 1NZ. Tel.: 01503 262532. Fax: 01503 262532. E-mail: paw_info@yahoo.co.uk. link to website
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| AOF/0021 | RHUBARB-RHUBARB: INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF THE IMAGE Rhubarb-Rhubarb is a West Midlands based photography training and development agency. It curates exhibitions nationally and internationally and provides networks for selling, publishing and offers support to buyers and commissions. Rhubarb-Rhubarb works to build the confidence of photographers facing the rapidly changing industry and marketplaces, virtual and in real time. By supporting mentoring courses, events, portfolio sessions and the UK's International Festival of the Image through these outlets it aims to nurture talent, inspire growth and make life and environment a more creative and pleasurable place to be. Sponsorship opportunities are available. Contact: Dinah Alam, Project Manager. Address: 212 The Custard Factory, Gibb Street, Birmingham B9 4AA. Tel.: 0121 773 7889. Fax: 0121 773 7888. E-mail: dinah@rhubarb-rhubarb.net. link to website
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| AOF/0022 | TENBY ARTS FESTIVAL Tenby Arts Festival is an annual event offering a diverse programme of music, dance, drama, poetry, art and talks featuring local, national and international artistes. It opens with a weekend of family entertainment launched by a grand parade through the streets of the town prior to the main cultural repast spread over eight days in late September. In previous years, performers have included Julian Lloyd Webber, Evelyn Glennie, Luminita Berariu, The King's Consort, Katherine Jenkins, Kerstin Doelle, Noriko Ogawa and a host of others. The 2010 Festival will be held between 18th and 25th September. Tenby is a beautiful, medieval, coastal resort in Pembrokeshire, West Wales. The Festival is a registered charity and, following the loss of Arts Council funding, is heavily dependent on sponsorship to maintain this important event for visitors and local residents in an area deprived of access to the arts. Contact: Diana Lunn, Secretary. Address: 24 Penally Heights, Penally, Tenby, Pembrokeshire SA70 7TH. Tel.: 01834 845341. E-mail: dialunn@tiscali.co.uk link to website
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| AOF/0023 | WHITBY MUSICPORT Staged each October, Whitby Musicport boasts a position as the UK's biggest indoor World Music Festival, attracting artists from all over the world - and a sell-out event for the last two years. Contact: Jim McLaughlin, Director/Co-ordinator. Address: Highfield, Sledgates, Fylingthorpe, Whitby, N. Yorks. YO22 4TZ. Tel.: 01947-603475. E-mail: musicport@email.com. link to website
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| AOF/0024 | THE WICKERMAN MUSIC & CULTURE FESTIVAL Many different sponsorship opportunities are available. Contact: Audrey Fenton, Organiser. Address: Audrey Fenton Events, Algo Business Centre, 24 Glenearn Road, Perth PH2 0NJ. Tel.: 01738 449430. Fax: 01738 449431. E-mail: oddo@fentonevents.com. link to website
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