The closing date is nearly upon us! If you would like to have a stand or stall, give a talk or demonstration, or in some other way participate for the festival (aside from volunteering and coming along to enjoy the festival day), please note your deadline to submit a proposal is:

Sunday, the 30th of June, 2013!

If you want to get involved, please email whatsonnorthwest@hotmail.co.uk before the end of Sunday if you haven’t already!

Also remember there’s a meeting tomorrow night (Thursday, 27 June) – so if you want to chat in person about your idea, feel free to pop along to that!

We are still looking for artists who wish to take part in the festival and promote themselves – do hurry, though, our closing date is 30 June 2013!

We are looking for…

Drama and Theatre

• Drama & Theatre
• Carnival
• Circus
• Comedy
• Mime
• Pantomines
• Plays
• Puppetry
• Street Theatre

Film and Video

• All film and video
• Animation
• Documentary

Crafts

• All crafts

Visual Art

• Illustration
• Live Art
• Graffiti
• Mixed Media
• Painting
• Public Art
• Sculpture

Words

• Performance poetry
• Poetry
• Storytelling

Please pass this on to anyone you may feel would be interested. One of the festival’s aims is to help artists to promote themselves.

The festival is run by volunteers and is not-for-profit.

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As previously mentioned, the Inspire Festival aims to promote and support local shops and market traders.

If you can’t have a stall at the festival, please bring along some leaflets, posters, or information. We will be having a stand to promote all local shops and traders.

We would like to reach all of you so please pass this on!

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As you can tell from the speakers page, we are coming up a tad short on speakers – that can’t be right, everyone has something to say! Come on, give it some thought: what would you like a slot to chat about? A few ideas include:

• Talk about a local group you’re involved with – yes, you can give a talk in addition to having a table! You’re going to be making a pitch to people coming by your table anyways, so why not take advantage of being able to tell them that they can hear more at a certain time in the speaker’s area?
• Talk about an interesting topic – If you think it’s interesting, no doubt other people will, too.
• Talk about a cause or campaign – Are you helping to support a movement to change something or fix something or fighting to keep something? There’s a zillion and one causes out there; come, tell us yours and what we can do to help!
• Talk about something inspiring – Inspire us! Have a look again at the festival aims; perhaps you and a few friends could come together and give a talk about ideas to increase audience members’ greenness (of course that’s a word, I just used it!) or sustainability? Perhaps you’d like to inspire us to be more positive and compassionate? You could tell us some practical methods to accomplish that, and perhaps illustrate it with anecdotes of how small acts of kindness have made real differences to the recipients. Those are just a couple of ideas off the top of my head – the sky’s the limit!

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That’s just to get you started thinking – there’s such a bewildering array of choices to think about, once you get going! Go on, put the ol’ thinking cap on! Please get in touch by email at WhatsOnNorthwest@hotmail.co.uk once you’re inspired to share your message!

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In keeping with our woodland theme, we’d love to run a Nature Detectives activity to inspire children’s interest in nature. We are very grateful that The Woodlands Trust has provided a pack for nature detective, but sadly it doesn’t have anyone in the area to run it. Why don’t you have a look at the pack and see if you think you could run this session? Come on, join in!