You’ve got two weeks to comment on the cultural strategy for Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin.
You can find more information about the consultation and strategy on the Shropshire website.
From the Shropshire Council Website
The consultation period will run from 12th October to 1st November 2009. The final document will be completed by 9th November 2009 and it will then go before the Cabinet committee of both Councils.
The strategy embraces a partnership approach between Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin Councils and the private and voluntary sectors. It has been developed by the new sub-regional Cultural Consortium whose members represent culture, regeneration, health, equality and diversity, safer communities and young people.
Hattip to @likeaword for the information.
Where should CiT go next?
Events we should cover? People we should meet? Concepts we should ponder? Want to write for the blog?
Let us know in the comments section.
It’s Wem carnival tomorrow.
First started in 1911 tomorrow sees two processions through the streets of Wem.
Check out their website for more information. http://www.wemcarnival.co.uk/
This weekend sees the return of the excellent Shrewsbury International Street Festival.
Their website has listings, venue details and everything you’d need to know about the performers.
Check it out & lets keep our collective fingers crossed for the weather!
Well, created in Telford has it’s collective bags packed, put the cat in a cattery, cancelled the newspaper and stopped the milk.
We’re off on our holidays.
Not quite lying in the sun but we’re off to have creative adventures and will come back all shiny and inspired ready to kick off again in September.
Really excited to see that Shropshire has a society for Geeks to network, tweetup, drink beer etc. Geeks need friends too, just as much as creative people. 
(Some could even cleverly argue that geeks are creative people really)
For more info on what they’re up to you can check out their website and follow them on twitter.
They don’t have anything planned on the website at the moment. Hopefully something will be happening soon and we’ll all meet up in the real world.
It’s 40 years since this image was taken and Abbey Road is jam packed with people visiting.
Gave me pause to think if there are any places in Telford and beyond that have a similar resonance.
Use the comments to add places.
28th-31st August 2009 is when Shrewsbury comes alive with the beautiful tones of Folk music. I’m a huge fan of folk music having lived for a number of years just down the road from Moseley Folk Festival and it’s nice that there’s another awesome Folk Festival in striking distance of my front door.
From their twitter feed there’s around 150 weekend tickets and just a few Friday day ones left – get them while you can!
You can follow them on twitter too.
Today Telford Live are celebrating 1000 members on their discussion forum.
Telford Live is a great community website. There’s lots of discussions to join in on. Make sure you don’t miss out.
Was scouting around various Shropshire based arts projects online and came across the Ellesmere Sculpture Symposium. It looks like such an exciting project.
This year is the first of a series of annual symposia which will grow to create the Ellesmere Sculpture Map – a series of clusters of art work in the distinctive landscape around Ellesmere.
Each year the symposium will create work out of a distinctive local material. The clusters will be located at each of the significant points of interest on the Ellesmere Heritage Trail helping visitors and tourists to fully experience the cultural and historic points of interest of the mereside town and its environs.
The 2009 Symposium cluster will concentrate on an area which has formed the town’s defences throughout its history – particularly in medieval times. The area is called Castlefields, and once had a fort at its highest point, called a motte and bailey castle. Castlefields is a glacial moraine, and artists will be working with glacial stones and boulders to create their piece.
The exhibition opens on the 15th August 2009. Check their website for more details.
