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Thriving Through Venture "A Gambian Experience" at Calne Music & Arts Festival - October 2018 Venue: CALNE Baptist Church, Castle Street SN11 0DX |
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Events Opening Dates & Times
Wednesday 10th October @ 6.30pm
Exhibition Launch with refreshments (by invitation only) Public Opening Times
Thursday 11th October @ 11am-4pm Friday 12th October @ 11am- 4pm & 6pm-8pm Saturday 13th October @ 10.30am-12.30pm (then closed until evening event) Images of the subjects of “Stories of Lives Lived” from the Marlborough area and Gunjur in The Gambia” and a series of ‘Humans of Marlborough and Gunjur’. See the Senior Schools Collaboration Programme
The “Thriving Through Venture” programme involves some of the students learning photographic arts and going on to use them to capture images of those “Lives Lived” and members of these two different but partnered communities.
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An evening of dramatic readings presented by students of
St Mary’s School Calne. The readings of the Stories of Lives Lived will be supported by authentic Gambian music from a KSA Gambian Band based in Bristol. A “Thriving through Venture” storytelling project by secondary school students capturing the elements of the lives lived by elderly members from communities in the Marlborough area, and from the partner community of Gunjur in The Gambia. Students from St Mary’s School Calne, Marlborough College, St John’s Academy, Marlborough and The Ridgeway School, Wroughton and St Barts, Newbury have captured these life stories as part of a background of research and exchange of ideas which includes discovering how Mangoes and Mango products can be marketed under FAIRTRADE conditions in the UK to the mutual benefit of both communities. KSA(KOMBO SILLAH ASSOCIATION UK) is a Bristol based Gambian Charity whose aim is to cement Social Cohesion and Community Integration. It mounts cultural events and combats poverty and abuse... READ more. |
Getting to Calne Baptist Church >> Map & Parking Advice
See all about Thriving Through Venture Projects: - “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” - Benjamin Franklin
See the full programme of Calne Music & Arts Festival Events & Brochure @ Calne Music & Arts Festival 2018
A collaborative event for Calne Music & Arts Festival 2018 between St Mary’s School Calne, “Thriving Through Venture” and Calne Community Area Fairtrade Group.
