Lingdale Carnival and Carlin How Gala 1990

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Lingdale Carnival and Carlin How Gala 1990

North East Film Archive
Lingdale
1990
Sound

Glorious diversity in 1990s Cleveland as a group of unexpected visitors add some pizzazz to the proceedings.

Participatory video produced by and showing children of Lingdale and Carlin How working with members of Village Arts and the Abasindi Co-Operative to create costumes, banners and floats as part of the 1990 Lingdale Carnival and Carlin How Gala, which they parade through both villages. On the showground the children perform with Abasindi a number of dance routines or play instruments, which they have also been filmed rehearsing. Members of the Abasindi Co-Operative are also filmed performing at Carlin How both on the show field and in a local community centre.

Community Arts & Festivals

A lively mix of creative efforts brings fresh opportunities and perspectives to forgotten northern communities.

The healing power of art is especially important in the most deprived areas of the North East. While millions of pounds are invested in job creation and saving declining industries, the creative spirit of people living with deprivation is easily neglected. Community arts programmes are often the first victims of budget cuts. But, as these films show, community art can leave a legacy of hope, curiosity, and self-confidence among the people who need nurturing most. Village Arts was a community filmmaking organisation set up in the 1980s to give creative outlets to people living in cultural deserts. In the 1990s Village Arts launched a project to bring together some of East Cleveland's most remote communities, and artists and filmmakers who could help them find their voice. These films are a legacy of that unique collaboration.

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