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Lyme youth music project in carnival capers
10:25am Thursday 27th August 2009
LYME Regis youth music project B Sharp won a £1,000 grant to take part in Weymouth Carnival as part of the Jurassic Coast Arts programme.
B Sharp was one of four groups awarded funds from the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Team’s Carnival Development Grant, enabling a group of 15 young people from Lyme to take part in the carnival procession.
The group collaborated musically with the Magic Drum Orchestra from Dorchester and Bideford carnival group Flying Colours.
The collaboration was the starting point for a Jurassic Coast ‘Festival of Carnivals’, planned to tie in with the Olympic sailing events in Weymouth and Portland in 2012.
With the World Heritage Site as a backdrop, communities from across East Devon and Dorset are now beginning to develop ideas for the new green, walking carnival procession.
There are proposals for the Jurassic Coast Carnival to tell the story of a ‘walk through time’, with each carnival group developing work relating to their local geology.
As they come together, or are performed in some kind of sequence, they will form a live illustration of geological time.
B Sharp project manager Fran Williams said: “We are very pleased to have been a part of the carnival development in the area, focusing on the development of Weymouth Carnival for 2012, in preparation for a possible festival of carnivals during the launch of the Games.
“The Jurassic Coast Arts Programme is encouraging this in various ways, mainly by being one of the local things that people can take pride in, so providing a story to tell, or a theme.
“B Sharp look forward to building on this part of the project making it even bigger and better each year until 2012, coming together with other community groups for a Community Festival in Lyme Regis as a part of the Jurassic Coast celebrations for 2012.”
Alan Rogers, the Arts Development Officer for Weymouth and Portland said: “Lyme Regis can be truly proud of its representatives this year.
“The collaboration between B Sharp and the Magic Drum Orchestra was the heartbeat of the whole procession and the non-stop energy and power of the drums lifted th e spirits of the unimaginable numbers that lined the procession route.
“I’m looking forward to developing this work and to creating something even more spectacular for 2010.”
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EYE-CATCHING: Lyme youth music project B Sharp took part in Weymouth Carnival with Bideford group Flying Colours, pictured
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