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From Autumn 2009 to Summer 2010, a team of artists with skills in story-telling, music making, dance and carnival design will lead the creative process with Tooting participants through the investigation, devising and production of the Trashcatchers’ Carnival. Working with Tooting Police and Transport for London, we will close Tooting High Street. The Carnival celebrates a community’s innate ingenuity to make the changes needed towards a sustainable way of living and readiness to take responsibility for the knowledge of climate change and peak oil.
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Tooting is designated an area of social deprivation by Wandsworth Council. The organisations we are working with represent many Tooting families who are disadvantaged by poverty, cultural exclusion or ill-health. Step by step we are engaging with wider groupings of Tooting’s many diverse communities and seek to build up positive celebrations of the skills and knowledge that reside in the community. Your support will enable us to resource workshops and the production of the carnival led by professional artists in the community. A national TippingPoint commission has been awarded to the Trashcatchers’ Carnival to create an 8 month project connecting art making for all. It enables Phakama the chance to engage with a broad alliance of Tooting communities in a celebratory context. The legacy of the carnival will feed into a long term positive plan for a low carbon Tooting and will create many new connections between residents and community organisations at the same time. The project has been recognised by the Arts Council as part of their Cultural Futures project, which is travelling to Copenhagen this December. Your donation will: • Help over a 1000 young people gain access to training and high quality arts • Enable a diverse community to work together and bring about cohesion • Support wider awareness about climate change • Assist a community unearth creative solutions to the challenges ahead