london's own glee
release date: 26th April, 2010
Eastside celebrates its sweet sixteenEastside Educational Trust, London’s leading youth arts provider, is celebrating its sixteenth year as one of the country’s foremost children’s charities bringing arts and culture to young people to inspire and motivate them to realise their full potential. Having worked with over a quarter of a million children in the past 16 years, the trust will be rolling out a series of celebrations to celebrate what it has achieved to date and what it hopes to achieve in the next 16 years.
The series of activities to celebrate Eastside’s 16th birthday includes the launch of a new interactive website that includes a gallery of recent projects across multi-media, visual arts and crafts, performing arts, poetry and writing and films. The gallery’s aim is to stimulate ideas and encourage more ways for children and schools to get involved with the arts.
The Trust’s work is supported by many well-known, influential and respected figures from the arts and media, who generously donate their time to attend projects, workshops and events. Events this summer set to celebrate its ‘coming of age’ include their “Sweet Sixteen Summer Party & BBQ”, taking place on 16th July and on the 30th September a Charity Auction will be held at Bonhams that promises to be a star-studded event, providing the chance to bid for unique experiences, amazing items and rare memorabilia.
Christopher Enticott, Artistic Director of Eastside, said: “We provide more than 100,000 hours of arts activities to young people every year and are totally passionate about reaching them and engaging them in the arts. To reach our sixteenth year is a significant milestone that we want to celebrate in style. We have great support but are always looking for more people to get involved. We hope the new website will introduce more people to us and the BBQ and auction will enable us to really make 2010 a year to remember.”
Eastside Educational Trust provides high quality, innovative, participatory arts projects, run by professional arts practitioners in safe and supportive environments. It can tailor-make individual arts projects to fulfill specific needs plus it has hundreds of ready-made creative workshops to choose from. Visit www.eastside.org.uk for more information.
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Notes to Editors:
Eastside Educational Trust is based in Shoreditch, East London, and actively targets disadvantaged and disaffected young people in some of the most deprived areas of London, including children from surrounding local communities in Hackney and Tower Hamlets. Its outreach work extends across all 33 London boroughs and beyond, making an important contribution to the vibrant cultural life of the capital and throughout the home counties. The Trust promotes independent and life-long learning to raise young people’s aspirations, levels of self-esteem and standards of achievement. It offers new and exciting opportunities to children from families that have not previously engaged with the arts and to young people that might otherwise miss out.
