Join Community Engagement Facilitator Anne Forgan on a 6 week project to find and capture the stories of the Bandstand, its history, events and the people who frequent it.
building on interview skills, and how to find and capture stories, to supporting research, capturing oral histories, together you will capture and collate the history of the Art Décor Bandstand at Victoria Embankment, Nottingham
Get set to discover the history of Nottingham's most iconic Bandstand and over 80 years of Riverside adventures and stories as part of The At The Bandstand Archive Group.
Led by incredible artist and facilitator Anne Forgan, every Wednesday from 10.30am - 12.30pm for 6 weeks this summer, we'll be running free sessions that delve into the history of the Bandstand from the 1930s to today.
Open to anyone and everyone who wants to get involved, these sessions will see participants discover research techniques, delve into the archives, learn how to conduct oral history interviews and capture local stories. Plus, they'll be Free Tea & Coffee - what more could you wish for!
The stories and histories collected will then form part of a celebration event at The Bandstand at the end of the Summer!
Become an active researcher to uncover the uncelebrated history to one of Nottingham's most iconic landmarks!
Wednesday 3 July - The Victoria Embankment Bandstand
Wednesday 10 July - The Victoria Embankment Bandstand
Wednesday 17 July - Nottingham Central Library
Wednesday 24 July - Nottingham Central Library
Wednesday 31 July - Queens Walk Community Centre
Wednesday 7 August - Queens Walk community Centre
Sessions will take place at either The Victoria Embankment Bandstand, Nottingham Central Library or at Queens Community Centre in the Meadows.
All sessions runs 10.30am - 12.30pm and are FREE to take part in.
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Anne Forgan is an artist and creative producer, specialising in developing and delivering projects with communities to explore stories of places and people. She has a particular love of heritage and enjoys investigating overlooked aspects of the everyday. She has led on projects telling stories of Coventry’s ringroad, a slaughterhouse in Stratford upon Avon and a much-loved swimming pool that was about to close. Anne started out as a video maker, teaching skills and devising videos in community settings. She has since worked with various arts organisations across the Midlands to share skills, support creatives and make accessible arts events and experiences. She works across art forms, involving everything from mass tree climbing, Ikea Hacking, to creating a cardboard orchestra with Russian arts collective, Cardboardia. Most recently, Anne worked as the Co-Artistic Director of Ludic Rooms - a socially-engaged arts and technology company in Coventry. In 2021, Ludic Rooms transformed Coventry Canal into a night time art trail of light, projection and sound works as part of Coventry’s City of Culture programme, bringing audiences to a little known area of the city. She is also the Community Coordinator for Playing Out in Canley; a community arts programme in Coventry led by Warwick Arts Centre and has been involved organising three community parades, two outdoor cinema events, arts workshops, a newsletter and a trail of public art works with Assemble architects. Playing Out was recently nominated for the 2024 Museum & Heritage Community Programme of the Year Award.
