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Battersea Arts Centre (BAC) has created the Moving Roots Touring Network which will craft new socially-conscious arts projects for communities in partnership with culturally-deprived partner towns across the country.

BAC has partnered with:

• Action Factory, Blackburn
• Common Wealth, Cardiff
• Lyrici Arts, Chatham
• Jumped Up Theatre, Peterborough
• The Old Courts, Wigan

The partnership will create live performance projects communities that are intended to get local people to engage with their pressing local needs. 

The BFI London Film Festival 2019 is its 63rd edition, with hundreds of leading filmmakers in attendance, 345 films and dozens of events to choose from.

British film is heavily represented including: 

As we prepare for 2020 and 2021, we would love for you to help us refresh our image library.

We use copyright-free images, donated by you, to:

• display prominently in our annual desktop calendar - which is delivered to the sector and government via mail and at industry events
• on social media

Images can also be branded with the GREAT Britain Campaign logo and your work, company or institution could be displayed across the world at events, UK embassies and at other government activity.

Frieze London this year marks the 17th edition of the annual art fair and will truly bring the world of visual arts together in one place on 3-6 October. It welcomes more than 160 galleries from 35 countries, a record in international participation since its inception in 2003.

CAN is seeking to recruit the following position:

The Mayor of London has designated Walthamstow High Street the first Night-Time Enterprise Zone for the pilot scheme from October 2019 to January 2020. The pilot will see Waltham Forest try a range of proposals for its high street.

Based on research from residents and business-owners in the area, the Night-Time Enterprise Zone will include:

Register your interest in joining the Department for International Trade (DIT) at SXSW (South by Southwest) 2020 on 16-22 March 2020, in Austin, Texas for the annual nine-day festival showcase of music, film and tech.

SXSW brings around 300,000 visitors each year, from entrepreneurs and investors to cutting-edge digital disruptors, and a readymade audience for your company’s creativity, expertise, technology and innovation.

Companies could benefit from the connections, knowledge and experience of DIT in the following ways:

Arts Council England will support Independent Venue Week, alongside CAN YOU CIC IT, for a sixth year with £99,364 of National Lottery Project Grant Funding.

Independent Venue Week, next taking place 27 January – 2 February 2020, is an annual week-long celebration of grassroots venues across the UK, where bands and artists learn, grow and perform to audiences year-round. The week highlights a lineup of shows and encourages music fans to attend and support. 

British writer and actor Phoebe Waller-Bridge has won Emmy's for her show Fleabag, which included best leading comedy actress, best comedy writing and best comedy show - a first for a British show - at the 71st Emmy awards which took place on 22 September 2019.

Internationally renowned pianist Lucy Parham celebrates the bicentenary of Clara Schumann’s birth on Friday 13th September with a Composer Portrait concert ‘I, Clara:Clara Schumann – A Life in Music’, touring nationally.

‘I, Clara’, Lucy Parham’s new show celebrating the exceptional life of Clara Wieck Schumann  will continue to tour in Autumn & Winter 2019 with the London premiere at King’s Place on Sunday 6^th October.