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Come See Us Fly!

Posted on May 18, 2022 by purpleclaire — Leave a comment

It’s been a while since we’ve had a blog post as other forms of social media have dominated. But as we have a special project launching in Castle Vale it felt right that we bring it back as we’ve got…

Tagged with: active arts, Birmingham, Birmingham 2022 Festival, Castle Vale, Events, Festival of Flying
Posted in Dance, Drama, Events, What's on

Castle Vale Evening Of Creativity No.2 This Friday!

Posted on May 1, 2018 by laurajaneh19 — Leave a comment

At Spitfire Art Zone this Friday at 6pm , you can attend our fun & family friendly Evening of Creativity with live performances from local artists, bands & more! There is also a craft area for you to try something new and always…

Opportunity for Local Musicians and Artists

Posted on February 2, 2018 by laurajaneh19 — Leave a comment

Active Arts is bringing our successful ‘Evenings of Creativity’ to Castle Vale and we’re looking for musicians and artists to get involved What is an Evening of Creativity? It’s a fun, social evening a bit cabaret style, with live performances always…

Tagged with: active arts, Arts, Castle Vale, community arts, Events, Live music, workshops
Posted in Other

Come See What We’ve Been Up To!

Posted on October 23, 2015 by purpleclaire — 2 Comments

In Centre Park tonight at 6.30 and tomorrow 1.30 & 6.30, you can see the show we have created over the last 5 months bringing together new groups Wings and La Rochette with Centre Stage, Mini Movers, Youngstars, Phab, Generations…

We WON! Thank you

Posted on November 26, 2014 by purpleclaire — 1 Comment

What an incredible journey The People’s Millions has been for Active Arts and our supporters. Our team expanded as we gained momentum on the campaign and over the last few days, especially vote day, the support was incredible. The excitement…

Watch our ITV film for The Butterfly Effect

Posted on November 25, 2014 by purpleclaire — 2 Comments

Did you get to see our film for The People’s Millions about The Butterfly Effect on ITV’s Central News? Don’t worry if you missed it, you can watch it again here. And if it’s not after midnight on the 25th…

Tagged with: Castle Vale, ITV, The Big Lottery, The Butterfly Effect, The People's Millions
Posted in News

Today is our People’s Millions Vote Day with ITV

Posted on November 25, 2014 by purpleclaire — Leave a comment

So today’s the day! Here’s what we’d love you to do Phone the number on a landline or mobile or both at least once or up to 10 times on each for each phone you have! Send us a message…

Tagged with: Castle Vale, ITV, The Big Lottery, The Butterfly Effect, The People's Millions
Posted in News

ITV and Big Lottery’s People’s Millions 1 Week Today!

Posted on November 18, 2014 by purpleclaire — Leave a comment

One week today is vote day for The Butterfly Effect Project. One week today we’ll be up early looking for and sharing the telephone number that could help make a £50,000 difference to Castle Vale. One week today we’ll be…

Tagged with: Castle Vale, ITV, The Big Lottery, The Butterfly Effect, The People's Millions
Posted in News, Opportunities

We can now announce our big secret…

Posted on October 28, 2014 by purpleclaire — Leave a comment

The Big Lottery and The Tyburm Mail have broke the story this morning announcing our big news…Active Arts Castle Vale is 1 of just 6 projects shortlisted for this year’s The People’s Millions vote on…

Tagged with: Castle Vale, ITV, The Big Lottery, The Butterfly Effect, The People's Millions
Posted in News

Castle Vale Festival returns for second year of celebrations

Posted on August 27, 2014 by purpleclaire — Leave a comment

27th Aug 2014 and the Birmingham Mail have covered the story of our 2nd Castle Vale Festival. To see for yourself including pictures visit the web page here ‘Residents on Birmingham estate prepare to party at festival whose inaugural year…

Tagged with: active arts, Castle Vale, Castle Vale Festival, Year of Celebration
Posted in Events, Press