Festival of Hope Winsford
Hi! Welcome to our Festival of Hope Winsford!
Despite lockdown we still wanted to do something in our town that people could be proud of, and that anybody could see at any time.
We feel that not everyone is aware of our communal heritage and we feel that this is an important story that needs to be told.
We want to bring hope to our town and leave a lasting legacy!
At our festival you’ll find a range of exciting installations including a short film, a pop up gallery, and a street art installation.
West Cheshire Museums have been working with two groups of Young Producers, in Chester and Winsford. We want to embed young voices within our organisation and showcase what young people can do.
The Winsford Young Producers were brought together by a love for their town and the drive to share the stories of their community in a creative and fun way. This has worked incredibly well alongside our vision as a museum service to inspire our community to discover, explore and enjoy their rich heritage, culture and history.
West Cheshire Museums are a diverse group of museums which include a working watermill and a restored salt production site. Our collections cover a huge slice of Cheshire’s history and tell the stories of the area’s people and places, from prehistoric times to the present day.
WHAT’S ON IN WINSFORD
ENJOY THE SHOW!
A Journey of Hope
Young Producers: Macey, Evie, Thomas, Laurel.
Featuring: Ben Mellor
Live on 5th September at 9am
Welcome to the Festival of Hope. We are Winsford Young producers and this is what hope means to us.
Welcome to the Festival of Hope.
We are Winsford Young Producers and we want to introduce you to our Festival of Hope with a short piece that we have written. This is our Journey of Hope, which shares our inspiration for the Festival and what hope means to us.
We are Winsford
Young Producers: Macey, Evie, Thomas, Laurel.
Featuring: Michael Cochran
Live on 5th September at 9am
A short film exploring Winsford’s heritage through the thing most important to Winsford, it’s community. Currently being screened online and in Cinewindow in Winsford Town Centre.
A short film exploring Winsford’s heritage through the thing most important to Winsford, it’s community. The film explores the different experiences of people in Winsford during lockdown, and shows that we have more in common than we might have otherwise thought.
Screened both online and in Cinewindow and created in collaboration with The Winsford Young Producers and Michael Spencer Cochran. Michael Cochran is an up-and-coming North-West Filmmaker who loves to tell local stories.
See here, for more information about Cinewindow.
Cinewindow can be found inside Winsford Cross Shopping Centre.
Gallery of Winsford
Young Producers: Evie, Macey, Thomas, Laurel.
Featuring: Lottie Smith
Live on 5th September at 9am
A pop up gallery to celebrate the creativity of the town of Winsford, made entirely from cardboard.
A piece inspired by the vast amount of artworks created in Winsford throughout lockdown, and the inordinate amount of cardboard from online deliveries.
This cardboard gallery is a space that will showcase works by local people and will also draw on our own personal inspirations from our time spent at home in Winsford; making the cardboard gallery into an incredible artwork in itself.
Created in collaboration with the Winsford Young Producers and Lottie Smith.
Lottie creates works that interact with their surroundings and the people who come into contact with them. Objects that have, and tell a story.
You can see more of Lottie’s work here.
The Gallery of Winsford can be found inside Winsford Cross Shopping Centre.
A Place To Be Proud Of
Young Producers: Thomas, Laurel, Evie, Macey.
Featuring: Neil Keating
Live on 5th September at 9am
An incredible piece of street art created by Neil Keating which explores Winsford’s heritage, and our sense of hope and pride for our town.
Inspired by our sense of pride of our hometown and our desire to create a place people could be proud of, this installation explores our town’s less discussed heritage, and draws on the things that make us hopeful about our town’s future.
Created by Neil Keating in collaboration with Winsford Young Producers. Liverpool born Neil Keating is a multi-talented graphic designer, illustrator and street artist working from Static Studios in Liverpool. See more of Neil’s work here.
A Place to be Proud Of: A Place To Be Proud Of can be found in the Underpass next to Winsford Library.
Posted by Hope Streets on Friday, 28 August 2020
Posted by Hope Streets on Friday, 28 August 2020
Posted by Hope Streets on Friday, 28 August 2020
Posted by Hope Streets on Friday, 28 August 2020
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