{"id":267,"date":"2008-02-11T19:17:09","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T18:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/?p=267"},"modified":"2009-09-19T21:54:07","modified_gmt":"2009-09-19T20:54:07","slug":"friends-out-there-friday-15th-feb-watford-colosseum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/?p=267","title":{"rendered":"Friends Out There, Friday 15th Feb Watford Colosseum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Bev Carter, Friends Out There\" src=\"http:\/\/neighbourhoods.typepad.com\/neighbourhoods\/images\/2008\/01\/22\/bev_fot_poster.jpg\" alt=\"Bev Carter, Friends Out There\" align=\"left\" \/><strong>Bev Carter<\/strong>, who participated in last year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/?cat=18\" target=\"_blank\">Case Study<\/a> programme, is organising the launch event, <strong>Friends Out There<\/strong>, for a charity which will run arts based projects with residents of Umulogho Village, Nigeria at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watford.gov.uk\/ccm\/content\/leisure-and-community\/watford-colosseum.en\" target=\"_blank\">Watford Colosseum<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.streetmap.co.uk\/newmap.srf?x=510511&amp;y=196802&amp;z=1&amp;sv=510511,196802&amp;st=OSGrid&amp;lu=N&amp;tl=~&amp;ar=y&amp;bi=~&amp;mapp=newmap.srf&amp;searchp=newsearch.srf\" target=\"_blank\">Map<\/a>) just 20 minutes by London from Euston Station.<\/p>\n<p>A celebration of African dance, art and music, the main aim of the event is to raise funds to improve facilities in Umulogho village and establish a new school building. Bev&#8217;s Case Study project, <em>A Little Something About Me<\/em> includes two eBooks (<a href=\"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/?p=229\" target=\"_blank\">A Little Something About Me<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/?p=231\" target=\"_blank\">Kedu? How Are You?<\/a>) based on the experiences of children at the school and is part of a long term exchange being developed between Umologho schoolchildren and schoolchildren in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/neighbourhoods.typepad.com\/friendsoutthere\/\" target=\"_blank\">Friend Out There blog <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Doors open at 6pm with live performances from 7.45pm until 00.45am featuring:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Kakatsitsi<\/strong>, Master Drummers from Ghana<\/li>\n<li><strong>Chimanimani<\/strong> from Zimbabwe,<\/li>\n<li>Fire juggling and stilt walking by <strong>Area 51<\/strong>, the Masters of Breathtaking<\/li>\n<li>and special guest <strong>Rolf Harris<\/strong> performing live accompanied by his friend <strong>Shining Bear<\/strong> on didgeridoo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More details and tickets available from the Colosseum box office: <strong>01923 225671<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Originally blogged by <a href=\"http:\/\/neighbourhoods.typepad.com\/neighbourhoods\/2008\/01\/friends-out-the.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Harris<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bev Carter, who participated in last year&#8217;s Case Study programme, is organising the launch event, Friends Out There, for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,36],"tags":[35,1119,425],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-residencies","tag-case-studies","tag-community","tag-nigeria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1505,"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/1505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}