Rotherham's Arts Festivals

Rotherham is blessed with two arts festivals this year, including The Rotherham Arts Summer Season celebrating the Voluntary Arts, and the Spiegeltent Festival in October.

Rotherham Arts Summer Season

Rotherham Arts Summer Season was staged by Voluntary Arts Groups umbrella body Rotherham Arts, who received Arts Council England funding to help them stage a wonderful Arts Festival in 2008. For more information about Rotherham Arts and the summer season, please contact the chair,

Jeremy Blundell
c/o the Community Arts Service,
Central Library and Arts Centre,
Walker Place,
Rotherham, S65 1JH

or email Jeremy Blundell at JBlndll@aol.com

Rotherham Open Arts Festival in the Spiegeltent

This annual Autumn event (3-12 October 2008) was presented by the Rotherham Culture Company in association with Rotherham Open Arts Renaissance. It was supported by sponsorship and by grant funding (including Arts Council of England Yorkshire, South Yorkshire Tourism and Yorkshire Forward, and showcased the work of local community artists and arts groups, amateur and professional, through facilitating performances, developing projects and encouraging learning through participation.

The festival created a special arena by building a Spiegeltent in All Saints Square and offered many events that were free. It presented major international performers as well (in 2007 the Festival featured Martin Simpson, John Tams, Ensemble 360, Ian Siegal, Achanak) and commissions new work.

For more information about the event, or to offer feedback please contact:-

Sean Rourke, Festival Director
Rotherham Open Arts Festival
c/o The Unity Centre
St Leonards Road
Rotherham
S65 1PS

Email sean.rourke@rotherham.gov.uk
Website www.rotherhamculture.org

This is a photograph of Martin Simpson and Jon Tams performing at the Spiegeltent in 2007.
Local Heroes Martin Simpson and Jon Tams performing at the Spiegeltent in 2007