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Coventry Great Place Scheme

Coventry Great Place Scheme

While Coventry was gearing up to be UK City of Culture in 2021, the Great place scheme delivered by Jacqui Ibbotson, lay the foundations for the city’s spotlight year by building a strong cultural offer and piloting new performance ideas inspired by the city’s people and places. The Coventry Great Place Scheme, funded by National Lottery Heritage Fund, Arts Council England and Historic England, lit up the city in new and unusual ways. Click on the link to watch the project film.

Find Your Voice 2015

Find Your Voice 2015

In 2015, Jacqui Ibbotson and Euton Daley managed the Find Your Voice project for the Oxfordshire Library Service working with more than 400 young people on a project across 14 libraries and at the Houses of Parliament. By the end of the year, participants had made videos, devised plays, made soundscapes and written poems expressing their views on how we live today and what they wanted to change.

Cultural Olympiad 2012

Cultural Olympiad 2012

A £1 million partnership project for the Cultural Olympiad seen by 20,000 people with 2,000 participants from across the Thames Valley. Jacqui Ibbotson applied for grants from Legacy Trust UK and Arts Council England for a Cultural Olympiad project, Tree of Light and, together with partner local authority grants was awarded over one million pounds to deliver this two year project. The Performance Director was Charlie Morrissey, design installation by Block9 and composer was Orlando Gough.

Music from the Genome

Music from the Genome

A season of science and arts in Oxfordshire to mark the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society. Supported by Jacqui Ibbotson, the highlight of the season was a Sci-Music project initiated by anaethesist, Dr Andrew Morely to discover if there was gene for musicality. Funded by the Wellcome Trust and premiered at the Diamond Light Source it featured a composition by composer Michael Zev Gordon and was performed by the New London Chamber Choir.

Radford Bubbles

Radford Bubbles

Co-created by Radford's community champions with Jacqui Ibbotson for Coventry City of Culture 2021, this project and exhibition captured images and experiences of ‘support bubbles’, - friends or family groups - that supported each other during the COVID-19 lockdowns of 2020-21. Each image was taken behind dychromatic film in a 'bubble' frame designed by Ella Clarke. Portrait Photographer Fran Monks mentored 10 local photographers to take the images for the project.

Try It

Try It

Produced by Dr Nobulali Dangazele and Jacqui Ibbotson, Try It! was a programme of 18 new creative clubs for Coventry City of Culture which encouraged residents to get out after lockdown, meet new friends and have a go at a range of different creative health-giving activities. Clink on the link to see the short film of the Sharing Day in Dec 2021.

Coventry Welcomes 2018

Coventry Welcomes 2018

Produced by Christabel Amoakoh and Jacqui Ibbotson for Coventry's Refugee Week 2018, Coventry Welcomes included six ambitious outdoor events, football tournaments, arts exhibitions, forums and discussions. Approximately 8,328 people attended 26 events over seven days of which approximately 2,000 were from migrant communities. 77 volunteers contributed to the festival which culminated in a celebration day in Good Chance Theatre's Dome. Click on the link to watch the project film.

Party on the Green

Party on the Green

Outdoor Places Unusual Spaces (OPUS) were commissioned by Jacqui to programme, plan and deliver three separate free outdoor events, taking place in hyper-local locations in the heart of Coventry communities - Tile Hill, Holbrooks and Binley. Following in depth community engagement workshops and liaison with local stakeholders, programmes included Cirque Bijou, Talking Birds, Motionhouse, Bureau of Silly Ideas, EGO, Natural Theatre Company, Simple Cypher, Kitsch n Sync, Round in Circles and more

The Island 2021

The Island 2021

Jacqui Ibbotson commissioned De Balie to produce 'The Island' - an exciting online social experiment in which a diverse group of citizens from Coventry democratically had to create a shared home on an island that underwent various challenges. A short film was created of the project (voiceover by Jacqui) which explored what rules we need to ensure peace and tranquility and at what price prosperity can be maintained. Clink on the link for more details and the film.

Christmas Light Night

Christmas Light Night

As part of the team at Oxford Inspires, Jacqui Ibbotson initiated Oxford’s first Christmas celebration in 2007 which built over 6 years to a much loved annual one night celebration, attracting more than 30,000 people. Each year the event involves outdoor art installations, a children’s lantern procession and dance stage and a range of cultural activities in museums and galleries across the City.

The Fateful Voyage Pilot 2018

The Fateful Voyage Pilot 2018

Alex Jennings took part in rehearsals and workshops to explore the potential of a new staged biography of Rupert Brooke, F.S.Kelly and William Denis Browne. This Arts Council R & D project was a collaboration between the Oxford Centre for Life Writing and Oxford Arts Consultants. The piece is an adaptation of the triple biography by Kate Kennedy and combined Opera, Dance and Theatre to great effect.

Shakespeare Oxford 2016

Shakespeare Oxford 2016

Throughout 2016, Oxford marked Shakespeare’s 400th anniversary in public libraries, theatres, cinemas, nightclubs, concert halls, at Carnival – and under the stars. Jacqui Ibbotson coordinated the festival commissioned by the Bodleian Libraries, Oxfordshire County Library Service, the University of Oxford English Faculty, Blackwell’s Booksellers, Oxford University Press and Experience Oxfordshire.

Singing Histories

Singing Histories

In 2009, Jacqui Ibbotson commissioned Folk Song expert, Tim Healey, to research songs which originated in Oxfordshire since it had been named 'Oxfordshire' in 1007, presenting the music plus a description of the history of each song. The most well known song which was first heard of the streets of Oxford was 'Early One Morning'. A publication was produced in partnership with 'Sing London', distributed to music teachers in all the schools in Oxfordshire and launched in Oxford's Central Library.

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