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Maindee Festival Association Fresh Air
PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Maindee Festival is the only free annual community arts festival in Newport. This year our theme is Fresh Air and we'll be exploring issues around air pollution in Maindee and across Newport. Our community arts workshops, which will run throughout June in the run up to the event ,will create giant items for our carnival parade like clouds, hot air balloons and kites, while participants learn about the effect of air pollution and what's happening in Newport to address it.

Beneficiaries

  • The General Public / Mankind

    The wholecommunity look forward every year to taking part in the festival parade and the festival itself. It's an absolute community highlight. There is a huge cultural mix living in Maindee. 50 different languages are spoken at the school alone!

  • Number of beneficiaries - 2265

    This include workshop, parade and festival activities

Geographic reach

  • Wales: Newport
BENEFICIARIES REACHED ANNUALLY

2265

This is an indicative figure based of workshops and on day

SIZE OF PROJECT PER ANNUM

£20,000.00

TIMELINE

Jul 2024 - Jul 2024

Project Outcome Targets

Access to an eclectic mix of the very best local musical talent to widen musical horizons.

Access to an eclectic mix of the best spoken word talent to open the world of poetry &storytelling

Engage with young people with a specific space where we can nurture and celebrate new local talent

Project Activities

  • Raise the importance of air quality through our parade workshops and during events on the day

  • We want to create a visually stunning carnival parade that will showcase the ' Fresh Air ' theme

  • During the workshops the artists will discuss the theme of ' fresh air' and why it's important.

  • Our project will take place at several locations within Maindee in East Newport.

  • We will produce a festival newsletter which will be distributed to 4,000 households in Maindee.

Project Impact and Partners
IMPACT REPORTING

Bi-annually

March 2021

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
UN SDG 13: Climate Action
How we monitor the quality and results of our work

We will hold a post festival evaluation session which all community members are invited too