I AM JOY MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL 2010

I AM JOY ARTS & MUSIC FESTIVAL 19TH TO 22ND AUGUST 2010 PRIORY PARK, CHICHESTER

The I Am Joy Music & Arts Festival is back for its fourth year! The non-profit organisation began in 2007 and has grown from a free, 5-day event held in a youth club to a weekend of imaginative fun in a park in the heart of Chichester.

I Am Joy is, as the name suggests, as much to do with the individual as it is with community. The annual celebration aims to provide platforms for talented young people in and around Chichester and the South Coast across a plethora of artistic genres. The arts can be a tough place to put your future prospects in, so support is needed from an early stage in creative discovery. I Am Joy from the start set out to not only nurture talent, but bring together those with like minds and aspirations and forge a community who would breathe life in their city.

Whether it is painting, dancing, singing or acting I Am Joy unites the pleasure of inspiration with a torrent of the wild and wonderful. The festival has become an occasion of excitement in a relatively sleepy town.

In 2010 the I Am Joy Festival is back and has never been so well oiled. After the 6-day marathon of 2009 where eight venues all over the city were taken over, the Joy Collective have decided to go back to basics and stick to just two: The Boys Club and Priory Park.

The Boys Club is a youth club that runs deep in the history of I Am Joy. Accepting of Joy's ambitious project in 2007, the team at the Boys Club have always been supportive and are now like family. Hilary Hughes who is the manager and 'head honcho' at the Boys Club, has helped I Am Joy grow into one of the prominent and most anticipated summer projects for young people in the summer holidays. The Boys Club is Joy's 'hub' and in 2010 will become the nucleus where people of all ages and abilities can get involved in creative workshops.

From our experience gained at the 2009 I Am Joy Festival we have decided to take a leap into 'Lion Country' for this year's event, and have two full days and three evenings in Priory Park. This means the festival is far more inclusive with our audience. An event where live music can be seen alongside art exhibitions, theatre follows poetry and everybody can come together - unless it rains and we all end up huddled under the Big Top!

So in August 2010 I Am Joy will return and supply the apathetic with an electric hand shake and the air with a wondrous sense of delight.

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Creatures of Chichester and beyond, awaken and come visit our garden of earthly delights, where a torrent of wild and wonderful creations will be discovered...

ISSUE 3

THE JOY MAGAZINE ISSUE 3 LAUNCH PARTY

SATURDAY 3RD APRIL @ WOODIES WINE BAR, CHICHESTER 8PM - 1 AM

I Am Joy Presents...

THE JOY MAGAZINE ISSUE 3 LAUNCH PARTY
To celebrate the re-emergence of the magazine (AKA the Troll)


TROLL AND COCKTAILS: A night of music, comedy, poetry and cocktails. Including..........

TOM BENTLEY (of Hakuna Pesa) acoustic set

MIKE FRY accompanied by the dulcit song of Fi Winterflood

PETE WALSH (impressionist with lots of LOL)

Poetry from: TONGUES & STRINGS

DJ SET: LARRY ELLIOTT

DRINKS OFFERS ON I AM JOY COCKTAILS invented especially by Alex Gillison (Dirty Jaguar frontman and cocktail barman extraordinaire)

GET ONE FOR SORROW OR TWO FOR JOY on a deal...

PLUS DON'T FORGET YOUR FREE COPY OF THE JOY MAGAZINE!!!


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