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Charnwood is a place where people act creatively to construct, innovate, discover and share their fascination with producing things. Come and see a few of the things local people have got up to. Celebrate with us the fantastic connections between people.

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Events of Making
Features of Making
Groups of Making
See Northern Ballet Theatre Project
Northern Ballet Theatre Project
Stefano Rogliatti came to work for Charnwood Arts through the Leonardo European Programme, a scheme which creates opportunities for young people to move across Europe, learn another language and gain work experience.
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See Home
Home
Home is a concept that most of us are lucky enough to be familiar with. This exhibition explores the theme of 'home' from a unique viewpoint.
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See Picnic in the Park
Picnic in the Park
Charnwood Arts has been organising a 'Picnic in the Park' live event in Queen's Park for over twenty years.
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See The 15th South Croxton Arts Festival

The 15th South Croxton Arts Festival
Living up to its reputation of being a unique village event, the year 2000 South Croxton Arts Festival put a variety of high quality visual and performing arts on show.

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See Detour
Detour
Rural and Community touring scheme was set up by Charnwood Borough Council (working in partnership with Melton Borough Council) in February 1999.
See Limehurst Masks
Limehurst Masks
Art teacher Jane Sheffield has long been a masterful inspirer of mask making at Limehurst School, Loughborough.
See Leicester Morris at Old John
Leicester Morris at Old John
May 1st 2000. High on a hill stand a lonely morris team with a keg of beer. Slowly, bleary-eyed, and wishing they were back in bed, an audience of well-wishers begins to arrive.
See Leicester Morris at Old John
See Loughborough Canal Boat Festival
Loughborough Canal Boat Festival
As part of an ongoing campaign to protect the historic Loughborough Wharf the local newspaper, the Loughborough Echo, initiated the first Loughborough Canal Boat Festival in the mid-1990s.
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See Loughborough Fair
Loughborough Fair
In the last big annual event of the Showman's Charter, Loughborough's famous street fair is one of the largest still running in Britain. For three days the streets of the town are full of hustle and bustle, smells, sounds and sights of a major funfair...
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See Loughborough Mela
Loughborough Mela
The Loughborough Mela is now going from strength to strength as a key event in the Charnwood calendar.
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See A very sticky experience!
A very sticky experience!
In response to a request from the Parish Council that each of the Parish groups should "do something" to mark the Millennium, the Children's Liturgy Group (after a great many meetings!) decided that we would create a collage covering various aspects of Jesus' life.
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See Disability Martial Arts Day
Disability Martial Arts Day
Like the first in 1999, the second Disability Martial Arts Day organised by the Loughborough based Tetsudo Association was a huge success.
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See Holocaust Day
Holocaust Day
January 2001 saw the first national remembrance of the wartime Holocaust and many other acts of mass genocide, enshrined in what is to become an annual commemorative day.
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See The Youth Arts Festival
The Youth Arts Festival
Took place at Lougborough Town Hall in early April 2000. It was a key element of the People Making Places project, and was made possible through partnerships between Charnwood Arts and a wide range of local organisations.
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See Streets Alive
Streets Alive
Building on the success of a commisioned event (undertaken by Charnwood Arts) to open the newly pedestrianised Market Place for Loughborough in 1996,'Streets Alive' has become Loughborough's biggest street event after the annual fair
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See Millennium Events
Millennium Events
Loughborough Market Place
Mountsorrel Millennium Event
Birstall Millenium Event
Beacon HillSunset on Beacon Hill
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