IMPRINT Festival: Women Make Music

The Bricoleurs Press have organised a women’s international collaborative cross platform arts festival- IMPRINT- that will take place in both Manchester and Newcastle October 2012. The focus of this event is to encourage collaborative working partnerships and create networks between women artists and musicians in order to engender further potential working opportunities and ways for their work to be viewed and performed to a diverse audiences. The festival organisers will work to support experienced women artists and musicians to develop their work and diversify into new areas of creativity, whilst offering them a platform in both traditional and less traditional music venues in order to reach new audiences. The work created will also be documented, exhibited and form part of an online and physical archive.

The Women Make Music funding will pay to support the 3 musicians – Maggie Nicols, Aby Vuillamy and Sherry Ostapovich – to be able to attend and participate in the festival, work collaboratively, run 2 participative educational music workshops in Newcastle and Manchester and perform 3 times each in different venues throughout the festival.

The IMPRINT festival has been designed around the principle of supporting diverse artists to reach and engage with diverse audiences, particularly the LGBT, BME communities and people with multiple needs. This is reflected in the programming and the strong emphasis on educational workshops and reflective symposiums which run throughout the festival. These will be free and accessible to all. The Bricoleurs Press Co-ordinators are community arts and music practitioners who have been working with diverse communities for over 15 years and have formed many successful partnerships with and into these communities.