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'more arts.': It's a Final Goodbye

'more arts.' is closing its doors, March 31st, 2025

Over the last 15 years, The Cultural Partnership: 'more arts.' has contributed over £250,000 to our local community. We have helped to promote and we have delivered local 'arts' events of all kinds since 2010. As well as events for everyone, our particular focus has been the support of arts and culture for young people.

We are bringing our charity to a close this year.

All our remaining funds will be distributed to those schools and charities that we have worked with over the years. We will close our doors by the end of March this year.

It has been a lot of fun and we wish all our partners and friends the very best for the future.

Our 2024/25 Hands-on-Art Events

Try out art activities this summer & autumn.

Find our FREE art-based activities at local carnivals and fêtes across Wokingham Borough.

Wokingham Fun Day	Langborough Recreation Ground	25th May
Woodley Carnival	Woodford Park	8th June
Twyford Donkey Derby	King George V Recreation Ground	16th June
Crowthorne Carnival Fete	Morgan Recreation Ground	6th July
Earley Green Fair	Maiden Erlegh Nature Reserve	3rd August
Spencers Wood Carnival	Spencers Wood Recreation Ground	21st September
Lunar New Year	Market Place, Wokingham	9th February, 2025

Activities such as face mask decorating, air dry clay modelling, block printing, hand printing and clay model painting will be provided by talented local artists Cath Baldwin, Zoe Brown, Rachel Freegard, Robyn Kelly and Saleem Zaman.

Learn more about Hands-on-Art 2024.

Learn more about 'more arts.'.

We're always looking for more volunteers. Interested? Contact us here.

LUNAR NEW YEAR CELEBRATION

Come and welcome the Lunar New Year

Sunday 9th February, 2025 11am-3pm. Market Place, Wokingham

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The Lunar New Year Celebration brings crowds to the Market Place.

The lion dance, one of the most important traditions at Chinese New Year, was performed last year in the heart of the town alongside music, arts and crafts.

In 2025 artists from 'more arts.' will show youngsters how to make snake puppets, as 2024 is the year of the Snake.

'more arts.' Sponsors Sculpture

'more arts.' supports the Arc, Wokingham's stunning new sculpture

Jim Stockley, the chair of 'more arts.', recently met with Robin Cops, the vice chair of Arts4Wokingham to pledge support for The Arc.

The sculpture is Arts4Wokingham's first commissioned piece of art for the borough and will be sited outside Carnival Hub.

It is to be created by award-winning international sculptor, Nicola Anthony.

However, to turn her version into reality, Arts4Wokingham needs to raise £200,000 from supporters. It is not receiving any public funding.

The support was welcomed by Mr Cops. "We thank Jim for 'more arts.'s generous donation," he said. "They are pleased to have their name associated with this first major piece of public art being established in Wokingham by Arts4Wokingham."

For more details, and to make a donation, go to: https://arts4wokingham.com/.

NEW 'Local Arts Loan' PROMOTIONAL VIDEO

'more arts.' has released a 12-minute video to show our Local Arts Loan programme

Our 'Local Arts Loan' programme selects high quality A-Level student artwork from local schools and provides it to local businesses and other organisations to enhance their office space.

The businesses pay a small amount each week for each piece, which we share with the schools, enabling them to invest in much needed art material and equipment.

Businesses can opt to pay a small amount extra, which we add to our Legacy Fund which we use to fund arts activities to help vulnerable young people.

We also loan pieces of art free of charge to local care homes, encouraging residents to discuss what the art work means to them and perhaps enabling them to reminisce about their younger lives.

Take a few moments to view our new Promotional Video.

If you would like to learn how your organisation can join the programme, and view some of the artwork in our online catalogue, go to the Local Arts Loan section of our website.