Festival Partnerships
Developing partnerships with local arts organisations is at the top of our festival priorities. Although music is at the very heart of the festival, we feel passionately about bringing all art forms to the festival from painting to photography, poetry and dance SIFA aims to celebrate all art forms in this and future festivals.
We are really excited to have the following partnerships and arts projects in place for our October 2023 festival:
Bristol Ensemble
Backwell Camera Club
Backwell Camera Club will be taking photographs of our performers over the festival weekend. This is a long established club, and members have a wide variety of interests. Their programme incudes a wide variety of talks, demos and presentations by external presenters covering a wide range of photographic genres.
More information can be found here http://backwellcamera.club/
Nancy Farmer - local artist
Nancy studied jewellery design at Glasgow School of Art from 1989 to 1992, then at the Victoria and Albert museum she completed a masters Degree in Metalwork conservation from 1992 to 1995. Following this, she worked first as a Metals Conservator at the V&A, cleaning and conserving some of the historic objects there, then as a model maker and designer making master-patterns for jewellery out of carved wax, and then as a goldsmith, making jewellery out of platinum and gold.
Nancy lives in Somerset and has put on several solo exhibitions in Somerset, Suffolk, London and Nottingham, as well as taking part in several group exhibitions and local art societies.
Details of more of Nancy's work can be found here https://waterdrawn.com/
Our ensemble-in-residence for the duration of the festival. Since it's foundation in 1994, by violinist and CEO Roger Huckle, the Bristol Ensemble has been at the forefront of musical life in Bristol and the Southwest.
Among the Bristol Ensemble's core values are the promotion of local talent and to serve the community in which it is based. It has achieved this over the past quarter of a century through world-class performances, award-winning education projects, and collaborations with many of the finest international performers. Notable partnerships have involved projects with Nicola Benedetti, Dame Evelyn Glennie, Freddy Kempf, Peter Donohoe, Andrei Gavrilov, Chloe Hanslip, Matthew Barley, Alan Schiller, Willard White, Emma Kirkby, James Bowman, Andy Shepherd, Wayne Marshall, Leslie Garrett, Emma Johnson, Natalia Lomeiko and Gabriel Prokofiev.
