Breeze aims to seek out raw and emerging talent in the arts and media and to create a broad range of opportunities to help people on their creative journey. Jointly sponsored by BBC South West and the Arts Council, each successful project will be offered a one-week paid placement working with media and arts professionals to realise their ambitions. Around 70 people submitted ideas they wanted to develop with the help of Breeze. These were whittled down to a shortlist of 20 before the 12 winning applicants were chosen.
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Breeze is a partnership between a number of South West organisations, the BBC, The Barbican Theatre, Plymouth Arts Centre and TR2. It also has official backing from the Plymouth Consortium for Diversity in the Arts, and the Plymouth & District Racial Equality Council. This means the scheme can offer an innovative opportunity for those wanting to create a new project and learn new skills. There's no such thing as a bad idea and the limits of Breeze were only defined by the imagination of those who submitted ideas. The 12 successful projects were: - Thiam Lau's project will bring poetry to the public spaces of Plymouth. In Thiam's words "poetry is about the education of our hearts". His work, in both Mandarin and English will be displayed across the city.
- Chaz Singh will explore his identity as a Sikh living in Plymouth through photographic imagery.
- Power Pack, brings together a group of young people with Muscular Dystrophy who will learn the art of film making while producing their own pop music video with the help of the Plymouth Music Zone.
- Andy Blackwell will develop his film making skills as he attempts to create a piece of theatre in Ham wood with local school children.
- Nasir Jamal will work with the BBC to build a dedicated website for the South Asian community in Devon.
- Omar Ali, will learn new journalism skills, which will help him in the course of his work for the Kurdish community newspaper.
- New Hope will create a social biography through film, to explore the lives of a group of characters living in Devonport.
- Katie Thompson will develop a web based audio and visual archive of the South West's creative talent.
- Ghana Link will redevelop its website which celebrates the established link between Plymouth and Sekondia Takoradi.
- Storyteller, Abimbola Alao will use the art of cornrow hair design to tell web based stories.
- Chanda Nyerezni and Caroline Keane, will bring Zimbabwean storytelling to the Devon countryside with ancient stone carrying ceremony.
- Jake Keohane, one of the key figures behind the newly organised North Devon Respect festival, will learn PR skills to help make the most of the festival.
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