Bakewell Arts Festival is brought to you this year by the 2011 BAF Management Group, artists and performers, the BAF Directors, the BAF Consultants and Project Managers, the BAF volunteers and this year's sponsors and advertisers, without whom the Festival would not exist in its current form.
History
Bakewell Arts Festival was founded in 1998 when its current Chair lassooed a good-natured group of random artists and arts lovers, coralled them into a locked room and plied them with endless supplies of tea and red wine. The event moved from being a figment of their collective imagination to an actual Festival in 1999 when they finally ran out of refreshments. Since then, it has mostly grown from strength to strength and is now considered seriously hench, almost entirely due to the fact that the management has become even more good-natured and random as the years have rocked on.
The seismic shift for the Festival came in 2010 when the Festival management was 'given away' to young talent. What that mostly means is that young people get all the good jobs (programming, performing, wielding expensive film cameras) while the Directors do all that plus everything the Management Group members don't much like the look of or think is a bit cringe. The system needs a little tweaking. Still, such an approach has served the Festival well and Bakewell Arts Festival 2010 was generally considered to be the best in BAF's history. So far.
Below are those responsible.
BAF Directors
Janette Hockley-Webster
Executive Producer, Press & Publicity
If anything goes wrong it's her fault. Mostly spends the Festival looking for something anthemic to sing along to.
Executive Producer, Press & Publicity
If anything goes wrong it's her fault. Mostly spends the Festival looking for something anthemic to sing along to.
Mark Roberts
Executive Producer, Young Management Group Whip
Mark is an actor and fits BAF around his work. Makes sterling efforts to keep everybody in line, but we mostly just laugh at his trainers.
Executive Producer, Young Management Group Whip
Mark is an actor and fits BAF around his work. Makes sterling efforts to keep everybody in line, but we mostly just laugh at his trainers.
Sue Stones
Executive Producer (Theatre)
Founder and Director of Bakewell Youth Theatre. Liaison with external theatre. Gets a bit shouty from about Monday due to BYT rehearsal schedule.
Executive Producer (Theatre)
Founder and Director of Bakewell Youth Theatre. Liaison with external theatre. Gets a bit shouty from about Monday due to BYT rehearsal schedule.
Wendy Longland
Company Secretary whose central location means she kindly goes away every summer to avoid complaining about the music programme
Company Secretary whose central location means she kindly goes away every summer to avoid complaining about the music programme
Andy Littler
Corporate Fundraiser , Mystery Man
Indispensable on Lorry day, especially when he goes to Cornwall instead
Corporate Fundraiser , Mystery Man
Indispensable on Lorry day, especially when he goes to Cornwall instead
Peter Bright
Corporate Fundraiser, Marketing
BAF's newest and youngest Director.
Corporate Fundraiser, Marketing
BAF's newest and youngest Director.
BAF 2011 Management Group
Sssh
Alex Carrie
Programmer, Performer
Songwriter and performer aiming to forge a career in the music industry and ignite and sustain a thriving music scene in the local area. (He thinks we don't already have one - sssh ...)
Programmer, Performer
Songwriter and performer aiming to forge a career in the music industry and ignite and sustain a thriving music scene in the local area. (He thinks we don't already have one - sssh ...)
Katie Duncan
Katie Duncan
Logistics, Flags
Student, yellow-jacket queen and a dab hand with both BAF Bucket and sewing machine - domestic goddess.
Logistics, Flags
Student, yellow-jacket queen and a dab hand with both BAF Bucket and sewing machine - domestic goddess.
India in performance mode
India Hockley-Webster
Admin, Finance, Programming, Logistics, Performer
Student, great time-keeper, even after partying in the Tent. Helps keep the Directors in line (because she is scary).
Admin, Finance, Programming, Logistics, Performer
Student, great time-keeper, even after partying in the Tent. Helps keep the Directors in line (because she is scary).
Ethan, somewhere out there
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Performer
Student, spends meetings drinking coke and distracting people only to unexpectedly bolt the week before BAF when he gets a better offer. Every year.
Performer
Student, spends meetings drinking coke and distracting people only to unexpectedly bolt the week before BAF when he gets a better offer. Every year.
Chris Thornton at play
Chris Thornton
Graduate Techie (go Chris!)
Last year's official BAF filmmaker.
Famous for not yet having delivered the BAF 2010 showreel.
Graduate Techie (go Chris!)
Last year's official BAF filmmaker.
Famous for not yet having delivered the BAF 2010 showreel.
Rosie Mooney, preparing to interview writer Chris Thompson
Rosie Mooney
Programmer, Performer, Media
Student. One half of Mooney & Wears, the intrepid BAF News Team. Small, Scottish and funny. Surgically attached to her mobile.
Programmer, Performer, Media
Student. One half of Mooney & Wears, the intrepid BAF News Team. Small, Scottish and funny. Surgically attached to her mobile.
James with fellow BAF 2010 Battle of the Bands judges
James 'Twang' Toyne
Logistics, Tent Technician
Techie genius with pimped Landrover and laconic smile. Battle of the Bands Judge. Getting a bit too indispensable.
Logistics, Tent Technician
Techie genius with pimped Landrover and laconic smile. Battle of the Bands Judge. Getting a bit too indispensable.
BAF 2010 Project Managers
Mark holding up the BAF Tent
Mark Wears
Programmer, Logistics, Media
A god among his peers, Mark never gets annoyed and there is nothing he can't lift, carry or beat into submission with one raised eyebrow.
Programmer, Logistics, Media
A god among his peers, Mark never gets annoyed and there is nothing he can't lift, carry or beat into submission with one raised eyebrow.
BAF Mascots
Nicky Crewe, Poetry @ Nice
Luke Stones, BAF Poster Boy
Luke Alton, Viva Chez Vegas
Derek Ashworth - problem solver, drinks replenisher and arts critic. Also Project Managing BAF Arts @ H's this year
The BAF cow by Adam Robinson. Pic by Deborah Goldenglove
