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Arts Trail Exhibition is BACK!!

In February this year, Claire Vaughan and her colleagues from the Selly Oak Constituency 0ffice approached the Dragons’ Den asking for funding to hold another Arts and Trail Competition within the Selly Oak Constituency. It was the 2nd Annual Arts Trail Exhibition. The launch took place at Selly Manor, Bournville Village Green on Friday 20 May.

The Arts Trail Exhibition and Competition was designed to showcase the talents of local residents living in Selly Oak Constituency and to offer all budding artists - be they poets, photographers or painters - the opportunity to display their work in a busy community library with the winning artwork being displayed at Selly Manor, Bournville until the end of June 2011.

At the launch, the Constituency Chairman, Councillor Nigel Dawkins presented the winners of the Trail competition with their certificates as well as presenting some of the children who entered artwork with certificates for highly commended artwork. The winner of the Adults (over 17 yrs) competition was Margaret Braithwaite for her painting of 'Billy the Barrow-boy' and the runner-up was Chris Eden for his photograph of Colmore School. The winner of the Children's (0-11 Yrs) competition was Freya Brennan (7 Yrs) for her collage of Bournville School and the runner-up was Yedam Kim (6 Yrs) for her painting of Cadbury World entitled 'Sweet Place'.

The Arts Trail Exhibition will run from May to the end of June 2011 in Druids Heath, Selly Oak, Stirchley and Yardley Wood Libraries all of which lie within the Selly Oak Constituency area. All the work that was submitted is being displayed at one of these venues.

For further information please contact Claire Vaughan, Arts Trail Coordinator:
Tel: 0121 464 9072
Email: sellyoak@birmingham.gov.uk