{"id":12,"date":"2016-08-12T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T12:54:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-11-13T04:33:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T04:33:32","slug":"thorntree-middlesbrough-creative-ideas-in-the-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/merlinartsfest\/2016\/08\/12\/thorntree-middlesbrough-creative-ideas-in-the-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Thorntree, Middlesbrough &#8211; Creative ideas in the Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/merlinartsfest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/08\/Thornaby-2B1058.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/merlinartsfest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/08\/Thornaby-2B1058-214x300.jpg\" width=\"456\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">We planned some brilliant events on the Thorntree estate in East Middlesbrough with a combination of Drama Tree, Chris Litherland, photographer working with Positive Options, Tony Jilks who ran creative workshops and courses via bank &nbsp;of computers in the community centre etc. The&nbsp;enthusiasm&nbsp;and creativity we generated in the community was brilliant but&nbsp;unfortunately the political will prevent use of the rooms and facilities we needed because they didn&#8217;t think it would work without funding. They only allowed one event which was a success. As Thorntree was only one place out of many where Merlin&#8217;s Cauldron took place, it didn&#8217;t halt the festival but it was disappointing to have to lose all that&nbsp;enthusiasm&nbsp;and ideas we&nbsp;generated in a deprived area of Middlesbrough because of lack of faith! After the festival the community worker who blocked us called me &#8220;<i>The man who did it!<\/i>&#8220;. Well I did do it despite his lack of cooperation!<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We planned some brilliant events on the Thorntree estate in East Middlesbrough with a combination of Drama Tree, Chris Litherland, photographer working with Positive Options, Tony Jilks who ran creative workshops and courses via bank &nbsp;of computers in the community centre etc. The&nbsp;enthusiasm&nbsp;and creativity we generated in the community was brilliant but&nbsp;unfortunately the political will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":54,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/merlinartsfest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/merlinartsfest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/merlinartsfest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/merlinartsfest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/merlinartsfest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/merlinartsfest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/merlinartsfest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/merlinartsfest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/merlinartsfest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/merlinartsfest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/merlinartsfest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}