'The Spice of Life'
'The Spice of Life'. In November and December of 2017 Art Works took part in the SPARK Festival of South Asian Art. SPARK was part of Utsav - Birmingham City Council’s Year of South Asian Arts The Festival was two weeks of films, music, arts, crafts, street art, theatre, poetry, food provided by a mixture of Six Birmingham community and arts organisations either based in and/or working with a range of communities from Sparkhill or Sparkbrook areas. The Festival offered a number of events designed with and by local people, that give a flavour of the rich diversity of arts activities influenced by South Asian Arts in this bustling part of Birmingham. Over a period of ten weeks we worked with a variety of groups from the Springfield Project, Creative and Welcome groups Friends of Sparkhill Park The Forest School and St John’s School Azadi Glue All groups contributed towards the building of the ‘Spice Cart’, a piece of processional art that was u