Culture Secretary applauds acta’s community theatre
We were extremely lucky to have a meeting with Culture Secretary Andy Burnham recently during a flying visit to Bristol in October. The Minister took time out of his busy schedule to attend a presentation by acta and other community members from North Bristol to find out more about the community arts work we’re doing across the city.
Andy Burnham, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, said of the visit,
“I was really delighted to be able to meet acta’s inspiring leader, Neil Beddow, and so many of their local performers. I appreciate the importance of the work they do with local people of all ages, recording and performing relevant stories about their neighbourhoods. I was extremely impressed with the presentations they put on for me and I will be interested to hear about all their forthcoming projects. I wish acta well for the future.”
We’d like to say a huge thankyou to Minister Burnham for taking the time to meet with us and for being so supportive of our participatory arts work.
Also a special thanks to Doug Naysmith MP for Bristol North West who arranged the meeting and also paid tribute to our work…
“Andy Burnham was clearly very impressed, both with the quality of acta’s work and with the way they developed the skills and boosted the confidence of those who took part. I have promised to keep him informed of future developments.”
