- December 2001: Childe Roland - An interactive community-based theatre project
involving households in Browning Road, also serving as a pilot for future larger
events in the "Poets" areas of Worthing.
| Sir Harry of Heene - an extract from December 2001's Childe Roland
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- Ongoing since July 2001: Public art exhibitions and installations
- April 2002 - SWAG MAG - A prototype local Arts magazine funded by the
Worthing Community Chest Fund. 1,000 copies distributed in the Worthing area.
- July 2002 - Fringe 2002:An eclectic selection of high quality music,
performance and visual arts involving over 200 local performers and artists
drawn from ten local Arts groups and companies.
- Christmas 2002 - Vanguard Productions a show for those who are old enough to
remember World War Two
- January 2003 Art Around Town - SWAG vice-chair Angela Latham instigates the Art
Around Town Scheme. Artists exhibit their work in commercial premises in Worthing.
This scheme runs throughout the year.
- March 2003 - Worthing Festival's first writing competition: Organised by SWAG,
The Chanctonbury Writers Group and Jan Henley, creative writing tutor at Northbrook
College; and the first fringe festival Logo Competition.
- July 2003 - The third Fringe Festival featured a myriad of performers plus
the winners
of the writing competition in Domenatrix, the first literary event to be held at the
Dome Cinema
- September 2003 - Art exhibition at LloydsTSB Private Banking. £3000 was raised
for St.Barnabas Hospice.
- October 2003 - Wordlitzer - an open mic event
for writers begins and now runs once
a month at the Dome Cinema.
| Piratical Poetry from local poet Johnnie Walker
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- Christmas 2003 - Theatre, Music and Visual Art events celebrate the season in
a number of venues around town.
- July 2004 - Sunny Worthing Arts Festival followed from the success of previous years'
Fringe Festivals. Check the SWAF 2004 Listings for more info.
- In 2005 - Art Around Town, What The Dickens Club and Wordlitzer continue.
SWAG continues to organise other events.
- July 2005 - Sunny Worthing Arts Festival, including "Threesome" - three locally written
competition winning plays, performed at the Barn Theatre, Field Place, Durrington.
SWAF 2005 Listings
- July 2006 - The sixth Sunny Worthing Arts Festival. Many events, including "Bodies And Beats",
various dance and music workshops for all ages. T'ai Chi, Egyptian Dance, Street Dance, African Drumming,
Balloon Art, Face Painting, Horace the Hedgehog (puppet show)
SWAF 2006 Listings
- 2007 - SWAG establishes links with the Russian art gallery Galereya in Arundel, giving exhibitions
of Mongolian artists.
- February 2007 - Floating Fish Cabaret launched, featuring music, dance, theatre, literature, and
over the following months just about every form of performance imaginable. Continues every fourth Friday.
- June 2007 - SWAG's Poetry and Prose competition, with Chanctonbury Writers, continues into its fifth year.
- July 2007 - Sunny Worthing Arts Festival. Featuring "A Walk on the Wilde Side", a 1.5 hour guided
walk around Worthing's art history.
SWAF 2007 Listings
- January 2008 - Art Around Town, a SWAG inititiative placing artists' work in prominant local venues,
continues into its fifth year, with 20 artists exhibiting in 13 venues.
- February 2008 - Floating Fish Cabaret, a joint venture between The Golgi Apparatus and SWAG, enjoys continued
success at Beechwood Hall as it moves into its second year of four-weekly frolics.
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