The Crawley Mela Association (CIMA) sponsors artists, performers, ethnic crafts and speakers for visits to local schools and community groups.

The Community outreach programme has been in operation since 2004 – click here for examples of feedback from previous years. The Outreach activities are funded by CIMA with help from Arts Council South East, Scarman Trust and other granting agencies.

To the extent that funding and availability permit, CIMA volunteers will arrange visits from a list of resources shown below. In some cases we recommend performances be paired with a talk by a local community leader on the fundamental beliefs and religion of a culture, since this provides context and structure which help to understand the artform. CIMA is a multicultural umbrella group, not a multifaith organisation: we have no opinion on matters of faith. Speakers are selected because they represent a local community and have experience working with children.

CIMA has a Child and Vulnerable Persons Protection Policy. CIMA volunteers working with children are CRB-cleared.

All requests and contact details are confidential. They are not disclosed to any other organisation or agency except as required by law. We ask those submitting requests to tick the box allowing us to keep contact and booking details since without them we cannot respond to your request.

The Community outreach programme also supports artist residencies in primary and secondary schools for a limited number of schools each year. For further information please click here.

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Chi Gong Meditation Exercise demonstration and workshop by Ian James. Similar to Tai Chi but Buddhist in origin. Ian is a Tiger Crane martial arts teacher and has developed Chi Gong exercises specifically for school use. These should also be useful in producing calmness and alertness in class! Suggest pairing with Basics of Buddhism.
Masti – Classical and Bollywood Indian Dance workshop. Suggest pairing with Basics of Hinduism
African Drumming and Storytelling with Lucky Moyo. Linos Wengara or Jazz Camara. Suggest pairing with cultural foods and crafts from the Crawley Afro-caribbean Advancement Association where available.
Japanese calligraphy workshop with Yukiko Moro – brush and ink art. Yukiko is experienced in working with primary students and adults. She has previously taught calligraphy classes for West Sussex CC among others.
Basics of Buddhism for schools – a talk on Buddhism as practiced on a daily basis by Eileen McManus, with a focus on the T’ien T’ai Nichiren tradition.
Basics of Hinduism for Schools – a talk on Hinduism by local GHU community leaders or priests.
Basics of Sikhism for Schools – a talk on Sikhism by local Sikh community leaders.
Basics of Islam for Schools – a talk on Islam by local Moslem community leaders or priests.
Dohl Drumming – Dohl and Tabla demonstrations and interaction.
Santoor music – performances or workshops on the Santoor - with Kiranpal Singh Deoora, Europe's leading exponent of the Santoor. (http://www.kiranpalsingh.com) Kiranpal has taught for Hillingdon Music Service in primary and secondary schools since 1988 and is comfortable in both classroom and auditorium

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