Culture Parade
Peter Adegbie from Newcastle, who is studying for a PHD in Creative Writing, is set to launch his own community interest company ‘Culture Parade’- a melting pot for communities in the region to share their heritage, arts, literature, drama, fashion and cuisine with the wider community.
The business model as a community interest company with potential for huge profits through restaurant and gallery sales as well as revenue from television programming will use all of the profit for capital development, creating employment and a healthier and wealthier community.
Culture Parade will be a rolling interactive exhibition of different cultures from different parts of the world- a showcase of eight cultures per year. One country’s culture at a time will be showcased to the wider community in the form of art displays, dance acts, movie screenings, cookery lessons and storytelling. The cultures on display will be anything from Irish, Kenyan, Chinese and even the Geordie nation.
Culture Parade as part of its community development work hopes to build up relationships with local schools through the LEAs and work with school students in intercultural workshops where they can learn about different cultures as part of their Global Citizenship classes.
Nigeria-born Mr Adegbie and his wife and business partner Nkechi Adegbie hope to launch the first exhibition in the acquired premises called ‘The International Friendship Centre’ in Sunderland in March 2010 although the beauty of this business idea is that it can be transported and relocated at different venues throughout the region.
Peter created the Changing Perspectives cultural participation programme in 2007, which evolved into a multimedia archive documentation of African families living in the North East of England.