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Get involved with Plymouth’s Mayflower Community events

16th June 2020

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The team behind Plymouth’s Mayflower 400 events are looking for members of the community to get involved with a number of projects across Arts, Culture History and Sport in the city that people can get involved with.

A selection of the events can be found below.

The Imperfect Orchestra
This new project has been launched in Plymouth to inspire people to make music while connecting with others and creating something new. As part of the Mayflower 400 Community Sparks programme, a partnership between Mayflower 400, Plymouth Culture, Plymouth City Council, The Box and Vital Sparks, with funding from the Arts Council England, the Imperfect orchestra is part of the You Are Welcome Here Campaign. This campaign aims to develop international and cultural inclusivity within this project and the wider music community in Plymouth.

If you live in Plymouth and are a foreign national, immigrant, refugee, international student or have a non-British cultural heritage, Imperfect Orchestra invites you to record music video, spoken word and any other form of sound and to share what reminds you of home, whether that is Plymouth or somewhere else.

More information and a chance to submit your work can be found here.

Unity Through Sport

In association with Spirit of Mayflower, Unity Through Sport invites people to take up the challenge of doing 400 miles in 66 days in the Mayflower 400 Mile Challenge. Designed to get people active during lockdown while commemorating the sailing of the Mayflower from Plymouth to America in 1620, participants must complete their challenge in 66 days, the same amount of time it took the Pilgrims to cross the Atlantic.

You can do whatever you like, from cycling to socially distanced running to at home stair challenges to attempting 400 situps in 66 days.

It’s entirely up to you!

Unity Through Sport is also running a crowdfunder to raise £400 to start a new children’s basketball team called the UTB Pilgrims. All money raised will go towards new kit and training equipment, ready for when it is safe to resume playing basketball. More information on this project can be found here.

Lend your voice to the new Trails App

Freelance voice artists are being given the opportunity to narrate three trails in the upcoming Plymouth Trails app. The Plymouth Trails project is funded by Plymouth City Council, National Lottery Heritage Fund, Great Western Railway, Mayflower 400 and the Plymouth Waterfront Partnership. It will see the launch of an app containing three core trails: Mayflower, Hoe and City Centre with additional partner trails being added.

Organisers are looking for voice actors with an authentic Plymouth accent, you can find more information about how to apply here.

These are just a few of the projects being launched to get the community involved as part of the Mayflower 400 celebrations.