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The Syd Barrett Fund, and Escape Artists management of it, has been ever evolving since The City Wakes in 2008, with websites and networks being created to serve projects as we’ve developed them. This new site will bring together the background information of the old Syd Barrett Fund site, the interactivity of the Social Arts Network (SANe) and the news service provided by our blogs and Twitter. As with SANe, we invite you to sign up, create a profile, add great content to this site, and get stuck in to sharing your appreciation and love for Syd Barrett and his work.

Pages with fresh content: Anna Cooper's Page, Interstellar News, Short Biography of Syd Barrett, Events, Interstellar Artists, The Day Goes By

03.09.2010: VOTE FOR YOUR FAVOURITE SYD LOOKALIKE Voting for the Syd Barrett Lookalike competition is now open until 15th Sept. Please invite your friends, family, and anyone else who thinks you look the spitting image of Syd to get online and vote! All you have to do is make comments on your fav Syd lookalikes and rate them.
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02.09.2010: CREATIVE COMPETITION On seeing the Mental Health Foundation's The Lonely Society report, we've decided to extend the Loneliness theme until the 20th Sept. So, if you haven't already entered into the competition, it's time to get cracking! For more information, visit our Competitions page.
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25.08.01: MAKING MENTAL NOTES
Escape Artists has paired up with Making Mental Notes to bring you the latest arts and mental health news. They are also supporting our creative competitions by giving offering the opportunity to be interviewed and featured on their website and programming. So please show them some love and visit their site!
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20.08.01: I'VE GOT A BIKE COMPETITION
We need crazy, psychedelic cycling footage for our Syd Barrett video, produced by Escape Artists, that will feature in the Off Your Rocker awareness campaign and also be featured on Making Mental Notes website. Dress up yourself, your friends, your bike, your dog (whatever you can get your hands on), take your project for a spin in an equally colourful environment and video the occasion for us to see! For full details of how to enter, click here.
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18.08.01: ORANGE MOBILE VOLUNTEERING
Escape Artists has developed A New Way of Giving; an app that allows it's players to support their favourite charity by playing quiz games on their mobile phone. We've entered this idea to the Orange Mobile Volunteering competition, which enables the winning idea to be incorporated into a new Orange mobile volunteering app.

We'd like to invite you to see the details of our idea, the other ideas being proposed, and also to encourage you to join the community in sharing and developing new ways to encourage philanthropic activity. Please visit the Mobile Volunteering community and search for A New Way of Giving to learn about our big idea and join the discussion.
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13.08.01: CALL FOR CREATIVE SUBMISSIONS
In conjunction with World Mental Health Day on 10th October, 2010, we will also be holding creative competitions as part of our Off Your Rocker Arts campaign, giving you the chance to express yourself in competitions that use your artistic skills. We want your stories, poems, songs, paintings, photos, and short films (and any other medium that can be submitted electronically)!
SEPT 2010 THEME: LONELINESS
For details, please visit our Off Your Rocker page.
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10.08.01: CALL FOR YOUR PERSONAL STORIES
Would you like to be featured in our awareness campaign? Tell us about your personal experiences of how the arts has helped with enhancing mental wellbeing and become part of the Off Your Rocker awareness campaign. We'll pick the most powerful stories for an indepth interview to be featured in newspapers and magazines coming up to World Mental Health Day. Please send all submissions to jen@escapeartists.co.uk
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28.07.10: CALL FOR SYD BARRETT LOOKALIKES
We are looking for a Syd Barrett Lookalike to represent Syd in a video, produced by Escape Artists, that will feature in the Off Your Rocker awareness campaign (details).
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 20th AUGUST 2010

"At the end of every Christmas term, my secondary school would stage a variety performance in the same hall where we held morning assembly and band concerts and the occasional French exchange disco; a vast, half-lit room, its air full of echoes and dust and the leaden smell of chips from the canteen next door. The Christmas variety show was a much-anticipated event on the school calendar, a chance for the students to showcase their talents with comic turns, singing, banjo-playing and a great number of disco-dancing routines, disconcertingly gyratory displays performed in skin-tight ensembles to the hits of the day: London Boys, Black Box, Big Fun. One year, my first at the school, one of the older boys stood up to take his turn on the bill. Wearing, I seem to recall, a pair of black school trousers and an anorak with a hood, he walked heavily up the steps to the stage, stood bang in the centre, near the front, then fished a piece of paper out of his pocket and proceeded to read the lyrics to the Pink Floyd song Bike." Read the full article on The Guardian website. The Interstellar Bike Film Competition