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BEATLES PERFORMANCE RECREATED TO CELEBRATE ART GROUP'S BIRTHDAY

By Emma Foster, Community Newswire
ARTS Beatles Rochdale, 10 Feb 2009 - 16:13

The Beatles performance of All You Need Is Love is set to be recreated
and broadcast across the world by a Rochdale art group, to celebrate
its 25th birthday.

Peopleprint Community Media hopes the performance by Beatles tribute
band The Cheatles will set the world record for the largest online
birthday party.

The performance will be broadcast live online at 7pm on February 17
and Peopleprint is encouraging as many people as possible to watch at
www.peopleprint.org.uk.

As well as celebrating the group's 25th birthday the event will also
tie in with World Community Arts Day, which aims to bring art groups
from across the world together to take part in creative projects
around the theme of caring and sharing.

Dawn Pierson, Peopleprint development director, said: "A couple of
years ago we had a terrible time with funding and almost closed down,
but since then we have got our feet back on the ground and decided we
wanted to do something really special to celebrate our 25th birthday.

"We saw that World Community Arts day fell at around the same time as
our birthday and thought how fabulous and fitting it would be to do
something global to celebrate.

"As part of our work we look after lots of creative people and one of
the bands we have worked with in the past is the Cheatles.

"We thought it would be fun to recreate the Beatles performance of All
You Need Is Love and the band were pleased to offer their help. We're
going to have young musicians playing along with them and we're hoping
to recreate as much as possible the original Beatles performance.

"Our workshop already looks like the original studio used and our
volunteers have been busy making puppets and flowers to make it look
spot on.

"Community arts organisations from countries such as Canada, Mexico,
Northern Ireland, Haiti and Africa will be taking part in World
Community Arts Day. Everyone will be doing their own projects but then
hopefully it will culminate with people from across the world watching
our performance.

"We're going to have clocks showing the time in all the different
countries on the wall, but the UK clock will be labelled Rochdale not UK!"

Not for profit arts organisation Lets Go Global TV will be helping to
broadcast the performance and Northern Ireland community radio station
Homely Planet has also agreed to broadcast it live on its station.

Peopleprint Community Media is a non-profit community arts and media
organisation that started out offering silk-screen printing and
photography facilities and training to the local community. It now
offers a wider range of training facilities from graphic design to
film making and works with youth groups, schools, social services and
clubs and organisations across the area on creative projects.

Dawn continued: "We believe in helping people change their lives
through creativity. We've assisted many people to achieve their
artistic dreams over the years and, as the song suggests 'there's
nothing you can do that can't be done'."

For more information visit www.peopleprint.org.uk or Peopleprint's
Myspace page at www.myspace.com/rochdaleartsnews.