The following organisations are
currently funded by Bath & North East Somerset Council to
deliver the objectives of its community strategy through their
services, arts events or activities.
CREATIVE LEARNING AGENCY (CLA)
Creative Learning
Agency is a publicly funded web-based news and information service
which was set up in 2001 to provide educators and artists with
information and support for arts education work. Creative Learning
Agency works across the West of England, that is, the four unitary
authorities of Bath & North East Somerset, Bristol, North
Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
Our main service
is provided through the website - you'll find news, views, events
(including training, conferences and arts education initiatives),
opportunities (including residencies, job opportunities and
creative education projects), a funding database and other
resources. All this is in addition to an online searchable
database of over 150 artists working in all artforms and with all
age groups and abilities. You should find everything you need here
to develop creativity within your education setting or, if you're
an artist, everything to support your work in education. If you
don't find what you need - please let us know: we want the service
to supply just what you're after.
As well as
providing the website, we're available by phone and email to give
advice or support. We're also developing new areas to the service
including offering one to one funding advice surgeries for arts
education projects, support to schools applying for (or who have)
Artsmark Awards and Specialist Arts College status.
The website is updated weekly, and we now offer a free weekly
ebulletin that will keep you up to date with all the latest
headlines and additions to the site.
Creative Learning Agency is one of nine arts-in-education agencies
in the South West. We can give you details of the other arts
education partnership agencies who may also be able to help.
If you can’t find what you’re looking for on the website, would
like to advertise for an artist, promote an event or opportunity or
if you require further advice or support, please get in
touch.
Creative
Learning Agency
Abbey Chambers
Kingston Buildings
off York Street
Bath
BA1 1LT
Tel: 01225 396392
Email: info@creativelearningagency.org.uk
Visit the
CLA website at www.creativelearningagency.org.uk
BATH FESTIVALS LTD
Bath Festivals Ltd provides a wide range of arts services to
Bath & North East Somerset Council. The current contract
with Bath Festivals Ltd runs from 2006 to 2009.
Services provided:
- Festivals development (including support and co-ordination) – a
service supplied to the whole arts sector.
- Box Office service (including marketing & promotion
services) – a service supplied to the whole arts sector.
- Bath International Music Festival – Bath Festivals’ own
promoted event, including year-round participation programme of
music related activity for children and young people.
- Bath Literature Festival – Bath Festivals’ own promoted event,
including year-round participation programme of literature related
activity for children and young people.
In addition, Bath Festival Ltd provides administrative support
to the Bath and North East Somerset Cultural Forum. The Cultural
Forum champions and advocates cultural development in Bath and
North East Somerset, encouraging collaborative working across the
cultural sector. It is a membership group of organisations –
all organising activities, events or festivals in and around the
Bath area - who have agreed to work together for mutual benefit and
for the wider benefit of the area overall.
Contact: Bethany Alexander,
Administrator, Bath Festivals,
3rd Floor, Abbey Chambers,
Kingston Buildings,
Bath BA1 1NT or
Tel: 01225 462231
Email: info@bathfestivals.org.uk
Website: www.bathfestivals.org.uk
KEY STRATEGIC ORGANISATIONS FUNDED FOR THREE YEARS: 2008 –
2011
BATH FILM FESTIVAL
Bath Film Festival (BFF) runs an annual festival of screenings
in November of the best of world cinema, with talks from
filmmakers, discussion forums and workshops. In addition, there are
events throughout the year including free outdoor screenings and an
open invitation for amateur filmmakers to make 60 second films.
These will be shown in public during the ‘shorts’ programme of the
Film Festival and at the launch of Bath's International Music
Festival.
The aim of BFF is to encourage media literacy and a deeper
enjoyment of film through a better understanding of the crafts
involved. BFF recognises that film is a widely enjoyed and
accessible medium which includes the moving images of internet and
mobile phone communication as well as broader social, academic and
business applications. The festival works to develop skills
associated with making and enjoying film at all levels and among
all social groups.
Bath & North East Somerset Council funding for 2008-2009:
£6,000
Contact: Chris Baker
Bath Film Festival Administrator
2nd Floor,
Abbey Chambers
Kingston Buildings
off York Street
Bath
BA1 1LT
Tel: 01225 401149/07800 586379
Email: info@bathfilmfestival.org.uk
Website: www.bathfilmfestival.org.uk
BATH FRINGE FESTIVAL
Bath Fringe organises and promotes an annual two-week festival
in May/June in association with performers, promoters and venues
across the region. In 2007 the festival attracted 30,000
attendances at 200 events in 45 venues in the city and beyond,
establishing the 350-capacity Spiegeltent as a flagship venue and
the Bedlam Fair weekend as a festival highlight.
Performances, exhibitions and workshops encompass a wide range of
art forms, with a core programme of music and street arts of
international importance. The Fringe aims to provide a platform for
new work and work not ordinarily available to Bath and North
East Somerset residents or visitors; to be open and accessible to a
wide audience, whilst remaining challenging and innovative, thereby
reaching audiences other cultural establishments don’t.
Bath & North East Somerset Council funding for 2008-2009:
£7,000
Contact: Wendy Matthews,
Co-director, Bath Fringe Festival
103 Walcot Street
Bath
BA1 5BW
Tel: 01225 480079
E-mail: wendy@bathfringe.co.uk
Website: www.bathfringe.co.uk
THE EGG THEATRE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
(Theatre Royal Bath: Education Department)
The Egg is Theatre Royal Bath's dedicated theatre for young
people aged 0 - 25 which offers a rich programme of activities
comprising:
- ongoing performances for children and teenagers, presented in
the egg auditorium and in venues in North East Somerset;
- participatory opportunities for people aged 18 months – 21
years, especially the Young People’s Theatre which provides regular
drama sessions and performance/backstage opportunities including
dance and urban arts;
- an education programme with projects linked to Theatre Royal
productions, long-term schools projects, teacher training and
opportunities for schools to perform in the egg;
- and an outreach programme in association with local specialist
organisations to ensure that disabled and disadvantaged young
people have equal access to the opportunities for creative
expression and experience that the egg can offer.
Bath & North East Somerset Council funding for
2008-2009: £7,000
Contact: Kate Cross
Director
The Egg
Theatre Royal Bath
Sawclose
Bath
BA1 1ET
Tel: 01225 823435
Email: kate.cross@theatreroyal.org.uk
Website: www.theatreroyal.org.uk
INTERNATIONAL GUITAR FOUNDATION
The International Guitar Foundation programmes and promotes an
annual array of festivals, performances and educational activity
embracing all styles and genres of music that feature the guitar.
Its flagship event, now in its 15th year, is the International
Guitar Festival in Bath in July/August. In addition the
organisation runs annual guitar-related festivals in London
(Southbank Centre), Wales Millennium Centre and the North East (The
Sage, Gateshead). It also organises residential summer schools
in guitar, voice, drums/percussion and world music for ages 12 to
80; and music workshops for young people aged 5 upwards in a range
of arts and educational settings.
The foundation aims to promote and advance the enjoyment,
appreciation and understanding of the guitar and its music in the
broadest sense and for the widest possible range of people.
Developmental activities include audience research; instruction in
composition and song-writing; commissioning, recording and
publishing of new work; and teacher training.
Bath & North East Somerset Council funding for 2008-2009:
£13,000
Contact: Phil Castang
General Manager
2nd Floor
Abbey Chambers
Kingston Buildings
off York Street
Bath
BA1 1LT
Tel: 01225 310974
Email: phil@igf.org.uk
Website: www.igf.org.uk
KEYNSHAM MUSIC FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION
Keynsham Music Festival is an annual, free music and arts
festival that takes place in Keynsham Memorial Park during the
first weekend of July and throughout the town in the week leading
up to the event. Outreach work is organised throughout the year,
which is then showcased at the festival.
Keynsham Music Festival Association is the body responsible for the
successful organisation, implementation, evaluation and development
of the festival. Its purpose is to produce a community-led music
and arts festival of the highest quality which promotes civic pride
and community spirit and raises the profile of Keynsham. It aims to
promote and develop community involvement in the arts through the
festival and to ensure that the festival makes provision for all
members of the community.
Bath & North East Somerset Council funding for 2008-2009:
£3,000
Contact: Suzy Mizrahi
Keynsham Music Festival Co-ordinator
15-17 Temple Street
Keynsham
BS31 1HF
Tel: 0117 986 8683
Email: keynsham.musicfestival@yahoo.co.uk
MEDIA ART, BATH
Media Art Bath seeks to stimulate new artistic practice in
relation to digital and new media technology by commissioning work
that highlights and responds to the impact of such technologies
upon the practice of artists and in the world around us. It
develops and presents innovative projects with contemporary artists
through such means as publications, community interactions, gallery
installations and web-based work. It encourages situations that
enable a creative and experimental collaboration between artists
and audiences, artists and sites, artists and other creative
practitioners.
Media Art Bath aims to work with artists in a manner that will both
develop their practice and engage audiences in a lively, meaningful
and enjoyable way. It further engages artists and audiences through
an education and professional development programme. It provides
equipment for affordable hire such as laptops and software, digital
cameras (stills and video), data projectors, etc., offered through
a New Work Bursary Scheme specifically aimed at supporting artists
living and working in the South West.
Bath & North East Somerset Council funding for 2008-2009:
£12,000
Contact: Bridget Crone,
Director
2nd Floor,
Abbey Chambers
Kingston Buildings
off York Street
Bath
BA1 1LT
Tel: 01225 442591
Email: bridget@mediaartbath.org.uk
Website: www.mediaartbath.org.uk
NATURAL THEATRE COMPANY
Natural Theatre is a professional touring company founded in
1969 specialising in accessible street theatre. The company is
committed to advancing the art of street theatre and to encouraging
the participation of those who would not dream of taking part in
more formal theatre, as well as taking theatre to non-theatre
venues, whether indoors or out. It is regarded as a unique asset to
the cultural life of its home city of Bath, both in the comic flair
that can be added to any occasion and in the form of the support
given by the company to other cultural and community groups in the
Bath and North East Somerset region.
In addition to the funding it receives from Bath & North East
Somerset Council, Natural Theatre is supported by Arts Council
England as a Regularly Funded Organisation with a mandate to tour
England with high quality street theatre, and is a British Council
flagship company, having appeared in 67 countries to date. The
company acts as theatrical ambassadors to the city of Bath
worldwide, and when touring is invariably billed as 'The Natural
Theatre of Bath'.
Bath & North East Somerset Council funding for 2008-2009:
£3,000
Contact: Ralph Oswick
Artistic Director
Widcombe Institute
Widcombe Hill
Bath
BA2 6AA
Tel: 01225 469131
Email: info@naturaltheatre.co.uk
Website: http://www.naturaltheatre.co.uk
NESA
NESA (North East Somerset Arts) is a community arts development
agency working in Bath and North East Somerset and elsewhere in the
south west of England. It responds to identified need by working
with partner organisations, artists and communities to deliver high
quality arts projects that effect positive personal and social
change.
NESA's work falls within the three broad categories of
Neighbourhood Arts, Arts & Health, and Young People &
Creativity - all of which can make a real difference to people's
lives. The organisation is committed to the sharing of good
practice and to working with others to develop and support similar
community initiatives in the region and nationally.
Bath & North East Somerset Council funding for 2008-2009:
£30,000
Contact: Lesley Featherstone
Director
NESA
Greystones
Church Street
Radstock
BA3 3QQ.
Tel: 01761 437 251
Email: lesley.featherstone@nesa.uk.com
Website: www.nesacreativechange.org.uk
THE RONDO THEATRE
The Rondo is a successful studio theatre presenting a full
programme of theatre, music, film, comedy and dance. This includes
established professional theatre, new writing and new companies,
top acoustic music, and a wide range of amateur/community projects
- which together attract a wide audience. The theatre further
serves a broad local demographic by hosting a highly successful
youth theatre, script writing workshops, an amateur theatre company
and an afternoon music club.
The Rondo promotes both professional and community participation in
the performing arts as audience, performers, production staff,
volunteer workers and attendees of workshops and other
participatory projects. It engages with local theatre makers and
emerging artists by offering expert advice and rehearsal space and
by encouraging the production of new work. It also provides arts
education and skills development for professionals and
non-professionals alike.
Bath & North East Somerset Council funding for 2008-2009:
£8,000
Contact: Ian McGlynn
Theatre Director
The Rondo Theatre
St Saviours Road
Larkhall
Bath
BA1 6RT
Tel: 01225 444003
Email: director@rondotheatre.co.uk
Website: www.rondotheatre.co.uk
ARTS STRATEGY GROUP – ROYAL UNITED HOSPITAL
The Arts Strategy Group (ASG) was formed in the year 2000 and
since then has steadily increased its presence at Bath's Royal
United Hospital (RUH) through a programme of visual arts, music,
literary and educational events for patients, staff and visitors.
The group comprises staff at the RUH, members of the general
public, and volunteers with an interest in the arts and health
care. The work of the ASG is delivered through a part-time Arts
Programme Manager.
The ASG uses the arts to contribute to a positive environment for
healing at the RUH. This is achieved through an ambitious
fundraising strategy to deliver a high quality visual arts
exhibition programme, making use of the interior and exterior
spaces. The ASG also works with targeted groups of patients to
research, plan and deliver artists' residencies, workshops and
public arts commissions.
Bath & North East Somerset Council funding for 2008-2009:
£3,000
Contact: Hetty Dupays
Arts Programme Manager
Facilities Department
RUH. NHS Trust
Combe Park
BATH
BA1 3NG
Tel: 01225 824987
Email: hetty.dupays@ruh.nhs.uk
Website: www.ruh.nhs.uk/get_involved/arts_steering_group
SUITED & BOOTED STUDIOS
Suited and Booted is a media resource that develops and
facilitates media projects within Bath and North East Somerset and
the South West. It provides opportunities and services related to
short film production, community media projects and educational
activity.
Suited and Booted aims to encourage young people, adults and
organisations to develop their creativity, life skills and critical
media literacy, using media to engage people in their communities.
The organisation offers a range of opportunities and activities for
children and young people, including Club Flix - a free film club
for 15-21 year olds that includes film screenings, film-making
activities and discussions with directors and young
film-makers.
The company also provides a media production facility to
public sector and commercial clients and supports the progression
of new talent into the creative industries. It also offers
assistance with visual documentation as well as exhibition and
screening events.
Bath & North East Somerset Council funding for 2008-2009:
£5,000
Contact: Chris Kemp and Sara Strickland
Co-directors
The Studio
4 Millbrook Place
Bath
BA2 4JY
Tel: 01225 338294
Email: mail@suitedandbooted.org
Website: www.suitedandbooted.org
ORGANISATIONS FUNDED FOR ONE YEAR (SPECIFIC PROJECTS):
2008-2009
THE CHANTRY SINGERS
The Chantry Singers is a charitable body for the appreciation,
continuation and development of the art of choral music,
particularly in Bath and the west country. The organisation does
this by the presentation of public concerts, recitals and events
aimed at all ages, genders and ethnic groups; and from time to time
by organising and promoting festivals in the City of Bath, as part
of the ‘City of Festivals’ culture.
In April 2008 The Chantry Singers presents a Bach Festival Weekend,
to include two events supported by B&NES: a masterclass for
young musicians and ‘Baching Mad’ - an accessible, fun,
family-oriented concert of classical music.
Bath & North East Somerset Council funding for 2008 -
2009: £650
Contact: Norman Cant
Vice-chair
Fairlea
Beechen Cliff road
Bath
BA2 4QR
Email: info@chantry-singers.org.uk
Website: www.chantry-singers.org.uk
FRINGE ARTS BATH
Fringe Arts Bath (FAB) organises an annual 16-day festival of
contemporary visual art in June during Bath Fringe Festival. Its
key aims are to encourage participation by locally-based artists;
to support artists in the early stage of their careers; to showcase
forms of contemporary visual art rarely seen in the city's
galleries; to present work in non-arts spaces; and to provide a
quality festival for visitors and the local community.
FAB works in partnership with other arts sector groups and seeks
to engage with a wide audience. For 2008 it will offer such
programme elements as a children's arts trail, a project using
Bluetooth and mobile technology that will enable visitors to
download information and images on a series of site-specific works
around the city; and FAB Art Fair - to take place outdoors as part
of the Bedlam Fair activities in Sawclose, in collaboration with
Bath Fringe Festival.
Bath & North East Somerset Council funding for 2008 -
2009: £2,350
Contact: Karen McDonald
Fringe Office
103 Walcot Street
BATH
BA1 3AJ
Tel.: 01225 480079
Email: fab@bathfringe.co.uk
Website: www.fringeartsbath.co.uk
GOLDEN OLDIES
Golden Oldies is for people of 70 years plus, enjoying a new
weekly hobby, smiling and making music together. The project starts
in 2008 with weekly sessions at a number of residential centres
around the Bath and North East Somerset area, in association
with Somer Housing, one of the project partners.
Golden Oldies is a charitable trust which the organisers aim to
spread across the UK over the next 10 years. Group singing sessions
will be based on the hits of the 60s and 70s. Along with the
recognised physical, mental and emotional benefits that the
creative activity of singing can bring, the groups also provide
fun, friendship and a fantastic reason for elderly people to leave
home each week.
Bath & North East Somerset Council funding for 2008 -
2009: £2,000
Grenville Jones
Project Director
Golden Oldies
The Old Chapel
The Mead
Farmborough
Bath
BA2 OAF
01761 470006
Email: grenville@golden-oldies.org.uk
Website: www.golden-oldies.org.uk
THE HOLBURNE MUSEUM OF ART
The Holburne Museum of Art is working in partnership with Julian
House homelessness charity to offer a series of arts workshops and
drop-in sessions for homeless people. These will be based at the
Gardener's Lodge in the grounds of the museum, while the main
building is closed for development from July 2008 for two
years.
The workshops and drop-ins will provide an informal
environment in which homeless people can explore different art
practices as part of Julian House's holistic approach to the
problems of isolation, boredom and despair. They will offer a
non-threatening, welcoming environment that users know is open to
them on a regular basis. The activities will be developed in
consultation with the users and facilitated by artists, providing
an opportunity for participants to learn new skills, expand their
social networks and develop self-esteem. Their work will be
exhibited at Julian House and in other public spaces.
Bath & North East Somerset Council funding for 2008 -
2009: £2,350
Contact: Cleo Witt, Head of Education
Project Manager
The Holburne Museum of Art
Great Pulteney Street
BA2 4DB
Tel.: 01225 444656
Email: E.C.Witt@bath.ac.uk
Website: www.bath.ac.uk/holburne
IGNITION FILMS
Ignition Films is an established producer of digital media that
increasingly specialises in installation and interactive digital
art. During 2008 the company is touring a new artwork entitled
In Other People's Skins which will visit UK
cathedrals and abbeys, finally arriving at Bath Abbey for 3 weeks
in June.
The project is inspired by Leonardo Da Vinci's ‘Last Supper’. It
consists of a table covered in a white cloth and surrounded by
chairs. Projected from above onto the white surface will be life
size moving images of 12 people's hands and arms as they take food,
break bread and drink wine. After a while the images will move from
the 1st century to other times - it might be an Indian family, a
Chinese family, a modern English family sharing a meal. Visitors to
the installation will be free to sit at the table and interact with
the virtual guests and with other members of the public, clothing
themselves in the skins of others and engaging in the universal
human experience of eating together.
Bath & North East Somerset Council funding for 2008 -
2009: £900
Contact: Alison Sterling
Company Director/Producer
4 Somerset Street
Bristol
BS2 8NB
Tel: 0117 909 9941
Email:alison@ignitionfilms.org
Websites: www.ignitionfilms.org and
www.inotherpeoplesskins.com
OUT OF THE BLUE
Out of the Blue provides a range of supportive activities to
women who have survived or suffer from postnatal depression. It
gives advice and support on a long-term basis to members and
potential members, plus their children, partners and other family
members.
This support is offered through creative visual arts activities
aimed at raising self-esteem and building confidence. Daytime and
evening arts workshops are organised, with crèche provision, also
weekend Family Art Workshops on a monthly basis.
Bath & North East Somerset Council funding for 2008 -
2009: £2,350
Contact: Caroline Jeffery
Secretary
95 Church Road
Peasedown St John
Bath
BA2 8AD
Tel.: 01761 420703
Email: outofthebluepnd@btinternet.com
SOMER COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST / NESA
Somer Community Housing Trust was awarded funding by Bath &
North East Somerset Council to run a series of visual arts
workshops in Snow Hill, Bath. The intention was to offer
opportunities for creative expression and development within this
medium, enhancing the skills of residents who are already involved
in visual arts projects, and to work towards a large-scale
community music project in 2009.
Due to staff changes at Somer CHT, it was not possible to run the
project as originally planned. A replacement project is now
being run by Nesa (North East Somerset Arts), working with children
and their families on the Snow Hill housing estate.
B&NES’ funding will enable the provision of a series of visual
arts workshops for children in Snow Hill that will contribute to
community cohesion and provide opportunities for participants to
learn new skills. The sessions will be co-ordinated by an
experienced community artist and have the potential to lead to
longer-term activities on the estate.
Bath & North East Somerset Council funding for 2008 - 2009:
£2,300
Contact: Andrew Henon,
Nesa Project Manager
Email: andrew.henon@nesa.uk.com
OTHER ARTS ORGANISATIONS SERVING B&NES
There are a large number of other organisations
also providing arts events and activities in Bath and North East
Somerset. Information about many of these will be
found on the Bath Festivals Ltd website: www.bathfestivals.org.uk
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