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 Directory: COMMUNITY ARTS
COMMUNITY ARTS: HEALTH
:: Creative Remedies
is an active and successful arts-for-health initiative in North Staffordshire.
:: Borderland Voices - runs arts & writing workshops for the mentally ill
in Staffordshire Moorlands and the White Peak area.
:: Emily Campbell - a Stoke-based artist undertaking public art projects, including arts and health work.
Her Love Ties work and other work can be seen on her web site and is also featured on Creative Stoke.
:: Sanity Fair - annual
free mental-health arts festival held in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent.
:: The Cultural Sisters.
:: Glassball Arts - based near Leek. Digital-arts group with
mobile kit and strong experience in community arts.
Artaction - providers of NHS-recognised art therapy.
Jigsaw Arts for Health - based at Trentham Mews Medical Centre, Stoke-on-Trent.
An Arts & Health Project that runs regular arts events and holds an annual Community Arts
Festival, in conjunction with local primary schools.
COMMUNITY ARTS: YOUTH & PERFORMANCE
:: Partners in Creative Learning (PiCL).
:: b arts (aka Beavers Arts) - an artist-led combined-arts
company, which has an 18-year track-record of projects & programmes.
Based in Newcastle-under-Lyme, b arts works
in North Staffordshire, the wider West Midlands,
and internationally. Recent work includes: site-specific
theatre, animating Weston Park in Staffordshire;
touring shows on the meaning & impact of woodlands;
video & touring theatre made with young unaccompanied
refugees; a CD-ROM for Chatterley Whitfield Regeneration;
and Raising the Spirits 2002, an international festival
of women's voices.
:: Planet Sound -
based in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. Our area's main community-arts music & dance
organisation, delivering creative projects across the region,
and helping to develop the local artistic skills base.
There's also the associated Planet Vision Photography
service.
:: Creative Arts North Staffs (CANS)." CANS
works with hard-to-reach communities, and... "encourages the use of
artistic activities to support community development and improve quality of life. [...] We often work in areas where there are social, cultural or environmental issues
to be addressed, and have many years experience of working with young people. We often assist Youth Services in project work in race, gender, disability, health and
the environment, and are highly experienced in working with the following groups: young people from disadvantaged backgrounds; young offenders; mental health user groups;
ethnic minorities; the elderly; substance misusers; people with disabilities." CANS has photos on Flickr .
:: Capoeira Art Brasil is a Stoke-on-Trent -based group that promotes Brazilian arts and culture, and runs weekly classes in capoeira and music.
:: New Vic Borderlines - based in Newcastle-under Lyme.
Part of the New Vic Theatre, Borderlines is the Vic's
strong community-arts programme of workshops and touring performance.
:: Black Cat Theatre - a 'Theatre in Education' theatre company based in Stoke-on-Trent.
:: Staffordshire Dance Collective
:: FRONTLINEdance -
six-member dance company which runs education projects
bringing together disabled and non-disabled dancers.
Based in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent.
:: The Cultural Sisters - can create youth performance experiences.
:: Alan Barrett -
freelance actor/writer and storyteller, based in
Stoke-on-Trent.
:: Glassball Arts - based in Leek. Digital-arts group with
mobile kit and strong experience in community arts.
:: kittojago
- specialist in child-centred art workshops. Based in Cheadle.
:: Creative Academy - seeks to engage... "youths who are socially and educationally excluded and encourage their creative talent".
:: Staffordshire Children's Trust.
:: Sarah Marie Cole is a professional, trained performer with experience in theatre and television.
She has taught workshops with all age groups and levels in dance, drama and voice.
Studio Q at the Queensberry Youth Centre (Old school buildings on corner of Queensberry Rd. / Furnace Rd., just off A50, Normacot),
provides music recording studios and rehearsal
space free of charge, or at a small cost,
for young people between the ages of 13 and 25.
Burslem Summer School.
Major annual summer youth-theatre workshop
series with professional directors.
:: Alton Castle -
a 12th Century castle near the Churnet Valley; now
a residential centre owned by the Archdiocese of Birmingham -
which can offer disadvantaged children short-courses in spiritual,
outdoors and creative activities. Has a new Discovery Centre
with a dedicated room for Arts & Crafts.
COMMUNITY ARTS: CRIME & PRISONS
:: Rideout; Creative Arts for Rehabilitation - based at
The Roslyn Works, a cluster of managed crafts workshops
in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent. Rideout specialises in... "the development of
long-term creative arts programmes for prisoners." A recent
touring exhibition had some impressive work, involving
interactive wooden models which symbolised the destructive behaviour
which sent each criminal to prison.
COMMUNITY ARTS: IDENTITY & PLACE
:: Emily Campbell - a Stoke-based artist undertaking public art projects, including arts and health work.
Her place-based Love Ties work and other work can be seen on her web site and is also featured on Creative Stoke.
:: People Like You
- a documentary web-site for a twelve-week artist's commission
by Jubilee Arts / Public Art - West Midlands. The project
took place in both North & South Staffordshire, examining why
people support the BNP.
COMMUNITY ARTS: ENVIRONMENTAL
:: Willow Arts is "a community arts company specialising in
public and community art. We work in environmental art, photography, and design crafts." Chris Oldham, of Willow Arts, is also a Willow Sculpture Tutor for nearby Rodbaston College.
:: The Cultural Sisters - can work in recycled materials and create environment-related performance.
COMMUNITY ARTS: COUNCIL SUPPORT
Stoke City Council - Community Arts. Stoke-on-Trent Council has a Community Arts Officer (Paul Bailey) and several
graduate assistants who work within the Education Department.
Small grants may be available from their Community Arts Development Programme (CADP), for suitable community/educational arts & crafts projects - and they can also suggest local artists for groups
to employ on community projects.
COMMUNITY ARTS: INSURANCE
:: A:N (aka Artists' Newsletter) magazine has a scheme called AIR. If you subscribe to the magazine + take AIR membership then you automatically get A:N's
£5m Public and Products Liability insurance (PPL). At Sept 2008 their website has the following information on the insurance...
"This policy is intended to cover visual or applied artists against all
activities they are likely to engage in as part of their professional
practices, including the making, designing, creating, preparing, installing,
exhibiting and display of any works of visual or applied art; this will
include display in your studio or other premises as well as at open studios
and similar events, inside or outdoors. It also covers the lecturing,
teaching or demonstrating of visual or applied art including workshops,
residencies and community projects."
SOURCES OF VOLUNTEERS AND FUND-RAISING INFORMATION
:: The Experience Corps. -
can help with finding volunteers over the age of fifty.
:: National Lottery & Community Fund, and
the Awards for All scheme for smaller groups.
:: SAM Arts - their excellent list of fund-raising books.
:: Arts & Business: West Midlands - for advice
and training on obtaining business sponsorship and partnerships.
:: unLtd provide grants to individuals
who run projects which help their communities.
:: Robbie Williams' Give it Sum Fund can be applied to by
voluntary organisations in Stoke-on-Trent.
:: The Coalfields Regeneration Fund,
offers small-scale community-led project grants in ex-coalmining areas. In 2008 their remit and funding was renewed for a further three years.
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