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.

::  Letting in the Light - a Newcastle-under-Lyme based community arts group, with a particular interest in working with groups and communities that don't often have a voice.

::  The Cultural Sisters.

::  Glassball Arts - based near Leek. Digital-arts group with mobile kit and strong experience in community arts.

::  South Staffordshire and Shropshire NHS Arts for Health projects.

  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}

::   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 .

::  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.

:: Partners in Creative Learning (PiCL) - formerly Creative Partnerships Stoke-on-Trent.

::  Black Cat Theatre - a 'Theatre in Education' theatre company based in Stoke-on-Trent.

::  Asha Tank - a performance artist based in Stoke-on-Trent.

::  The Cultural Sisters - can create youth performance experiences.

::  Letting in the Light - a Newcastle-under-Lyme based community arts group, with a particular interest in working with groups and communities that don't often have a voice.

::  D.J. School Association - based in Shelton, Stoke-on-Trent.

::  Nex Level - based in Shelton, Stoke-on-Trent. Nex Level provides motivational courses for young people in media and photography skills, performing, creative and visual arts.

::  Michael Colley - experienced youth music practitioner, based in Wolstanton.

::  Kim Holland - offers specialist art tutoring at home. Kim has devised exciting 5 to 10 week modules, aiming to help children to explore the world of art at home. Kim is also able to provide help with gaining basic stage-design skills, drawing on her Theatre Design degree.

::  Verbal Arts.

::  Creative Academy - seeks to engage... "youths who are socially and educationally excluded and encourage their creative talent".

 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: SKILLS}

::  Barefoot Doctors - a skills-development project in North Staffordshire which is being run by Newcastle-under-Lyme's B Arts. The project is funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation.

     _{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.

::  Sarah Nadin - specialising in community arts photography projects, and with experience curating 'Place, Space and Identity' projects.

     _{COMMUNITY ARTS: ENVIRONMENTAL}

     _{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.