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Arts Admin
Artsadmin provides a comprehensive management service and unique national resource for contemporary artists who cross the spectrum of new theatre, dance, music, live art and mixed media work. With consistent and supportive administration we develop and promote artists' work, from the initial stages of a project through to its final presentation. Seeking to establish partnerships with producers, promoters and relevant arts organisations in Britain and abroad, we endeavour to bring the new and challenging work of our artists to an ever increasing audience.
Toynbee Studios, 28 Commercial Street, London, E1 6AB
Tel: 020 7247 5102
Fax: 020 7247 5103
Email: admin@artsadmin.co.uk
Website: www.artsadmin.co.uk
Arts Council England
Arts Council England is the national development agency for the arts in England, distributing public money from Government and the National Lottery.
14 Great Peter Street, London, SW1P 3NQ
Tel: 020 7333 0100
Website: www.artscouncil.org.uk
Arts Council England South West
South West division of Arts Council England. Arts Council England is the national development agency for the arts in England, distributing public money from Government and the National Lottery.
2nd Floor, Senate Court, Southernhay Gardens, Exeter, Devon, EX1 1UG
Tel: 01392 218188
Website: www.artscouncil.org.uk
Arts Development Unit
The Arts development service focuses on increasing levels and standards of arts activity within the Borough of Poole. The service aims to promote the involvement of people in creative expression through both amateur and professional opportunities, ranging from one off small projects to major investment.
We aim to secure diversity of cultural opportunities to appeal to all sections of the community and raise the levels of partnership and financial investment.
We provide information and advice for local arts organisations, artists, groups, individuals and other members of the community on a variety of issues ranging from applying for funding to organising events.
Borough of Poole, 4 High Street, Poole, BH15 1BW
Tel: 01202 633973
Website: www.poole.gov.uk
Artsreach
Rural Touring agency for Dorset
Little Keep, Bridport Road, Dorchester, DT1 1SQ
Tel: 01305 269512
Fax: 01305 261633
Email: info@artsreach.org
Website: www.artsreach.org
Artswork
Artswork is an independent youth arts development agency committed to developing creative opportunities for young people aged 12-25.
We are a unique organisation with a track record for youth arts work outside the formal education sector. Our key role is to make a strategic impact on the quality and level of arts opportunities for young people.
Fairways House, Mount Pleasant Road, Southampton, Hampshire, SO14 0QB
Tel: 02380 630960
Fax: 02380 632949
Email: info@artswork.org.uk
Website: www.artsowrk.org.uk
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra has been giving concerts since its beginnings in 1893. It has grown over the last century and today it gives upwards of 130 concerts a year from its home base in Poole to Bournemouth, Portsmouth, Southampton, Weymouth, Swindon, Exeter, Bristol , Basingstoke and Winchester. The BSO also performs a series of outdoor classical spectaculars with fireworks at some of the most important stately homes in the UK including Wilton House, home of the Earl of Pembroke, and Osborne House, favourite residence of Queen Victoria. In addition to the main symphony orchestra, a wide range of ensembles perform for local communities across the region.
2 Seldown Lane, Poole, BH15 1UF
Tel: 01202 669925
Email: boxoffice@bsorchestra.co.uk
Website: www.bsolive.com
Bournemouth Theatre in Education
BTiE breaks down barriers between actors and audiences to create a forum for learning, empowerment and change. It’s not about discovering the gifted few – it’s about finding the ability in everyone and enabling it to flourish.
BCCA, 93 Haviland Road, Boscombe, Bournemouth, BH7 6HJ
Tel: 01202 452719/20
Email: tie@bournemouth.gov.uk
Website: www.bournemouth.gov.uk/education/tie
Circus Arts Forum
The Circus Arts Forum has been set up by a group of people with a professional involvement in circus. The group includes representatives from both the traditional and contemporary circus community; the major UK promoters and circus training centres; touring circus companies and community circus schools; venue-based circuses and other circus arts projects.
Tel: 020 7401 8866
Email: info@circusarts.org.uk
Website: www.circusarts.org.uk
Creative Skills
Creative Skills is the professional development organisation for all creative industries practitioners in Cornwall. So whatever your artform - artist, dancer, film-maker or candlestick maker we can help you to realise your potential.
73 Lemon Street, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 2PN
Tel: 01872 273344
Fax: 01872 260827
Email: admin@creativeskills.org.uk
Website: www.creativeskills.org.uk
Dance 4
Firmly established as a leading national centre of dance activity, Dance4 commissions and produces new dance work and manages the annual nottdance festival and Stamping Ground workshop festival. Dance4 offers professional training, advice and support services for dance artists, and we work with local authorities and community partners to provide an outreach participation programme across Nottinghamshire.
PreSet, 3-9 Hockley, Nottingham, NG1 1FH
Tel: 0115 941 0773
Email: info@dance4.co.uk
Website: www.dance4.co.uk
Dance Bristol
Dance Bristol supports and develops all types of dance at all levels across the city. Working in partnership with dance practitioners, we aim to provide a sustainable programme of career and professional development opportunities, commission and mentoring opportunities and access to the widest forms of dance through youth, community and education sectors.
Unit 103, The Unitarian Chapel, Brunswick Square, Bristol, BS2 8PE
Tel: 0117 916 6681
Email: emma@dancebristol.net
Website: dancebristol.net
Dance City
Dance City is the National Dance Agency for the North East of England.
Dance City welcomes all kinds of people with a passion for all kinds of dance. Opened in the autumn of 2005, Dance City’s pioneering £7.6m centre for dance has given the organisation the perfect home from which to develop and drive dance forward as one of the most exciting art forms of the 21st Century.
One of ten National Dance Agencies, Dance City energetically pursues its remit to develop dance in the region through work in four spheres of dance; artistic support, education, dance performance and participation and regional development.
From classes and workshops to the presentation of work from leading international choreographers to superb educational opportunities through academy and degree courses (in partnership with Northumbria University) Dance City offers the public and professionals alike the opportunity to participate in dance at all levels across the North East of England.
Temple Street, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 4BR
Tel: 0191 261 0505
Email: info@dancecity.co.uk
Website: www.dancecity.co.uk
Dance North West
Dance Northwest is the National Dance Agency for the North West region. We are part of a national network of agencies, which exist to support, promote and foster dance activity for all ages, abilities and cultures. Dance Northwest comprises 4 Directors, each from one of the 4 regional agencies (see below),an Administrative Manager and Project Co-ordinators. We run a professional programme for dance artists at all stages of their careers, which facilitates and supports the creation of new work and which supports career development.
PO Box 1190, Liverpool, L69 1WB
Tel: 0151 707 2446
Email: admin@dancenorthwest.org.uk
Website: www.dancenorthwest.org.uk
Dance South West
Dance South West is a network of agencies: Dance in Devon, Activate: Dance and Theatre in Dorset, Gloucestershire Dance, Take Art Dance, The Works: Dance and Theatre Cornwall and Dance Bristol.
We work together with across a wider partnership of organisations including Swindon Dance, Dartington College of Arts and State of Emergency.
We are a National Dance Agency funded by Arts Council England South West. National Dance Agencies were created in order to act as a focus for dance development. They each provide a strong core of regional and local activity and together they form a national network for creating and promoting dance.
PO Box 5457, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH1 1WU
Tel: 01202 554131
Fax: 01202 554131
Email: info@dancesouthwest.org.uk
Website: www.dancesouthwest.org.uk
Dance UK
Dance UK is a membership organisation working to promote a healthy, diverse and dynamic future for dance.
Founded in 1982, Dance Uk aims to advance the well-being and careers of individuals working in dance and to improve the conditions in which dance is created, performed and experienced.
Battersea Arts centre, Lavender Hill, London, SW11 5TN
Tel: 020 7228 4990
Fax: 020 7223 0074
Email: info@danceuk.org
Website: www.danceuk.org
DanceEast
DanceEast, based in Ipswich, acts as a catalyst in providing an identifiable, creative and broad dance ecology for the East of England. Founded in 1983, the beginnings of DanceEast are rooted in pioneering community outreach and education work in Suffolk. In 1994, DanceEast gained National Dance Agency (NDA) status from Arts Council England, and today is one of England's leading dance organisations, strategically set up to support artistic practice and access to dance through a range of initiatives.
The Northgate Arts Centre, Sidegate lane West, Ipswich, IP4 3DF
Tel: 01473 639230
Fax: 01473 639236
Email: info@danceeast.co.uk
Website: www.danceeast.co.uk
DanceXchange
DanceXchange is a developmental organisation working pro-actively in dance to affect cultural development, allow for social inclusion, change health attitudes and aid the growth of the dance economy.
Birmingham Hippodrome, Thorp Street, Birmingham, B5 4TB
Tel: 0121 689 3170
Email: info@dancexchange.org.uk
Website: www.dancexchange.org.uk
DepARTure
Departure is the county council's arts-in-education agency, based in the School Advice and Inspection section of Children's Services.
Pupil & School Improvement, Dorset County Council, Town Hall, Colliton Park, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 1XJ
Tel: 01305 224525
Email: h.l.thomas@dorsetcc.gov.uk
Website: www.dorsetforyou.com
Dorset Arts Promoters Forum
Dapf is a forum for anyone involved in Dorset's arts and cultural scene.
c/o Arts Service, County Library HQ, Colliton Park, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 1XJ
Tel: n/a
Email: information@dapf.net
Website: www.dapf.net
