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Salisbury Arts Centre
Salisbury Arts Centre is a community arts venue that offers innovative, stimulating and diverse artistic experiences. We present a range of theatre, music and dance performances alongside workshops and participatory activity for all ages, with a particular focus on providing creative opportunities for young people and supporting disabled artists. Salisbury Arts Centre has a pottery, exhibition space, art room, media room and café, and is home to Hoodwink Theatre Company and Sarum Orchestra
Salisbury Playhouse
Salisbury Playhouse create and produce excellent theatre for the people of Salisbury, Wiltshire, Hampshire and Dorset that engages with our audience on an intellectual and emotional level, celebrates the uniqueness of the live event, empowers individuals to explore or explain their lives and is inclusive in its subject matter, working practices, audience and potential audience.
Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum
Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum is based in The King’s House, a wonderful grade I listed building in the Cathedral Close. We have exhibitions about the history and archaeology of the local area and a changing programme of temporary exhibitions and events.
Lafolia
La Folia is a group of musicicans , dancers, actors and other artists, producing concerts and creative projects under the artistic directorship of Howard Moody.
La Folia creates projects in both UK and Europe: for people with special needs, for children in areas of multiple depravation, for schools and colleges, for arts centres and rural communities. Our concerts are performed in both expected and unexpected places from play buses to cathedrals.
Wiltshire Dancing
Wiltshire Dancing is a consortium of Wiltshire’s arts venues, local authorities, dance practitioners, schools, arts agencies and arts administrators, whose common aim is to support the strategic development of dance in Wiltshire. Wiltshire Dancing supports a wide variety of projects to develop opportunities for everyone to become involved with dance without boundaries and that encourage risk, diversity and innovation.
Wiltshire Music Centre
The Wiltshire Music Centre in Bradford on Avon is a unique contemporary building with good access, nine flexible workshop spaces and a first class 300 seat concert hall attracting over 60,000 visitors a year. A welcoming environment for enjoying and taking part in a wide range of music, regardless of age, ability and background, the Centre also runs ambitious education and community outreach projects plus a year - round programme of high quality public concerts embracing classical, jazz, folk and world music traditions.
Wiltshire Youth Arts Partnership
WYAP stimulates and delivers opportunities for young people aged 13-21 years, to take part in, enjoy and gain skills from high quality arts activities. Recent projects include Music Xpress, which enabled young people across Wiltshire to mix their own tracks, burn them onto CD and use digital software. Drama Xpress enables young people to learn drama skills from experienced drama professionals and gives them the opportunity to study and achieve their Arts Award – a new national award that recognises young people’s achievements in the arts. WYAP is the joint training licence holder for Wiltshire, and trains advisers to support the young people
Alice Wimberly - Visual Artist
Angela Street - Script write and workshop leader
Natalie Ball - Set Designer and Props buyer
Soo Wright - Freelance Dance Artist
New members incoming
The Pound Arts Trust Limited
Recently reopened following a £1.2 million refurbishment, The Pound is the arts hub for north Wiltshire and is home to a range of professional and community arts activities including performances, films, workshops and exhibitions. The Pound Arts Trust Limited also runs Corsham Festival, the eight day annual festival which focuses on contemporary arts, and manages Rural Arts Wiltshire, the county’s rural touring scheme.
Salisbury International Arts Festival
Salisbury International Arts Festival 2011 takes over the city from 20 May – 4 June. From amazing free outdoor spectaculars to the best in classical music, opera, theatre, comedy and dance, our programme draws the best artists from around the world to your doorstep, commissioning and creating work that is unique to the region.
Theatre on The Hill - St John's School Marlborough
Jules Hobbs - co-founders and directors
of Finding The Will , a company that leads workshops and residencies on Shakespeare
in Primary, Secondary and Special schools nationwide.
http://www.stjohns.wilts.sch.uk/html/theatre.html
TheatreWorks
TheatreWorks is a developmental partnership of theatre organisations across Wiltshire and Swindon working together to deliver the Theatre Locality Plan for the County.
TheatreWorks’ key aims are to:-
• Provide a powerful and cohesive advocacy for the value of theatre activity at all levels with the message that ‘Theatre Works’
• Offer a strategic overview to enable existing organisations to operate more effectively in partnerships
• Develop a support infrastructure to enable new theatre practitioners to make and present work and to encourage existing practitioners to base themselves in the area
• Work to enable collaborative partnerships to flourish in order that more theatre is made, presented and seen by more people in Wiltshire and Swindon
• Identify the means to provide professional and youth development opportunities at all levels to drive up quality
www.theatreworks.org.uk
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