Arc Theatre
The Arc Theatre Trowbridge is a small-scale receiving venue seating an audience of 150. The venue programmes an extensive programme of Theatre, Dance, Music, Film, Children's Events and Stand-up Comedy. The professional programme is complemented by work from local amateur and student companies. The Theatre runs nine Youth Theatre and Youth Dance groups, which meet at the venue each week and works with a range of partners to deliver education and participation work in the local community.
www.arctheatre.org.uk
The Arc Theatre Trowbridge is a small-scale receiving venue seating an audience of 150. The venue programmes an extensive programme of Theatre, Dance, Music, Film, Children's Events and Stand-up Comedy. The professional programme is complemented by work from local amateur and student companies. The Theatre runs nine Youth Theatre and Youth Dance groups, which meet at the venue each week and works with a range of partners to deliver education and participation work in the local community.
www.arctheatre.org.uk
ArtCare
ArtCare is the arts in health service for Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust. ArtCare brings colour and inspiration to the Trust by delivering a quality arts programme, which is accepted as a vital element to the healing process. ArtCare achieves this by:
• organising temporary exhibitions and acquiring permanent artworks for display around the hospital site.
• organising visual, performing and participatory arts activities to inspire staff, patients and visitors to the hospital.
• Advising on interior design in the hospital.
www.artcare.salisbury.nhs.uk
ArtCare is the arts in health service for Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust. ArtCare brings colour and inspiration to the Trust by delivering a quality arts programme, which is accepted as a vital element to the healing process. ArtCare achieves this by:
• organising temporary exhibitions and acquiring permanent artworks for display around the hospital site.
• organising visual, performing and participatory arts activities to inspire staff, patients and visitors to the hospital.
• Advising on interior design in the hospital.
www.artcare.salisbury.nhs.uk
Big State Theatre
Big State specialise in devising and touring multi-character comedy. Since their formation in 1996 they have developed and toured 8 shows to great acclaim and have used film in the last two pieces. In 2008 Big State were awarded a commissioned by British Council Greece to produce a street theatre piece based on Immigration, which they premiered in Athens. They have been Company in Residence at The Arc Theatre Trowbridge since 2001 where they have co-ordinated their award winning international education programme for young people in theatre and film. The Co-Directors Mark Bishop and Julie Black also run a ground breaking work experience program for schools in Wiltshire and have recently returned from making films with young Egyptians in Cairo for the British Council.
Big State specialise in devising and touring multi-character comedy. Since their formation in 1996 they have developed and toured 8 shows to great acclaim and have used film in the last two pieces. In 2008 Big State were awarded a commissioned by British Council Greece to produce a street theatre piece based on Immigration, which they premiered in Athens. They have been Company in Residence at The Arc Theatre Trowbridge since 2001 where they have co-ordinated their award winning international education programme for young people in theatre and film. The Co-Directors Mark Bishop and Julie Black also run a ground breaking work experience program for schools in Wiltshire and have recently returned from making films with young Egyptians in Cairo for the British Council.
Hullavington Music and Arts Festival - HarFEST
The Hullavington Music and Arts Festival HarFEST takes place over a two week
period in September at harvest time, hence the name. The prime purpose of
HarFEST is to encourage the whole community to become involved in the arts in
as many ways as possible. Although a church initiative, it is not a church
centred festival. The majority of musicians, performers and artists are from
the village, or immediate locality. In 2009 there were fourteen performances
and events, with over two hundred and forty people performing and contributing
to exhibitions.
HarFEST is self-financing, does not seek to make a profit, but ploughs any
surplus monies back into the community - eg. financing specialist music
workshops for the village school, and providing the village with a portable
stage lighting system.
Hoodwink
Hoodwink is company in residence at Salisbury Arts Centre, and is one of the leading producers of theatre for non-traditional spaces in the UK. The company has built a reputation for its unique combination of striking visual images, specially commissioned music and sound, innovative performance, and unexpected animation of set and props.
www.hoodwinktheatre.co.uk
The Marlborough International Jazz Festival
The Marlborough International Jazz Festival is regarded as the biggest event of its kind in England. It takes place over a weekend in July in pubs, halls and marquees all over the town. Noted stars of jazz intermingle with rising talent in a musical extravaganza of 100 bands.
The Marlborough International Jazz Festival is regarded as the biggest event of its kind in England. It takes place over a weekend in July in pubs, halls and marquees all over the town. Noted stars of jazz intermingle with rising talent in a musical extravaganza of 100 bands.
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.
www.poundarts.org.uk
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.
www.poundarts.org.uk
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 International Arts Festival
Salisbury International Arts Festival celebrates 35 years of presenting music,
theatre, dance, film, visual arts, circus, opera, literature and huge outdoor
spectacles in unique locations in and around Salisbury. Local audiences and
visitors can engage with and enjoy world class artistic events which are
programmed to challenge, surprise, involve and entertain and to increase
understanding and appreciation for the arts, other cultures and the
environment.
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.
Sarum Orchestra
Sarum Orchestra performs traditional repertoire alongside contemporary music and
new commissions. Working through a variety of genres we promote concerts,
create workshops and collaborate through residencies, offering live music and
creative experiences to the whole community in the belief that music of the
highest quality should be available to all.
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
Trowbridge Museum
Trowbridge Museum is housed in a former woollen mill, in the Shires Shopping
Centre, Trowbridge, tells the story of woollen cloth production, the town and its people. Displays include a medieval castle
and working looms. Cloth making is carried out on most Saturdays. Education
Service, children’s holiday activities and temporary exhibitions. Open Tuesday to Friday
10am-4.00pm and on Saturdays 10am-4.30pm.
Admission is free.
Admission is free.
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.
