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Local Arts Information
Bournemouth area

 

Activate

Activate is the dance and theatre development agency for Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole. Activate exists to promote and sustain dance and theatre opportunities for people in Dorset and the South West.

To receive e-bulletins contact cherylhutton@activateperformingarts.org.uk

Artemis Transformational Theatre Group

Arts Council - South West Region

Arts Institute Bournemouth

Including The Gallery,and the Design Collection Museum

Arts Matrix

The continuing professional development agency for creative practitioners in the South West.

BAGEL (Bournemouth Arts Group Email List)
BAGEL is a way of reaching over 30 arts groups and artists in the local area. If you join you will receive opportunities, messages, announcements and events listings from across the arts sector.  At the moment they average about 20 messages per week. There are other features such as a calendar, image gallery and home page.
Visit BAGEL online to view their email message archive.
To join the group send a blank email to bagel-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
If you manage an arts email list, and BAGEL is not already on it, please add bagel-owner@yahoogroups.com to your list so that your messages also reach our members. Alternatively you could become a member of BAGEL and send and receive your messages directly from there.

BomoCreatives

BomoCreatives is a monthly social/business networking club for people who work in the creative industries or the arts. They meet monthly in Bournemouth. The website features a forum (register to participate) and an e-mail newsletter (sign up to receive).

Boscombe Arts Festival

Boscombe Community Arts and Events

Boscombe Community Fair and other local arts information.

Bournemouth Literary Festival

Bournemouth Male Voice Choir

Bournemouth Modern Jazz Club

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

Bournemouth Theatre In Education

Bournemouth University Arts

Including the Atrium Gallery, their Art Loan Collection, their Community Arts Programme and their Arts Club

Creative Dorset

A new specialist development service for creative and cultural businesses and organisations in Dorset.

Dance South West

Dance South West is a consortium of dance agencies working together to encourage more people to make, watch and take part in dance.

DATco and TOPS

DATco (Disabled Actors Theatre COmpany) and TOPS are two local Disability Theatre Companies. They perform to a wide range of audiences.

East Dorset Arts

East Dorset Arts Development aims to support participation and increase access to the arts in East Dorset by working in partnership with other Local Authorities,and a wide variety of outside agencies and community groups. East Dorset work closely with local Arts Promoters through EDALE (East Dorset Arts, Leisure and Entertainment Forum) and produce the arts listings The Big Cheese and the Sting in the Tale `Festival of Stories`. 

Funnybone Comedy Club at Centre Stage

Comedy club nights twice a month in Bournemouth. Venue also hosts nights for Bournemouth Folk Club, Solid Air, Acoustic Solutions and Plug and Play. 

Holton Lee

From a setting overlooking Poole harbour Holton Lee is about empowering and resourcing people, particularly carers and disabled people, throrgh creativity, environmental awareness, personal growth and spirituality. Runs arts programmes and is developing the National Disability Arts Collection and Archive.

Lighthouse Poole

Arts Centre with theatre, concert hall, studio, cinema, Image Lab/ media suite, gallery for photography and digital art, restaurant and three function rooms. Also home  of BSO.

Please Project

Bournemouth-based charity which aims to raise awareness of homelessness using music and drama through their rock opera musical.

Public Art Online

Public Art resource provided by the Public Art South West development agency.

Purbeck Film Festival

Held each year in October.

PVA MediaLab

An artist-led organisation with ten years of practice in the UK and beyond and with a studio in West Dorset.

SoundStorm

Music development agency for Bournemouth, Poole and Dorset. Works independently within the Dorset Music Service. Priority is inclusion and access for 5 - 16 age group in music, as well as their communities.
South West Participatory Artists Network (SWPAN)

SWPAN is a new organisation for artists who work with other people, in all forms of art - music, dance, drama, visual arts etc. It aims to support, develop and promote debate, skills and practice for artists and arts workers who inspire creative collaboration in social contexts. The basic principle behind SWPAN is that its services and activities will come from what artists themselves want and need.

It was launched on 7th September 2006 when a Regional Gather for Participatory Artists was held at the Genesis Centre, Somerset College of Arts and Technology, Wellington Road, Taunton TA1 5AX. Running from 10.30 to 4.30 it offered opportunities to network and communicate, to share experiences and to make new friends. The day also included information on training courses (including the new Open College Network Level 3 Participatory Arts course) and a chance to determine how the Network will develop and work, and what artists want to see on its website. The launch event fee of £10 included lunch and one year’s membership of SWPAN, thanks to the generous support of Arts Council England, Grants for the Arts, ArtsMatrix and Dartington Creative Enterprise
Contact Cat Radford c.radford@dartington.ac.uk or 01803 861783.
Speak Easy Club
Whether you're a professional or amateur practitioner, or if you simply enjoy listening to the Spoken Word in its many forms, prose or verse, then The SpeakEasy Club is for you.

Stromenti String Quartet

Study Gallery

The Study Gallery brings art, artists and audiences together to share, study and respond to many forms of art and design. It actively encourages creative thinking and the creation of new work.

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Contact details

Arts Development
22 The Triangle,
Bournemouth
BH2 5RQ
Tel: 01202 454848
Fax: 01202 454840
Minicom: 01202 454847
Email: Bournemouth Library

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