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Join e-lists – Join New Work Network. National artist-led organisation for artists, producers, promoters, venues, academics and – Artquest E-Letter – subscribe plus very informative website others - definitely recommend joining for good website, plus free advice incl. legal networking opportunities and phone advice from co- www.artquest.org.uk ordinator £10 for lifetime membership – Artsadmin e-digest and Artsadmin-Events www.newworknetwork.org.uk www.artsadmin.co.uk/information/edigest.htm – Michael Atavar at Oval House, London. Theatre Artists’ – e-flux – international visual arts news and opportunities Advisor - free advice and information service www.e-flux.com www.ovalhouse.com – Live Art Development Agency’s list – Critical Network. On-line & email info resource about www.thisisliveart.co.uk/about_us/join_maillist.html exhibitions, events and opportunities in UK and Ireland – Live Art List [email protected] www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/LIVEART.html – Own It offers free intellectual property advice plus regular events and workshops in copyright etc. – New Work Network (have be a member, see below) www.own-it.org www.newworknetwork.org.uk – The Basement Arts Production. Used to be Brighton Fringe National Venues and Programmers Arts Production. Regular e-digest of opportunities etc. www.thebasement.uk.com – Helen Cole at Arnolfini, Bristol. Major contemporary arts spaces combining galleries, live, dance, film, literature and education programmes Get on mailing lists www.arnolfini.org.uk – Post - phone up galleries, theatres, arts centres etc. and – Battersea Arts Centre, London. Puts on Freshly Scratched – get them to send you their flyers and brochures. Find out artists who have never shown work at BAC before can try what’s going on and also to see what kind of work they put out new ideas. email [email protected] on and so find venues that might be interested in putting on your work www.bac.org.uk – Email – get on their e-mailing listings too – Bluecoat, Liverpool Presents a year round programme focusing on visual and performing arts and artists working in interdisciplinary terrain Other useful websites and services www.bluecoatartscentre.com – AN magazine – very informative website, lots of prof dev – Camden People’s Theatre, London assistance, practical assistance and opportunities www.cptheatre.co.uk www.a-n.co.uk – Centre for Performance Research, Aberystwyth. Interested – Nikki Tomlinson and Manick Govinda at Artsadmin, in crossover twix academia and practice national, based in London. Artists' Advisory Service supports artists working in Live Art, performance, time- www.thecpr.org.uk based media and installation – Francis Alexander at Chelsea Theatre. Programmes www.artsadmin.co.uk theatre-based and community-engaged live art – Axisweb Apply to have your details hosted on this directory www.chelseatheatre.org.uk of current practicing artists in the UK – CCA, Glasgow. Contemporary art gallery with live www.axisweb.org programme – Creative Capital – professional development for artists and www.cca-glasgow.com creative professionals in London – James Tyson at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. An all year www.creative-capital.org.uk round programme of performance – ECCA offers one-to one advice surgeries for anyone setting www.chapter.org up or thinking of setting up own creative business. Will also – Anthony Roberts at Colchester Arts Centre, Colchester. give free tax advice incl. surgeries with accountants Continuous programme of diverse performance www.ecca-london.org www.colchesterartscentre.com – Lois Keidan and Daniel Brine at Live Art Development – John McGrath at Contact Theatre, Manchester Agency, London. Offers a portfolio of resources, schemes www.contact-theatre.org.uk and initiatives for the support of the Live Art sector. – East End Collaborations, London. Annual open submissions Register yourself as Live Artist working in London so you EEC platform for emerging artists are included on any emails about opportunities www.thisisliveart.co.uk/prof_dev/eec_everything www.thisisliveart.co.uk – De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill – Live Art Work - Website full of info on artists, venues festivals, funders, education etc. from an international www.dlwp.com perspective. Run by Chris Hewitt – Stephen Hodge at Exeter Phoenix www.liveartwork.com www.exeterphoenix.org.uk FrenchMottershead USEFUL CONTACTS ETC. 2007

– Mark Ball at Fierce Earth, Birmingham. Fierce Earth Other smaller or artist-led orgs worth keeping an produces the annual international Fierce Festival of Live Art eye on / making contact with in venues across the West Midlands – Lee Callaghan and Ben Ponton at Amino Arts, Newcastle www.fiercetv.co.uk www.amino.org.uk – Stella Couloutbanis at Future Factory (Expo), Nottingham. Runs Sensitive Skin festival. Supports new practitioners / – Simon Casson at Duckie. Independent arts recent graduates. Building the Centre for Contemporary Art, creator/producer – programmes weekly arty-cabaret acts merging Future Factory, Angel Row and Bonington Gallery at Vauxhall Tavern www.future-factory.com www.duckie.co.uk – Garfield Allen at greenroom, Manchester. Based in – Farnham Maltings Manchester the greenroom is one of the UK's leading www.farnhammaltings.com venues for innovative international performance including – Omsk Live Art, experimental theatre, urban verse and sonic art www.pinkpink.demon.co.uk www.greenroomarts.org – Ilana Mitchell at Platform Northeast – Laura Godfrey-Isaacs at Home, London. A live art and www.platformnortheast.org performance production company – Cecilia Wee, Russell Martin, and Matthew Shlomowitz at www.lgihome.co.uk Rational Rec – Ikon Gallery, Birmingham www.rationalrec.org.uk www.ikon-gallery.co.uk – Seth Kriebel at Rules and Regs – LIFT - London International Festival of Theatre, voluntary www.rulesandregs.org placements if you can work for expenses only – Shunt have venue in London Bridge – put on regular www.liftfest.org.uk artists-curated events – Oval House, London www.shunt.co.uk www.ovalhouse.com – Trampoline, Nottingham/Berlin - Platform for new media – Nikki Milican of New Moves International who curates the art National Review of Live Art, Glasgow www.trampoline.org.uk www.newmoves.co.uk – Carol Maund at Site Gallery, Sheffield. Interested in live Funders work (with photographic element) – Regional offices of Arts Council England Grants for the Arts www.sitegallery.org/live_art www.artscouncil.org.uk/funding/gfta.php – Kit Hammonds at South London Gallery. – Arts Council England National Touring for when you have www.southlondongallery.org two or more venues in England (plus 1 other elsewhere) – Space Studios provide artists studios as well as hosting live – Awards for All give lottery grants of up to £5k for projects and exhibition programme with a community focus www.spacestudios.org.uk www.awardsforall.org.uk – Nicola Hood at Spacex, Exeter. Used to curate live – British Council will support more established artists taking programme at Baltic, now Director of Spacex British work abroad. www.spacex.co.uk – Foundations and Trusts have different agendas so find out – Trace Gallery, Cardiff. Run by Andre Stitt from his home whether appropriate to apply for each project. i.e. Henry www.tracegallery.org Moore Foundation, Esme Fairburn, Rowntree, etc – Tract Festival of Live Art, Penzance – run collaboratively by – Local Authorities offer small grants to develop work with a Newlyn Art Gallery and Art Surgery local element, usually around £500. Contact the Arts www.tract-liveart.co.uk Officer of the Authority in which the event will occur. – Steve Slater at Tramway, Glasgow – Sponsorship from the private sector. Unlikely to get sponsorship from Budweiser but perhaps from smaller www.tramway.org companies who are looking for something a bit different to – Waygood Gallery and Studios, Newcastle their normal marketing? Target three companies, perhaps www.waygood.org geographically located near your site and research what – Donna Lynas at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire. Used you can offer them and what they might be interested in. to curate live programme at South London Gallery. Try and see them face-to-face to discuss it Interested in putting on events at Wysing – Could you get assistance in kind such as studio time or www.wysingarts.org equipment if you can’t get full funding for a project? – Is there something you could build into the project to make money i.e. put an education element or some community work in?