Arts organisations Southampton

Pukaar
A community project giving a platform to new musical talent in and around Southampton and the UK. Pukaar’s mission is to bring people together through music, bridging the gap between communities and generations.

City Eye Film & Video
City Eye has been promoting video production within Southampton and the surrounding area since 1987 and is constituted as a nonprofit making company limited by guarantee. It also has Charitable Status. City Eye receives financial support from Southampton City Council, and Screen South the film and media agency for the South.

Art Asia
Art Asia has been working since 1981 to promote and develop high quality performance of South Asian arts, music and dance, enhanced by educational activities to provide a rich and satisfying experience for all

Ocean Pixel
Ocean Pixel is an arts and design workshop based in Southampton, UK. We develop creative projects and help artists put their ideas into action.

Artswork
An independent youth arts development agency committed to developing creative opportunities for young people aged 12-25.

Southampton Art gallery
Welcome to the Southampton City Art Gallery website. Southampton City Art Gallery can offer something for everyone, whether you’re young or old, a lifelong fan or going to a gallery for the first time. Exhibitions and displays range from ancient culture to the cutting-edge and the Gallery is internationally renowned for its impressive art collection, spanning six centuries of European art history. The Gallery is housed within a beautiful example of 1930’s municipal architecture.

Millais Gallery
Is located in the city-centre, part of the main Southampton Institute campus on East Park Terrace. The gallery is part of the John Everett Millais Building, and faces onto East Park. .

John Hansard Gallery
The John Hansard Gallery, based at the University of Southampton’s Highfield campus, is one of Britain’s leading public galleries of contemporary visual art

Community Arts & Participatory Arts

In Search of Cultural Democracy Originally published in the October 1985 edition of Arts Express, Owen Kelly wrote in response to Roy Shaw’s essay on ‘Arts for All.’ Shaw, a former General Secretary of the Arts Council, argued for the democratisation of culture. Kelly argues that debate lies with an alternative idea, and this article became a rallying call for many community artists of the time. We came across this on Jubilee Arts site (now The Public) their site has been revamped and the link to it has been lost and so we have created a page on this site with the article on. Kelly wrote ‘Community, Art and the State’ (Comedia 1984) which is still a much quoted book when it come to community arts theory.

Community arts worker in close-up
Find what a Community arts worker actual does!

The Camerawork Essays serves up some of the evidence. What had began as an alternative magazine by photographers for photographers is here edited in abstruse academic language as an anthology by scholars for scholars. Fourteen essays by twelve contributors. The editor, Jessica Evans, offers to “recover an historical understanding of Camerawork’s motivation for encouraging a democratising practice in photography.”

The CameraWork Essays reviewed by Peter Marshall

Community Arts Network
The Community Arts Network (CAN) is a portal to the field of community arts, providing news, documentation, theoretical writing, communications, research and educational information. Headquartered at its Web site on the Internet, CAN is a program of Art in the Public Interest (API), a nonprofit organization based in North Carolina, USA.

Merseyside ACME
support and develop the Creative Industries Sector on Merseyside.

Bath Arts Workshop who started in 1970 was run in the style of the Arts Lab of Drury Lane, London.

The Toolkit is a website for individuals and groups who are developing creative enterprises and community arts projects in Manchester. It contains up-to-date information on organisations, networks, training and funding that can help you to make your project a success. The site is simple to use and includes information on arts and creative sectors, development agencies, networks, training, unions and festivals, as well health and safety, and child protection.

Community Arts Organisations

Street Level Photoworks
Founded in 1989 by Glasgow Photography Group, Street Level promotes the creative use of photomedia and aims to make artistic production accessible, both physically and intellectually, to a wide audience. Recognised for its integrated practice, the organisation presents an on-going series of challenging exhibitions; an education and outreach programme; open access facilities and training courses for artists and the public.

Valley and Vale Community Arts
Community arts organisation based in Wales.
www.valleyandvale.co.uk

Common Ground is internationally recognised for playing a unique role in the arts and environmental fields, distinguished by the linking of nature with culture, focussing upon the positive investment people can make in their own localities, championing popular democratic involvement, and by inspiring celebration as a starting point for action to improve the quality of our everyday places.
www.commonground.org.uk

Voluntary Arts England seeks to promote participation in the arts and crafts by supporting the development of the voluntary arts sector. Primarily by facilitating the development of a strong infrastructure, strategic thinking, and good practice across the sector. We are an initiative of the Voluntary Arts Network (VAN) which links us to similar bodies in Scotland, Ireland and Wales.
www.vaengland.org.uk

Community Arts North West - CAN
An artist led organisation, with main priority to create access to cultural production for people that are excluded or on the fringe of mainstream cultural resources. CAN is essentially an organisation which is about action - working with people to turn ideas into reality.
www.can.uk.com

Arts Express
Community projects in visual art
Commissions, workshops and events
www.arts-express.org.uk

Charnwood Arts
Is an independent community arts and media organisation based in the Borough of Charnwood in the East Midlands of Britain.

The Public
Formerly known as Jubilee Arts, has been carrying out pioneering community arts work for nearly thirty years in West Bromwich and the surrounding area. The Public is now taking this experience forward in an exciting project to create the Public Building, the largest community arts development in Europe. The Building will be a place to dream and realise your creativity in an inspiring, hands-on arts space, as well as somewhere you can learn, be entertained and relax.

shed 22 is a media access centre based in Docklands, east London

Free Form is unique in providing the full range of arts and creative services for the built environment to place art at the heart of urban regeneration. One of the first community arts companies and they are still going!

Welfare State International was one of the first community arts companies who pioneer new approaches to the arts of celebration and ceremony in the U.K. and internationally.

Helix Arts specialises in the development of projects and initiatives, including artist residencies and commissions, which explore the role and potential of the arts in a social context.

Mantle Community Arts organises a range of arts projects in places where people live, work and meet. We are also a source of information, training, advice and support. Mantle Community Arts is based in Coalville in North West Leicestershire and works throughout the district and beyond.

Action Factory (Blackburn) works with people using participative arts techniques, to encourage them to become active partners in
cultural and creative activity
and build confident communities.

BRADFORD COMMUNITY ARTS will be celebrating its 30th
anniversary within the next twelve months. A good moment to
celebrate the past, from small beginnings with no premises -
working from the back of a van - and look forward to the future.

CAN (Collective Art Noise), Birmingham

Emergency Exit Arts, one of the UK’s leading street arts companies producing celebratory events, participatory projects and unusual spectacle. A company of visual artists, performers, musicians, composers, puppeteers, pyrotechnists, designers and inventors.

SNAP aims to introduce young people, who are marginalised from traditional arts activities, by introducing them to creative experiences and facilities and offering them an arts environment which supports independent cultural expression, skills building and personal development motivation and enables the production of peer-aimed images.

Training/Learning

Twics Southampton. It’s object is to offer training courses a very affordable costs to volunteers and paid workers engaged or wishing to be engaged in voluntary or paid work in the local community Most courses are validated by the OPEN COLLEGE NETWORK and lead to NVQ qualifications.One day courses have a TWICS Certificate

European Social Fund
Ladder4learning
Learndirect
Learning and Skills Council
Link2learn

Southampton Solent University
City College

Southampton Community Organisations

Southampton Council for Voluntary Service
Southampton Voluntary Services (SVS) is the umbrella organisation in Southampton providing voluntary & community groups working in Southampton with independent support and an independent voice.

West Itchen Trust
The Trust is an independent company limited by guarantee, which means that it does not have shareholders – it has members. It operates as a business, but with social as well as financial objectives, and this type of business model is known as a social enterprise.