Swindon Museum and Art Gallery re-invent the traditional role of the artist-in-residence!

While searching for new and innovative ways to support and engage family audiences within a ‘new normal’, Swindon Museum and Art Gallery turned their attentions to the concept of the traditional artist-in-residence… Question….What would happen if you took a role usually carried out in-person by an individual, established artist, and instead asked a whole local … Continue reading →

Wiltshire & Swindon Cultural Education Partnership (W&SCEP) new website live

The W&SCEP are excited to have launched their new website; a cultural education resource and inspiration for schools, arts & cultural organisations, young people and their families, in Wiltshire and Swindon. As well as finding out more about the current partners involved in the W&SCEP, you can read about the Open Fund school projects, catch … Continue reading →

Shine a Light on Trowbridge lockdown creativitiy

Trowbridge Town Hall will be holding an exhibition to ‘shine a light’ on the creativity in Trowbridge during Lockdown. Whether you are already creative or have made artwork for the first time, they would love to hear from you. The exhibition opens 1 August when the venue reopens, so be sure to get in touch … Continue reading →

Arts Council Culture Recovery Fund Grant guidance published

The Arts Council has published guidance for the Culture Recovery Fund: Grants programme. This fund forms part of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport’s (DCMS) wider Culture Recovery Fund of £1.57 billion, set up to protect the UK’s culture and heritage sectors from the economic impacts of Covid-19. Grants from between £50,000 to … Continue reading →

Celebrating Age Wiltshire – Jonny Fluffypunk – Poet and man

Wiltshire Music Centre Celebrating Age’s latest performance, ‘Jonny Fluffypunk – Poet and man’ is now online.  This was recorded live from The Poetry Shed, Stroud on 22 May, 2020.  Prepare to be highly entertained by this wonderful performance poet and good friend of Celebrating Age Wiltshire. Find out more Celebrating Age Wiltshire programme

Wiltshire Creative’s summer starts here

Wiltshire Creative is delighted to be opening a take away café at Salisbury Arts Centre during August, alongside occasional Take Part activities and free events for families. The first event will be an outdoor production of Cloudscapes by Gobbledegook Theatre on Saturday 8 August. The summer café will be open from Tuesday to Friday between … Continue reading →

Malmesbury Community Radio Lockdown project

Malmesbury Community Radio is looking to gather thoughts, experiences and memories about lockdown. They want to build up an archive of personal stories, moments and impressions of the experience of lockdown to compile into a radio broadcast. Send them your thoughts, experiences and memories of lockdown, either in audio files (recorded on a phone, tablet or … Continue reading →

Job: Community Fundraising Manager

The Hall of Cornwall is seeking to appoint a Community Fundraising Manager. The role will be the lead and champion  of the generation of voluntary income for their theatre within the Cornwall community, as they prepare to reopen in Spring 2021 following a major Capital transformation. Deadline for applications:  Midnight Friday 24 July 2020 More … Continue reading →

Wiltshire Music Centre launches £60,000 appeal to put the community centre stage

Wiltshire’s foremost live music venue, Wiltshire Music Centre, invites your support today as it launches a major community fundraising appeal to help the Centre to reopen and deliver a transformational community programme from the Autumn. On 18th March 2020, as the Covid-19 pandemic took hold, the Centre was forced to close, putting an abrupt end … Continue reading →

Multi Sensory Art Project

The Multi Sensory Art Project (MSAP) is a collaboration between The Roche Court Educational Trust and Larkrise School, Trowbridge, to provide creative, sensory experiences for children with profound and multiple learning disabilities. The project aims to remove barriers and make contemporary art accessible to those who are least likely to experience it. MSAP engages groups … Continue reading →