Links

Below you can find a selection of links to organisations we hope are useful. It's not a comprehensive list by any means, but we hope it's a useful starting point. Please email us if you have a link that you think should be added.

+ Advisors, networks & professional development

• The following organizations offer professional development services relevant to artists working in contemporary performance practices, in varying ways :
• Artists and Makers
• Artists Information Company (a-n)
• ArtQuest
• Arts Office
• Artsmatrix
• Black Arts Alliance
• CIDA Creative Industries Development Agency
• Creative Capital
• DACS
• Drake Music
• EUROMED Young Artists Network
• Film London
• Independent Dance Managers Network
• International Network for Contemporary Performing Arts IETM
• Live Art Advisory Network
• Live Art Development Agency
• Morton Bates
• New Work Network
• On the Move
• Oval House
• Own It
• PANDA Performing Arts Network & Development Agency
• Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes
• POST Artists
• PRS for music
• Queen Mary Legal Advice Support
• Rhiz.eu
• Shape
• Sound and Music
• The European Network of Information Centres for the Performing Arts
• The Place
• Theatre Bristol

+ E-lists

• The following provide listings on opportunities, news and events in varying ways, and are particularly relevant to artists working in contemporary performance practice :
• Art Rabbit
• Arts Hub
• Artsadmin e-digest
• Artsadmin mailing list
• Artsjobs and Artsnews
• Critical Network
• Culture.info
• FADO
• Live Art Development Agency e-List
• LIVE ART list
• New Work Network
• Remote Goat
• Run Riot
• Sound and Music
• The Seer
• Tower Hamlets Arts
• Wooloo

+ Funding bodies

• The following offer sources of funding in various ways. Be sure to read all the detailed guidelines and background information offered before making any application or approach. This is not a comprehensive list! Please also see Funding Information Hubs to find further examples of funding routes.
• Arts and Humanities Research Council
• Arts Council England
• Arts Council Northern Ireland
• Arts Council Wales
• Awards for All
• British Council
• Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
• Creative Scotland
• Esmée Fairbairn
• EU Cultural Contact Point
• Henry Moore Foundation
• Jerwood Charitable Foundation
• Paul Hamlyn Foundation
• PRS for music foundation
• Wellcome Trust

+ Festivals

• The following are annual or in some cases biennial festivals which present contemporary performance work of a national and/or international profile :
• Abandon Normal Devices
• Artside
• BLOP
• Brighton Festival
• Brighton Fringe
• Coastival
• Dance Umbrella
• Edinburgh Festival
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Experimentica
• Fierce
• Forest Fringe
• GIFT
• Inbetween Time
• Latitude
• LIFT (London International Festival of Theatre)
• London Festival 2012
• London International Mime Festival
• Manchester International Festival
• Mayfest
• Milton Keynes International Festival
• Norfolk & Norwich Festival
• Nottdance
• SACRED
• Secret Garden Party
• Spill
• Two Degrees
• Whitstable Biennale
• Wunderbar

+ Venues

• + East

  • Colchester Arts Centre
  • firstsite
  • Metal
  • The Gallery at NUCA
  • The Hat Factory
  • The Junction
  • Wysing Arts Centre

  + East Midlands

  • Dance4

  + London

  • Arcola Theatre
  • Artsdepot
  • Auto-Italia
  • Barbican
  • Battersea Arts Centre
  • Beaconsfield
  • Beaconsfield
  • Cafe Gallery
  • Cafe Oto
  • Camden Arts Centre
  • Camden Peoples' Theatre
  • Chelsea Theatre
  • Chisenhale Dance Space
  • Chisenhale Gallery
  • Duckie
  • Forest Fringe
  • Gasworks
  • Jerwood Space
  • Matts Gallery
  • National Theatre
  • no.w.here
  • Northern Stage
  • Outhouse London
  • Oval House Theatre
  • Pump House Gallery
  • Queen Mary University
  • Riverside Studios
  • Royal Opera House ROH2
  • Royal Vauxhall Tavern
  • Soho Theatre
  • South London Gallery
  • Southwark Playhouse
  • Space Studios
  • Stoke Newington International Airport
  • Tate Britain
  • Tate Modern
  • The Gate
  • The Space
  • Tinity Buoy Wharf
  • Whitechapel Gallery
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  + North East

  • BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
  • Dance City
  • ISIS Arts
  • rednile projects
  • Star and Shadow Cinema

  + North West

  • Bluecoat Arts Centre
  • Contact
  • Cornerhouse
  • FACT
  • Green Room
  • Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts
  • Tate Liverpool

  + Northern Ireland

  • Catalyst

  + Scotland

  • Body Surf Scotland
  • CCA
  • The Arches
  • Tramway

  + South East

  • Artsway
  • Chichester Showroom
  • De La Warr Pavillion
  • Farnham Maltings
  • Nightingale Theatre
  • Oxford Playhouse
  • Permanent Gallery
  • South Hill Park, Bracknell
  • South Street
  • The Basement
  • The Nuffiled
  • The Point

  + South West

  • Arnolfini
  • Dartingon
  • Exeter Phoenix
  • ICIA
  • Newlyn Gallery
  • Plymouth Arts Centre
  • Spacex
  • The Tobacco Factory

  + Wales

  • Centre for Performance Research
  • Chapter Arts Centre
  • Mostyn
  • TRACE

  + West Midlands

  • BMAG
  • Eastside Projects
  • Fierce
  • IKON Gallery
  • MAC (Midland Arts Centre)
  • The New Art Gallery Walsall
  • The Public
  • Warwick Arts Centre

  + Yorkshire

  • Leeds Met
  • Lumen
  • Site Gallery
  • Yorkshire Dance
  • Yorkshire Sculpture Park

+ Space Hire

• The following offer studio space for hire (London-only) :
  
• Artists Studio Finder
• Artsadmin
• Beaconsfield
• Bradbury Studios
• Brady Arts and Community Centre
• Chelsea Theatre
• Chisenhale Dance Space
• Clean Break
• Corsica Studios
• Dog Eared Studio and Gallery
• FWD Pilates Studio
• Husky Studios
• Jerwood Space
• Laban
• London Buddhist Centre
• London School of Capoeira
• Moving Arts Base
• Moving East
• People Show Studios
• Race and Rhythm
• Siobhan Davies Studios
• Space at Clarence Mews
• Space Studios
• The Circus Space
• The Oxford House
• The Place
• The Space
• West Greenwhich Community Arts Centre

+ Platforms

• The following are all platforms for presenting and/or developing performance work, which are open to application at varying times in the year. The links take you to detailed information on the nature of the platform, who it is intended for, and how to apply :
• Artsadmin Scrits
• Battersea Arts Centre - Scratch Events
• Emergency
• Experimentica
• FRESH AiR
• Lincoln Art Programme
• O U I Performance
• Pilot
• Platinum
• Rules and Regs
• Scratch Interact
• SHOW TiME
• Spill National Platform
• Sprint
• Testing Grounds
• The Scene Pool
• You and Your Work

+ Funding Information Hubs

• The following are not funding bodies, but provide information about how to find potential funding bodies for your project. Be sure to read all the detailed guidelines and background information offered before making any application or approach to a potential funder.
• Association of Charitable Foundations
• British Arts
• Culture.info
• Directory for Social Change
• Welcome Europe