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2018/19 Artsadmin Portfolio

Have a browse of the artist projects Artsadmin has available to tour in our 2018/19 Portfolio.

Artsadmin awarded EU funding for a collaborative project connecting art and audiences

We are delighted to find out this summer that our collaborative project Create to Connect has been awarded funding from Creative Europe for the next 4 years.

#SeasonforChange: organisations and artists across the UK spark conversations about the future of our planet

Artsadmin and Julie’s Bicycle are delighted to announce that Season for Change is underway with over 30 events having taken place in its first 6 weeks of the season!

My Traineeship: playground protests, pine branches and lessons learnt

From Birmingham city centre, to a local primary school, to the Barbican. Artsadmin Trainee Emily Bird reflects on her year working in producing and Artist Development.

Investing in hope: the Imagine 2020 Summer Lab 2018

Artist, producer and researcher, Joanne Matthews, reflects on what took place at this year's Imagine 2020 Summer Lab, as a group of participants explored how we can bring together art, activism and science to tackle climate change and engage with global transition.

From Snapchat to Food Awards: work experience at Artsadmin

Year 12 student at The Urswick School, Fatma, recently spent three days working with Artsadmin through her Arts Emergency mentorship. She tells us a bit about what she got up to in this blog.

The future is unchained

Read what went on at Unchained Nights, a creative platform for people with lived experience of the criminal justice system.

a resistant body: who holds the power?

Find out what went on at the a resistant body taster day, as a group of 16-25 year olds explored how their bodies occupy space.

Welcome to new Executive Director, Deborah Chadbourn

Deborah Chadbourn joins Artsadmin as the new Executive Director, succeeding Gill Lloyd after 33 years.

Easier said than run

Philippa Barr, Development Associate at Artsadmin, is running the London Marathon to raise money for Artsadmin’s education and artist development programmes. She tells us why she’s embarking on this 26-mile challenge…

In conversation with Gudrun Soley Sigurdardottir

Ahead of her performance at Toynbee Studios on 5 April, Artsadmin Trainee Emily caught up with BANNER artist Gudrun Soley Sigurdardottir about her new work and its development over the past year.

PLAYING UP: becoming a living artwork together

Artsadmin’s KIWI project features in a new Culture is Digital report

Artsadmin was chosen as a case study in this new Culture is Digital report.

Call out for participants: a resistant body

Phoebe Davies and Nandi Bhebhe are looking for a group of participants aged 16-25 years old to explore how bodies can occupy space; from physical to phonic, pop culture to protest, public to private, IRL to URL.

We’re looking for a new Executive Director

After 33 years, Gill Lloyd will be leaving Artsadmin in June 2018. So we are looking for a new Executive Director to succeed Gill and lead Artsadmin into the future.

A warm welcome to Cecilia Wee!

Call out for participants: Passage for Par

An opportunity to perform in a new outdoor dance-work created for Par Beach by choreographer Rosemary Lee.

Make Space: Participant Reflections

"Our world is rigged so that the space you do have is never quite enough."

The participants of Making More Space reflect on their experiences at Eel Pie Island in this final blog post in the Make Space series.

Take Up Space

Care, Rest and Misrecognition

This October Artsadmin partnered with Fierce Festival, programming a Weekender Lab led by Simone Aughterlony in advance of Aughterlony and Jen Rosenblit’s show Everything Fits in the Room during the festival. We asked Emily Warner to write about her experience of being a guest performer in the show as well as a participant in the Weekender Lab.

Make Space: Feeling Our Way Into The Practice (Of Doing)

How did Nan Shepherd’s writings on the Cairngorms inspire Simone Kenyon’s choreographic practice? Read more in the latest Make Space blog.

Buy your tickets for Artsadmin’s 2017 Christmas Raffle!

Tickets are now on sale for the Artsadmin 2017 Christmas Raffle. All donations go towards supporting artists through the Artists' Bursary Scheme.

Make Space: Making Conversation

The fourth our series writing inspired by Make Space comes from Ayisha De Lanerolle, exploring the conversational dance of ‘I and thou’.

Make Space: A Naturally Occurring Psychology

Make Space: Performance as Currency for the Wild