Animate Projects Limited
Animate Projects champions experimental animation. We are at the forefront in commissioning innovative artists' moving image for exhibition online and on digital platforms. Our exhibitions connect the public across the globe with the pioneering artists we support. Through critical writing and discussion events we provoke critical debate around the art form. All of our projects can be experienced at animateprojects.org.
Cartoon de Salvo
Founded in 1997, Cartoon de Salvo is one of the country’s most respected theatre companies. Their cocktail of script-defying improvisation, live music and exceptional storytelling has won critical acclaim and a devoted following. On their quest to mess with the live theatre experience, the Salvos make theatre that wears its heart on its sleeve, that likes an adventure, and that never forgets that the audience is the number one reason for putting on the show.
London Philharmonic Orchestra
The London Philharmonic Orchestra is one of the world’s great symphony orchestras. Based at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London, with a summer residency at Glyndebourne Festival Opera and a busy international touring schedule, the Orchestra also runs a CD Label and has an active education and community programme. @LPOrchestra
Unicorn Theatre
The Unicorn is the national home of theatre for young audiences. Our home is a purpose-built, state-of-the-art building, located on the south bank of the Thames, close to Tower Bridge and a short walk from London Bridge station. As well as creating our own productions, we host visits by some of the UK and World’s other great theatre companies for young people. Since opening in December 2005, our international guests have come from Sweden, Denmark, Italy, The Netherlands, South Africa and Japan.
The Puppet Centre Trust
The Puppet Centre Trust is a national development agency for the art form of puppetry.
New Writing South
Inspiring ideas, developing writers, creating connections.
Writers' Centre Norwich
Writers’ Centre Norwich is a literature development organisation committed to exploring the artistic and social powers of creative writing and reading. Our aims is to become an international centre of literary activity, a national resource for best practice in international working, talent development and innovation, and a regional hub for literature development, live literature, audience and writer development. We enabled Norwich to become the first UK City of Refuge for persecuted writers in 2007 and are leading our city’s bid to become England’s first UNESCO City of Literature in 2011.
Rambert Dance Company
Rambert has developed choreographers and dancers as artists for over 85 years. It believes in the powerful collaboration between choreographer, composer and artist and prolifically commissions new work. Bold, risk-taking and agile, the dancers combine rigorous technique with an extraordinary ability to challenge and entertain. Renowned for its use of live music, Rambert tours with an orchestra and inspires audiences with the ideas, excitement and passion of this contemporary and collaborative art form.
Revolutionary Arts
People and places have inspired and informed the Revolutionary Arts work since it was formed in 2000. In exploring the local, it often acts as a creative alchemist bringing together artists, makers and thinkers with local authorities, community groups and other arts organisations. The group make all sorts of things for all sorts of audiences, from big festivals to intimate 'kitchen table' networking events, and particularly enjoy short, temporary interventions.
Danny Louise - freelancer
A visual arts specialist and writer, I focus on cultural policy, continuing professional development training and arts writing. I am also researching a PhD on Biennials of Art.
Write Out Loud
Write Out Loud is a national hub for participation in poetry. We encourage everyone who writes poetry to share their words with others in friendly, welcoming open-floor read-around, open-mic events and online on our site. We also support individual poets, poetry organisations and groups across the country, via a monthly newsletter and our website. Sharing poetry with others gives us more of a buzz than being published. We are not knocking publication; just saying that performance poetry offers different opportunities for poets. It's live, acoustic and encourages people to talk and listen to each other: face-to-face! With so many styles, ideas, forms, voices, experiences - we love it!
Southbank Centre
Southbank Centre is one of the largest arts centres in the world, offering a wide-ranging artistic programme including classical & world music, rock & pop, jazz, dance, literature and the visual arts. Every year more than 1,000 musicians and artists perform at Southbank Centre, and 22 million visitors come to site, making it one of the most popular cultural destinations in the country. We are committed to working in collaboration with young, emerging and established talent across the artistic community.
Petrie Museum – UCL
The Petrie Museum houses an estimated 80,000 objects, making it one of the greatest collections of Egyptian and Sudanese archaeology in the world. It illustrates life in the Nile Valley from prehistory through the time of the pharaohs, the Ptolemaic, Roman and Coptic periods to the Islamic period.
Hcmf
hcmf is the UK’s largest annual, international festival of new and experimental music, taking place over 10 days and consisting of 50 events, including concerts, music theatre, mixed media, installations, talks and films. It also has a year round Learning and Participation programme, devised and implemented as an integral part of the artistic programme.
Pallant House Gallery
Pallant House Gallery in Chichester holds one of the best collections of Modern British art in the UK. As well as the permanent collection, which includes works by the likes of Peter Blake, Frank Auerbach, Lucien Freud, Richard Hamilton, Henry Moore, Eduardo Paolozzi, Walter Sickert and Graham Sutherland, the Gallery also hosts major international temporary exhibitions - currently Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera: From the Gelman Collection until 2 October.
Orchestras Live
Orchestras Live's mission is to inspire, motivate and empower the widest range of people through excellent live orchestral music. Orchestras Live is committed to delivering outcomes relating to quality, reach, impact and value.
Artswork
Artswork is a national youth arts development agency and a registered charity. It is committed to transforming the lives of children and young people through arts and cultural practice. Artswork's mission is to place the arts at the heart of work with, for and by children and young people, and to champion, lead and facilitate high quality work led by artists, arts and cultural organisations including the development of young arts practitioners/leaders. We work through strategic alliances with the arts, cultural, education, youth and community sectors and aim to act as a national champion to increase opportunities for children and young people to lead, participate, work in, experience and enjoy the arts.
Almeida Theatre
The Almeida is a 325 seat theatre in the heart of Islington, North London. We produce a diverse range of British and international drama with some of the world's best artists, and have developed a reputation as a local theatre with world profile. Almeida Projects links the theatre's work with our local community. The annual Almeida Festival celebrates the best of new and international theatre bringing fresh voices to the Almeida stage.
Quay Arts
The Quay Arts Centre is the Isle of Wight’s leading art gallery and venue for live arts events. It is situated in a converted 19th Century brewery warehouse complex located at the head of the River Medina in the centre of Newport.
Sideshow
Sideshow is a magazine and map with a vigilant eye on the rising threat of contemporary circus.
Out of Joint
Out of Joint is a national and international touring theatre company dedicated to the development and production of new writing. Under the direction of Max Stafford-Clark the company has premiered plays from leading writers including David Hare, Caryl Churchill, Alistair Beaton, April De Angelis, Sebastian Barry and Timberlake Wertenbaker, as well as launching first-time writers such as Mark Ravenhill and Stella Feehily. Touring all over the UK, Out of Joint frequently performs at and co-produces with key venues such as the Royal Court and the National Theatre. The company has performed in six continents – most recently a world tour of its award-winning, Africa-inspired Macbeth. Back home, Out of Joint also pursues an extensive education programme.
LabCulture Ltd
Established at the heart of artist led activism in the UK, working directly with artists and new technologies, the studio aims to engage artists from all backgrounds in the production of new work supported by a flexible resource that facilitates the production of sound, music, video, interactivity, live performance and online projects. PVA MediaLab’s strategic role in the UK is to encourage a broad and diverse range of participants and audiences to take part in creative activities that involve new technologies. We exist to promote debate, challenge perceptions and develop opportunities and the economic potential of artists. We work locally, regionally, nationally and internationally to achieve this.
British Centre for Literary Translation
The British Centre for Literary Translation is Britain’s leading centre for the development, promotion and support of literary translation and contemporary writing from around the world. Our activity includes: professional development for translators; networking and support for translators and writers; collaborating with publishers; building new audiences for literary translation through events and publications; developing links with translation centres internationally.
English Folk Dance and Song Society
The English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) is the national folk arts development organisation for England. Through programmes of performance, participation and education at its head quarters, Cecil Sharp House in North London, and around England, it seeks to support artists and practitioners and engage people in folk arts activities.
Permanent Gallery
Permanent Gallery was established in May 2003 as a space for artistic experimentation which provides practical and critical support in the producing, presenting and contextualising of artists’ work. Central to the exhibition programme is the process of dialogue between the gallery, each artist and their audience. A related programme of events accompanies all exhibitions.
Carousel
Carousel is an award winning registered charity that facilitates people with a learning disability to reach their potential in the arts.
Haltwhistle Film Project
Haltwhistle Film Project is an independent film company. Haltwhistle Film Project works mainly across the North-East and Cumbria with filmmakers, artists and organisations making films and delivering training in film and animation.
Brighton Dome & Festival
Look no further for top quality music, theatre, family friendly events, dance and performance.
RVA
RVA is a community led organisation supporting Rother’s voluntary and community sector in Rother District, East Sussex and directly providing facilities and services to the community. We are a registered charity and company limited by guarantee. We are located in offices in Bexhill and Rye, but also work through all the 32 villages in Rother. RVA is a member of the East Sussex CVS Partnership along with Hastings Voluntary Action and 3VA.
Creative Barcode
We are positively changing how knowledge, creativity and innovation is valued, exchanged and procured world-wide between creative industries, academics and brand owners. We aim to significantly reduce the vulnerabilities and innovation blocks caused by the misappropriation of commercial ideas. We think that no pre-contract proposal or visual concept should leave your building without a barcode.
Tilt (Associates) Limited
Tilt is a spoken word company that opens up spaces for speech, performance and satire. We tour writers and raconteurs and curate events and digital content including the national Liming on Tour happenings which fuse spoken word with carnival. This autumn we tour award-winning Guardian journalist Gary Younge who talks about identity in the 21st century.
YFNS Dance & Digital Works
Nic Sandiland is a UK based artist working between the areas of installation, performance and film. Over the past 20 years he has made movement based work focusing around simple pedestrian choreography. He is interested in engaging everyday movements of the viewer in a choreographic context and has increasingly employed interactive digital technology to do this. Nic has presented work internationally and is a lecturer in fine art at Middlesex University.
Engage
Engage is the UK's most effective advocate for gallery education. We promote access to the visual arts through professional development, projects, research, dissemination and advocacy. We aim to develop innovative practice in gallery education, supporting the cultural sector and encouraging all sections of the community to benefit from the visual arts and galleries.
Brighton & Hove Music & Arts
Brighton & Hove Arts Council promotes the not-for-profit arts sector in the South-East. As well as our individual members, we currently have over fifty group members in fields including theatre, music, poetry, debating, painting, sculpture, singing and local radio.
Inpress Books
Inpress is the sales and marketing agency for independent book and magazine publishers in the UK and Ireland. We represent over 40 publishers, selling their poetry, fiction and non-fiction to the UK and international book trade through our nine-person, specialist sales team, and directly to book lovers via our website. Inpress represents its publishers at trade fairs, carries out marketing research projects and manages a distribution service for the sale of digital books. “A powerful force for good” Andrew Motion.
Open University
Our unique world-leading approach to study is called supported 'Open Learning'. It's 'Open' because you learn in your own time and place and 'supported' because you're never alone. As the UK's biggest university the range of our courses is something that most other universities can only dream of. We'll challenge you, stretch your understanding and make you question ideas that you've always taken for granted – it is truly world-class learning.
Whitechapel Gallery
For over a century the Whitechapel Gallery has premiered world-class artists from modern masters such as Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Frida Kahlo to contemporaries such as Sophie Calle, Lucien Freud, Gilbert & George and Mark Wallinger. With beautiful galleries, exhibitions, artist commissions, collection displays, historic archives, education resources, inspiring art courses, dining room and bookshop, the newly expanded gallery is open all year round, so there is always something free to see. The gallery is a touchstone for contemporary art internationally, plays a central role in London’s cultural landscape and is pivotal to the continued growth of the world’s most vibrant contemporary art quarter.
Firehouse Creative Productions
Firehouse Creative Productions creates cutting edge new theatre inspired by real stories. We engage audiences, communities and theatre‐makers in contemporary storytelling, creating stage plays and interactive performances for public spaces.
Discover Story Centre
Discover Children’s Story Centre is a place where children and their families can enjoy playing, learning and making up stories together.
FabLab Brighton
FabLab is a workshop space containing machines and equipment that provide widespread access to contemporary making and invention. FabLab Brighton’s aim is to be accessible to all in the community, from business to education: from school kids through to university students, inventors, businesses, creatives and entrepreneurs; empowering them to turn their concepts and ideas into reality. FabLabs are fast becoming a global phenomenon since their beginnings at MIT back in 2005. Since then, 53 FabLabs have sprung up in 17 countries around the world. Currently there is only one in the UK, in Manchester. FabLab Brighton wants to be the second!
Broadway Cinema
Here at Broadway we are involved in a wide range of film-related activities – film theory and practical filmmaking courses, school screenings and educational projects, the joint delivery of a film MA with Nottingham Trent University, filmmaking in community settings, training, teambuilding days, commercial film production and equipment hire. Broadway has a skilled and dedicated education and film production team and we are in the enviable position of having access to a range of experienced and talented film-related organisations and professionals – some who have offices in the building. Rather than have a fixed offer we prefer to work in a more developmental way, making relationships and then developing activity.
WebPlay
Webplay mix drama and technology by delivering classroom based interactive drama workshops. Primary school children are able to experience and create theatre with a professional theatre company and partner classes from different countries and regions. Our funding supports their work in schools.
The Place
Located in the heart of London, The Place is the UK’s premier centre for contemporary dance. What makes The Place distinctive is the unparalleled range of activity we undertake and the unique opportunities created by having so much to offer under one roof. The Place unites dance training, creation and performance in our purpose-built centre, which houses some of the best studios in the city. For forty years, we have been a vibrant hub of dance activity, a centre of creative and technical excellence and a magnet for aspiring dancers, talented professionals and cutting-edge choreographers from all over the world.
People United
People United is a creative laboratory that aims to make the world a better place. We explore how the arts can inspire kindness and social change. We commission artists, create imaginative new work, and support new social initiatives and ideas.
London Design Festival
First staged in 2003, the London Design Festival is one of the world's most important annual design events. The nine-day festival programme is made up of over 200 events and exhibitions staged by around 160 partner organisations across the design spectrum and from around the world. The diversity of world-class design talent in - and attracted to - London is one of the key strengths of the city over other global design centres; the London Design Festival brings this talent to the fore every year to connect with others, explore issues, do business, exchange ideas, and have fun.
ribot
ribot was founded by brothers Antony and Jerome in late 2006 with the goal of creating showcase user experiences for small screen devices. Now a team of 12, they raise the bar and innovate through a combination of latest mobile technologies and simplicity of experience, enabling behaviours that weren't previously possible. Their recent work includes the Tesco Groceries app and Threedom, the three button phone.
Candatech
Candatech are a small software and IT services company working with charities and arts organisations to optimise their operational systems, principally in the areas of building and asset management, but also with fundraising and contact databases. Candatech work with clients to build tailored systems and utilise their many years of experience working for key organisations in the third sector. Whether you need advice or a system, come and talk to us.
jaggeree
jaggeree is comprised of Chris Thorpe and Becky Fishman. We're a consultancy that works on the intersection of content, data, people and play. We help people to define technologies and strategies that take full advantage of the emerging network society.
Blast Theory
Blast Theory is renowned internationally as one of the most adventurous artists' groups using interactive media, creating groundbreaking new forms of performance and interactive art that mixes audiences across the internet, live performance and digital broadcasting. Blast Theory is based in Brighton, UK.
Littleloud
Littleloud Studios are a BAFTA award winning creative agency producing digital entertainment for the film, broadcast and gaming industries. Productions are delivered to work over multiple formats including TV, web, mobile, game consoles and emerging hand held devices. Littleloud Studios provide a full service solution including concept development and art direction, 2D/3D animation, live action filming, web based drama and gaming content. From script and film production, to 3D animation and interactive game play, Littleloud leads the way in producing broadcast quality cross platform content. Our clients include BBC, Channel 4, Nickelodeon, Paramount, Sony Entertainment and Universal Pictures.
Cogapp
Cogapp helps organisations use digital media to create long-term value. Our aim in everything we do is to produce work that is well-conceived, beautifully executed and thoroughly engaging – work that will enrich the lives of the people who use it. Founded in 1985, Cogapp has worked with almost every digital media technology from the floppy disk to the iPad. Current projects include websites, interactive installations and next generation mobile applications. We also advise, design, consult and do maintenance work. Many companies do similar things. What sets us apart is our experience of delivering large-scale mission-critical projects for prominent organisations.
Nixon McInnes
We are a social consultancy. We introduce FTSE 350 companies, government and major not-for-profits to the connected future, taking advantage of emerging trends in technology, markets and the workplace. We are democratic. In 2009, 2010 and 2011 we were recognised by Worldblu on the list of the most democratic workplaces in the world – living and breathing the principles of transparency, openness, freedom and participation. The same principles that are the key to success in social media.
Plug-in Media Ltd
Plug-in Media is a BAFTA winning digital media production company that uses cutting edge technology to deliver engaging, interactive entertainment experiences. We blend animation, gaming and narrative with great design and top class coding, to produce work that is visually stunning, technically ground-breaking and with great storytelling and humour at its core.
sounddelivery
We are a specialist digital media training, production and consultancy company with a passion for digital storytelling. Our hands-on training workshops and creative production services help organisations to tell their stories better and get their messages out to new audiences. We work with a diverse range of organisations, with most coming from the not-for-profit, social enterprise, museum and heritage sectors. We give people the knowhow, confidence and skills they need to navigate the world of social media.
Richard Butterworth Digital Media Design
Richard Butterworth Digital Media Design specialises in developing bespoke digital library systems based on cutting edge academic research. RBdmd deals with complete solutions from backend database design to front end design including mobile iOS development. RBdmd has developed the digital library systems for The Vaughan William Memorial Library and the Bridgeman Art Library’s ‘Bridgeman Education’ system, and a research based augmented reality engine for iOS devices.
Big Orange Software
Big Orange Software is a fresh, innovative digital agency producing web, mobile sites, iPhone / iPad apps, software solutions and cross-platform mobile application development. Our focus is building strong relationships with our customers and bringing them fresh ideas.
Wolfstrome Design
Richard Wolfstrome is an award-winning creative, with over 23 years’ experience. He's interested in furthering information graphic design and typography by continually challenging the technical and creative disciplines. His primary strength lies in determining how to communicate information optimally across different media – from print (corporate identity/brand, books, brochures) to screen (websites, interactive CD-, DVD-Rom). One of his specialisms is in the art of wayfinding where he explores and delivers how communities and visitors engage with a place through signage, embedded artworks and typographic narratives. He's a board director of the International Society of Typographic Designers and a fellow of the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce).
DeafWise
We help organisations engage better with deaf people through training, consultancy and product innovation. Projects include BSL (British Sign Language) tour guides and mobile applications for museums, galleries and tourist attractions.
NeBMedia Ltd
NeBMedia – Creating a culture of entrepreneurship using digital technologies. Including social media, webinars and on-line learning & collaboration tools.
