Find Your Talent is launching five cultural hubs across the district to improve, expand and enrich the cultural offer to children and young people in North Somerset.
The network of cultural hubs will act as a catalyst for ideas and projects and will allow children and young people to work with national, regional organisations and locally based practitioners and cultural venues to develop exciting and innovative creative projects.
The Royal Shakespeare Company, London College of Fashion, Welsh National Opera and Bristol’s Arnolfini Gallery are just some of the nationally renowned organisations already signed up.
The aim of the hubs will be to – Create a dynamic cultural offer to children and young people.
Find Your Talent North Somerset Cultural Partners
National Organisations:
Effervescent, English Heritage, Forced Entertainment, Kiss 101 FM, London College of Fashion, National Portrait Gallery, National Trust (Tyntesfield), Rambert Dance Company, Royal Academy of Arts, Royal Shakespeare Company, SLAMbassador UK, and Welsh National Opera.
Regional Organisations:
Arnolfini, Bristol City Museum, Bristol Old Vic Theatre, Champloo Dance, CreateXchange, Curzon Cinema Clevedon, First Born Creatives, Kompany Malakhi, Pervasive Media Studio, Poetry Can, Poetry Slam, South West Screen, Take Art, The Egg, Theatre Orchard Project, Venue and Watershed.
Local Organisations:
Eyela Dance Company, Flipt Art, Goblin Combe Environment Centre, Local Journeys, North Somerset Museum, North Somerset Arts Week, Playhouse Theatre, Precarious Dance, and Pretty Good Girl.
Cultural Practitioners:
Amy Lloyd Jones, Bertel Martin, Brian Gibson, Bruce Turner, Carole Waller, Carolyn Savidge, Cassandra Wye, Chris Preddie, Deborah Aguirre Jones, Dr Joel, Exley Edwards, Frea Buckler, Jackie Calderwood, Jane Harwood, Jane Flood, Joelle Taylor, Lisa Furness, Liz Milner, Louise Hill, Louise Cooling, Lucy English, Luci Gorell Barnes, Mark Simmons, Martin Maudsley, Michael Loader, Peter Milner, Pippa Robinson, Ralph Juergen Colmar, Roger Sansom, Roger Stennett, Sally Corney, Tean Kirby, and State of Emergency.
Each hub will contain a theatre company, a dance company and a media unit, as well as visual artists, designers, writers and poets.
The North Somerset pathfinder’s principal aim is to create an environment in which children and young people have opportunities to be creative, generate ideas, design and deliver a diverse range of creative and cultural learning opportunities.
For more information about Find Your Talent North Somerset pathfinder please contact the Find Your Talent Hub Development Co-ordinator Andy Jeffery on 01275 884 220 or fyt@n-somerset.gov.ukwww.n-somerset.gov.uk/fyt
