Arts - Information and Advice

Arts: Information and Advice

Information and Advice

Arts and culture have a real role to play in our towns and communities, providing genuine opportunities for people to come together, to innovate, to create and to engage in community life. The arts can transform and improve the places where people live.

The Neighbourhood Arts Service works within the framework of the Council’s values and key priorities, and is a contributor to priorities within the Cultural Strategy Action Plan. The service aims to strengthen and stimulate the distinctive identity and ‘well-being’ of the city and its communities, by developing creativity in individual, social and economic terms.

Arts encompasses a broad spectrum of music, dance, theatre and live production, visual art, video and film, photography and multi-media.  It is a key component of activity identified as culture, and Bristol City Council has committed itself, together with partners from across the city and region, to a programme of action.

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Neighbourhood Arts Team

The Neighbourhood Arts Team

The Neighbourhood Arts Team are responsible for working with communities with priority areas of work that include

• Arts and health
• Space for arts in the public realm and environment
• Creative and cultural empowerment
• Arts partnerships with regeneration initiatives

The Officers do this through

• developing opportunities to participate
• facilitating artists through task groups/forums/networks
• identifying gaps in provision
• mobilising communities to shape and determine priorities
• challenging and broadening experience

Contact the Neighbourhood arts team by e-mail or by post to: 

Neighbourhood Arts Team
1st Floor, Colston 33
Colston Avenue
Bristol
BS1 4UA

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