Animate Arts Company’s projects positively animate everyday lives, engage and empower people to create memories that make you smile.

We believe in the magic in people, bringing creativity alive through workshops and participatory events, led by inspiring artists and performers. Animate Arts is passionate about connecting and working with communities through thoughtful and considered experiences, creating bespoke projects for those involved.

Based in Kent, Animate Arts is a collective of professional artists and performers collaborating together to create and deliver unique workshops, experiences and artworks for audiences of all ages, backgrounds and abilities. Animate Arts actively seeks communities and individuals to get creative, engage into the Arts and explore themes of well-being, community cohesion and participation. The organisation’s portfolio is inspiringly diverse, ranging from site-specific installations, street theatre, public art, theatre productions, creative sports events and more.

Animate is a registered company in England, company registration number 06182774

The Pod, 8 Dolphin Street, Herne Bay, Kent
www.animatecommunityarts.com

Priory Gallery is a new gallery opening up in Orpington.

We are currently looking for artists to exhibit. please contact us for more details.
43-45 Orpington High Street Orpington , Kent
www.priorygallery.yolasite.com

I am an independent art curator based in the UK.

My passion for contemporary, interactive and performance art has allowed me to develop my skills as a creative thinker and organiser of artistic exhibitions. My previous experience at the Turner Contemporary, Margate in Public Programmes has expanded my knowledge of up-and-coming contemporary installation art as well as collaborative performance based works as seen in our recent YOU ARE HERE opening. I have worked with Proud Galleries in London, a commercial Photographic gallery exhibiting images from the 1960′s-today and also began my working career as a volunteer at the Fairfield City Museum and Gallery in Sydney, Australia where I am from.

I completed a BA in Design for Theatre and Television in 2007 and went on to work as a props & lighting designer and set maker for various Theatrical productions in NSW, Australia. I have also worked for the Australian Broadcasting Commission in the design department. My recent Master in Art Curatorship degree completed in 2011 at the University of Sydney has enabled me to network in the curatorial and art field in Australia and England as well as obtain invaluable curating skills for all kinds of artistic exhibitions and programmes. I am currently based in Margate, UK where I have crossed over from working for an arts organisation to freelance curating.

Please feel free to get in touch even if only to discuss a few ideas, I would love to hear from you and see where it takes us!

Location: Margate
Contact: danithedesigner@gmail.com
Website: www.cargocollective.com/daniellegilbertcurator

Carol Leach
Call To Artists
I run the Arts Award Initiative, the company specialises in Art for young people, specifically those age 11-18 who wish to take an Arts Award

Location: Tonbridge
Contact: caleach@hotmail.com

Grow Digital teaches web design workshops, catering particularly for artists who want to get their work online into a portfolio.

Every student receives a Free Software DVD and a free WordPress website on the Showspace.org artists network.
Creek Creative, Faversham
www.growdigital.org

BATTLE ART FAIR – CALL TO ARTISTS
16 – 23 September 2011
Following last year’s outstanding success, Battle Art Fair returns in 2011 and this year the organisers will be selecting upto 60 artists to support and promote for 12 months, not just 1 event.

Submissions are invited from artists aged 18 years or older on 3rd June 2011, living, working or studying in London and the South East.

The 2011/2012 selection panel includes Brenda Hartill R E, artist & fellow of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers, Ali Pettit, London gallery owner and curator and Guy Portelli VPRBA, FRBS, Vice President of the Royal Society of British Artists, Governor of the Federation of British Artists and Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors. The panel oversee the selection process in its entirety.

2011 submissions close 3 June 2011

To submit or for further information please go to www.pureartsgroup.co.uk

You can follow our blog at www.purartsgroup.blogspot.com
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Nathalie Banaigs
West Street monthly opening and art fair
29th August 2010 and 26th September 2010

The West Street traders in Faversham have decided to open their shops the last Sunday of every month. To support this initiative, an art fair is organised under the Guildhall on the Market Place.
A variety of artists have the opportunity to display their work (painting, photography, pottery etc…).
Cafes are also open, bands play the music,…

Artists do need to bring their own table. There is a fee is £10 per table, to cover organisation and advertising costs.

If you would like to donate a piece of artwork to the auction, please contact Bob Lamoon on 07968760089 or email bob_lamoon@hotmail.co.uk

Dawn Cole
Call to Artists – Pushing Print

Submission deadline 31st August 2010
Artists are invited to submit to Pushing Print’s second open submission print exhibition. This event provides an opportunity for printmakers and artists whose work responds to print to showcase their work in an exhibition across  5 venues in Margate’s Old Town from 9th – 31st Oct 1010. Submission deadline 5pm Tues 31st August. Exhibition

Prizes: One day introductory screen print session at Bainbridge Studios, London awarded to one artist
Solo exhibition to take place during 2011 awarded to one artist.

Selection Panel:  Monica Petzal  MA RCA, FRSA. Printroom, London
Jan Leandro   Independent Curator

Submission form and guidelines available to download from www.pushingprint.co.uk