Toynbee Studios Launch event (2007), Anne Bean
Unique national resource for contemporary artists
Produces the work of artists across all disciplines - performance, dance, theatre, live art, installation
Provides consistent and supportive management to nurture, develop and promote artists’ work
Staff of 26 including directors, producers, artists’ advisors, education producer, marketing, building, finance and office managers, plus trainees and assistants
ARTSADMIN
Works in partnership with producers, promoters and arts organisations in Britain and abroadBased at Toynbee Studios in London’s East EndRuns bursary schemes, training programmes, free advisory service, education programme, showcases, workshopsDeveloped organically over 32 years in response to the needs of artistsRegularly funded by Arts Council England
ARTSADMIN
INNOVATIONCOLLABORATIONCO-OPERATIONLOYALTYFLEXIBILITYOPPORTUNITYRESILIENCEPARTICIPATORYSITE SPECIFICGREEN
Handbag (2009), Geraldine Pilgrim
ARTSADMIN
Track (2010), Graeme Miller
Common Dance (2009), Rosemary Lee
Dominoes (2009), Station House Opera
WAKE (2011), Anne Bean and others
Local (2011), Mem Morrison
Flytower (2007), Ackroyd & Harvey
Works for artists who:
Create work outside of theatres and traditional arts venues
Make one-off special events
Make site-specific work
Work across artistic disciplines or move between art-forms
Work with different collaborators, not in permanent groups
Work on a project-by-project basis
WHY THIS MODEL?
Sharing resources in times of economic necessity
Sharing expertise
Responding to new ways of distributing artists’ work
Sense of inclusion for artists
Co-operation and collaboration
Artistic identity
WHY THIS MODEL?
Initial idea to final presentation
Produce, promote, commission and develop
Management, finance, fundraising, distribution
Individual relationship with each artist
Partnerships, co-productions, commissions
Theatres, galleries, outdoors, site specific
Tours or one-off events
WHAT WE DO
TOYNBEESTUDIOS
Fully refurbished in 2007280 seat theatre & five rehearsal spaces26 office spaces Arts Bar & Café
ARTISTS’DEVELOPMENT
Ladder of opportunityFree advisory serviceBursary schemes, time and spaceTraining programmes and mentoringLaboratories and workshopsShowcases and performancesResidenciesAssociate ArtistsE-digest Summer Project 2010 with Mark Storor
EDUCATION & PARTICIPATIONAnnual Summer project Youth BoardInterferenceScrits, Talking with your Mouth Full, Dot Dot Dash Dot
Summer Project 2010 with Mark Storor
CURRENT ARTISTS
Long Time Passing (2009), Anne Bean
Like a Bird (2011), Lucy Cash
the moment I saw you I knew I could love you (2009), Curious
Beheld (2006), Graeme Miller
The Infinite Pleasures of the Great Unknown (2009), Simon Vincenzi
A Little Patch of Ground (2011), Encounters
Ringside (2009), Mem Morrison
PARADistinguidas (2010), La Ribot
Not Tony (2004), Gary Stevens
Origin (Darwin Originals films, 2009), Anne Bean
SPECIALPROJECTS
SPECIAL PROJECTS: DARWIN ORIGINALS
Out of Blue (What on Earth? Films, 2011), Ackroyd & Harvey
Network of European festivals, theatres and arts organisations presenting work on climate change, funded through Culture 2000.
LIFT London Artsadmin London Kaaitheater Brussels Bunker Ljubljana Le Quai AngersDomaine d’O MontpellierKampnagel HamburgRotterdam Schouwberg Transforma Porto Portugal Domino/Perforacije ZagrebNew Theatre Institute of Latvia
www.imagine2020.eu
TWO DEGREES
• 16-21 June 2009• 2 commissioned projects• 7 other performances/events• 2 conference events• All projects in and around Toynbee
Studios• Free entry to most events• Funded by Arts Council England,
EU Culture Programme, Artists Project Earth and British Council
• Artsadmin’s first public curated programme of artists’ work about activism & climate change
• Future festivals in 2011, 2013, 2015
Crayfish Bob’s (Two Degrees 2011), Clare Patey
The Haircut Before The Party (Two Degrees 2011)
Plunge (2011), Michael Pinsky. Joint commission with LIFT
Workload
Priorities
Time
Competition
Identity
CHALLENGES
Shared resources, information, networks, expertise
Reduced costs
Shared opportunities
Joint marketing and profile
Artistic identity and inclusion
Allow artists to create work to their own timetable
Resilience
ADVANTAGES
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