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

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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

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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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