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Read Dorset National Landscape and Activate Performing Arts become Major Hub in £2M Ground-Breaking National Arts Project

Dorset National Landscape and Activate Performing Arts become Major Hub in £2M Ground-Breaking National Arts Project

Dorset National Landscape in partnership with Activate Performing Arts is going to feature as a major hub in a £2M ground-breaking national art project, Nature Calling, which is funded by Arts Council England, the Department for Environment, Farming and Rural Affairs (Defra) and National Landscapes in England. Today, we announce the artists that have been […]

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Read Art in the Landscape – Connecting People to Nature: Artists’ Residencies

Art in the Landscape – Connecting People to Nature: Artists’ Residencies

THIS OPPORTUNITY CLOSED ON 16TH SEPTEMBER 2024 NATURE CALLING: ARTISTS’ RESIDENCIES Activate Performing Arts, in partnership with the National Landscapes Association, is running TWO FREE ARTISTS’ RESIDENCIES this Autumn. Each residency will have space for fifteen individuals and will happen in the South of England at the Corn Exchange, Newbury run by 101 Outdoor Arts and in the […]

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Read National Landscapes Appoint First Arts Development Manager for Major £2 Million National Arts Programme

National Landscapes Appoint First Arts Development Manager for Major £2 Million National Arts Programme

We are delighted to announce that the National Landscapes Association has appointed their first Arts Development Programme Manager, Kerenza  McClarnan, to lead the major new £2m National Arts Programme, Nature Calling, which will get underway this Summer. As partners on the project we are thrilled with this appointment. Kerenza McClarnan has worked on large-scale projects […]

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Read Noisy Noise Noise: A New Sound Work Sparking Children’s Imaginations

Noisy Noise Noise: A New Sound Work Sparking Children’s Imaginations

Working Boys Club’s new and exciting project cocreated with primary school pupils Jason and Adam Dupree, identical twins from Poole set-up the Working Boys Club in 2020.  Both started in the trades: Adam as car mechanic and Jason as an electrician but both are skilled creative artists too and they combined their creative talents with […]

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Read Nature Calling: An Ambitious National Commissioning Project

Nature Calling: An Ambitious National Commissioning Project

Kate Wood, Activate’s Executive and Artistic Director, discusses in this month’s edition of Spotlight the organisation’s role as executive creative producer for the National Landscape Association’s £2m project: Nature Calling. What makes Nature Calling a major national arts programme? ‘Nature Calling is the first major commissioning programme that the National Landscapes Association has launched and […]

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