New Directions

Thanks to the miracle of communications technology and the Arts Jobs e-list, you can see just how many new organisations and projects have grown up in the participatory/ community/ social inclusion area in the last couple of years. MAiLOUT looks at a string of new arts organisations and initiatives across the UK, to see what they do, how they're getting on, and what the crunch problems are for them.

Bare Faced Cheek
Glen Buglass and Mark Webstre look at the context in which participatory, community and socially-engaed arts practice id growing today, and what was its cue for moving centre-stage.


Gener8
Thames Valley Partnership Arts and Community Safety Partnership

Keep the Home Fires Burning
Re-engineering Fablevision to nail down the funding in Glasgow.

Vanland
New approaches in Rural Devon

New order?
MAiLOUT looks for patterns in the new wave of projects seems to be developing

New work with older people
Age Concern Cheshire developing their own new media and arts project, Wearpurple.

Redfront
Simon Gough on a consultancy-based approach to participatory arts projects.

An Art of Change
Lorraine Leeson looks at the way the territory has chnged, and the background to her present cSPACE project in East London.

Plus mini-interviews and profiles of Expressive Feat, Audible Headscratch, Art of WellBeing, Glassball Arts, Naked Subculture, Refugees and the Arts and Wishworks.

Arts and regeneration

Tell us a Story
James Brunt raises some issues about artists, stories, progression, sustainability and feasting on the Manton Estate.

Arts and reminiscence

Contour and Cream
Tales of Symington's Soups, and ruminationds on undergarments - Sophy White on a reminiscence and performance project in Market Harborough.

Research

Ludus Dance, three times a week and squash
Peter Millward of leisure consultants Knight Kavanagh and Page introduces a majpor research project in NW England looking at particippation in arts and sport by young people and adults.

EAR TO THE GROUND
…in Derby, Terminal Frontiers - a digital art exhibition about asylum and global manipulation by Virtual Migrants. Q Gallery 9 Oct - 20 Nov 04. T: 01332 295858 W: www.q-arts.co.uk

…in London, Watershed II - a collection of events to bring local residents, artists and researchers together and engage them with issues of nature, ecology, regeneration, culture and society in a dynamic and diverse manner. 30 Sept - 7 Nov 04. Crossover uk - T: 020 7377 0385 E: info@cross-over-uk.org W: www.crossover-uk.org

…in North Finchley, Play! Children's Arts Festival - designed to introduce children and their families around the new artsdepot building. Includes mischievous gnomes, magical creatures, crazy washerwomen, giants, missing toes, a hungry raven, and a huge inflatable pig. 24 Oct 04. T: 020 8449 0048 W: www.artsdepot.co.uk

…in Brighton, visions - The Festival of International Visual Performance - opens on 21 Oct when performers around the world unveil ten days of visually amazing performances in Brighton. W: www.brighton.ac.uk/gallery-theatre/visionsfestival.html

…in London, Xposure 2004: London's Disability and Deaf Arts Festival - highlights include Never Again… from Mind the Gap, an exploration of the barriers that people with a learning disability face when attending an arts event, and a triple bill of integrated dance from StopGAP. 1 - 27 Nov 04. T: 020 8340 5226 E: xposurefestival@jacksonslane.org.uk W: www.exposurefestival.com

…in Hove, Oska Bright Film Festival - a brand new disability film festival from Carousel and Junk TV. 29 Nov at the Old Market. T: 01273 234734 E: enquiries@carousel.org.uk

…in London, LDAF's 6th Disability Film Festival - short and feature length dramas, animations, documentaries, experimental films, hot debates, panel discussions, presentations. 1 - 5 Dec 04. W: www.disabilityfilmfestoval.net / www.ldaf.org

…in Southwell, Southwell Poetry Festival - including readings by Poet Laureate Andrew Motion, poet-in-residence Mario Petrucci, an exploration of Nordic myths and a new musical commission from Gavin Bryars. 12-14 Nov 04. T: 0115 977 4435 W: www.southwellpoetryfestival.co.uk

…in East London, Photomonth - a focus on photography as an art form and powerful tool of contemporary communication happening in 29 galleries and spaces during Oct and Nov 04. Co-ordinated by alternative arts. T: 020 7375 0441 W: www.alternativearts.co.uk

…in Liverpool, Evolve - an interactive drawing installation at Cornerstone Gallery. Walls in the gallery are covered in paper and visitors are encouraged to contribute to the drawing. Each week, areas of the drawing will be selected and removed for display as individual works of art, allowing the remaining drawing to evolve constantly. Until 28 Nov 04. T: 0151 291 3997 W: www.hope.ac.uk

…in Worcester, Swan Theatre Amateur Company presents A Taste for Murder - The Banks family are gathered to celebrate the return of the plant hunter Fiona, but there's dirty work afoot in the nursery garden… 30 Nov 04. T: 01905 611427 W: www.huntingdonarts.com

…in Sheffield, Projection Window Screenings - the culmination of a project that invited young people to 'Take a look at themselves in a digital age' through a series of creative workshops. 25-29 Oct 04 at Site Gallery. W: www.sitegallery.org

…in Oldham, Oldham Voices - participants, using photography, interviewing skills and sound recording techniques, explored the lives and aspirations of people throughout Oldham. Until 27 Nov at Gallery Oldham. T: 0161 911 4653 E: ecs.galleryoldham@oldham.gov.uk W: www.galleryoldham.org.uk