ArtWorks Cymru is a partnership programme based in Wales developing practice in participatory settings, supporting the continuing professional development of artists at different stages of their career working in participatory settings, and advocating for the value of participatory arts.
ArtWorks Cymru is driven by a consortium of partners made up of artists and arts organisations from across Wales:
Addo Creative, Artis Community, Arts Active, Arts Connection, Community Music Wales, Creative and Therapeutic Arts at the University of South Wales, Engage Cymru, FIO, Forget - Me - Not - Productions, Frân Wen, Garth: Gwent Arts in Health, Head4Arts, Literature Wales, Mess Up the Mess, National Dance Company Wales, National Theatre Wales, NoFit State Circus, Omidaze, Operasonic, Republic of the Imagination, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Rubicon Dance, Sherman Theatre, Sparc, The Borough Theatre Abergavenny, Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru, Voluntary Arts Wales, Wales Millenium Centre, Welsh National Opera.
The programme is funded by Arts Council of Wales and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation.
ArtWorks Cymru is also a member of ArtWorks Alliance
Artis Community provides high quality art experiences that are driven by social outcomes. We believe in the transformational power of creativity to make a real difference to people’s quality of life.
Social Impact is at the heart of everything we do. Our direction is guided by social impact and how we can make a difference to people’s lives through art intervention. We have a wide range of community arts activities for people of all ages which take place throughout RCT & Merthyr Tydfil.
We work across North Powys, Wrexham and the borders and have provided high quality participatory arts projects in a wide range of artistic mediums since 1994. Our work with schools, children, youth, the learning disabled and the wider community offers a welcoming bilingual doorway into the arts.
Community Music Wales is Wales’s leading music charity. We are a community arts organisation with 25 years experience of delivering high quality arts activity, touching the lives of over 50,000 people since its inception.
Creative and Therapeutic Arts at the University of South Wales
The Creative and Therapeutic Arts degree at the University of South Wales enables visual artists to develop the inclusive and participatory nature of their practice, through working with a wide range of educational, community and health partners.
Engage Cymru is the leading network and training organisation for the visual arts and gallery education sector. Our four key areas of work include advocacy, networking/training, dissemination and projects.
Fio is a Cardiff-based theatre company working across the UK and internationally, bringing world class socio-political stories to local audiences. Fio makes theatre that celebrates individuality, tearing down stereotypes and offering everybody – whatever their story – a chance to make their mark in the world...
Garth — Gwent Arts in Health — is a charity that aims to promote and develop an arts and health programme for the patients and general public in healthcare and community settings throughout the Aneurin Bevan Health Board area
Head4Arts is a community arts organisation which operates in the eastern South Wales valleys area covering the county boroughs of Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Merthyr Tydfil and Torfaen. It is funded by the Welsh Government through the Arts Council of Wales and is supported by a partnership of the four local authorities involved.
Nurturing imaginations, daring performance, changing lives
Based in Ammanford and working across South Wales, Mess Up The Mess has been making theatre and creative arts projects with hard to reach and easy to ignore young people since 2007. The voices of young people are at the heart of everything we do.
NDCWales creates extraordinary and inclusive dance with artists from across Wales and the world, for stages large and small and in unusual spaces. We enable people to watch, participate in, discuss and learn about dance whilst on tour, in our communities and at our home, the Dance House in Cardiff.
Operasonic is passionate about opera as an artform that connects with people in a direct and visceral way. We are also passionate about young people and their potential and creativity.
We want to enable young people to own opera, as audiences, as participants, as creators, as leaders. Young people need contemporary opera created on their terms and in their communities, venues, schools, and online spaces. The opera of the future should be driven by them.
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, the National Conservatoire of Wales, and part of the University of South Wales Group, operates within its international peer group of conservatoires and specialist arts colleges. It attracts young artists from around 30 countries to provide a constant flow of emerging talent into the music and theatre industries and related professions.
In June 2011, the College opened new £22.5 million performance and rehearsal spaces. The world-class facilities include the Richard Burton Theatre, the Linbury Gallery, foyer performance space, rehearsal studios and the Dora Stoutzker Hall.
Based in the heart of Cardiff, Sherman Theatre is a leading producing house with a particular focus on the development and production of new work. Sherman Theatre makes and curates theatre for audiences in Wales, across the UK and internationally and develops the work of Welsh and Wales based artists.
Sparc is Valleys Kids youth arts project, we use theatre and art to explore different area of our lives, we create our own work and collaborate with other inspiring organisations to ignite change in our communities. We are both inclusive and aspirational and we work in an environment of trust and respect, towards a better future for our communities and ourselves.
The Borough Theatre Abergavenny
The Borough Theatre is owned managed and funded by Monmouthshire County Council. It is a community venue run by a professional team that in addition to presenting a professional programme of drama, comedy, music and dance is the hub of the local amateur and community theatre community. The Theatre is developing its programme of participatory and educational activity and beginning to actively build networks and partnerships to enable this.
Wales Millennium Centre is an arts venue home to 8 resident organisations in Cardiff Bay that aims to bring world-class, critically-acclaimed theatrical productions and artists to Wales, as well as producing joyful experiences rooted in our national culture.
Working with partners, our learning programmes offer young people the opportunity to create, express their voice and develop skills.
We believe in the power of opera to transform lives. Our mission is to bring the power, drama and raw emotion of opera to as wide an audience as possible in performances, marked by an uncompromising quest for artistic quality. More than any other company, WNO opens up the world of opera to everyone.