About Us

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 Partners

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 Lives, Cwmni'r Frân Wen, Engage Cymru, FIO, Forget Me Not Productions, Garth: Gwent Arts In Health, Head For Arts, Literature Wales, Mess Up the Mess, National Dance Company Wales, National Theatre Wales, NoFit State Circus, Omidaze, Operasonic, Rubicon Dance, Sherman Theatre, Sparc, The Borough Theatre Abergavenny, The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru, University of South 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

Addo Creative

Addo Creative

Addo Creative (Addo) is a not-for-profit Company Limited by Guarantee founded by Sarah Pace and Tracy Simpson offering Curatorial, Arts Consultancy and Project Management Services towards the delivery of high quality artworks in the public realm. We develop, curate and lead contemporary art projects, including permanent and temporary works in arts and non-art spaces, artist residencies, exhibitions, research and evaluation, feasibility studies, and strategies, carried out on behalf of the public and private sectors, as well as grass roots community and artist-led initiatives.
Artis Community

Artis Community

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.
Arts Active

Arts Active

The Arts Active Trust is a registered charity that supports education, community and audience engagement projects from St David’s Hall (The National Concert Hall of Wales) and the New Theatre (an Edwardian large scale presenting theatre in Cardiff).
Arts Connection

Arts Connection

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

Community Music Wales

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 Lives

Creative Lives

Creative Lives is a registered charity that was established in 1991. We champion community and volunteer-led creative activity, and work to improve opportunities for everyone to be creative. In particular, we celebrate and promote people expressing themselves creatively with others, recognising the benefits this can bring.
Cwmni'r Frân Wen

Cwmni'r Frân Wen

Exciting, challenging and inspiring theatre for the young. We place the aspirations of children and young people at the heart of our program and atthe core of our strategic development.
Engage Cymru

Engage Cymru

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

FIO

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...
Forget Me Not Productions

Forget Me Not Productions

Forget-Me-Not-Productions is a reputable, high quality inclusive arts and assistive technology organisation based in South Wales that has been operating since 2002.It develops and presents high quality inclusive arts projects and education & reminiscence workshops across the UK.
Garth: Gwent Arts In Health

Garth: Gwent Arts In Health

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
Head For Arts

Head For Arts

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.
Literature Wales

Literature Wales

Established in 2011, Literature Wales is the national company for the development of literature in Wales. Literature Wales is responsible for leading the sector and actively collaborates with organisations and individuals who contribute to the promotion, creation and enjoyment of literature in Wales.
Mess Up the Mess

Mess Up the Mess

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.
National Dance Company Wales

National Dance Company Wales

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.
National Theatre Wales

National Theatre Wales

The nation of Wales is our stage: From forests to beaches, from aircraft hangars to post-industrial towns, village halls to nightclubs. We bring together storytelling poets, visual visionaries and inventors of ideas. We collaborate with artists, audiences, communities and companies to create theatre in the English language, rooted in Wales, with an international reach.
NoFit State Circus

NoFit State Circus

NoFit State was founded in 1986 by five friends. During a politically charged time, in a recession, and as a creative reaction to the world around them, the circus was born. Contemporary circus combines live music, dance, stage design, text, and film with traditional circus skills.
Omidaze

Omidaze

Omidaze (Oh My Days!) Productions - A small theatre company with BIG ideas was founded in 2008 to use theatre and drama to empower, inform and entertain new audiences and shake stuff up and inspire change. We create and produce groundbreaking theatre productions and creative learning and educational work.
Operasonic

Operasonic

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.
Rubicon Dance

Rubicon Dance

Rubicon Dance delivers outstanding dance practice that enriches our creativity, encourages our learning and increases our happiness and wellbeing.
Sherman Theatre

Sherman Theatre

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

Sparc

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 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.
The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama

The Royal Welsh College of Music & 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.
Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru

Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru

Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru is the Welsh-language national theatre of Wales. We create bold, ambitious, inclusive and memorable theatre experiences in the heart of our communities at traditional theatre venues and unexpected locations across Wales and beyond.

University of South Wales

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.
Wales Millenium Centre

Wales Millenium Centre

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.
Welsh National Opera

Welsh National Opera

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.