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Button It! with Up for Crafts
Do you enjoy sewing? Where did you find your love of the craft? Traditionally, sewing and embroidery skills have been passed from generation to generation. Sharing your skills with others can be very...
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Running Your Group Live with Arts Council NI
Ambitions for the Arts: a Five Year Strategic Plan 2013-2018 – Have Your SayLive online interview with Nick Livingston, Director of Strategic Development, Arts Council Northern Ireland Watch the...
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Calling all Merseyside crafters!
‘Up For Arts’ is challenging the stitchers, knitters and crochet enthusiasts of Merseyside to help us celebrate Voluntary Arts Week and Light Night by bringing some much needed colour to Liverpool....
View ArticleTweetArt
TweetArt is an experimental visualisation specially made for Voluntary Arts Week. It takes what people are saying about arts and related values on Twitter and uses those messages to trigger moving...
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Voice4Change England / Voluntary Arts BME event
Where: Resource for London Conference Hall, 356 Holloway Road, London N7 6PAWhen: 6 June 2013, 6pm to 9pm Are you a Black-led (African, African Caribbean, Asian) arts or heritage organisation...
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Up for Arts dance workshops
Our latest Up for Arts activity is set to get you on your feet – we’re ‘Dancing across the County’! We’re running a series of dance ‘taster’ workshops at libraries across Lancashire where you will get...
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Posting to the Past
Free Drop-in Embroidery Workshop When: Saturday 28 September 2013, 11am to 3pmWhere: Museum of Liverpool (Pier Head, Liverpool Waterfront, Liverpool, L3 1DG) Up For Crafts is a Heritage Lottery Funded...
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Voluntary Arts Week – the countdown begins . . . !
This year’s Voluntary Arts Week will take place from 9 – 18 May – so it’s time to think about how you could get involved! What’s it all about? Voluntary Arts Week is an annual celebration of cultural...
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Creative Citizens Programme Launch Ballymena
“Ballymena – The Creative Borough” is what greeted me as I went into the Braid Arts Centre in Ballymena last Saturday, along with a chocolate box selection of creative activity from bands, to choirs,...
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Voluntary Arts Wales musical performance with amateur knitters – Cardiff, 2...
Voluntary Arts Wales has commissioned Pembrokeshire-based composer Jobina Tinnemans to work with a group of amateur knitters to perform her innovative piece, ‘Killing Time’ at the Norwegian Church Arts...
View ArticleRadio Toolkit event –‘Making the most of your local broadcasters’
Where: Bolton CVS (The Bolton Hub, Bold Street, Bolton, BL1 1LSWhen: 21 July 2014, 3pm to 5pm This training event, delivered by Liam Fogarty, an ex BBC Managing Editor (radio) and an experienced...
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Sharing your creative skills with others – autumn workshops
Do you have a passion for creative activities, such as crafts, singing, theatre or music? Would you like to have the confidence and knowledge to be able to share your passion by passing on your...
View ArticleBuilding Partnerships to Deliver Training
In the South West, Voluntary Arts have been busy finding partners with lots of contacts from among voluntary arts groups, community groups running creative activities, artists. Why? So we can put on...
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Creative Citizens Programme Launch Ballymena
“Ballymena – The Creative Borough” is what greeted me as I went into the Braid Arts Centre in Ballymena last Saturday, along with a chocolate box selection of creative activity from bands, to choirs,...
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Craftivists Garden #wellMAKING – The Garden Party
When: Tuesday 27 January 2015 (12pm ‘Stitch-In’ workshop; 5.30pm evening reception) Where: Toynbee Hall, 28 Commercial Street, London E1 6LS Taking the flower garden as a metaphor for flourishing, the...
View ArticleExperimenting as part of Volunteers Week
Part of the mission at Voluntary Arts is to help groups stabilise and then grow. In this competitive world it is getting harder and harder to do that without fully embracing the influence of the web...
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Sharing your creative skills – free training
Do you have a passion for creative activities, such as crafts, singing, theatre or music? Would you like to have the confidence and knowledge to be able to share your passion by passing on your...
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Love to Get Creative Northern Ireland Roadshow
On 8th September in the Lyric Theatre, Belfast 2-4pm the Northern Ireland BBC Get Creative Champions are gathering to highlight what is happening in Northern Ireland as part of the BBC Get Creative and...
View ArticleVolunteering In the Arts toolkit training
Date: 16 September 2015, 1pm to 3pm Where: Tamworth Assembly Rooms, Corporation Street, Tamworth B79 7DN This free training session will give voluntary arts groups the necessary skills/experience to...
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