ARTlife, West Somerset’s Arts agency, has grants of up to £1,000 to give to community groups undertaking creative projects and events. We still have £4000 available for this financial year.

If you have an exciting, relevant and valuable idea for a new Arts project or event and if you are based in West Somerset your group could be eligible for a grant of up to £1000 from ARTlife.
The next deadlines for submitting an application are: 9th of January 2015 and then 2nd of March 2015.

This year ARTlife  has awarded grants to Watchet Roots for Summer workshops for children. Tutored community workshops linked to the 'Making an Exhibition of Ourselves' self-portrait show during Somerset Art Weeks for Contains ART (look at the 'resources page) - also in Watchet.


Stogumber Festival for their free events 
The Halsway Manor Xanadu event and Minehead EYE - funding for professional design support for merchandising.

You will find a grant scheme guidelines document to check if your project meets our criteria and you can download the application pack from the ARTlife website by clicking on this link: Arts Grants

And apply NOW!

A few pictures from the finale of Dark Starry Skies at Lynmouth Pavilion - it was standing room only!
Dark Starry Skies



Our new ARTlifeLAND newsletter is out with the latest on all our current land (and space!) arts projects.

As the world watches a tiny probe land on a comet around 500 million kilometres away, we are very excited to be hosting a talk by Rosetta Space Mission research scientist Andrew Morse alongside Frances Harrison's Dark Starry Skies exhibition this December.

The talk will take place on Saturday 6 December at Lynmouth Pavilion, alongside the first screening of Frances Harrison's Dark Starry Skies film.

Due to the size of the venue, places are limited, but please get in contact via the ARTlife website if you would like to come along.

The Dark Starry Skies exhibition is open throughout December at Lynmouth Pavilion.

Also coming up: final Poetry Pin focus walk of 2014 with Chris Jelley along the Hinkley C boundary on Saturday 13th December. See newsletter for further details.


We have grants available for community-led arts projects in West Somerset and the next deadlines for applications are in 2015:
9th January (for a decision after 28th January)
2nd March (for a decision after 25th March)

All the details and a downloadable grant pack are at http://www.artlife-somerset.co.uk/pages/resources_grants.htm


Our new ARTlifeLAND newsletter is out with things to see, do and think about this Autumn.

Right now: Take an outing to Lynmouth Pavilion in September to enjoy the wonderful books of stories and sketches harvested from the Coleridge Way in Chris Jelley’s community Story Box project. (Good place for a cream tea with a view too).

October: Summer Holidays are over but there are still opportunities to get out with the family in these golden summer / autumn days. Explore new places, create your own constellations, and find your inner poet, as part of Somerset Art Week's Family Friendly Weekend (4 and 5 October)

Rest of the year: There are now only five (one of which is tomorrow!) more Poetry Pin Focus Walks around Shurton Bars and Hinkley C – don’t miss your chance to explore and contribute to this properly ground-breaking project.

And beyond... Early plans for new artist opportunities in Watchet…

              
               Artlife News Sept / Oct



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