Upcoming Events
Friday 20th November
"Between Here & There" and "Slight"
Soors open at 7.30pm
The FATHoM Project presents a powerful double bill of new work from Adam Benjamin and Molly Sturges, creating a sense of total theatre within a physical realm that frees the imagination.
£8/£5 conc
For more information check http://www.thefathomproject.co.uk/.
Dance City, Temple Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4BR. Tickets available from www.dancecity.co.uk
Friday 15th January 2010
Writing for Health Taster Day
10am - 4pm
Suitable for anyone who would like to try it and gain an understanding about how writing can enhance mental health and wellbeing.
Of particular benefit to community and health workers
Fee: £50 including buffet lunch
To be held at MEA House, Ellison Place, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8XS
For more information and to book places please go to our website
www.penandtonic.org or email penandtonic@btinternet.com
Closing date for bookings Wednesday 30th December 2009
25th January (10am-noon) or 27th January (6-8pm)
Volunteers Training Day
Pen & Tonic have been commissioned by the Care Homes Project to run a training course for volunteers who are interested in using writing and story-telling techniques with elderly care home residents.
You can attend a taster session on Jan 25th (10am-noon) or Jan 27th (6pm-8pm). For more details and a course description please contact Nicole Dowley on 2724414 or carehomesproject@yahoo.co.uk
Volunteers available for arts organisations and projects.
As a partner on the One North East Cultural Volunteering Programme, AIDA CIC is able to find volunteers to support projects or for day-to-day running of arts organisations.
If you think you’ve got a role for volunteers in your activities, call AIDA CIC on 0191 262 1808 and we’ll tell you more about the programme.
- The package includes free training for the volunteers to suit your requirements
- There are no limits to the number of volunteers you can request
Access, Inclusion and Development in Arts (or AIDA for short) is a not-for-profit Community Interest Company that aims to help people develop arts projects. We support a wide range of arts projects, from those that involve only professional artists in artistic development or the creation of new work, to participatory community arts projects, festivals and performances.
AIDA arose out of a need to increase the support for arts projects to be developed, evaluated and sustained. Following an extensive market research period, where the business model underwent several stages of refinement, AIDA began trading in March 2007.
AIDA are a resident organisation in the Buddle Arts Centre, Wallsend, that they use as an accessible interface and base for a business which now extends throughout the North East.
Our stakeholders span a large cross-section of the community and include artists and arts organizations, community centres, residents associations, local authorities, universities and colleges. We work with many other social enterprises, including over 15% of the CICs in the North East, to help them to become involved with more arts projects.
Our activities aim to make projects more creative, fun, frequent and successful for everyone involved. We can help by writing funding applications for arts projects (which we do at no cost) and to attract sponsorship (which we only charge for if the sponsorship is successful). We also help to identify new project partners, helping projects to become more sustainable. We can help with publicity and brand development, which when combined with evaluation, can help to create a well-positioned and effective brand in the market.
Let us help you: have an AIDA idea.