Mentoring Artists

Artsadmin supports artists working in Live Art, performance, time-based media, installation and innovative artists that do not work in an artform category.

Artsadmin (AA), Live Art Development Agency (LADA) and New Work Network (NWN) are the partners in the Live Art Advisory Network. They offer professional development opportunities for artists, including a framework to support, strengthen and develop Live Art in London.

Live Art refers to a broad range of new kinds of performance by artists who are challenging artform boundaries to create new experiences and new ways of expression.

Services & Resources:

An advice and information service including funding advice, contacts for curators and programmers and networks of support
Bursaries for early and mid-career plus artists
Rehearsal spaces, performance workshops and summer schools
A regularly updated website, bi-annual publication and a weekly email newsletter
Showcases of new work and works in progress
Talks, debates and seminars
Mentoring

Toynbee Studios
28 Commercial Street
London E1 6LS
Phone: 020 7247 5102
Fax: 020 7247 5103
Textphone: 020 7247 5182
manick@artsadmin.co.uk
www.artsadmin.co.uk

Forum is Artquest's peer mentoring group project for established visual artists and craftspeople in London. Forum provides a space for established visual artists and craftspeople to engage in constructive, rigorous and critical discussion on their practice.

Artquest initiated Forum in 2004 in response to a lack of available peer mentoring sessions within the London visual art and craft communities for established practitioners. A secondary benefit of the project was the opportunity for artists to network and socialise informally. Artists and craftspeople present their work and concerns about their practice to the rest of their group in a relaxed, informal atmosphere, networking across disciplines and exploring lines of enquiry outside their usual practice.

Artists seeking to set up peer mentoring groups may be interested to read the Artquest's Setting up a Peer Mentoring Group Guidelines in the Manage your career section of the Artquest website.

Artquest
Russell Martin
Phone: 020 7514 8357 (Monday and Friday only)
Fax: 020 7514 6211
russell@artquest.org.uk
www.artquest.org.uk/manage/peermentoring/peer-mentoring-groups.htm

- Improbable's Mentoring Resource for Theatre and Performance

On our website we host an online resource to widen access to mentors and mentoring services within the theatre and performance communities. Those interested in being a mentor, finding a mentor or becoming part of a peer mentoring group can register their details on the website.

You will also find some guidelines on how to set up a good mentoring relationship. This is a self-running scheme, where mentees contact mentors directly.

Please click on this link the website for more information:
http://www.improbable.co.uk/project_example.asp?item_id=24

- Improbable's monthly Devoted & Disgruntled
Improbable also hosts a monthly conversation event at Shunt Lounge (first Wednesday of every month). This is an opportunity to meet up with artists, arts professionals and audiences. Using Open Space Technology, the conversations centre on the things that matter to the people who turn up. All are welcome.

More details at: http://www.improbable.co.uk/show_example.asp?item_id=36

Lucy Foster, Associate Director, Improbable
lucy@improbable.co.uk
www.improbable.co.uk

Based within Oval House Theatre the Artists' Advisor is an advice service for artists working in theatre and performance. Principally it supports new and emerging artists and has an emphasis on cultural diversity, including disability.

We particularly encourage practitioners who have made some work but haven't been in receipt of public funding and who may feel unsure about how to get their work seen in professional venues.

Services & Resources:

One-to-one advice and information sessions focusing on professional development
Process based discussions of artists' practice
A regularly updated website, messageboard and e-group bulletin

Oval House
52-54 Kennington Oval
London
SE11 5SW
Phone: 020 7582 0080
Fax: 020 7820 0990
michael.atavar@ovalhouse.com
http://www.ovalhouse.com/artists/index.htm

Spread the Word works with London writers at all stages of their careers to help them achieve their full potential.

With a focus on the writer, their workshops, one-to-one advice surgeries, mentoring schemes and other activities use established professional writers to develop writers' skills and support them in building a career in writing. Spread the Word encourages new and original voices in poetry, fiction, scriptwriting and other genres. Through public performances they provide opportunities for up-and-coming and established writers to showcase their writing to live audiences.

Spread the Word's networking events, online meeting place and writers' days encourage a supportive community of London writers to share experiences, techniques, advice and their written work.

For schools and community groups Spread the Word create tailor-made projects to inspire newcomers to creative writing, and to help them discover writing as a vital means of personal expression while delivering aspects of the National Curriculum.

They work in partnership with libraries, LEAs (Local Education Authorities), local authorities, Health Care Trusts, arts venues and other arts organisations, and are a regularly funded client of Arts Council England.

In the past year, Spread the Word have expanded their work to include the East London Boroughs of Barking, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Havering, Lewisham, Newham and Redbridge. They will be setting up specific creative writing projects for people in libraries, communities and schools in these areas in the coming months.

Writers of all levels are welcome, published or unpublished, from all backgrounds and from every community in London.

77 Lambeth Walk
London
SE11 6DX

Phone: 020 7735 3111
Fax: 020 7735 2666
info@spreadtheword.org.uk
www.spreadtheword.org.uk