Our Networks & Partners

Live Art UK is a network of 30 venues, promoters and facilitators who collectively represent a range of practices and are concerned with all aspects of the development and promotion of the Live Art sector. The network aims to be a representative voice for Live Art practices and initiatives in the UK.

A registered charity that supports and advocates for the festival and events community in Bristol, UK. They believe in the unique power of festivals to inspire, entertain, challenge and bring people together (and so do we).

BAM is a network for marketers working in the arts and culture sector in Bristol.

BAM aims to support members at all stages of their career to share what they’re working on, deliver on their objectives, share best practice, participate in collaborative campaigns and build their professional network. They collectively advocate for the value of the arts in our city and lobby for more support through various initiatives.

An independent gathering of arts organisations and arts practitioners, large and small, funded (Arts Council, Bristol City Council) and unfunded, all of whom deliver cultural programmes within the city of Bristol.

A group of South West arts organisations and practitioners have come together to develop the city’s dance offer. The group works together to grow investment in dance, and includes our co-CEO Helen Cole and Mel Scaffold (Theatre Bristol), Rhiannon Jones (Trinity Community Arts), Kieran Swann (Arnolfini), Nic Young (Circomedia) and independents Laïla Diallo, Katy Noakes and Lauren Scholey.

Perform Europe is an EU-funded project which aims to rethink cross-border performing arts presentation in a more inclusive, sustainable and balanced way.

Festival Panorama’s RAFT see’s an incredible cohort of Brazillian artists funded from across the world. Festival Panorama proposed an innovative financing format in which referral institutions engaged in the creation and circulation of performing arts by providing funds to support the production of original artworks by artists in the country.

A residency that provides time and space for contemporary performance producers to refresh their current practice, and consider their future potential.