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Portland Works A curated group exhibition designed to draw attention to the traditional skills practiced at Portland Works and the people whose livelihood depends on it continuing as a working/creative community. Portland Works is under threat of closure as one of Sheffield’s remaining small industrial works, because of plans to redevelop it as apartments and offices. This lively and diverse exhibition of art and craft is designed to engage Sheffield people in an awareness of their industrial heritage and its relevance to their lives. The exhibition blurs the boundaries between art and industry, situating the objects of production, both past and present in an art gallery context, for public viewing. It juxtaposes artefacts produced by craftspeople against artists’ responses to the objects and their environment in the form of paintings, photographs, installations, sculpture and film. This exhibition runs from 30th March to 17th April Nic Bate and Matt Risby An installation comprising of video and sounds depicting one whole day in the working life of Portland Works. This comprises of multiple screens showing edited footage of the inhabitants of the Works; craftspeople, musicians, artists etc to portray the diversity and breadth of talent that exists there. This exhibition runs from 30th march to 1st May, Tuesday-Saturday 10am-5pm For more information, please contact Bank Street Arts on 0114 346 3034 | ||||
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Showing posts with label artists network. Show all posts
Showing posts with label artists network. Show all posts
Wednesday, 31 March 2010
Portland Works Exhibition at Bank Street Arts
Tuesday, 7 July 2009
Tuesday, 9 June 2009
Next Meeting
Sharrow Action Group on
Tuesday 16th june at 6.30pm.
please come along!
to the 'old sharrow junior school'
(empty shop fronts and artists)
Draft Agenda
1. What do we want to achieve?
2. Next steps: Liaising with landlords and agents
3. Available resources
4. Definition of roles
5. Any other business
6. Next meeting
Please email any additions or queries to Luisa Golob http://www.blogger.com/ or Charlotte Morgan charlotte.anne.morgan@googlemail.com;
Tuesday, 2 June 2009
Vacant Shops and Artists: Advice from Meanwhile Space
I am from Meanwhile Space, a Community Interest Company working with the Development Trusts Association on (the Government's) Meanwhile project to boost community uses of empty properties in our town centres. We're currently at an early stage where we’re gathering intelligence about what’s already happening and exploring/developing/testing the approach in some particular places.
It is a sticky process and can be really quite cumbersome with business rates, and getting the landlords, agents and council onside, which is why we are trying to gather as much intelligence of what people are actually doing to try and make it easier.
You mention the possibility of council tax exemption if you occupy the spaces. It's quite a complicated and cloudy situation - if you are a registered charity, you automatically get 80% relief from business rates and the remaining 20% is up to the council to grant you exemption. If you are a not-for-profit organisation, it is up to the council to decide if they wish to grant you exemption for any of the business rates so it's obviously important to have the council backing you to get relief from rates if you aren't a charity. Properties over £15,00 Rateable Value (you can check your property here if you know the address: http://www.voa.gov.uk ) are liable to pay business rates after 3 months of being empty (a new law since 2008) so landlords paying business rates would have a further incentive if you could relieve this financial pressure for them.
We are hoping to get a meanwhile website up and running as soon as possible to enable people to talk about problems and issues as well as positive avenues so we will let you know when that goes live and hopefully it will help to talk with others who have done it already/ are experiencing it now about any problems you have along the way. Meanwhile, please do keep us updated with your progress, and do get in touch with any queries you may have.
It is a sticky process and can be really quite cumbersome with business rates, and getting the landlords, agents and council onside, which is why we are trying to gather as much intelligence of what people are actually doing to try and make it easier.
You mention the possibility of council tax exemption if you occupy the spaces. It's quite a complicated and cloudy situation - if you are a registered charity, you automatically get 80% relief from business rates and the remaining 20% is up to the council to grant you exemption. If you are a not-for-profit organisation, it is up to the council to decide if they wish to grant you exemption for any of the business rates so it's obviously important to have the council backing you to get relief from rates if you aren't a charity. Properties over £15,00 Rateable Value (you can check your property here if you know the address: http://www.voa.gov.uk ) are liable to pay business rates after 3 months of being empty (a new law since 2008) so landlords paying business rates would have a further incentive if you could relieve this financial pressure for them.
We are hoping to get a meanwhile website up and running as soon as possible to enable people to talk about problems and issues as well as positive avenues so we will let you know when that goes live and hopefully it will help to talk with others who have done it already/ are experiencing it now about any problems you have along the way. Meanwhile, please do keep us updated with your progress, and do get in touch with any queries you may have.
Tuesday, 26 May 2009
Tuesday, 12 May 2009
Empty Shop Fronts: minutes May 2009
The minutes of this meeting have now been removed. Please contact the action group at sharrow_action@hotmail.com if you would like a copy of these minutes
Thursday, 7 May 2009
Empty Shops Information: Arts Council
The Town Centre’s Initiative was announced by Hazel Blears, Secretary of State for Communities & Local Government and Andy Burnham, Secretary of State for Culture, on 14 April. It is a government initiative to help reinvigorate ailing town centre’s by enabling vacant retail space to be put to alternative uses.
Hundreds of arts organisations across the country are already doing a lot of this, for example the Turner Contemporary in Margate, Shops Upfront in Liverpool and Bedford Creative Arts, and we hope this new fund will enable many more such schemes to happen. It’s good for the artists and it’s good for the towns.
The Arts Council has set aside £500,000 of our lottery income as a fund to which artists will be able to apply for grants of £1,000 to £10,000 to help them carry out artistic activities in empty shops made available to them through the scheme.
To qualify for an Arts Council town centre’s grant, the activity must be art based. The precise criteria are still being finalised but it is likely they will be very similar to those for Grants for the arts. It’s important that the Arts Council can ensure that the art funded is of the highest standard. Any artist or arts organisation can apply. It is more likely to be individual artists due to the smaller size of the grants available through the scheme.We are now talking to the various government departments involved to determine the best way for the scheme to be administered, and so that we ensure the quality of the art that is funded.
We will post more information on our web site as soon as details are available. Go to www.artscouncil.org.uk/actiononrecession to check for updates on the application process.I Hope you will find this information helpful
Hundreds of arts organisations across the country are already doing a lot of this, for example the Turner Contemporary in Margate, Shops Upfront in Liverpool and Bedford Creative Arts, and we hope this new fund will enable many more such schemes to happen. It’s good for the artists and it’s good for the towns.
The Arts Council has set aside £500,000 of our lottery income as a fund to which artists will be able to apply for grants of £1,000 to £10,000 to help them carry out artistic activities in empty shops made available to them through the scheme.
To qualify for an Arts Council town centre’s grant, the activity must be art based. The precise criteria are still being finalised but it is likely they will be very similar to those for Grants for the arts. It’s important that the Arts Council can ensure that the art funded is of the highest standard. Any artist or arts organisation can apply. It is more likely to be individual artists due to the smaller size of the grants available through the scheme.We are now talking to the various government departments involved to determine the best way for the scheme to be administered, and so that we ensure the quality of the art that is funded.
We will post more information on our web site as soon as details are available. Go to www.artscouncil.org.uk/actiononrecession to check for updates on the application process.I Hope you will find this information helpful
Tuesday, 5 May 2009
Vacant Shops: governement support
1. Standard 'interim-use' leases - landlords need to be assured that there is a proper legal basis for any temporary uses and that they will be able to take the empty premises back as soon commercially viable. To help minimise the cost of setting up such arrangements, Government will create specimen legal documents that landlords can use for temporary occupiers.
2. Temporary leasing of shops to councils - Not all landlords will want to lease to temporary occupiers. In these cases local Councils can step in as an intermediary and agree new temporary, or "meanwhile", leases that enables the Council use the property by granting an interim licence to a local group for community uses.
There has also been some funding secured for this initaive- around £500,000 from the arts council
http://www.communities.gov.uk/news/corporate/1201277
2. Temporary leasing of shops to councils - Not all landlords will want to lease to temporary occupiers. In these cases local Councils can step in as an intermediary and agree new temporary, or "meanwhile", leases that enables the Council use the property by granting an interim licence to a local group for community uses.
There has also been some funding secured for this initaive- around £500,000 from the arts council
http://www.communities.gov.uk/news/corporate/1201277
Tuesday, 14 April 2009
Next meeting: Lloyds Corner Sub Group and Vacant Shops Sub Group
The next meeting for the Lloyds Corner sub group is Tuesday 21st April at 12.30pm
The next meeting for the art and vacant shop units sub group is Wednesday 6th May at 6.30pm
Wednesday 6th May 2009, the Old Junior School, 6:30pm
1. Attendance and Apologies
2. Project planning
-What do we want to achieve?
-How do we get artists on board? Who would like to take this forward?
-How do we get the landlords and their agents on board? Who would like to take this forward?
-How do we maintain and promote the process?
-Who will administer it?
3. Sharrow Signposts
4. Sharrow Fringe Festival
5. Next Meeting
Wednesday, 1 April 2009
Action Group Minutes: 31st March 2009, the Old Junior School, 6pm
Present: Jean Cromar, Rosalie Wyatt, Laurence Pattacini, Julia Udall. Lu Golob, Ryan Morley
Apologies: Mel Pearson, Catherine Crompton, Paula Ridsdale, Charlotte Morgan
The minutes of this meeting have now been removed. Please contact the action group at sharrow_action@hotmail.com if you would like a copy of these minutes
Monday, 30 March 2009
Empty Shop Fronts?
Would it be possible to use the empty shop fronts on London Road to display local artists work?
This could benefit the landlords by improving the appearance of the shops, yet not use floor space so that it is still in an appropriate state to rent out... This is not a new idea... http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/feb/18/slack-space-vacant-shops http://blog.ivanpope.com/awol/2009/02/art-into-recess.html
...could we liaise between the landlords/ their agents and local artists... this could even be through a lonely hearts/ lonely windows style website where windows are matched with artists...?
This could benefit the landlords by improving the appearance of the shops, yet not use floor space so that it is still in an appropriate state to rent out... This is not a new idea... http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/feb/18/slack-space-vacant-shops http://blog.ivanpope.com/awol/2009/02/art-into-recess.html
...could we liaise between the landlords/ their agents and local artists... this could even be through a lonely hearts/ lonely windows style website where windows are matched with artists...?
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