Music

A New Year approaches and with it the launch of our 2019 Jan-Jun programme. Check out all the brilliant shows and projects happening on your doorstep and in your community.

ALL OF OUR WEEKEND SHOWS HAVE BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO SNOW. Please click here to find out more.

We are running a summit to discuss the profound effect participatory music has on vulnerable young people from PRU’s and other settings.

This is a film interview with Billy, one of the young people involved in the Take Art and Actiontrack music project My Tunes, aimed at improving young people’s self confidence and future aspirations through music. Watch the full interview here...

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Take Art has been granted £49,950 from Youth Music and a further boost from four Pupil Referral Units in Somerset to undertake a two-year music project, My Tunes 2, with 75 young people excluded from mainstream schools.

Take Art is currently looking to recruit a part time Office Administrator for an initial 12 Month fixed term contract starting mid-December. Salary up to £15,000 pro rata according to experience. 29.6 hours per week, over 4 to 5 days. Read more here...

Take Art is currently looking to recruit a dynamic and experienced Arts Marketing Manager to cover maternity leave from October 2013 to July 2014. Salary up to £24,000 pro rata according to experience.

Every year we work with over 15,000 people across the county, providing opportunities for all ages and abilities to experience, participate and work within the arts. This year we are aiming to raise £10,000 and we need your help.

Charlotte Higgins chief arts writer for the Guardian came to visit Take Art a few weeks ago to find out how we (and the country) are surviving since the local authority arts cuts. Read the story here.

What a time. The country has been enveloped in an Olympics bubble that has captured the imagination of the country. Millions have been engaged in a spectacle in the midst of the most serious depression since the 1930’s. Does London 2012 represent a welcome distraction from the serious issues faced by the country, or does it teach us deeper truths about what it means to be human?

Somerset is a predominantly rural county, which means most of us rely on cars to get to work and to go to arts events. The county also has higher than average fuel prices (information courtesy of Fuelcourt Fuels), with the inevitable prospect of further fuel hikes on the horizon. Factors that don't bode well for those putting on shows or arts events in rural areas.