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Poets from Word/Play, The Thing Is... will be performing on Saturday 21 September at The Octagon Theatre in Yeovil, as part of The Hip Yak Poetry Shack and the Yeovil Literary Festival.

As part of Spring Forward’s 10 year Anniversary Take Art will be hosting this year's Regional Youth Dance Platform; U.Dance South West 2014.

Take Art has released its new Sept-Dec 2013 programme, featuring over 40 performances, workshops and events across Somerset. Look inside here!

This September Take Art is working with the Merlin Theatre in Frome to launch the exciting new collaboration Merlin in Mendip, aimed at getting top quality theatre experiences out into local Mendip communities.

Cath James, Take Art's Co-Director of the Dance Professional Programme has left Take Art to move to London for the impressive role of Programme Directorwith South East Dance. We are delighted for Cath and wish her well in her new position.

Take Art Theatre is delighted that 12 people have successfully applied to participate in the Word/Play forum theatre residential training programme next month. We will all now be retreating to the beautiful countryside around the Magdalen Project, Chard, for three days in July and to Beaford Arts Centre, North Devon, for two days in August.

Stop Press: This is happening at very short notice, but Take Art Theatre is very excited to be working with Contact Manchester and the National Rural Touring Forum (NRTF) to support the Somerset development week of new show An Audience Without You.

InspirED is a new consortium of local organisations bringing the skills and expertise of arts and media professionals direct to schools, colleges and children’s centres across Somerset.

Read the fantastic article written by Dr Susan Young of Exeter University about Take Art's Early Year's project 'Little Big Bang'.

As part of DanSCe Dialogues 2, South East Dance and partners are seeking a dance company based in the UK for a new early years dance commission targeted towards children between the ages of 0-5 years old.

Over the last three months eight of the UKs top Performance Poets have been working with four groups of service users from Chard, Taunton, Yeovil and Frome to help them discover their inner poet and rediscover their self-confidence.