Take Art

Our networking event for theatre-makers was a great success. Here's BARNfest, in pictures.

Rural Touring Dance Initiative has been improving the quality, quantity and diversity of dance in rural settings since 2015. This is our story so far.

Take Art's SPARSE project has been featured in the latest Creative Europe Cooperation Projects Report, showing how rural touring diminish the environmental impact of the creative sector.

Our executive director Ralph Lister shares the story of Take Art's journey into Europe - published by Arts Professional

Our 2021 summer pilot project - through the eyes of our artists and audience

Our Creative Europe project taking Rural Touring across Europe is coming to the end

The Jan-June 2022 Take Art Brochure has arrived. Read it online here, or order a copy for your home.

Earlier in October we completed Journey Exchange, an intergenerational, international project that brought together local people from Burnham and Highbridge, Somerset theatre-makers and artists from Hungary, Germany and Rumania. We hosted our European colleagues as part of the RIOTE3 project that we’re a partner in.

Meet the successful applicants for our BARN Growth Fund project.

We were delighted to be able to share the learning of our 3 year Youth Music programme & launched a free resource with films of music practice in EY settings.

A brand new short dance film made in collaboration with up-and-coming hip-hop artist Joshua Nash, filmmaker Gemma Pons, and teenage dance students from Unlimited Dance Company in North Devon. Commissioned by Beaford and the Rural Touring Dance Initiative.

The SPARSE Network is an exciting development that achieves one of the Creative Europe funded SPARSE aims which is to create a European Rural Touring Network.