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This is the third film in the series from Transition Vision featuring artists on Take Art's rural touring Live scheme. This film features an interview with Louise Barrett of 'Pretty Good Girl Dance Theatre' Company and footage from her brave and beautiful show Luna - raising awareness and support for transgender issues among teenagers.

On July 11 the Hip Yak Poetry Shack will be appearing at the Frome Festival, starring award winning author and Channel 4 presenter Tim Clare and nationally renowned stand-up poets Jonny Fluffypunk, Chris Redmond and Liv Torc.

On Sunday 15 July the Octagon Theatre and Take Art, in association with Big Dance, are running the Big Dance Urban Jam, starring a triple bill performance by Flawless, Boadicea and Rannel with ‘Flhip Flhop. The full day timetable is now available for download here!

Can you design a logo for a new international dance project? The partners of the European project DanSCe Dialogues 2 are calling for entries for the creation of their new logo and offering a €500 prize for the winning design.

DanceAndTheatreSomerset.net is a community driven website and an interactive resource which belongs to the dance and theatre community of Somerset.

Take Art is delighted to announce that Yeovil Children's Centre Cluster has been successful in its application to the Arts Council England and has received a grant towards the 2012 KinderGardens Festival of Early Years Performance that will take place this autumn.

On Monday 21st May the long heralded 35-day traveling performance piece 'A Somerset Journey' took its first tentative steps from Taunton town centre and Somerset Square (outside The Brewhouse Theatre) on its month long mission to rediscover the sounds and stories of Somerset, visiting plenty of Early Years settings along its way. Linking with the Olympic celebrations the journey was aptly ignited by the Olympic Torch Ceremony that fizzed and sizzled through Taunton at the same time the journey began.

The Mark Bruce Company premiere Made in Heaven this Friday night at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol. We asked Mark to respond to some quickfire questions in his (scarce) spare time…

Life Circles is a new project and a new partnership between Take Art Dance and Core Dance, with a focus on engaging the frail elderly in movement, dance and imaginative play. It started last autumn and will run for two years, with the ambition of supporting the lifelong creativity of older people in eight residential settings in Somerset, Devon and Dorset.

This is the second in the series from Transition Vision featuring the visiting artists to Somerset, thanks to Take Art's rural touring Live scheme.

This May, as part of the Somerset Light Waves project, Take Art and three leading Somerset theatre venues are inviting the youngest audiences in Somerset to enter the Lightstream and take part in an interactive and colorful light-inspired performance and installation.

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.