Useful web links and contacts
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Follow the links on this page for more information about projects or groups.
Blue Eyed Soul (www.blueeyedsouldance.com)
Based in Shrewsbury, but producing work that tours nationally and internationally, Blue Eyed Soul has pioneered remarkable and astounding dance theatre for disabled and non-disabled people for over ten years. Tel: 01743 210830
The Project Group (www.theprojectgroup.co.uk)
Creative Public Art Commissions. The Project Group is an emerging social enterprise which provides a creative, progressive and entrepreneurial environment for individuals, who are in touch with Adult Mental Health Services, to achieve to their full potential at their own pace. Tel: 01691 655140
Borderdance (www.borderdance.co.uk)
Borderdance seeks to provide opportunities for people of all ages, to enjoy and participate in the highest quality dance practise by offering a stimulating programme, that promotes excellence and diversity and supports the creative aspirations of local people. Tel: 01952 388 325.
The Fetch Theatre (www.thefetch.co.uk)
The Fetch is a touring theatre company producing a highly visual style of theatre that often incorporates mask work and puppetry which creates a unique blend of highly entertaining visual theatre. Tel: 01584 877312
Pentabus Theatre Company (www.pentabus.co.uk) is dedicated to the development of new theatre writing. The productions tour to theatres and arts centres across the country.
Arts Alive (www.artsalive.co.uk) is the rural touring scheme for Shropshire and Herefordshire, bringing all sorts of professional performances to local venues, working in partnership with local people.
The Visual Arts Network (www.vanetwork.co.uk) is a new artist led organisation that offers support to artists and an exciting annual festival and projects throughout the year. Shrewsbury Visual Arts Festival takes place throughout the whole of July.
Disability Art in Shropshire (www.dasharts.org) aim to advance the education and enjoyment of disabled people in the Arts; and the wider community about Disability Arts.
Mythstories web museum of myth and fable. (www.mythstories.com)
Qube Oswestry Community Action - a charity that aims to improve quality of life and empower those members of the community marginalised through age, health, disability or rural isolation, to fully participate in society.
Visit www.qube-oca.co.uk
Borderland Visual Arts is a support network for visual artists with a register of members in and around Oswestry and The Marches. Members are encouraged to be contemporary and experimental.
Contact: Judy Gough on telephone number: 01691 679039 or email: judy@goughjf.fsnet.co.uk
Shropshire Music Trust promote professional music concerts and workshops throughout the county, their telephone number is 01952 510375.
Trading Faces
Trading Faces entertains people by using masks to create popular, appealing and energetic theatre. As a theatre company of national and international renown, Trading Faces, based in Bishops Castle, creates and uses distinctive and original masks in performance and for educational and training purposes.
Photographs reproduced by kind permission of Anthea Bevan, Max Marshall and W.N Bishop
