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Creative Survey - Win an ebook reader!

Creative Survey - Win an ebook reader!

Can you spend 5 minutes answering some questions online to help Swindon Does Arts and our network of partners please? The answers and insights you give will help us as we move the network forward and (hopefully) conti...

Thu 24th Mar 2016

Media Trust’s Brilliant Arts Project seeks voluntary groups

Media Trust’s Brilliant Arts Project seeks voluntary groups

Brilliant Arts need your help! Know a group who’d love to be profiled on TV? An organisation who could use free media training? Media Trust’s Brilliant Arts Project aims to up the profile of voluntary arts across the ...

Mon 21st Mar 2016

Understanding the value of arts and culture

Understanding the value of arts and culture

The Arts & Humanities Research Council's three-year Cultural Value Project has published the major report 'Understanding the value of arts and culture'. It's interesting reading. The Cultural Value Project looked int...

Mon 21st Mar 2016

Get ready to Get Creative

Get ready to Get Creative

Saturday 2 April is Get Creative Day and the BBC want you to take part. There are now more than a thousand champions registered as part of Get Creative and the BBC are asking them to put on free events across the UK t...

Mon 21st Mar 2016

Pride of Swindon Awards

Pride of Swindon Awards

The eighth annual Pride of Swindon Awards was held at Steam yesterday attended by the 24 individuals and 12 teams who had been nominate for an award. Members of the Swindon arts community were recognised for their fan...

Fri 18th Mar 2016

Swindon Festival of Literature launched!

Swindon Festival of Literature launched!

Today saw the launch of this year's Swindon Festival of Literature at the Central Library. The 23rd festival has an absolutely jam-packed programme, beginning with the Dawn Chorus from 5.30am in the Lawn Woods and endin...

Thu 17th Mar 2016

Making it ART 2016

Making it ART 2016

Reach are offering you the chance to come along to watch a free show devised and performed by young people who all attend local schools. Those taking part are from Swindon schools, Crowdys Hill, Uplands, Commonweal, a...

Fri 11th Mar 2016

Director of Swindon Museum & Art Gallery Trust appointed

Director of Swindon Museum & Art Gallery Trust appointed

Swindon’s drive to have a new Museum and Art Gallery in the town centre has been significantly boosted with the appointment of Hadrian Ellory-van Dekker, who is currently the Science Museum’s Head of Collections and Chie...

Fri 11th Mar 2016

Calling all artists!

Calling all artists!

Would you like to create recycled art to be displayed at the Swindon Eco Fest? The Eco Fest will be held on Sunday 11 September at Savernake Street Hall. Artists are encouraged to choose items from our first Satu...

Thu 10th Mar 2016

Creative Wiltshire

Creative Wiltshire

Wiltshire has always been a source of inspiration for creative people. Their mark on the county can often be seen in their work but how much of it remains in Wiltshire for us all to view and enjoy? The Creative Wilts...

Wed 9th Mar 2016

Aesop and People Dancing;

Aesop and People Dancing;

Arts charity and social enterprise Aesop and People Dancing, the UK development organisation for community and participatory dance, have joined together to research current dance activities for, with and by older people ...

Wed 9th Mar 2016

Record Store Day 2016

Record Store Day 2016

Record Store Day is back on 16 April 2016. This is the one day of the year when over 200 independent record shops all across the UK come together to celebrate their unique culture. Special vinyl releases are made exclus...

Tue 8th Mar 2016

World Book Day comes to Swindon

World Book Day comes to Swindon

Lots of school children across the town took part in World Book Day this week. The event, which has become increasingly popular in recent years, sees pupils come to school dressed as their favourite literary charact...

Fri 4th Mar 2016

Public encouraged to contribute to new art work

Public encouraged to contribute to new art work

Hundreds of beautiful butterflies will land inside the Central Library as part of a new community art project that will get underway next week. People in Swindon are being encouraged to visit the Regent Circus library...

Fri 4th Mar 2016

Swindon Music Festival returns next week

Swindon Music Festival returns next week

The 107th Swindon Music Festival sees between 700 and 1,000 musicians and singers step up to the mark to perform in front of professional adjudicators. There are classes for choirs, vocal solos, duets and groups, pian...

Fri 4th Mar 2016
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