Edinburgh Festival Tweets

Ian Martin, Director of The Pound Arts Trust and Chair of WAP is basking in the delights of Edinburgh Festival this week. If you're heading up and want to know what's hot and what's not, or you want some programming ideas why not follow his tweets at www.twitter.co./ianjmartin

NB WAP is hoping to secure some subsidised accommodation for Edinburgh festival next year so if your budget hasn't allowed you to make it this year maybe you can make use of the WAP flat next year! (We should know by November if we can offer this)

The Pound Arts Trust needs a Visual Arts Co-ordinator

VISUAL ARTS COORDINATOR (FREELANCE)

The Pound Arts Trust, based in Corsham, Wiltshire, is seeking a visual arts coordinator (freelance) to develop, manage and implement the organisation’s visual arts programme.

The trust runs The Pound Arts Centre in Corsham which has two gallery spaces and a year round programme of exhibitions and participatory events. In addition it also runs Corsham Festivals and Rural Arts Touring, the touring scheme for Wiltshire and South Gloucestershire.

This freelance role requires a person with a strong knowledge of a broad range of visual arts media as well as experience of increasing audiences for contemporary visual arts.

Appointment is on condition of suitable references.

For an application form and further details please contact Lucy Moore.

Tel. 01249 712618 or email lucy.moore@poundarts.org.uk

Closing date: Wednesday 3 August 2011

Interviews: Thursday 11 August 2011

Post It's Galore!

A huge thank you to all of the WAP members new and older who joined us at Salisbury Playhouse yesterday to look at what WAP has achieved in the past year and what it hasn't, how WAP works and areas we need to look at further to help our network work more effectively, and what we should do next.

Janet and Sally joined us from Magic Parnsnips, to help guide us through the day and I have to say they did a stirling job as we did rather digress from the plan but they very generously helped us to find the best way to getting the most out of the little time that we had, you can find out more about Magic Parsnips here

Ian Martin of The Pound Arts Trust very kindly agreed to take on the rolling chair roll from our outgoing chair Maria Bota at the core groups pre meeting, so I must say a massive thank you to Maria for all of her help and support over the past 6 months. Ian has kindly agreed to work closely with us on creating the right Grants For The Arts application to support our Network from July. I will be in contact with Ian and those who also kindly offered to support this process within the next couple of weeks when we have all of the notes back from our time meeting.