ARTSADMIN.

2010/2011 REPORT

WELCOMEDuring this year Artsadmin’s projects included the chance to

Town Hall Artworks, a series of beautiful works installed in a five star hotel in East London, selected from an open commission. Giving a unique opportunity to emerging artists. As do our bursaries. Which we haven’t been able to fund for a while - this year with added disabled bursaries.

The staff and board of Artsadmin showed amazing commitment in the year and we were delighted to be included in Arts Council England’s National Portfolio.

Charles GarradChair, Board of Trustees

Julia Bardsley, Curtain Theatre Curtain from Artsadmin 30. Photo by Hugo Glendinning.

ARTSADMINREPORT 2010/2011Welcome Page 2Producing Page 3Impacts: Artsadmin & the environment Page 7Education & artists’ development Page 9Toynbee Studios Page 11Finance Page 13

DIRECTORS Judith Knight MBEGill Lloyd MBE

BOARD OF TRUSTEESStephen AingerCharles Garrad (Chair)Stella HallLew HodgesLois KeidanFreya MurrayAlison RitchieMhora SamuelSeonaid StewartSally StoteDavid Thorp

2010/2011 PROJECTSPRODUCED WITHBobby BakerAnne BeanCuriousRichard DeDomeniciRosemary LeeGraeme MillerMem MorrisonGeraldine PilgrimZineb SediraLemn SissayStation House OperaGary StevensSimon Vincenzi

ASSOCIATE ARTISTSAckroyd & HarveyArtmusicJulia BardsleyEncountersDv8 Physical TheatreLucy CashRobin DeaconLorrice DouglasChris GoodeWendy HoustounLucia KingStacy MakishiUrsula MartinezMzwakhe MbuliHarold OffehCindy OswinLa RibotAthina VahlaYou Me Bum Bum Train

Cover photo from Artsadmin Summer Project with Mark Storor. Photo by Stephen King.

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Moth Theatre

Be PreparedFuture Edictions

Track

Sewing your Shadow

Plane Food Café

PRODUCINGTRACK Graeme MillerThe first in a series of commissions for The Shimmy in Wandsworth Park (with Home Live Art), Track allowed audiences to create their own tracking shot, looking upwards into avenue of trees.

MOTH THEATRE Graeme MillerCommissioned by Latitude Contemporary Art, Graeme Miller’s ‘theatre by moths, for moths’ won the first Latitude Contemporary Art Award and was invited back to the festival in 2011.

BE PREPARED Geraldine PilgrimThis major commission at Harewood House in Leeds celebrated the centenary of the Girl Guides with over 100 participants and an audience of around 25,000 Guides from all over the world.

SEWING YOUR SHADOW Lucy CashA Big Dance Commission during CREATE 10, Sewing Your Shadow saw a company of professional performers, older dancers and children choreograph a twilight stroll through Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood.

WHOSEYWHATS Anne BeanAnne Bean’s Whoseywhats was commissioned as part of Festival an de Werf in Utrecht.

BOBBY BAKER’S DIARY DRAWINGSFollowing the successful exhibition of Bobby Baker’s Diary Drawings, this full colour publication was produced and published by XXXXXXX.

FUTURE EDITIONSIn partnership with Forest Fringe we created Future Editions, a human library of specialists from all disciplines who were ‘borrowed’ by visitors for a ten-minute discussion about the future.

Photos: Plane Food Café by XXXXX, Track by Graeme Miller, Future Editions by XXXXX, Be Prepared by Sheila Burnett, Sewing your Shadow by XXXXXX, Moth Theatre by Graeme Miller.

Plane Food Café

TOWN HALLARTWORKSIn July 2010 we launched Town Hall Artworks, a project which has seen emerging local artists’ work installed in the heart of a brand new luxury hotel in East London. Commissioned by the hotel, we selected six artists from an open application process whose playful, evocative and occasionally provocative works are seamlessly integrated into the fabric of the hotel. The selected artists were Bálint Bolygó, Debbie Lawson, Peter Liversidge, Claire Morgan, Zoë Mendelson and walkwalkwalk.

Like Town Hall itself, each of these artworks combines the old and the new, embedded firmly within the history and culture of the East End while at the same time adding something exciting, innovative and absolutely contemporary to the building.Peng Loh, Town Hall Hotel & Apartments

Image: To Woo You by Claire Morgan, photo by Angus Mill Photography

IMPACTS: ARTSADMINAND THE ENVIRONMENTIMAGINE 2020A five-year pan-European initiative to address issues around climate change

INTERFERENCEA weeklong intensive programme, Interference combines the skills that both artists and activists have in order to change the world. Interference 2010 brought together young people new to either the arts or activism or both and gives them a chance to work with some of the most prolific and inspiring people working and campaigning in the area of climate justice today.

A GREENER BUILDINGIn March 2010, Toynbee Studios was audited by Green Tourism for London and achieved a Silver Award, reflecting the energy saving improvements made to our building as part of the 2004-2007 renovation, the work of our green team and the climate change related projects and activities that have taken place at Toynbee Studios to date.

Photo from Interference 2010 by Immo Klink

EDUCATION &ARTISTS’ DEVELOPMENT ARTISTS’ BURSARIESAfter a two-year gap due to lack of funds we were able to award a round of artists’ bursaries, with support from Central School of Speech and Drama. Over 230 applications were received and seven artists were selected, each of whom receive a cash award and a programme of mentoring and development.

Katherine AranielloClaire CunninghamNoëmi LakmaierSinéad O’DonnellSteven OunanianEmma SmithTim Spooner

Image from 24 grotesque manipulations by Tim Spooner. Photo by Marine Thévenet

SUMMER PROJECTWITH MARK STORORThis was the first year that Mark Storor, an artist acclaimed for his participatory projects, led our summer project and it was a great experience, for the XX participants as well as for us as an organisation. The project embedded itself firmly in the building, with installations taking over Studio 3, illustrations adorning the corridors and Artsadmin staff regularly invited in to watch the project progress. For the participants, the experience went even deeper.

My high points were the moments in which I proved my own self doubt wrong.Participant

I have a greater appreciation for the moments of authenticity and truth in performance as well as those precious moments that life can bring.Participant

EDUCATION &ARTISTS' DEVELOPMENTA NETWORKOF OPPORTUNITYADVICE & SUPPORTWe continue to offer a free artists’ advisory service, as well as telephone and email support, and group advisory sessions (like Talking Shop) which are well attended. The advisory service again supported over 300 individual artists during the year.

ASSOCIATE ARTISTSOur associate artist scheme allows us to offer support to artists and producers we aren’t working with directly. We were excited this year that You Me Bum Bum Train became new associates and Anna Ledgard became an associate producer (working with Mark Storor).

ARTSADMIN YOUTH BOARDArtsadmin’s Youth Board continue to provide a sounding board for Artsadmin’s education programme and develop their own art practice and projects through a peer-support network

Images from Native Birds by Katherina Radeva, photos by Benjamin Jenner.

Mark Storor

You Me Bum Bum Train

Talking Shop

Youth Board: Dot Dot Dash Dot

Youth Board: Juke Box

Youth Board: Talking with your Mouth Full

TOYNBEE STUDIOSAN ARTS LAB FORTHE 21ST CENTURYARTSADMIN EVENTSWe continued our regular Thursdays@Artsadmin events throughout the year, with storytelling, music, poetry and performance nights, and hosted a number of events as part of associate artist Chris Goode’s Lean Upstream, a London-wide retrospective of his work.

PARTNERSHIP EVENTSOnce again we took part in EAST, the festival of East London, with music events in the theatre and café. We also hosted events for the London Word Festival including their Chip Shop, a portable screen printing event which offered customers a menu of words they could choose to have screen printed.

OFFICES AND REHEARSAL SPACESOur offices and rehearsal spaces continued to be in high demand, with all the spaces regularly in use and companies including West Yorkshire Playhouse, Shared Experience, Polydor and Birmingham

ARTSADMIN.CO.UKJanuary 2011 saw the launch of the new Artsadmin website, the culmination of an 18 month development process. Feedback on the website has been overwhelmingly positive from a range of audiences, and visitor figures and visit lengths have already increased substantially.

PARTNERSHIP EVENTSOnce again we took part in EAST, the festival of East London, with music events in the theatre and café. We also hosted events for the London Word Festival including their Chip Shop, a portable screen printing event which offered customers a menu of words they could choose to have screen printed.

OFFICES AND REHEARSAL SPACESOur offices and rehearsal spaces continued to be in high demand, with all the spaces regularly in use and companies including West Yorkshire Playhouse, Shared Experience, Polydor and Birmingham Rep using the

FINANCE2010 (£) 2009 (£)

Voluntary income 501,533 513,105

Artist management 153,397 152,087

Studios management 303,495 264,804

Arts Bar & Café 149,834 148,563

Artist advisory 15,784 3,524

Projects 261,860 270,181

Other income 11,083 4,130

Interest received 1,571 2,429

Total Incoming Resources 1,398,557 1,358,823

Artist management 377,051 389,540

Studios management 280,072 294,419

Arts Bar & Café 170,681 185,786

Artist advisory 113,249 107,001

Projects 401,570 262,178

Depreciation 295,503 296,458

Governance 7,173 7,021

Fundraising costs 30,725 14,000

Total Resources Expended 1,676,024 1,556,403

Net Outgoing Resources -277,467 -197,580

Movement in unrestricted funds 72,667 12,619

Movement in restricted funds -350,134 -210,199

Total funds brought forward at 1 April

5,437,743 5,635,323

Total funds carried forward at 31 March

5,160,276 5,437,743

Notes: Increased income from charitable activities during the year resulted in a net surplus of £72,667 on unrestricted funds. Overall, costs increased by 7.7% due to an increased number of projects included within restricted funds.

SUPPORTERSArtsadmin is grateful for the support it received in 2009/2010 from its many funding partners.

Artsadmin receives regular support fromArts Council England

In 2009/10 Artsadmin and our projects were also supported byThe National Lottery through Arts Council EnglandArtists Projects EarthBritish CouncilCalouste Gulbenkian FoundationCulture FranceEsmée Fairbairn FoundationEU Culture 2000London Development AgencyThe Wellcome Trust

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