Networking

Arts for Islington is a voluntary sector network of 350 of Islington's artists and arts organisations that provides a forum in which to bring all forsm of cultural providers together so as to protect their interests, and develop their skills and sustainability.

For more information check out www.artsforislington.org.uk

Arts for Islington
Phone: 020 7687 0019
a4i@filmworkshop.com
www.artsforislington.org.uk

Film Network is the BBC's interactive showcase for new British filmmakers, screening three new short films in broadband quality every week, adding to a growing catalogue of great shorts.

The site allows people to comment on and rate films and also provides filmmakers with tools to create online profiles and exchange tips, advice and ideas. The purpose is to expose new talent and create a platform for some great films that are rarely seen elsewhere.

BBC Film Network
www.bbc.co.uk/dna/filmnetwork

Brent Artists Resource is a network for visual artists, that runs a local gallery and supports artists with information and advice.

The Gallery, Willesden Green Library Centre, 95 High Road, London NW10 2SF
Phone: 020 8459 1421
info@brentartistsresource.org.uk
www.brentartistsresource.org.uk

Creative London North is both a creative chamber of commerce and a club for creative entrepreneurs.

It offers networking events, workshops, business support and facilities for all creative industries and individuals.

If you are a sole trader, partnership or small business based in the London boroughs of Haringey, Barnet, Enfield or Waltham Forest contact us.

Creative London North
Phone: 020 8829 8907
info@creative-london-north.com
www.creative-london-north.com

Dance UK works with and on behalf of dance. We are a professional membership organisation for dancers, choreographers and dance managers. We lobby on behalf of dance at all levels of government as well as provide information, publications, networks, forums for debate and conferences, and speak out for dance.

Dance UK publishes information sheets, books and other resources including Dance UK news which relate to its areas of operation.

All information sheets are free to members of Dance UK, and other publications are available at a discounted rate to members.

To order publications visit the Dance UK website: www.danceuk.org/publications.

A variety of development and bursary programmes are also available, see website for details.

Dance UK
2nd Floor
Finsbury Town Hall
Rosebery Avenue
London
EC1R 4QT
Phone: 020 7713 0730
Fax: 020 7833 2363
info@danceuk.org
www.danceuk.org

Film and Video Umbrella curates and produces film, video and new media projects by artists which are commissioned and presented in collaboration with galleries and venues across England

The website contains information on all of our recent programming and publishing activities, and includes details on archive programmes and exhibitions.

Film and Video Umbrella
8 Vine Yard
London SE1 1QL
Phone: 020 7407 7755
Fax: 020 7407 7766
info@fvu.co.uk
www.fvumbrella.com

Forum is Artquest's peer mentoring group project for established visual artists and craftspeople in London. Forum provides a space for established visual artists and craftspeople to engage in constructive, rigorous and critical discussion on their practice.

Artquest initiated Forum in 2004 in response to a lack of available peer mentoring sessions within the London visual art and craft communities for established practitioners. A secondary benefit of the project was the opportunity for artists to network and socialise informally. Artists and craftspeople present their work and concerns about their practice to the rest of their group in a relaxed, informal atmosphere, networking across disciplines and exploring lines of enquiry outside their usual practice.

Artists seeking to set up peer mentoring groups may be interested to read the Artquest's Setting up a Peer Mentoring Group Guidelines in the Manage your career section of the Artquest website.

Artquest
Russell Martin
Phone: 020 7514 8357 (Monday and Friday only)
Fax: 020 7514 6211
russell@artquest.org.uk
www.artquest.org.uk/manage/peermentoring/peer-mentoring-groups.htm

An innovation support organisation devoted to the successful exploitation of ideas and intellectual property via networking and education.

Regular monthly meetings are held in London and in Manchester, with a presentation by a guest speaker followed by social drinks in a nearby pub.

The meetings bring together people from different areas of the invention and innovation industries to meet in an informal, friendly and vibrant atmosphere.

For more information see www.ideas21.co.uk

Ideas 21
PO Box 36807,
London WC1V 7XN
Phone: 020 8780 9017
www.ideas21.co.uk

penned in the margins celebrates the power of words in performance and on the page. Established in 2004 by Tom Chivers, penned in the margins produces live poetry events, manages spoken word artists, publishes work by emerging writers, creates innovative projects, and provides research and consultancy services to the live literature sector.

If you have a good idea for a project or event get in touch with penned in the margins and make it happen. Call Tom on 020 7375 0258 or email info@pennedinthemargins.co.uk to find out how we can work together.

penned in the margins
53 Arcadia Court
45 Old Castle Street
London E1 7NY
Phone: 020 7375 0258
info@pennedinthemargins.co.uk
www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk

The Cafe is the Poetry Society's physical home-page where you can find out information about what we do and join the Society.

During the morning and afternoon the atmosphere is contemplative; you can sit and write while nursing a cappuccino and a brownie, read the extensive collection of poetry magazines in the basement or browse through fliers for competitions and events all over London and the south east. We also have a news clipping board to keep you up to date with poetry in the news.

In the evening the atmosphere is busy and vibrant; we have poetry readings almost every evening (except Sundays when we are closed). Some are weekly events , some monthly or bi-monthly and some occasional or one-off. Each event has its own audience and its own following of poets (see regular events). Poetry Unplugged is an open mic session where people who have never read a poem in public can do so for the first time, or experienced poets may try out something new. We encourage you to try various events to find which poetry community suits your work best. We also occasionally host poets of world reknown, particulary in a series called In Town Tonight which responds to the presence of great poets who happen to be in the city, by featuring them in the intimate atmosphere of the Poetry Cafe basement.

If you would like regular information about cafe events and prior knowledge of special events, or you would just like to use the cafe on a regular basis, become a member of the cafe. This is a free service - you need to either sign our book in the cafe with your email address or email poetrycafe@poetrysociety.org.uk with 'join email list' in the subject line. We require two days to register you as a member of the cafe.

Opening times:
11am-11pm Mon-Fri
6.30 -11pm Sat
Closed Sunday

Jessica York, Manager
22 Betterton Street
London WC2H 9BX
poetrycafe@poetrysociety.org.uk

Sonic Arts Network is a national organisation that enables both audiences and practitioners to engage with the art of sound in diverse, accessible and innovative ways. Sonic Arts Network fosters a culture of creative risk taking and experimental approaches to sound through a cutting edge programme of festivals, events, commissions and education projects. The organisation believes in the unique capacity of listening to enrich people's lives by unlocking creativity, promoting social and environmental awareness and engaging a diverse range of communities.

Sonic Arts Network's activities separate into three main areas:

- activities; events, regular festivals such as Cut and Splice and Expo, tours and commissions

- education; award winning national education project Sonic Postcards, artist workshops and talks

- network; Sonic Arts Network is a membership organisation that is the hub of information, opportunities and publications for the UK sonic arts scene.

Sonic Arts Network
The Jerwood Space
171 Union Street
London SE1 0LN
Phone: 020 7928 7337
info@sonicartsnetwork.org
www.sonicartsnetwork.org

Southwark Arts Forum is the strategic networking organisation for the Arts and Cultural Industries in the London Borough of Southwark. SAF mission is to help artists, arts organisations and creative industries in Southwark to excel, and to have a greater impact on their local community.

Southwark Arts Forum works with individual artists, arts and cultural organisations, educators, community groups, other umbrella organisations and the statutory sector to help build capacity and engage in wider borough agendas such as regeneration and neighbourhood renewal.

186 Peckham High Street,
London, SE15 5EG

Phone: 020 7252 8672
katy@southwarkartsforum.org
www.southwarkartsforum.org

TransitionTradition provides work experience, training and networking opportunities for students, graduates and new professionals entering the creative industries. Through their online publication they showcase creativity emerging from academic institutions nationwide.

TransitionTradition work both with Higher Education institutions and individuals to improve the potentially isolating transition period between study and working practice.

sam@transitiontradition.com
www.transitiontradition.com

Young Professionals in the Arts is an arts networking group, specifically created to foster connections for creative professionals under 35. Targetting those who work in galleries, auction houses and museums or as writers, independent curators and any other professional capacities in the creative arts field (although not practising artists), the organisers, Vishal Sumarria and Kirstin Fowler hope to promote a forum for professional development. Attendees will be provided the opportunity to meet similarly minded colleagues from across London in once-monthly events.

Vishal Sumarria and Kirstin Fowler
ypalondon@gmail.com