Arsallary, Glen Esk, Brechin,
Angus DD9 7YX
tel/fax 01356 670 304 or 01561 340 592
Scottish Charity SC 030699
Angus Arts was founded in 2000. This voluntary organisation is committed to encouraging creativity in the arts for all ages and levels of experience. We hold workshops, classes and other events in a wide range of arts activities, both indoors and out of doors in a variety of stimulating locations involving arts of all kinds.
Our activities include workshops for mixed ages, sessions especially for adults and young people and many other events which welcome all ages.
*Our mixed age workshops involve anything from puppetry to painting, singing to sculpture, drawing to drumming, often mixing art forms within one session and always presenting the arts in a surprising way. They are for anyone aged 8 and over, including young people and adults, providing opportunities for people to come together to enjoy their creativity and develop something new out of their shared experience. Participants say that these workshops are new and exciting.
"Angus Arts is groovy" David 14
"Great. It gives me lots of ideas." Steve 8
"Angus Arts is cool stuff" Jenny 11
"Angus Arts has changed my life" Kathleen, pensioner
*Other mixed age sessions include West African drumming with Steve Haden (Afrodisiac) and Creative dance with Rachel Smith (Scottish Dance Theatre)
*Our classes for adults and young people develop styles, techniques and ideas in a range of activities including dance of all kinds, music, song writing, and the fine arts.
*Other events include readings, demonstrations, performances and, some years, an annual summer outdoor extravaganza. Last year we enjoyed an unforgettable evening with award winning writer Michael Morpurgo, a very successful puppet festival of shows and workshops (part of Scotland’s Puppet Animation Festival) two visits from The Scottish Dance Theatre, a fantastic Cuban festival of dance music and food and a visit from exciting new theatre company Plutôt La Vie. This year we have enjoyed our biggest puppet festival yet, including film animation; we look forward to a day of historic dance, a visit from brilliant band Moishe's Bagel and from leading contemporary music group The Hebrides Ensemble.
Most of our indoor activities are held at the Stracathro hall, Inchbare, near Brechin, just off the A90 (B966). We also use a range of exciting outdoor locations within a wide area. Participants come from throughout the North East to enjoy our events.
Our activities allow people to come together to enjoy and experience the arts in many different ways, some of them a little surprising - learning and developing techniques or simply enjoying creative freedom. In this way we hope that people can experience and enjoy the ways in which the arts can enhance our individual lives and the lives of our communities.
