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Arts and creative economy (ACE) - Team

Arts and Creative Economy Development Unit - October 2008
arts.creativity@kirklees.gov.uk

The ACE team

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The Arts and Creative Economy (ACE) Team can advise you about almost anything to do with the arts and creativity. They can help you with your creative activities and businesses. Artistic skill and talent is at the heart of what they do - and if they cannot help you, they will direct you to someone who can.

Arts and creativity include designer fashion, film, video, music, dance, drama, creative writing, sculpture, painting, photography, graffiti art, computer animation and a whole lot more.

For example, if you want advice about how to plan an event or arts activity, where arts clubs are in your area, how to raise money to do an arts project or how to become a successful working artist or designer, the ACE Team will be able to help.

What the ACE Team does

  • Provides information and advice.
  • Helps groups and organisations to develop and manage arts projects.
  • Manages training and skills opportunities for artists and anyone else who wants to be involved in the arts and creative economy.
  • Co-ordinates networks which provide opportunities for creative practitioners and organisations to share knowledge and expertise.
  • Administers grants - the Creative Partners Investment Programme, Arts in the Neighbourhood grants and Community Events. The team also co-ordinates the council's comments on all West Yorkshire Grants applications and applications from (or affecting) Kirklees which are made to Arts Council England's Grants for the Arts programme.
  • Manages festivals and events such as Carnival, A World Together, Festival of Light, Concerts in the Park and Bump n' Bounce. Many of these are delivered in partnership with other council services or community organisations.
  • Manages the orchestral, organ and lunchtime concerts at Huddersfield and Dewsbury Town Halls.
  • Manages a programme of brass band concerts in parks and museums.
  • Manages creative consultation projects.
  • Develops advocacy and marketing initiatives to raise the profile of the arts and creative economy in Kirklees to potential investors and consumers regionally, nationally and internationally.
  • Facilitates the production of relevant strategies.

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