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Celebration Event - part of Skimstone Arts Final Journey

We've come to the end of a fabulous 18 year journey of working with amazing regional, national and international artists, arts projects and communities. 

In Skimstone style, we have celebrated as many of the performances, films and exhibitions that the wonderful Star & Shadow could host, as we took over the venue for one day. 

The day was filled with live performances and music from our bands and artists, workshops, exhibitions and talks, film shorts programme, delicious food and a chance to have your say on what made our connecting together mean to you, as well as to us.

 

Skimstone Arts aimed to be a welcoming, safe yet risk taking charity, passionate about promoting equality and visibility in the arts and society.

Our mission was to support diverse artists and communities and those at risk of social isolation to create work with, for, and about the world that matters to them.
 
During our 18 years we produced and embeded social action in our;
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PROGRAMME

We produce an annual programme of accessible live, radio and zoom events, with local, national and intonational communities for; regional UNITY Festival exploring the (themes of humanity and our environment), National Holocaust Memorial Day, and national Refugee Week.

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COMMUNITIES

We collaborate with co-creators, artists and audiences who are varied in their needs, lives and isolation to create authentic artworks locally, nationally and internationally.

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YOUNG PEOPLE

We support our Young Artists Collective and their band Reality Boots run by our young people’s Leadership Team, to create work about what they want to say about the world for our programmed events.  

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PARTNERSHIPS

We work with regional 

universities and a range of partners regionally, nationally and internationally to create work that contributes to important research and invites audiences to think about social action.

Enjoy the Magic Moments from UNITY Festival '24
Follow the link and take a look at the UNITY Festival '24 book 

To find out more about Skimstone Arts download a copy of our Annual Report for 2024/25.

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