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Rachael Errington | arts management | marketing & pr | web design | peer mentoring | artist professional development | educational workshops | practicing artist - visual art | www.rachaelerrington.com

Rachael has extensive project management and artist management experience, plus specialist experience in website development and Viral Marketing acquired in her role as Marketing Liaison for an internationally acclaimed design company in New Zealand. Rachel is also a practicing artist and illustrator with successful exhibitions in the UK, Australia, America, France and New Zealand. She also studied graphic design, printmaking and photography, and developed www.artistinsite.com, which enables her to combine her own creative practice with Arts Marketing, helping other international artists to develop professionally, promote themselves effectively and foster collaborative relationships with other artists and curators.

Rosaria is a research consultant, university lecturer and educationalist. She enjoys working in different environments where there is a need to use initiative and creativity to accomplish goals. She has successful record of working with grassroots organisations, community groups, university departments and with the IT and digital media industries, through the provision of research support, organisational development advice and creative solutions to reach their aims. Some of the many skills developed through her work are:

• the ability to communicate with very different audiences in clear formats, bridging sectors and agendas;
• the use of diplomatic skills and creative ways to tackle conflict resolution;
• the capacity to support the client group to work well under pressure in large and small groups where there is a need to multitask and fulfil tight deadlines;

Rosaria is also a practicing artist, and has extensive experience as a dancer, performer and choreographer, working with groups and individuals to approach issues in an effective yet flexible and celebratory manner. She specialises in exploring the links between Western and Yoruban (Nigeria, Brazil and Cuba specifically) dance forms.
Rosaria holds a PhD in Philosophy and Masters in Environment, Development and Policy.

Alison Leverett-Morris | arts management | fundraising | marketing & pr | community outreach | programming | research | audience development | peer mentoring | artist professional development | educational workshops | organisational development |

Alison is the Director of ALM Associates, a consultancy offering a range of services for arts and cultural organisations and individual artists. Her passion is ‘people’. Exploring creative approaches to promote participation in cultural activity is central to Alison’s approach.
Alison enjoys offering a flexible service that is tailored according to the particular needs of her clients – be they individuals, grassroots organisations, small arts organisations or large cultural institutions.
Services include: visioning, programme design, strategic development, project and events management, fundraising, evaluation, training, facilitation, research and consultation. Alison also works as a Creative Agent for Creative Junction (Creative Partnerships Thames Valley).
Alison’s many interests have found her working in a diverse range of settings – ranging from Diamond Light Source, the cutting edge science facility in South Oxfordshire, to museums and galleries, residential care homes, schools and hospitals. As former Director of ITHACA (2000-2007), Alison developed a reputation for strong leadership and innovative work in the fields of arts and older people, disability arts, intergenerational practice, arts and heritage and arts education.
One of Alison’s key strengths is brokering new collaborations and partnerships between artists, arts and cultural organisations and public and voluntary sector bodies - including hospitals, social care providers and schools.
Clients include/have included: Arts Council England SE, Barton Sings, Buckinghamshire County Arts Partnership, Bracknell Forest Borough Council, Creative Junction, DADA South, Diamond Light Source, Modern Art Oxford, No Handbags Theatre Company, Oxfordshire County Museum Service, Oxford Concert Party, Oxford Inspires, Oxford Film and Video Makers, Oxfordshire Theatre Company, Stantonbury Campus, The University Museums of Oxford, Vale of White Horse District Council.
Alison has a BA (Hons) in Fine Art and Aesthetics (University of Wales Cardiff 1994) and an MA in Cultural Leadership (City University 2008)..

Laura Atkins | academia | project management | programming | artist professional development | educational workshops| conference management | www.lauraatkins.com

Laura has many years of experience in children's publishing and academia. She worked for seven years in the children's publishing industry in the United States, helping to produce winners of the Coretta Scott King Award and American Library Association Notable Book selections, amongst others. She also worked at Children's Book Press in San Francisco, and was an editor at Lee & Low Books in New York City - both publishers of multicultural picture books. She then completed an MA in Children's Literature at Roehampton University in London, and has done postgraduate work in the area of multicultural children's publishing in the UK at the University of Newcastle. She has extensive experience running children's literature conferences and events, which includes being a steering committee member for the Diversity Matters: Growing Markets in Children's Publishing conference, sponsored by Arts Council England.

Sarah Bedell | strategic planning | project management | audience development | evaluation | mentoring | www.sarahbedell.co.uk

Sarah has worked across a range of artforms and areas of interest for 20 years, with theatre companies, venues and other organisations, in marketing, education and audience development, offering planning, research, capacity-building and development services to a range of clients.  She has offered consultancy services since 1997, previously working for the RSC, ENO, ACE and the RLPO.  Consultancy clients include the Barbican, LIFT, Network, AMA, ACE, Network, National Trust, ROH  and Momentum Arts.  Most of Sarah’s work has been focused on smashing down the barriers to attendance and participation in the arts and culture, either through audience development, increasing access or understanding how our sector can learn and improve the experience through evaluation.  A commitment to the development of best practice is particularly seen in her work on evaluation, pioneering a supported approach to self-evaluation on an individual and group basis.

Moving back into education, Sarah became a ROH Creative Partnership Creative Agent in June 2009, and Area Co-ordinator in March 2010.  Sarah has worked regularly with Zinc (formerly Theatre Resource) on the evaluation of a range of contracts, including the LSC, Hackney Council and Children in Need.  Sarah also devises seminars and writing projects, such as working with Create KX and Sound Connections with Catherine Rose. Working with Kiran Rao, she completed a set of next practice case studies for the Building Schools for the Future programme.  She has co-reported with Jonathan Goodacre on the AMA’s annual conference for 2008 and 2009 and spoken in previous years.

Sarah has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts since 1997, and received an MSc (with Merit) in Creative Industries Management from the University of Essex in December 2010.  Sarah was one of the founder members of Signed Performances in Theatre, and the AMA, having also served on both Boards, and more recently volunteered for her local community partnership and Sure Start programme.  From 2007 to 2010, Sarah was on the Board of Directors of Renaissance Southend, the urban regeneration company for Southend.  She is now a trustee for the Digital Exploration Centre, an emerging organisation that seeks to bring together creativity, enterprise and education.

Woodrow Kernohan | artist | curator

Until October 2011 Woodrow Kernohan was Co-Director of Brighton Photo Fringe, Co-Director of Permanent gallery and bookshop (Brighton) and Exhibitions Curator at The Regency Town House (Hove). He studied Fine Art Media at the Slade School of Art, Critical Fine Art Practice at the University of Brighton, Artists’ Film, Video and Photography at the University College for the Creative Arts, Maidstone and is currently undertaking practice-based research at the Royal College of Art (London). Alongside creating exhibitions, he continues to exhibit regularly including: London Art Fair (2009); Gimpel Fils, London (2008); Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich (2008); and the South London Gallery (2007).

ART:sync | arts management | marketing & pr | research | audience development | community outreach |educational workshop | production management | practicing artists | artform specialists - theatre/music/visual art/circus/combined arts

ART:sync is a consortium of creative professionals from across the cultural sector with a common interest in sharing innovative concepts and the equality of opportunity in the arts. The ART:sync vision is to align grassroots communities with high-quality arts activity, and the group are committed to making diverse artforms accessible to diverse audiences. ART:sync's core membership includes practicing artists, producers and community agents;

• Akila Monika Richards
• Amantha Edmead - Founder/Artistic Director, Kuumba Nia Arts
• Christina Peake - Writer, Visual Artist
• Euton Daley - CEO/Artistic Director, Pegasus Theatre
• Gary Redding - Festival Director, Composer, Sound & Film Editor, Producer - Baobab Studios
• Indy Hunjan - Creative Producer, Director of KALA PHOOL & Rising Styles
• Irene Mensah - Visual Artist, Community Arts Co-ordinator, Dance Specialist
• John Sailsman - Director, Unity Arts
• Kerri McClean - Director Rolemop Arts
• Nigel Ryan - Interior Architect, Graphic Designer, Gallery Owner, Director of ARTISAN
• Odi Oquosa - Visual Artist, Poet, Shamen, Workshop Leader - www.odiart.com
• Philippa Vafadari - Theatre Director, Actress, Aerialist, Director of BandBazi Circus Theatre
• Rikki Tarascas - Actor, Theatre & Film Director, Writer, Visual Artist
• Ruth Price - Southern Renewables
• Vinod Desai - CEO, Art Asia
• Yasmin Gurreeboo
• Irene Mensah
• Jaswinder Prince
• Sindi Gordon
• Wayne James - Producer, co-Proprietor of Shae Shae Creations