As part of ACI's Visual Artists Development Programme, supported by Awards for All, ACI announces it will be staging an Alternative Art Fair in partnership with the Open Art Platform , the Mashed Potato Gallery and Head for Business .

The Alternative Art Fair will take place in the Seager Distillery, Deptford, South East London, and will be tied into the ‘Made in Deptford' initiative which last year saw 8000 people come to Deptford for cultural activities.

All work exhibited will have a sale price of under £1000.

For more information contact Tim Burley

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Solo Performance Platform

Tim Burley, Founder Director of ACI is producing a Solo Performance Platform in the Pleasance Studio Theatre in the first week of May 2005. The event will see 7 international artists performing one man/woman shows and will also include workshops on devising solo work and an open discussion event on careers in theatre. Anyone wishing to know more about the Platform should email timb@artscorpinternational .

Enlarged view (pdf version)

For more information contact Tim Burley

Community Music Project

ACI has successfully bid to the Local Network Fund on behalf of member Paddy Roxburgh for a grant of £6700 to enable Paddy to tutor children from low income families from Haringey in violin skills. Paddy has a background in professional folk music touring internationally with the Tofu Love Frogs for over 10 years.

The grant will enable Paddy to buy violins for the children and offer one to one and group tutoring. Paddy has already recruited eight children from a wide variety of cultural backgrounds, the children will perform together at a special event over Christmas 2005.

In the Spring of 2006 ACI will be looking at ways to raise follow on funding for the project and also to expand the project into

Fear Eats The Soul

In the Autumn of 2006 ACI hired the Menier Chocolate Factory studio in London Bridge where Director Jeanette Reid worked with a professional team for one week staging a 40 minute work in progress performance. The piece, written by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, was well received by the audience but limitations placed on further development by the representatives of the Fassbinder Foundation have led to ACI not taking the project forward to a full development.