Fusion Arts is an arts organisation and charity based in Oxford working within the community.

Our premises are located at the heart of East Oxford and the legendary Cowley Road, behind East Oxford Community Centre on Princes Street. East Oxford has long been a hub for artists and makers, and we are proud to be part of this creative community.

Fusion Arts Centre has two large arts workshops, and delivers a thriving programme of arts activities for adults and children - why not try our lovely untutored life drawing session every Thursday evening! The centre is also available for hire for arts based activities, rehearsal space, classes, events, performances, happenings and exhibitions. Please see our website for up to date events and news.

Fusion Arts facilitates creative projects within the community, our dedicated staff are constantly fundraising for new projects for continued work with diverse community groups many of whom are on the margins of society.
Please visit our website to find out about past and present projects!

Fusion's projects reach across Oxfordshire and beyond, working within communities in public and environmental art, participatory art projects and high profile public events.

www.fusion-arts.org

Song writer, musician, performer and founder of both The Catweazle Club and Big Village. Highly experienced in running song writing, performance and singing workshops with older people, young people and community groups across the board. The Catweazle Club is Oxford's longest-running weekly performance space, "Britain's most intimate performance club" - The TIMES http://www.catweazleclub.org. Big Village is one of the county's leading presenters of music from around the world http://www.bigvillage.org.

Matt Sage is also a successful artist and composer in his own right:

http://www.myspace.com/themedicine

http://www.myspace.com/mattsagemusic

“A great artist” - Gilles Peterson on Radio 1

“Sublime” - Healthy Concerts

“Nectar for the soul” - Daily Information

“An amazing and dynamic voice – with all the grace and emotion of Jeff Buckley & Damien Rice” - Nightshift Magazine

OCM brings music, artists and audiences together in ways that encourage and create memorable and meaningful experiences for all.
OCM is a unique producer and charity that works to develop and present the highest quality and most innovative new music and sound-based live events, to engage diverse local and national audiences with our work, and to deepen understanding and appreciation of musical cultures from within the UK and worldwide. Our raison d’être is to bring music, artists and audiences together in ways that encourage and create memorable and meaningful experiences for all.
We have four strands of activity: concerts, new commissions/projects, education and outreach, and talent development. We aim to achieve our mission by:
• Supporting artists in their professional and creative development
• Forging inspiring partnerships that cross conventional boundaries within music, the arts and beyond the arts
• Presenting excellent work from the UK and abroad that is highly engaging, relevant and accessible to diverse audiences
• Developing and using innovative approaches to presentation and interaction
• Developing and delivering participative projects with schools and community groups that nurture skills and offer personal fulfilment.
We believe in the ability of the arts to empower people and communities through self-expression, to allow people to question, imagine, challenge and dream.

My practice explores the mysterious, unfathomable and supernatural through multi-artform events and exhibitions of paintings and sculptures. I am particularly interested in the relationships between people, and between people and their environment, and how these are mediated by beliefs and supernatural or spiritual experiences.
My outdoor events are inspired by religious rites from various traditions, and aim to involve the audience as participants as much as possible, drawing them into a liminal space from where they can re-evaluate the Present and re-invent the Future.
In this context I undertake commissions to help design alternative weddings, namings, funerals and other sacred ceremonies.

Much of my work has been in reaction against the mainstream of gallery-based conceptualism, and its emphasis on emptiness, formality and academic rigour. Thus I have worked mainly outside of the traditional gallery setting, producing experimental work in self-organised venues or outdoors, dealing mainly with meaning and the sacred.
My work is usually multi-artform, and often collaborative. From 1990 to 1993 I worked with the Oxford Poets and Writers Co-operative, and then until 1996 with artists’ co-operative Magic Arts. From 1993 my work was partly supported by the world-renowned environmentalist, Miriam Rothschild, until her death in 2005. I am currently working on a number of experimental projects in conjunction with Oxford Improvisers and the Oxford Feral Choir.
My theoretical basis, underpinned by a doctorate in psychology (1989) is a comprehensive synthesis of the anthropologists Victor Turner, Mary Douglas and Catherine Bell, and the psychologists Roberto Assagioli, C G Jung, Fritz Perls and David Marr.

MAP (Multi Arts Programme) is a county wide programme that provides accredited learning through the arts in an informal learning environment in a way that engages young people and encourages their development as individuals and active citizens.

As part of Oxfordshire County Council Youth Support Services MAP represents a new and significant development for the arts and young people in Oxfordshire. MAP works with young people aged 13-25 years from a variety of different backgrounds, including those who are NEET or at risk and those who have physical or social disabilities.

MAP delivers an ongoing programme to young people in core units across the county. Learners have access to specialist facilities and support for a variety of different arts practices, including music technology, creative writing, film making, graphic design, visual arts and photography. During individual and group projects, young people at MAP work towards an NOCN Qualification through personal target setting, self-reflective work and project planning and evaluation.

MAP also delivers programmes to a variety of outreach locations and groups e.g. young parents’ groups, young people with disabilities, homeless projects, groups of young people with their mentors and workshops with under 16’s at risk of failing at school.

MAP works with a wide range of organisations including Connexions, colleges and schools, training agencies and E2E providers, Youth Support Services, housing projects, Youth Offending Service, Drugs and Counselling services, Mentoring projects, Social and Health Services etc.

Underpinning all of MAP's work is the belief that the arts can make a difference to young people's lives by engaging them in learning where other methods have failed and by helping them develop essential skills which transfer to other areas of their lives.

For more information contact Emma Titcombe on 01865 246969

I am an artist, critic, and curator living in Oxford, England.

One third of Oxford's only artist and curatorial collaborative, Launch Collaborative, Emily Alexander, Phil Marston and I met many moons ago as fine art undergraduates. Having graduated, gone our separate ways, and developed different skill sets exhibiting, curating, working within event management, communications, and personal development in cities across Europe, we have reunited, fusing skills and ambitions to form Launch Collaborative in Oxford.

Launch Collaborative aims to provide a platform for creative exploration, showcasing some of the best contemporary art by early and mid-career artists, complementing the exhibition programme with live performances, workshops, in-conversation events, and lectures. With the intention of promoting, exploring and contributing towards new and exciting opportunities within Oxford, Launch Collaborative's goal is to provide exhibition opportunities for local artists, at the same time drawing other artists and audiences into the city. Launch Collaborative aim to encourage public interest in the visual arts, whilst remaining committed to artists' integrity and striving towards the development of sustainable careers within the arts.

Interested in social dynamics and the psychology of space, Launch Collaborative are keen to utilise unusual exhibition spaces within Oxford city centre in order to gain maximum exposure for exhibitors, in turn facilitating greater interaction with a wider audience.

Working as part of Launch Collaborative is something that I do alongside reviewing exhibitions and art happenings for the Oxford Mail... and then there's the day job!

Administrator Orchestra of St John's
www.osj.org.uk
simon.payne@virgin.net
07775 904626

I'm a DJ who love teaching people how to become DJ's I've DJ-ed in Slovakia to 8,000, Ibiza, Holland,Seattle,Northern Ireland, Oxford Carnival, 25,000 at the Reading Carnival.

also I have a radio show on BBC Oxford on Sunday Nights from June 2009 and I teach DJ Skills at Addington School (Special Needs), Glory Farm School Bicester, Schools out Marlbough School Woodstock.

for more information log onto my web site

I have worked for Oxford City Council within the Arts & Culture Team since 2000. My main responsibilities focus on dance development (including delivering the city-wide annual dance festival 'Dancin' Oxford' - including programming, curating, commissioning and producing), managing and supporting various outreach / community-based projects and supporting locally-based artists (of all art forms).
I can be contacted via e-mail at cthompson@oxford.gov.uk or 01865 252820 / 07747 475259.