USEFUL LINKS

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Established in 1885 as a specialist institute, now a leading university sector institution offering high quality specialist education in arts, design and media across the creative industries. www.aucb.ac.uk

This course is not about just sculpture or painting – it concerns all ways of creating work, reflecting movements in fine art practice in the real world. Students have the opportunity to combine disciplines and may decide to fuse video, film, painting, installation, object or audience. http://www.aucb.ac.uk/courses/degreecourses/fineart.aspx

An arts team working throughout Bournemouth to support creativity, learning and enjoyment of the arts. www.bournemouth.gov.uk/residents/arts

Join to be invited to openings each year. http://www.facebook.com/events/328035593922085/

http://twitter.com/ArtBournemouth

Sign up to Art Sway's email list as they have a fantastic programme. Next to Sway railway station, 20 minutes by train direct from Bournemouth. Free entry. www.artsway.org.uk

Hosts 8 - 10 exhibitions per year. Based opposite Waterstones bookshop within the university. Open to the public, free entry. See www.unilinx.net for buses. www.bournemouth.ac.uk/facilitiesandresources/arts_music/visual_arts/atrium_gallery.html

Monthly exhibition and live music event exhibiting work by students, recent graduates and established artists, both national and international. Ishihara still has its monthly residency at its birthplace Sixty Million Postcards but is now organising exhibitions and events further afield too. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=35280706927

KUBE brings art, artists and audiences together to share, study and respond to many forms of art and design. The gallery houses the mid-20th century collection owned by the Bournemouth and Poole College. Also hosts an art car boot sale, and live music evenings. Open to the public. Free entry. http://www.kubepoole.org.uk

Largest art centre outside of London. Includes a great art house/world cinema programme, and a monthly *film club. www.lighthousepoole.co.uk

A Georgian building, built as a workhouse in 1764, now filled with a rich variety of changing displays and objects. Free entry. http://www3.hants.gov.uk/redhouse

Bournemouth's hidden gem, recently described by Jeremy Paxman as "a feast". Housed in a Victorian villa, it was originally designed and lived in by Sir Merton and Lady Russell-Cotes. Flamboyant and eccentric are words used to describe the villa's architectural and interior design. Situated on a cliff top over-looking the beach. Only 5 minutes walk from this exhibition. Free entry. www.russell-cotes.bournemouth.gov.uk

text+work is the concept which underpins the exhibition programme at the Arts Institute at Bournemouth. text+work promotes and provides a forum for challenging dialogue between innovative contemporary art, design, and media practice, and their theoretical contexts. Open to the public, free entry. See www.unilinx.net for buses. www.textandwork.org.uk

Good place to eat when visiting this exhibition, as it's right next to Bournemouth Lower Gardens. Food is served 'til late, check the website for times. Great programme of events, also see the Facebook group. www.sixtymillionpostcards.com

A comfy pub with an eclectic programme of live music, performance and poetry. 5 minutes walk from Bournemouth Lower Gardens. www.facebook.com/home.php#/profile.php?id=756752519&ref=ts

Monthly networking / socialising for creative people. www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=2367347450&ref=ts

Monthly networking / socialising for creative people. Find them on Facebook too. www.theartspoole.co.uk

www.evolver.org.uk

www.listedmagazine.com

www.musera.co.uk

In association with Bournemouth Borough Council & the Arts Institute at Bournemouth. www.banyardsltd.com

www.bournemouth.co.uk

Bus services are available both to students and the general public. http://www.unilinx.net

www.elanormcbay.co.uk

A unique, independent initiative to develop, attract and retain new creative businesses in the South West. Based on the campus of The Arts Institute at Bournemouth. www.theenterprisepavilion.co.uk

www.goldustdesign.co.uk

www.isstv.tv

A touring, local podcasting project, Portable Radio will visit ten UK locations (including Bournemouth) until May 2009 asking artists, writers, members of the public and curators what their local art scene is like. In doing this, Portable Radio will create an online audio map of the UK visual arts. www.portableradio.org.uk

www.printedeasy.com

Cultural Olympiad programme 2008-2012 and beyond. RELAYS is an ambitious, innovative and flexible programme of linked cultural and sporting opportunities across South West England. Grounded in learning, it will engage the regions communities and Higher Education (HE) institutions and generate a positive legacy beyond 2012. Delivery will be through the establishment of new sustainable festivals and events, an enhanced distinctive regional cultural tourism offer and the development of knowledge and skills. The project provides an unprecedented opportunity to integrate HE's widening particpation, teaching, research and outreach remits; open up its resources and expertise; and work in collaboration with cultural, sporting, environmental and other educational organisations to build individual and community capacity, for regional benefit. www.herda-sw.ac.uk/currentprojects/RELAYS/tabid/185/Default.aspx

SCAN is an agency developing media arts in the South of England. It works in partnership with a broad range of individuals, groups and institutions nationally and internationally to commission innovative projects that cross and merge disciplines drawn from arts, media, humanities, science and technology. SCAN explores ideas, sites and tools showing the creative potential that media arts offer in our changing society. www.scansite.org

CRADLE 2009 lead artists Blood and Sinclair grew up in Dorset and did a foundation course at the Arts Institute. They first collaborated in 1996 while at Central Saint Martins School of Art in London. Their practice focuses on staged photographic self-portraiture. www.thegirls.co.uk

www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk