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UPDATE: Arts Circle will continue to include live events scheduled for later this year. But in response to the current world situation, we will also be giving links to online readings, interviews, book clubs and related activities posted by our painters and writers.
Wishing everyone very safe and well.

Our Story...

Arts Circle is made up of a group of friends and associates - including painters, poets, musicians, actors, writers, photographers, curators, film-makers, lecturers and students. Our aims are not commercial but communicative - unattached to any advertising concerns. The website provides information and hopes to connect people interested in the arts.

We also highlight selected events; mainly in Britain, Southern Spain, Italy and sometimes in North America and New Zealand too. These are linked to our group, current or past collaborations and locations.

Some of our location postings stay constant. For example: updates on exhibitions at The Sainsbury Centre, Norwich. Several of us studied there and like to return to enjoy its permanent collection and share news of its current shows. The latest from PAN Intercultural Arts is also always flagged up on the home page. Alongside the charity, branches of Arts Circle were connected to a series of events celebrating Dylan Thomas's Centenary. See Archive, 2014.

Every three to six months the website offers an Arts Circle profile with the guidance and participation of our featured artist, musician or writer. An overview of the life and work of celebrated New Zealander, painter - Max Gimblett, will be coming up soon. The Profile page now contains a selection of taster articles.

Our thanks to...

The Fundación Escultor Berrocal para las Artes, Max Gimblett, Matt Jones, Graham Fawcett, Hugo Williams, David Bachmann, Katherine Gonzàlez - who instigated Arts Circle's beginnings, Karen and Richard Twose, Dan Llywelyn Hall, Musica con Encanto, James Tamlyn, Lisa Moore and Mark Webb, Blue Rider Theatre Group, Sue Hubbard, PAN Intercultural Arts, Judy Ovens - Our Hut and All Aboard for Stockwell,  Richard Duguid - Nitwood, Tom Duguid, Inmaculada Bustos Casnova, Pat Saro, Mirella Ricciardi and Amina Dempsey .

We´re also very grateful to Jane Birch, Minette Constant and Alison Ballantine for their kindness and advice. And to Natascha Chahal from The London Review of Books for her enthusiasm. Also to Lee Magner and collagist Amanda Maisey, for their generosity, encouragement and for sharing La Morna. (See Archive, 2013: Summer in February). Plus a big thank you to The Poetry Bookshop, Hay-on-Wye and Primrose Hill Books, Regent’s Park Road, London. And for their warm hospitality to The London Sketch Club, The Lamb, Bloomsbury, The Peasant, Islington and The Old Coastguard, Penzance.

And not forgetting the many technological talents of our friends - above all those of the wonderful website developer Sascha Raber and Katie Lynk's flair & skills.

We’re open to discoveries and would be very happy to hear from you at info@artscircle.net.

Please note: we have no advertising affiliations.