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Tempo Arts encourages and facilitates access to arts for all |
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Tempo Arts is a professional arts organisation formed in 2001 and based in the South East region. Directors Saffron Summerfield Saffron Summerfield is a singer/composer and audio-visual artist. She plays guitar,cuatro, bouzouki and keyboards and blends found sound into her recorded work. Her music and songs have been used in film,television and radio and she has toured as a performer in the UK and overseas. Saffron set up Tempo Arts with Phyllida Shaw in London 2001 as a vehicle to collaborate with other artists and deliver high quality arts provision to all sections of the community. " I believe that involvement in arts activities can provide meaning and true connection among individuals,families and communities". Sarah Yates Sarah Yates is an artist specialising in video and sound. She has a BA in Fine Art from Kingston University and has exhibited internationally in Spain and Berlin as well as in different parts of the UK. Over the past few years she has worked across the South East region curating artists projects in alternative spaces and has recently managed Coastal Currents Arts Festival in Hastings and Rother. Sarah has developed a variety of arts education projects for children and adults in both gallery and informal settings. She has worked closely with organisations across the South East coast including the De la Warr Pavilion, Aspex Visual Arts Trust and the Brighton Festival Fringe. Christine Gist Christine Gist currently divides her time between Deal, Kent and Hastings, East Sussex. She lived in the USA for many years, receiving a BFA in sculpture from the University of Washington, Seattle and an MFA in sculpture from Yale University School of Art, New Haven. She is a practising artist, curator and visual arts consultant with extensive experience of working with artists, public agencies and private institutions across the South East region and mainland Europe. Heidi Foster Heidi Foster became a Tempo Arts Director four years ago when she moved to Rye. Her artistic perspective and personal interests, including playing the flute in a small orchestra, drawing, creating mosaics and singing in a choir, gives her an understanding of Tempo Arts goals. Heidi worked with Saffron on two local digital film making projects - 'This is our Village' - an intergenerational film made with residents of Rye Harbour village, and ' a Day in the Life of ARRCC' - a film depicting the work of an arts rehabilitation centre. Heidi is Treasurer/Director of Tempo Arts. |
"I believe that involvement in arts activities can provide meaning and true connection among individuals,families and communities". |
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