We put time and money back into the scene around our work: community nights, mentoring, and production support for organisations that need it.
We invest in the people and organisations around us. We run local community nights and workshops, we mentor people coming into the industry, and we back grassroots projects with money, time and technical production.
The aim is for our work to be international, but to contribute to a local scene that thrives.
We support the creative and cultural sector in three ways:
We run public workshops and the Bath Live Visuals Community, a regular meet-up for people making live visuals and events in the city. The sessions are where techniques, contacts and half-finished ideas get shared.
We mentor people building a practice in nighttime events, technical production and creative technology. That includes subsidised independent mentoring in partnership with EMERGE at Bath Spa University.
We back community organisations with sponsorship, and with technical production where that is more useful than money. The aim is to clear a practical obstacle for organisers working with very little.
A place to learn the work in public
POLYMATHIC runs workshops and the Bath Live Visuals Community so that making nighttime events is not a closed practice. BLVC is a Bath meet-up for people staging visuals, installations and performances, and for people who want to be part of that.
Workshops open up sound, visuals and creative technology to communities, charities and curious creatives. We also talk plainly about how a job was delivered: the install, the constraints of the building, what held and what did not. The scene gets stronger when more people can see how the work is actually done.
Supporting people into this work
We mentor people trying to build a working life around nighttime events, technical production, sound and visuals. Some of that mentoring is independent and subsidised. Some of it is structured one-to-one support to recent graduates through EMERGE at Bath Spa University.
Sessions cover how to work with venues, how to price and deliver a night, how to build a freelance or early-stage practice, and who to talk to next. It is practical guidance from people doing the work, for anyone crossing from study or a first job into this scene.
If you are starting out and trying to find a way into events, production or creative technology, get in touch.
Practical support, not only funding
We support community-led and third-sector work in Bath with money where money helps, and with technical production, advice or hands-on delivery where that helps more.
We sponsored the Diversity and Inclusion category at the Radio Bath Charity Awards. We also back grassroots events with funding, equipment and pro bono technical services, usually quietly, for organisers who are already stretched.
If you are running something that benefits the community and you need financial support, a technician, or help working out how the night could actually happen, talk to us.
We are open to conversations with emerging practitioners, community groups and cultural organisations.