Projects

We're currently working on a wide range of educational, health and well-being, community, national and international creative projects.

The SoundWaves Network

August 25, 2025

The SoundWaves Network is an innovative and exciting Early Years Music Network for Early Years practitioners, child-minders, Early Years settings and InspirED schools.

Spring Forward Dance Festival

August 25, 2025

Spring Forward is an annual dance festival offering unrivalled opportunities for Somerset and South West dancers to perform on a professional stage, participate in workshops and watch world-class dance performances. February 2005 – Present

Rural Touring Dance Initiative

August 25, 2025

The Rural Touring Dance Initiative (RTDI) brings exciting and innovative dance theatre and dance performance to rural locations, using the established rural touring schemes to help make this happen successfully. 2015 - present.

Our Turn - Dance For Dementia & Memory Loss in Somerset

August 19, 2025

Our Turn is an arts intervention project using dance and movement to help the health and happiness of vulnerable adults living with dementia or memory loss, and their carers.

Circus Around and About 2

August 19, 2025

Extraordinary circus shows visiting rural and urban communities across the south-west.

Little People Big Ideas

August 19, 2025

A programme that places children aged 2 – 4 year olds at its centre. Funded by Youth Music from September 2024 – August 2027.

Dance To Health

August 25, 2025

Based at Dunkirk House in Bishops Lydeard, this project was part of the national project Dance To Health; a pioneering ‘falls prevention’ dance programme for older people.

BARN

August 25, 2025

BARN was a collective theatre initiative, facilitated by Take Art, that supported Somerset’s emerging theatre-making sector to develop, test and showcase new work in a predominantly rural context.

RIOTE 3

August 25, 2025

The RIOTE 3 project enabled us to work with outdoor theatre companies from across Europe to exchange knowledge and skills. It has now come to the end after two amazing years.

RURITAGE

August 25, 2025

In January 2019 Take Art was invited to become one of 38 partners in the Horizon 2020 four-year funded research project, RURITAGE, profiling Take Art’s touring scheme as a model for rural regeneration across Europe.

Little Big Bang

August 25, 2025

Little Big Bang was a grand scale Early Years Creativity project that ran for two years between 2009-2011, bringing creative professionals into key Somerset Children's Centres to work as part of their professional teams.

Circus Around & About

August 25, 2025

We took extraordinary, family friendly circus to village communities across the South West in the summer of 2021.