Director at Solar Associates
London, United Kingdom
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- Owner and Director at Solar Associates
- Past
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- Producer, The Lift at Shoreditch Festival at Lift
- Coordinator at NODE.London
- Music event consultant at The Albany, Deptford
- Business consultant at LIFT
- Fundraiser at Madrugada
- Digital Media Arts Adviser at London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT)
- Fundraiser at Germination
- Review consultant at New Work Network
- Fundraiser at Watkiss Music Ltd.
- Producer at The Red Room
- Arts Programming Manager at artsdepot
- Action Researcher at Animarts
- Head of Participative Arts Development at Watermans
- Artistic Director at Croydon Young People's Theatre
- Performing Arts Lecturer at Stratford College
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Tim Jones’s Summary
I am an Arts Producer with expertise in professional and participative arts practice across multiple art form disciplines. I offer an ability to sensitively support the development of networks and infrastructures for creative and cultural production, an enthusiasm for emerging creative practice, combined with a mature business sense and significant experience of working in socially engaged contexts.
Tim Jones’s Specialties:
Action research, artist/tour booking/liaison, consultancy/strategic planning, contracts, evaluation, event production, event booking/programming for festivals and venues, fundraising, network development, producing, project management.
Tim Jones’s Experience
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Owner and Director
Solar Associates
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Performing Arts industry)
September 2007 — Present (1 year 11 months)
Solar Associates is the creative production consultancy offering collaborative expertise to artists, businesses and communities who wish to engage with evolving artforms, and transform our culture, in the era of participatory media.
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Producer, The Lift at Shoreditch Festival
Lift
(Partnership; 11-50 employees; Arts and Crafts industry)
May 2008 — August 2008 (4 months)
Producing the artistic programme for a 9-day festival held in a portable venue. including climactic participatory arts commission. Total audiences 10,000 approx.
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Coordinator
NODE.London
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Arts and Crafts industry)
August 2005 — December 2007 (2 years 5 months)
Coordinator of an open network (of artists, curators, producers, theorists, activists_ that works to develop the infrastructure for, and raise the visibility of, "media arts" practice in London. See www.nodel.org.
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Music event consultant
The Albany, Deptford
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Music industry)
September 2005 — September 2007 (2 years 1 month)
Music programme advisor for this mid-scale combined arts venue located in Deptford, south east London.
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Business consultant
LIFT
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Entertainment industry)
July 2007 — September 2007 (3 months)
Identifying income streams from the commercial sector, and new arts based partnerships, for this international theatre producing organisation.
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Fundraiser
Madrugada
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Arts and Crafts industry)
September 2007 — September 2007 (1 month)
Fundraising for a UK tour of small-scale venues for an emerging performance company.
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Digital Media Arts Adviser
London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT)
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Arts and Crafts industry)
February 2007 — June 2007 (5 months)
Supporting the development of "media arts" project within the Lift New Parliament project, a new mobile performance structure and social/cultural space which will be unveiled at the launch of the LIFT08 Festival, June 2008. www.liftfest.org.uk
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Fundraiser
Germination
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Arts and Crafts industry)
September 2006 — June 2007 (10 months)
Working up and making applications for funding to a range of UK based public bodies and Trusts and Foundations, including for Burntprogress's CDR project (who subsequently have taken me on as project advisor and booking agent), for Germination's organisational development as a cultural production company developing arts-led events that stimulate discourse around issues of public value, and for Germination's future projects, including an arts evaluation seminar series and 'Eye of the Storm', an audio-visual installation and performance produced in collaboration with community participants.
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Review consultant
New Work Network
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Arts and Crafts industry)
February 2007 — April 2007 (3 months)
Co-consultant (with Ayla Suveren, Arts Producer) on the 'Networked Bodies' Review, making recommendations about the development of this artist-led network for new work, particularly live art and experimental performance.
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Fundraiser
Watkiss Music Ltd.
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Music industry)
November 2006 — January 2007 (3 months)
Fundraiser for a creative collaboration taking place in Sao Paulo in autumn 2007 between Cleveland Watkiss, vocal artist (UK), and audio visual artist Cadu da Toro (BR). The project explores sound visualisation and improvisation between musicians, dancers and video artists.
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Producer
The Red Room
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Arts and Crafts industry)
January 2005 — September 2005 (9 months)
Producer of ‘Hoxton Story’, an interdisplinary arts project exploring the effects of the regeneration of Hoxton and Shoreditch upon local social housing residents, encompassing on-the-street theatre performances, installations, publication, sound archive and web project).
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Arts Programming Manager
artsdepot
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Arts and Crafts industry)
May 2003 — October 2004 (1 year 6 months)
Launching the new venue’s artistic programme (annual turnover £400,000+), and developing related financial and administrative systems. Programming the first two seasons of comedy, media arts, music, theatre, visual arts.
Line managing a team of 5 arts programmers, and consultants/freelance staff, inc. chairing meetings, mentoring others, developing Steering Groups, Focus Groups and Board Policy Committees.
Leading on new audience development schemes and new financial forecasting systems in close collaboration with the marketing department.
Developing contract and tender documents and Service Level Agreements for community programmes.
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Action Researcher
Animarts
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Arts and Crafts industry)
March 2002 — June 2003 (1 year 4 months)
Co-investigating, using action research methodology, the skills and insights required by artists to be effective working in schools and communities.
A landmark arts education research project, supported by London International Festival of Theatre and Guildhall School of Music & Drama. -
Head of Participative Arts Development
Watermans
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Arts and Crafts industry)
September 1998 — May 2003 (4 years 9 months)
Conceiving, project managing, and acting as the public face of a diverse range of projects including:
- live performance residencies and music festivals for young people
- an annual schools visual art exhibition (participating schools rose from 13 to 30 over 3 years, with exhibits winning ‘Young@Art’ awards (London Institute))
- pioneering participation initiatives for refugee groups in West London
- substantial arts & disability strand including club events workshops and exhibitions;
- producing and delivering against the 3 year Arts Participation Strategic Plan
- designing the monitoring and evaluation systems for the arts programme
- developing durable and effective partnership working with public, corporate and local authority sector organisations. -
Artistic Director
Croydon Young People's Theatre
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Performing Arts industry)
September 1998 — February 2000 (1 year 6 months)
Managerial, artistic and financial leadership of this youth theatre, comprising 40 young people (11-19 years).
Leading a year round practical programme built on the creative ideas of the young people.
Resolving difficulties/conflicts among the membership, in line with child safety, protection and disclosure and confidentiality guidelines as appropriate -
Performing Arts Lecturer
Stratford College
(Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Performing Arts industry)
September 1994 — August 1997 (3 years)
Teaching on courses from Access to Degree level.
Composing new course syllabus elements validated by Coventry University.
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Tim Jones’s Honors:
One of five independent Producers selected for support by the Arts Council of England 2006-8 to develop projects which make a significant impact in terms of artform and audience development.
Accomplished arts fundraiser, raising over £368,000 for arts organisations and projects 2004-7.
NODE.London nominated for a Prix Ars Electronica award (Digital Communities category) 2007.
Producer of ‘Something to Declare’, a groundbreaking arts & refugee initiative for Watermans Arts Centre, including a photoinstallation made with newly-arrived asylum seekers - toured to the ‘Journeys Inbetween’ conference, Brussels, at which I was a keynote speaker (2000).
Advisor to ACE London Theatre Dept on fixed term funding decisions (£65,000/yr) in 2004.
