The objectives of Aurora are to promote, maintain, improve and advance education about the arts within the community at large. We do this by the promotion, production, exhibition, performance and encouragement of the arts including but not exclusively - visual, performing and media arts. Thanks for visiting the Blog, we hope to keep you all up to date with what’s going on and what’s coming up! Please let us know of any events or news items that you have that may be of interest to other members.

Launch of the 2009 Country Living Magazine’s The Balvenie Artisan Awards

The Balvenie and Country Living Magazine have joined forces to launch the 2009 Country Living Magazine’s The Balvenie Artisan Awards.
The awards are open to anyone in the UK who uses a traditional skill to earn their living from crafts such as weaving and textile design, glass blowing and ceramics to working with wood, leather, metal, [...]

Aurora Book Opportunity – LAST CALL

Just a gentle reminder to those who wish to be involved with the Aurora Book (Aurora members only). Deadline is here, so let us know as soon as possible.

Aurora has been given match funding for the production of a 2009 directory. This will be in a similar format to the previous years versions and any [...]

Grants and funding information from Chris Dawson

Hi Everyone
I was at the Aurora meeting at Linden Hall and i said i would put some information on here about any grants that i find out about.
1. New Entrepreneur Scholarship
This is a £1500 grant but unfortunately this is postcoded This course is ran by Entrust and it is 1 day a week for 4 [...]