Since September 2004 Vanishing Point has been running an innovative Shared Resources Project with support from Scottish Arts Council Lottery and Glasgow City Council.
The purpose of the project is to enable and support the work of emerging artists by creating a mutually beneficial environment in which they can work and learn from each other and learn from us, at the same time as we learn from them. We aim, by creating this hub, to maximise the amount of time we all spend doing what is really important: making adventurous, ambitious theatre for a new generation of audiences. The project has so far been immensely successful and we hope it will continue long into the future.
The first four companies to benefit from this initiative were ek Performance (Pamela Carter), Fire Exit Limited (David Leddy), Random Accomplice (led by Julie Brown and Johnny McKnight) and Vox Motus (led by Jamie Harrison and Candice Edmunds). We have since worked with Stammer Productions (led by Colette Sadler), Never Did Nothing (led by Nick Underwood), Company Chordelia (led by Kally Lloyd-Jones), Glas(s) Performance (led by Tashi Gore and Jess Thorpe) and SeenUnSeen (led by Neil Dohert
This project provides these companies with comprehensive office resources, and a creative environment in which experience, advice and information can be shared. Since December 2006 a consultancy program has been initiated and incorporated into the scheme with Di Robson from DREAM. This allows companies to focus on specific areas of need and benefit from the expertise of an individual advisor.