Red Sand - Arts Management

Expressions! is a 2-day festival held in the heart of York's city centre.

The festival features colourful, energetic performances of music and dance from across the globe and is created entirely by local people for local people.

Bollywood Tyohar was a large-scale community dance project led by artistic director Zoobin Surty and featuring over 60 members of the local community from York and Leeds.

The project culminated in performances at the Grand Opera House, York and the Carriageworks, Leeds in summer 2008.

SightSonic, based in York, is an annual digital arts festival that aims to present and promote artworks that have digital technology at the heart of the creative process.

Presented over a weekend at venues across the city, SightSonic presents work by leading national and international artists whilst fostering the work of new and emerging artists.

The BA Festival is the largest of its kind in Europe and the UK's longest-established science festival.

Hive Twilight City was a series of four high profile audiovisual performances produced by the Hive Collective over the course of 2008 in tribute to a potentially overlooked part of Liverpool's essence: its industrial and business buildings, its bricks and plate glass; the iconic and the mundane, the city centre and the suburb.

Space 109 is a community arts space situated in the Walmgate area of York, set up to encourage, develop and nurture a sense of community and pride within the area.

YoMü Visual Arts Festival took place in York in August 07, featuring exhibitions, installations, artist talks and interventions around the city.

An annual celebration of the live music scene in York, established in 2000, York Live is a four-day festival featuring dozens of local acts in venues across the city.