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Arts Desire - A company specialising in public and community art, based in London UK, specialising in large scale and participative public artwork.

Community Development Foundation - Features foundation which aims to promote effective participation of people in the decision making processes which affect their lives.

Black Labrador Community Arts - Group based in Manchester who organise an annual community arts week.

Weekend Arts College - Based in Camden, London, Weekend Arts offers training for young people in the performing and digital arts. Site includes a wonderful gallery of students work.

Yorkshire Art Circus - Community publisher, arts organisation and education provider.

Millennium Book Project - A women's art project funded by the Arts Council of England. Gallery, exhibitions.

Postcard From Pilton - A web project by young Scottish people from Greater Pilton, Edinburgh, expressing a positive sense of themselves and their community.

University of Nottingham Arts Centre - Public workshops led by local artists with focus on education.

FACT - Electronic arts agency specialising in community arts, video, multimedia, installations and publications.

A Festival of Ephemeral Arts - Celebrating the transitory arts from all cultures with an emphasis on encouraging community and school involvement. From Asian Arts Access.

Greenwich Mural Workshop - Information on community and public art mosaics, murals and banners. Also projects with schools.

Public Arts - Charity which links artists, businesses and communities to work together creating environmental improvement and change: profile, services, history and contact details.

Artpoint Trust - Visual arts and crafts agency providing consultancy and project development services for the commissioning of new work for public spaces: profile, projects, services and contact details.

Blast - A BBC initiative encouraging 13-19 year olds throughout the UK to get involved in dance, film, art and music.

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(Vladimir Nabokov) To keep your marriage brimming With love in the marriage cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it, Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Community Arts We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us. -- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust. -- Nanette Newman, British actress I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and "cheap"? -- Phyllis Diller Community Arts Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it - Henry David Thoreau "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." 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There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. -- Cynthia H Community Arts Experience teaches only the teachable. -- Aldous Huxley I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. -- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. -- Aaron Levenstein If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth How could they tell? -- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Community Arts If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. -- Aristotle Onassis It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. -- Betty Bender Community Arts Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson. -- Vernon Law Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. -- G. K. Chesterton When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. -- Henry Miller "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. -- Thomas Jefferson Community Arts There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. -- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise. -- Roger Simon Never judge a book by its movie. -- J. W. Eagan Community Arts Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture. -- Aldous Huxley "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable. -- Fred Astaire I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli. -- George Bus blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Community Arts "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. -- Milton Friedman Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Community Arts I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. - Ludwig Wittgenstein Here's to you and here's to me, and I hope we never disagree. But, if that should ever be, to HELL with you, here's to ME! -- Anonymous I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Community Arts Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. -- John Stuart Mill "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. -- George Santayana Community Arts Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an inquest. -- H. L. Mencken All that is gold does not glitter. 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