It's salamanda tandem's 21st anniversary year.
We're a group of experienced artists and producers who work within a set of core principles that underpin the delivery and engagement process of participatory performance art. These values have driven us since our inception in 1989.

Currently we are running PROJECT 20 - a 2 year programme of debate, provocations and practice led projects that raise ethical and aesthetic questions about quality in participatory or socially engaged arts work with poeple. The project will be toured and published in our region. We have a good network of academic publications available to us, and many experienced artists and academics from the region and beyond who will be making contributions. We are working closely with EMPAF as part of the project and will be setting up a forum on this web site for contributions and debate. So far we've run seminars at; The Curve leicester with our partners Foundation of Community Dance on Dance and Ethics, we've run a seminar at the Lincoln Centre for performing arts with Kayla Dougan Boutell on the 'dancers journey into participation', we've run a seminar at New Art Exchange in Nottingham on interactive play with children on the autistic spectrum, and we've run a seminar at Rufford Arts centre on inclusive practice for visual artists. We're in the process of setting up more tarining courses and seminars around the region. We want to widen the net to include others who are conversant with exemplary partipatory practice and those who want to develop their practice. Do get in touch if you are interested in contributing.

This project is supported by Arts Council England through the National Lottery progamme, and Nottinghamshire County Council Arts Team.