At the current time, Wave staff are working from home due to the Covid 19 pandemic. Artists and other external visitors are currently barred from visiting schools that do remain open. Wave is honouring the contracts it held with artists for the summer term and also moving some activities online.
We are working closely with other local arts organisations across Bournemouth, Christchurch, Poole and Dorset to try to mitigate the negative impact of Coronavirus on our work and those of our peers.
If you are an artist based in BCP or Dorset worried about the impact of Coronavirus on your work, we may be able to signpost to you where the best advice might be available.
Please do get in touch via info@waveartseducation.org.uk.
We will be keeping this page updated so please check back from time to time to access the very latest advice, news on schools returns etc.
here are a large number of on online resources to help both artists access support and members of the public access culture during the current extraordinary conditions.
We are grateful to our friends at ActivatePerformingArts for their work bringing together many of the links on this page.
HelpMusiciansUK have an excellent one stop page summarising the support available to musicians, plus various Health and Safety
The UK support body for music services and hubs, MusicMark, has an excellent resource page with all sorts of advice related to covid-19, online platforms, and safeguarding.
HMRC webinars are available for advice on employment.
Specialist arts-focussed legal firm bateswells.co.uk has a series of free and pay to watch webinars on a range of issues here, covid and non-covid related