Extending the boundaries of South Asian arts

Vision
To mainstream Asian Arts in the South West of England and beyond.

Mission
Based in Bristol the Asian Arts Agency supports artists and practitioners to deliver traditional and contemporary South Asian arts, encouraging engagement from all communities and from venues in the south west.

Some of our key aims

1. Encourages high quality South Asian arts practice in mainstream venues
2. Supports professional development of South Asian artists working in Bristol and the south west
3. Bring international South Asian artists to the south west of England
4. Encourages innovation in South Asian arts practice and development
5. Support contemporary, experimental and new work developed by British Asian artists
6. Celebrates and promotes South Asian arts to the whole community
7. Enables communities to experience and participate in South Asian arts

Values
• Approach - Forward thinking
• Attitude- Professional yet friendly
• Openness to new ideas
• Keeping open communication with our partners
• Always developing new collaborations and partnerships
• Working within our capacity
• Willingness to listen to other views
• Creating equal opportunities
• Staying focused

We also feel it is important to list ways in which we cannot work
• Marginalising arts and artists
• Be in a tokenistic position
• Wasting ours and others time and resources
• Unequal opportunistic environment
• Working on projects that cannot develop organically