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Stop and Stir Arts Ltd is an equal opportunities company.

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Recipe for Stop and Stir

Ingredients:
Unlimited amounts of Fresh Creative Ideas
Unlimited amounts of Curiosity
Large measurements of Faith in the Power of Art

Method:
Stop any passivity, stir the above ingredients together and cook at high temperature. Serve hot.

We aim:

To build partnerships and collaborations between existing arts companies and organisations, educational institutions and voluntary organisations in Scotland locally, as well as nationally and internationally, e.g. between Scotland and artists from Africa and the African diaspora
To encourage engagement with the arts on all levels - from audiences to participants, in all artistic fields, e.g. film, music, theatre, literature and visual arts, with a focus on innovative and socially- conscious art
To increase access to arts for audiences and participants, in Scotland primarily but also further afield
To develop and expand arts audiences by creating opportunities for exposure to cultural products that people would have limited access to otherwise
To focus on artistic products linked to educational and social developmental issues, e.g. health (HIV/AIDS, mental health); equal rights (e.g. ethnic minorities, gender, disability, religion, race, age, sexual orientation); and cultures (e.g. histories and artistic traditions of diverse cultures)
To promote cultural exchange and diversity through a multi-cultural orientation towards arts in Britain, in order to challenge discrimination on any level and contribute to the development of a tolerant, compassionate society
To encourage dialogue and create understanding, tolerance and positive awareness between people from different national, cultural, ethnic and class backgrounds in Scotland and further afield
To recognise and promote the importance of involvement in creative industries for individual and societal development
To provide a platform for learning and create opportunities for skills sharing, training and development from community to industry
To support artistic products from developing countries in particular – Africa, Asia and Latin America and their diasporas in Britain – and to contribute to positive representations of these cultures in Britain
To provide a fresh variety of imagery and information of underrepresented and largely untravelled territories to Western audiences
To provide opportunities for the exhibition of underrepresented and marginalised art, e.g. Africa and the African diaspora, and overcome distribution and exhibition barriers
To create continuity in arts events, e.g. to establish annual arts events in Edinburgh and further afield
To stimulate intelligent discussion, debate, research and analysis of artistic products from various cultural traditions
To foster and nurture new talent, especially in underrepresented areas, through for example commissioning new work