Its that time of year again as we practice our best smiles for the camera (more work needed?) and hold our Annual General Meeting. Many thanks to everyone on our lovely committee for so much hard work behind the scenes – ALL2016 is shaping up to be a very exciting mix of sounds, performances and installations, and yes, even some painting.

With so much relentlessly downbeat news in the air at the moment it can seem difficult to stay positive, but I do believe that making more art is as good a remedy as any: creativity is good for the soul as well as for society.

So we will be back at the end of the summer with full details of our ALL2016 artist line-up and locations, plus a relaunch of our website with new logo (thanks Karen!) and much more besides. We hope it will be our best ALL yet and a refreshing counterblast of positivity. But for now, as August fast approaches, we wish everyone happy holidays and hope you catch some sunshine!