Red Grasshopper Ltd is an arts management consultancy led by Carlos Chirinos. Our ethnographic training and ongoing research in cultural production and the creative industries influence our approach to programming, development and evaluation.

We specialise in:

Programming & Artistic Production

Project Management

Artist & Audience Development

Research & Evaluation

Current Red Grasshopper Projects Include:

Artist Development Partner of 3D Family. Working on the release of Saxophonist David Murray's back catalogue of recordings on Black Saint (Italy) and DIW (Japan), and development of digital publishing strategies for the artist in USA and Japan.

Recruitment officer for Live Music Now in the Northeast, Midlands and Southwest, UK, supported by Arts Council England. Funded in 1977 by the late Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now is the largest music outreach program in the United Kingdom. The current recruitment programme can be found on: www.myspace.com/livemusicnowuk

Research: London City University-led 'Celebrating Enterprise!' Project

Project management: Southwark Council's Culture Service www.southwark.gov.uk

Fundraising & Project Management: Nutkhut Theatre Company's espirro! (Visiting Arts & Gulbenkian Foundation funded) www.nutkhut.net

Fundraising & Project Management: "Sound & Silents", live music/silent film project co-produced by the National Film Theatre and Birds Eye View film festival www.birds-eye-view.co.uk

Community Festival Co-ordination: Stokefest 2006 and 2007 www.stokefest.co.uk