“How can we be a good neighbour? It’s the creative community trying to have a foothold in that and to be a really important part of it so it’s not just commercial development. We’re all trying to maintain what is so special about all the different industrial and creative spaces here.”
Read More“I have started to see the very first kernels of what could happen when artists and those passionate about tackling social challenges come together. But we do know that artists need their own very bespoke and specific resources and infrastructure.”
Read MoreFrom consulting on industry-wide environmental activism, to illustrating the ways inequality has been systematically designed, here are five projects and organisations working at the intersection of culture, design, art and the environment.
Read MoreHospitality is being reimagined around the world with arts and culture at the centre. Here are 5 culture-led residence projects inspiring our plans for an artist-led hotel and cultural hub in Birmingham, UK.
Read MoreA list of projects that reflect the direction for the future we hope for; one where we might reimagine the creative and cultural industries, how they operate and who they involve.
Read More“Now that I have graduated with a 1st class degree; my life has only just begun. I look back at my University experience as a mock exam for my career as a woman of colour in the arts and media industry. “
Read MoreFive community-driven Culture projects, supporting both artistic development and opportunities for the public.
Read More“Through these different perspectives the artist can offer back her findings to others, who can use this offering to enhance their understanding of the world and to add their own critique. It sounds maybe a bit hierarchical, but it’s essentially a service that you provide a community, like any other job or role.”
Read MoreNot having core or long-term funding has never affected our ambition, activism or pragmatism. And it’s not about to start.
Image: The Loft Birmingham, Studio Danmole
Read MoreHow a theatre co-operative is "hacking the Fringe" and developing a new financial model for participation and development.
Read More"The artist interrogates, prosecutes and prophesises. If we aren’t bringing our whole political and spiritual selves to our work, we are not sculpting a new earth. We just playing in the dirt."
- Alysia Harris
Read More"The bigger picture is about purposefulness, communicating something intentional, addressing some condition and meeting it with a platform for engaging the city."
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