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What We Do

We are a community initiative that works on issues connected to community, art, race, mental wellbeing and disability in the arts. 

Working with a range a local partners we provide opportunities to learn, exhibit and empower people to bring about social change through the arts. 

We do this by

  • Providing creative and social activities 

  • Providing networks for people addressing issues around race, mental wellbeing and disability

  • Learning through research, and events for change in the arts

  • Campaigning with a range of community partners to tackle broader local issues affecting artistic and cultural production such as issues of art, race, mental wellbeing and disability

Our Values

 

The guiding values of our work are as follows;

  • We work collaboratively using socially engaged art methodology

  • We support connectivity and provide access to local networks

  • Our projects are led by people with lived experience

  • We create safe spaces and provide opportunities for peer support workers

  • We work holistically and understand the wider social circumstance which affect peoples lives

  • We understand the longstanding issues around injustice, class, gender and decolonisation in the art canon and our workshops and teaching reflect this

  • We acknowledge the complexity of individuals and the intersectionality to issues which affect them

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Some local partners

 

Inspire Culture, Nottingham NHS Trust, Himmah, Muslim Women’s Network, Pilgrim Church, Nottingham Race Equality Council, ReFramed, The Meadows, Thomas Helwys Church, Lenton, Nottingham Refugee Forum, Nottingham Trent University, Bright Ideas Nottingham, New Art Exchange, Nottingham Contemporary, Primary, Nottingham Centre for Photography, Enable, Nottingham CVS, Canal and Riverside Trust, Notts County Foundation, St Peters Church, St Annes Allotment, Nottingham City Farm, Photovoice