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Research shows we are successfully engaging more people from areas of least participation in the arts

06.09.17

Today we publish two reports sharing impacts and outcomes from the first three years of our programme.

Heart of Glass. A Right St Helens Knees Up performed by residents from sheltered housing at Citadel Theatre. Photo: Stephen King

Evaluation approaches in community contexts

30.08.17

Sarah Davies on a new resource sharing a range of approaches to evaluating arts projects in community contexts 

Ribbon Wheel - Nicola Winstanley and Sarah Nadin

Putting your audience first - East Durham Creates shares approaches at the Arts Marketing Association conference

27.07.17

Nikki Locke, Head of East Durham Creates is at the Arts Marketing Association conference in Belfast this week talking about audience-led approaches with Anne Torreggiani from The Audience Agency.

So Percussion. From Out A Darker Sea. Seaham. Photo: Richard Kenworthy

Harnessing the heritage of making in our industrial past for a creative and confident future

04.05.17

In a guest blog to mark the first National Festival of Making, designer Wayne Hemingway writes about making creativity a way of life in a post-industrial UK

Art in Manufacturing. Traysway with Ruth Jones and Cherry Tree Bakery. Photo: Richard Tymon

No Boundaries 2017

19.04.17

"Why doesn't the arts sector work with real people more?" 

Creative Barking and Dagenham. Cultural Connectors at DAGfest 2015. Photo Dabuju Media

You can do it yourself: class, place and culture

13.02.17

Writer Lynsey Hanley on social boundaries, cultural choices and doing it for yourself.

Ashington District Star recreate Fish and Chips by Fred Laidler working with photographer Julian Germain

In conversation: What impact has working with CPP projects had on your artistic practice?

31.01.17

Eleanor Turney talks to Geraldine Pilgrim, Jason Wilsher-Mills and Dee Patel about working on Creative People and Places projects and the impact of this work on their practice as artists

Creative Black Country's Desi Pubs. Portrait by Dharmendra Patel

The role of voluntary arts in Creative People and Places

16.01.17

Robin Simpson of Voluntary Arts introduces a report and podcast focusing on the role of voluntary arts activity in Creative People and Places projects

Rush with Southpaw Dance Company, The Cultural Spring. Photo: Dan Prince

New report highlights importance of working with communities to create sustainable future for the arts

13.12.16

Today we publish Faster but Slower, Slower but Faster summarising learning and insights from the Creative People and Places programme to date.

The Cultural Spring. Mr Draytons Human Jukebox at Hylton Castle Working Men's Club. Photo Dan Prince

David Jubb on Faster but Slower, Slower but Faster

12.12.16

"This is not arts for everyone. This is arts created with, by, for and about everyone. " David Jubb of Battersea Arts Centre responds to the learning emerging from Creative People and Places 

TakeOver, East Durham Creates. Photo: Richard Kenworthy

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