The fourth Creative Gathering for all those who work within the arts in Peterborough will be an all day event. Further details to be posted shortly.
If you are interested in knowing more, please email susannah.willcox@rsa.org.uk
Inspiring day in Peterborough last week, seeing Our Nobby at Jack Hunt school with Yr 7 students in rapt attention and moving to hear the actor playing Nobby tell them afterwards in the Q&A how he went to the school himself and witnessing their surp…
Excellent! Jamie here tells me you were in the focus group last week. Let us exchange emails. I'm at jocelyn.cunningham@rsa.org.uk
I am in Peterborough on Friday at this RCE event - you're in London - sure we can work something out though. Prefer fa…
Hi Graeme,
I think engaging with the rural past and present is a key aspect of how artists can engage with this work and imagine that this can play a part in both the commissions and residencies as well as Experiments in Place Making. It is down to…
The Civic Commons will be a space where local people, local decision-makers and leading thinkers from around the world can discuss new ideas and the things that matter to them.
The Peterborough Curriculum will be a school curriculum that is developed by young people, schools and other people and organisations in Peterborough, and inspired by Peterborough’s past, present and future.
At the Launch on July 21, the Arts and Social Change session asked:
What might an artist do that would make a difference in your community?
Over 40 participants explored their collective responses to this question and came up with the following id…
The first Creative Gathering of Arts and Social Change was held at the Peterborough Museum on July 12 filling the building with over 50 locally and regionally based artists and representatives of related arts organisations.
Chris Higgens and Fiona…
I have been coming to Peterborough most weeks now for about 4 months but need to get out more to the outer areas
What is your own vision for Peterborough?
A place that buzzes with a confident sense of itself and offers a unique and innovative arts scene that is additionally strongly connected with social change
One thing you'd like to change about the place?
Less about shopping; more about communal spaces for people
What areas of the Citizen Power project are you most interested in?
Um...I would have to say Arts and Social Change - it is the strand I am responsible for...
What's your favourite place to eat in Peterborough?
Jimi's on the Broadway. Great food. recently opened and needs support.
Favourite place to go?
Central Park. Still haven't had time to hang out in the Cathedral enough.
If a Martian came to Peterborough, what would you show him/her/it to explain what the place was about?
Probably the waterways and river and how its' geographical position formed it's history.
Tell us some more about yourself
Well, I am originally Canadian but have lived here for over 30 years. I spent most of those working as an actor and theatre director and then ran a Creative Partnerships area in north London building partnerships between creative practitioners and schools. I have two daughters almost ready to leave home.
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