Welcome to Creativity Works - raising the profile of, and engagement with the arts in Pennine Lancashire
Arts Engagement
Creativity Works arts engagement programme is funded by Arts Council England and Renaissance North West to increase engagement in the arts through partnership with local heritage venues.
Heritage Venues
Located throughout Pennine Lancashire, six key heritage venues are working together to plan, design and deliver joint, innovative ways of working with artists to reach new cultural audiences. The programme aims to link up existing activity and build on it, ensuring that Pennine Lancashire audiences engage with the arts and celebrate the areas’ heritage and culture.
ReVist Talks
ReVisit Artist Talks Invitation
Stuart Haygarth, Grennan & Sperandio, Timorous Beasties and Adept
29 September & 13 October 2011
Limited places, please RSVP
On the 29 Sept at 4pm, Paul Simmons from design duo Timorous Beasties, and Steve Manthorp & Shanaz Gulzar from artist collaboration Adept will be giving artist talks, introduced by Anthony Preston from Arts Council England. Event at Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery.
On the 13 Oct at 4.30pm, Stuart Haygarth and Simon Grennan from artist duo Grennan & Sperandio, will be giving artist talks, introduced by Emma Anderson, Manager of Renaissance North West. Event at the Haworth Art Gallery in Accrington.
ReVisit is a series of creative commissions developed by Creativity Works that has invited artists and designers to look at the collections of museums and venues in Pennine Lancashire in a new way. Over the spring and summer of 2011, Haygarth, Grennan & Sperandio, Timorous Beasties and Adept worked with the collections of the Haworth Art Gallery, Towneley Hall, Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery, and the North West Sound Archive, respectively. Each brought their unique approach to the process to develop work that was unexpected, insightful and, in some cases, challenging. The artists will talk about their own practice and the experience of working on the ReVisit program.
Please book your place by emailing Laura Rodgers, Creativity Works Arts Engagement Officer on laura.rodgers@blackburn.gov.uk
Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery, Museum Street, Blackburn BB1 7AJ
Howarth Art Gallery, Manchester Road, Accrington, BB5 2JS
ReVisit 2011
Following on from the success of the Open Shop Project in the summer and autumn of 2010, ReVisit 2011 is a series of 5 commissions building on the relationship between heritage venues and artists in Pennine Lancashire. Five national and international artist collaborations have been invited to work with Pennine Lancs unique museums and historic buildings, developing projects that will see challenging uses of their venues collections and encourage new ways of engaging. Each project has been tailored to the needs of the venue, collection and surrounding community creating a diverse and innovative programme of projects.
Involved in this project are:
Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery
To find out more about the individual projects please click on above links or read:
The Open Shop Project
The Open Shop Project is a partnership project between heritage venues and artists in Pennine Lancashire. It provides an opportunity for the people of Pennine Lancashire to meet, interact and work with a range of artists, and for innovative work to be created around the eclectic collections housed in Pennine Lancs heritage venues.
Involved in this project are:
Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery
To find out more about the project click on the above links or read:
For the story so far in pictures please view our flickr site:
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