Re-Imagining Place: Sustainable and Inclusive Growth Through Culture, took place at the Guildhall Worcester in March 2023, offering opportunities to celebrate, share learning, connect and be inspired by the first round CDF projects in Grimsby, Plymouth, Thames Estuary, Wakefield and Worcester.
This video of the second panel of the day follows on from the first Capital Projects panel, focusing on Activating Spaces, with key highlights including:
- Introduction to Activating Spaces theme, (Chair: Tracey Sage, Sage Culture / Emergency Exit Arts)
- Introduction to Estuary Festival (Thea Berhman, Senior Project Manager, Estuary Festival/Metal Culture)
- Introduction to The Arches Worcester Festivals (Elaine Knight, Arts Director, Severn Arts)
- Introduction to Trigger and The Hatchling (Natalie Adams, Executive Director/Joint CEO, Trigger)
- Introduction to Grimsby Creates and NE Lincs CDF programme (James Trowsdale, Strategic Lead for Culture, NE Lincs Council)
- Community involvement in cultural programmes
- Community involvement in The Hatchling, Plymouth (Natalie Adams/Trigger)
- Co-creating (Tracey Sage)
- Co-creation with young people (18-30) through The Rising Festival, Worcester (Elaine Knight)
- Civic pride and community engagement through Grimsby’s Festival of the Sea (James Trowsdale)
- Inclusion, civic pride and community ownership of public spaces (Tracey Sage)
- Participation, inclusion and relationships with place and lived experience through Estuary Festival (Thea Behrman)
- Audience Q&A (1) – managing public expectations for sustainable, ongoing activity in light of revenue funding challenges and (2) evaluation of programmes and activity
- Challenges of evaluating and measuring ongoing collaborations and collaborations (James Trowsdale)
- Chair question: Legacy and sustainability – is there funding available for ongoing activity post-CDF?
- Successful models of capturing partnership work through evaluation (Natalie Adams)
- Skills development through programme activity (Elaine Knight)
- Sustainability – balancing urgency to drive change
vstenacity needed to build cultural infrastructure (Thea Behrman) - Final reflections, takeaways and call to action from each panellist
