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Creative Places

Place-based work

Working across the region, we are instigating and supporting creative projects in collaboration with artists, communities and partners in a year-round, place-based approach. Each project brings communities into closer contact with creativity and helps make our part of the world a better place to live, work and play.

We can deliver this work in many ways. Sometimes we support funded residencies for artists to develop projects with local communities. On other occasions we collaborate with local partners to forge creative projects that meet their objectives. Find out more about some of these projects below.

Current Projects

A Fenland Residency

Dancer, Choreographer and Fenland bred Dan Canham is creating films with young people from Fenland in a three year project.

Your Town, My Town, Our Town

A three-year, artist-led youth engagement project in Swaffham. It will support and enable young people to help shape their towns future through a programme of activities that bring their voice to the fore.

Past Projects

Kinship

Writer Daisy Henwood collaborated with musician Milly Kirby to explore how young people and their communities relate to nature.

A Handful of Time

Participants created small artworks or ‘artefacts’ with locally sourced clay; each artefact capturing a moment in time and bearing the unique lines and contours of their maker’s hands.

On Our Doorsteps

A community participation project – part of a nationwide programme exploring the relationship between urban communities and the natural spaces around us.

Artist Network

Join the network of artists and practitioners committed to creative education and socially engaged practice. 

Are you an artist or creative practitioner committed to working with schools, young people and communities in the eastern region? Would you like professional development opportunities to develop your practice, to win bursaries to explore new ways of working, network with other like-minded professionals or opportunities to work on projects in Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough?

Sign up here

Masthead: Kerry Bensley | Dan Canham

Arts make life better

Norfolk & Norwich Festival brings tens of thousands of people together in celebration – it has been doing this for 250 years. Through our May Festival and our year-round arts education work, focusing on children and young people, we lead and support celebration, creativity and curiosity in communities across Norfolk and the region.

This year we begin an exciting new initiative, Festival Connect & Create that will bring creative opportunities to those schools and communities with least provision. Creativity transforms people’s lives. It builds cohesive communities, develops vital skills and supports health and wellbeing. We want more people to have access to creative opportunities.

Please consider donating to support and develop this work. With your help we can increase access to the life changing power of the arts.

Registered Charity No. 116442

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