Spaces and Places

Building on our pilot programme, HotSpot, Spaces and Places is a three-year programme of artist-in-schools residencies that forms a core element of the Festival’s Creative Schools offer across East Anglia. 

We’re working with four regional artists; Kate Munro, Johann Don Daniels, Rose Feather and Glasshouse Dance. Over the three years they will bring a new project to a school each year, codesigning it with children and teachers in each location. The projects aim to develop a sense of community and pride in the children; support teachers to deliver creative engagement and develop the delivery skills of artists in educational settings. 

As with much of our work, we are seeking to bring projects to those most in need. Each school will be selected from one of the region’s Levelling up for Culture areas or those settings focussing on support for children and young people with social, emotional and mental health needs (SEMH). 

The residencies will conclude with a local community sharing and a celebration at Norfolk & Norwich Festival each year. 

Spaces and Places sets out to encourage children to investigate the ‘real’ built and natural environment in their part of the world and to think about the communities to which these spaces and places have meaning. Each place or space will be determined collaboratively by the artist, teacher and students.   

We want each residency to have its own identity, and to build, over the three years, a unique collection of East Anglian stories – all seen through the eyes of the children. 

Year 1 of Spaces and Places concluded in December 2024 with the teaching staff across all participating settings highlighting how well their pupils responded to the project artists, as well as how creative engagement helped develop their confidence, self-esteem, and creative skills. It also featured in the Peterborough Telegraph, click here to have a read.

Artists

Kate Munro, Johann Don Daniels, Rose Feather and Glasshouse Dance

Locations

Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough 

Participants

80 children across Key Stages 1-4 from:
Howard Community Primary, Bury St Edmunds
Abbey College, Cambridge
The Nicholas Hamond Academy, Swaffham
City of Peterborough Academy