SUBTYPE: Reports & Evaluations, SOURCE: Create Glos, SUBTYPE: Resources & Toolkits, TYPE: Learning Suzanna Wyatt SUBTYPE: Reports & Evaluations, SOURCE: Create Glos, SUBTYPE: Resources & Toolkits, TYPE: Learning Suzanna Wyatt

Reimagining where we live: cultural placemaking and the levelling up agenda

Create Gloucestershire’s evidence to the DCMS inquiry into cultural placemaking and levelling up. We share what we’ve learned from resident led alliances such as Culture Matson and Cam and Dursley Creatives, from paying artists and community producers properly, and from bringing new funders to the table, and set out why trust, time and shared decision making matter most in places without an established arts infrastructure.

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SUBTYPE: Reports & Evaluations, In Practice, SUBTYPE: Workshops & Events, TYPE: Learning, SOURCE: Create Glos Suzanna Wyatt SUBTYPE: Reports & Evaluations, In Practice, SUBTYPE: Workshops & Events, TYPE: Learning, SOURCE: Create Glos Suzanna Wyatt

“Who knew so much goodness was right here all along?”

What over 55 people told us about growing creativity in Gloucestershire. On 16 September, we convened more than 55 people for a day together at the Friendship Café in Gloucester around one question: how can we grow creativity in our communities better, together?

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PROGRAMME: Create Health, TYPE: Learning, SUBTYPE: Reports & Evaluations, In Practice, PROGRAMME: Create Talent, SOURCE: Create Glos Nadine Cameron PROGRAMME: Create Health, TYPE: Learning, SUBTYPE: Reports & Evaluations, In Practice, PROGRAMME: Create Talent, SOURCE: Create Glos Nadine Cameron

Future Talent: Creative Health practice in Gloucestershire

In 2022 and 2023, Create Glos teamed up with the NHS to run a series of micro experiments designed to test and build the infrastructure needed to support neighbourhood-led arts and health. Read about the process and findings.

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PROGRAMME: Create Local, TYPE: Learning, PROJECT: NG200 Art Road Trip, SUBTYPE: Reports & Evaluations, In Practice, SOURCE: Create Glos Nadine Cameron PROGRAMME: Create Local, TYPE: Learning, PROJECT: NG200 Art Road Trip, SUBTYPE: Reports & Evaluations, In Practice, SOURCE: Create Glos Nadine Cameron

Celebrating Creativity: The Legacy of the National Gallery’s NG200 Art Road Trip in Gloucestershire

In 2024, the National Gallery marked a historic milestone—200 years of bringing people and paintings together—with a year-long celebration known as NG200. This ambitious initiative looked both to the past and the future, launching a nationwide festival of art, creativity, and imagination to set the tone for the Gallery’s third century.

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TYPE: Learning, PROGRAMME: Create Health, In Practice, SUBTYPE: Reports & Evaluations, SOURCE: Create Glos Nadine Cameron TYPE: Learning, PROGRAMME: Create Health, In Practice, SUBTYPE: Reports & Evaluations, SOURCE: Create Glos Nadine Cameron

What we learnt from our creative conversation about HOW we work together support health and wellbeing,

In June 2023 Healthy Communities Together (HCT) Gloucestershire held a Structures of Togetherness Event in Stroud Sub Rooms, a creative conversation about whether HOW we work together in the county to support health and wellbeing, matters as much as WHAT we do (hint: HCT thinks it does).

Image credit- Myron Rogers

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