Are you a creative practitioner or professional working, or wanting to work, in diversity?
Essex Cultural Diversity Project’s Artist Salons are free workshop and networking opportunities for creative practitioners and community organisers. Come along to share and develop ideas for art projects which celebrate diversity. There will be hands-on advice about engaging with communities and applying for public funds for community art projects. The day includes a complimentary lunch.
Presented as part of the Platforma Festival, produced by Counterpoints Arts, this Artist Salon will be focussed on intercultural arts provision for migrant, refugee and asylum seeker communities.
Free, but places are limited so booking is essential.
Date: Tuesday 14 October 11am-3pm
Venue: The Art Station, 48 High Street, Saxmundham, Suffolk, IP17 1AB
Full details: https://essexcdp.com/event/artist-salon-saxmundham/
Who Should Attend?
The event is open to emerging or more established artists/arts organisations, or representatives from organisations who want to develop creative projects within diversity settings.
Essex Cultural Diversity Project’s core mission is to energise diversity in arts and heritage.
“We know that diversity is different for everyone. Diversity for us means: cultural diversity | different ethnic backgrounds | low socio-economic backgrounds | LGBTQ+ | disability | neurodiversity | or an intersection of these. We often support artists and projects that engage with: deprived communities | marginalised voices | communities with little or no access to the Arts | those who are culturally curious or want to connect with where they live in different ways.”
Guest Speakers
Angie Lee-Foster is Programme Manager for Creative Health at Britten Pears Arts. Britten Pears Arts is a pioneering cultural charity which uses music to transform people’s lives, to bring communities together and enhance daily life.
Tor Cooke is Programme Manager for The Art Station. The Art Station is a dynamic, ambitious, arts charity, developing and supporting culture and creativity in East Suffolk through a free Arts and Learning programme.
Hosts and Partners
This Artist Salon is developed in partnership with Britten Pears Arts and Snape Maltings, with Angie Lee-Foster, Programme Manager for Creative Health at Britten Pears Arts. Britten Pears Arts is a pioneering cultural charity which uses music to transform people’s lives, bringing communities together and enhancing daily life.
The Art Station is a charity arts organisation providing a new creative hub in Saxmundham, a rural market town in coastal Suffolk. Having completed a major refurbishment of the first floor of a former 1950’s telephone exchange and post office, The Art Station’s unique venue has become a base for a dynamic and engaging arts and community programme. They aim to unlock potential and effect real change – enabling people to come together to form communities around the creative industries and tech. By providing affordable creative space for local artists, makers and tech developers, alongside exhibition and event spaces, The Art Station is developing new networks in the region and provides access to unique creative opportunities.
