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: Friday 24 October 11am-3pm
Venue: The Battery, 119 London Road North Lowestoft, England, NR32 1LZ
Full details: https://essexcdp.com/event/artist-salon-lowestoft/
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.”
About the Hosts and Partners
Led by First Light Festival CIC, the Battery of Ideas Place Partnership is designed to fire up ideas, enthusiasm and involvement in the new Cultural Quarter development in Lowestoft town centre, to grow public awareness and engagement in the Quarter and create a step change in creative production and cultural participation in the town. The Battery is a space for inclusive creative participation and engagement, co-production, planning and testing out activity as Lowestoft’s new Cultural Quarter develops. Currently we are testing out a programme of creative health activity, live performance, visual art exhibitions and installations in partnership with a consortium of local arts organisations and cross sector partners. The Battery of Ideas project has awarded 34 local creatives enterprise bursaries and art commissions, including to make work that will be shown in the Battery and at First Light Festival.
