Reflecting on Creative Neighbourhoods
Culture Liverpool and Open Eye Gallery are delighted to share the findings of a round table learning event Creative Neighbourhoods which took place on 27th November, 2023. The event brought together artists, commissioners, community members and key stakeholders, to explore how socially engaged approaches to arts engagement can better enable local residents to shape and share what matters to them about their local area.
The event took place within Open Eye Gallery’s venue, which featured an exhibition called A Place of Our Own. The exhibition featured two Historic England Picturing High Streets projects with photographer Tony Mallon and the Prescot Photography Club, in collaboration with Knowsley Council, and work by photographer Suzanne St Clare and Chester Traders, in collaboration with Chester and Cheshire West Council.
The exhibition also included work from Our Home. Our Place. Our Space; a Liverpool City Council’s County District Centre scheme project, featuring photographers Lucy Hunter, Sarah Weights, Tricia Grant-Hanlon, Walton residents and young people from Walton Youth and Community project.
For the day’s event, we also showed a pop up display of another Culture Liverpool project, Croxteth Speaks delivered by All Things Considered Theatre. This publication gives an overview of each project and shares the reflections from the day.
The publication features an introduction by Liz Wewiora, Head of Social Practice (Open Eye Gallery), and Jess O’Neill, Creative Community Engagement Officer (Culture Liverpool) and an essay by Lauren Stephens, Philosopher in Residence at Open Eye Gallery and a PhD researcher in the philosophy of art at the University of Liverpool.
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Images: Rob Battersby
