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Past projects and events

Past projects

  • Culture Box
    Promoting social interaction and public health through the arts in the time of Covid-19 – with Exeter University
    Learn more about Culture Box.
  • Creative Community Commissions
    With Citizens UK: matching creatives with grass roots organisations
  • Traces: Stories of Migration
    Film and publication - with Lucy Orta, David Betteridge, Nathalie Abi-Ezzi and Fair Acre Press
    Traces: Stories of Migration
Students standing in a meadow, holding up colourful illustrations
Climate Emergency Network Class of 2022, Molly Simpson, Lu Zheng, Purvisha Sutaria | Photographer: Morgan Hill-Murphy

Past events

  • Experiments in Non-Linear Narrative
    with Google Arts & Culture Lab
    Panel discussion exploring how new platforms and emergent technologies offer innovative narrative possibilities
  • Creative Producer Impact Lab
    with Doc Society
    4 days of intensive training exploring how Doc Society's impact methodologies might be adapted to art, design and performance
  • Cultural Policy for Social Purpose webinar
    with World Cities Culture Forum
    Chaired by Justine Simons OBE, Deputy Mayor for Culture and the Creative Industries, with Ruth Mackenzie CBE.  
    Public webinar on how cultural policies and programmes are tackling deep-rooted social, economic and environmental challenges. Global city leaders shared innovative projects with the chance to discuss their design and impact and learn more about how culture can help to deliver on the urgent priorities that cities around the world are facing.
  • Cultures of Welcome storytelling workshop
    with Citizens UK
Pencil graphite shaped into hands holding onto each other.
Pencil sculpture, Tariq Mohammad Hamdan, Za'atari Refugee Camp

Launch Event

14 October 2022, Linbury Foyer, Royal Opera House, London

With thanks to our pilot season partners and contributors:

Arts Council England, Arts & Humanities Research Council, Barbican Centre, Citizens UK, Create4Glasgow, Culture&, Culture and Creative Industries Unit, Greater London Authority, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Doc Society, Fair Acre Press, Foundation for Future London, Fourth Plinth Commissioning Group, Google Arts & Culture Lab, Little Amal, LocalGlobe, London Arts and Health, Making for Change, National Activity Providers Association, National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement, Nesta, Royal Literary Fund, Royal Opera House, Sabir, September Publishing, UAL Climate Emergency Network, UAL Decolonising Arts Institute, UAL Social Design Institute, University of Exeter, Watson Little, World Cities Culture Forum.

Pilot season team

Ruth Mackenzie – Launch Director
Kate Keara Pelen – Head of Creative Projects
Natasha Mays – Creative Producer
Sarah Cook – Operations Manager

Commissioned research and analysis