Untold Stories Commission “For many years people in communities like ours have thought that art isn’t for them and that nobody cares about their stories – we changed that.” – Rona Hardy, Community Champion Introduction East Durham Creates in partnership with their Community would like to commission an artist, creative Read more…
Our Community Panel is at the heart of East Durham Creates, and guides our projects, ensuring they are beneficial to the local community. In the past our Community Panel has sought a location for our Arts Café, ensured major commissions become annual events, identified the need to engage more young Read more…
Art Hit: Post Art was an incredible project we ran with artist Eleanor Matthews during the lockdown. We asked people from East Durham and beyond to create postcards that they had designed especially for people feeling isolated, in order to cheer others up and ensure that everyone felt connected during such Read more…
East Durham Creates and our Community Panel are looking for an artist to start working this summer with young people in the East Durham area on a project around connection. East Durham Creates began the third phase of delivery of our Creative People and Places project in January 2021. EDC Read more…
East Durham Creates is part of Arts Council England’s Creative People and Places programme. We require an Evaluator for our work across the next three years of project delivery. We are looking for an Evaluator who can provide formative and summative evaluations. Working with our team a comprehensive evaluation framework Read more…
East Durham Creates and our Community Panel have received funding from DCMS to address a challenge facing all of us after a year living in a worldwide pandemic – social isolation and loneliness. East Durham Creates has just commenced our third phase of delivery of our Creative People and Places Read more…
EAST DURHAM TAKES ITS PLACE ON THE UK STREET ART MAP AS TWO ARTISTS COLLABORATE TO CELEBRATE DURHAM’S MINING CULTURE On the 27th July a new public artwork will be unveiled in Seaham, Durham. A collaboration between artist Jamie Holman; the lead artist for Above Below Beyond, a project and Read more…
Are You Feeling Isolated or Shielding in East Durham? Connect With People In Your Area East Durham Creates are wanting to bring people together who are feeling isolated during COVID-19 to hear your stories and experiences to inspire a brand new performance by Skimstone Arts. Skimstone Arts supports diverse artists and Read more…
Following on from our Virtual Go & See Visit to the Serpentine Galleries to see The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever by artist Grayson’s Perry, you all asked us for more! So the East Durham Creates team have created a resource list of online exhibitions, TV shows and talks that Read more…
We, the undersigned from the cultural sector of the North East, declare that silence is not ok and silence is seen as complicity. Racism has no place in a just and humane society. Whilst we cannot undo pain and neglect, we are calling on all of us in the arts, Read more…