Creative Places
Working with Sheffield City Council, Eventus was commissioned to provide training for Housing Market Renewal (HMR) staff in their understanding of culture and its availability within all areas of HMR work. Supporting a HMR Culture Task Group, Eventus helped to develop locally appropriate cultural action plans for each area whilst ensuring that staff had the relevant skills to deliver their aims.
Throughout the project Eventus was keen to ensure that community engagement was integral to all projects and processes at all times whilst using this basis to develop ideas and partnerships for future projects. In order to raise the profile of the Sheffield HMR Culture Programme both locally and nationally, Eventus linked the project with national programmes and initiatives such as the Academy for Sustainable Communities.
Changing Places is a series of 3 commissions designed to kick start creative activity in the three HMR areas. In East Sheffield, Ali White photographer, writer and digital artist, worked with the community at Tinsley to produce a series of postcards exploring what the cooling towers mean to residents and the place they have had in their lives. Dead Earnest Theatre and BBC Radio Sheffield discovered what place means to people in North Sheffield through the production of an innovative radio play, The View, aired on Rony Robinson's show. Whilst, in South Sheffield, Photographer Richard Hanson worked on S2Legends, capturing the pride in local people, documenting their lives through images and text and displaying them on the S2Legends website.
Information on the projects can be found on the links below.
Creative Places is featured on the Living Places website.
