Looking ahead to an exciting week in the conversation about how much of a role arts & crafts, creative, culture can play in our town and city centres…
…in lots of ways, but in particular for our focus on tackling #highstreet vacancy.
A big part of that is the Association of Town & City Management Summer School themed around ‘How to Maximise Our Cultural and Community Assets’, featuring a range of presentations on the contribution to our places of art, music, storytelling and more. Among the sessions, one I’m very much looking forward to chairing called ‘Bradford Live: Bringing a Long Lost Cultural Asset Back to Life.’
I’ve also just written an introduction for another project we’re hoping to be involved in which maybe sums up how important I see this theme being in #placemaking…
“That arts & crafts, creative, culture and community uses can play a bigger part in our town and city centres is something I think has been a strong element of our tackling vacancy work in towns and city centres since we started to do this 12 year ago.
“We now have a range of examples – some we’ve been involved with, others we’ve seen – which I think can help encourage more individuals and organisations to consider setting up something in their local area, and also inspire more places to make supporting such ventures part of their work on this issue.”
Would love to hear your arts & crafts, creative, culture impact case studies…!
