Peterborough
Creative City
The journey of a creative city
• A programme of high quality arts events and programme
• to raise the creative profile of Peterborough
• A talented city with a growing creative economy
• Supporting talent & growing creative industries
• How communities are activated,
• participating and contributing to the cultural life of the city
• Legacy of Citizen Power programme and participatory arts projects
• Culturally networked
• Engaging with communities and growing potential audiences
• harness our cultural assets in ways that maximise their contribution to
growth
• Working towards the development of new cultural
infrastructure
The developing role of Vivacity
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Generate a clear vision for the arts in Peterborough
Strengthen the cultural and creative product in our venues
Support the development of arts activity across Peterborough
Create the strategic framework to implement change
Developing partnerships
Enable and broker new opportunities
Resource and investment alignment
Expertise
Communication and advocacy
Peterborough
BOP 2008 Cultural Gap Analysis
1. Need to develop local arts economy and support
community
2. Need to improve current cultural asset base
3. Need to capitalise on the opportunity to create a
new flagship arts development
Principles for development: Connectivity
• Thread together the key sites
and venues, linking
Peterborough’s cultural assets
and maximising their value as a
complete offer
Peterborough Cultural Cross
Principles for development: Partnership
• Need for a solution that
leverages high quality
work to achieve local
benefits
• Increase density of
numbers
• ‘One stop from’ idea to
source external
partners and audiences
Two stops – one hour +
One stop –
Around one hour
train time
Leicester
Leeds
Nottingham
Peterborough
King’s Cross
St Pancras
Paris / Brussels
Cambridge
Norwich
Southbank Arts Shed
Principles for development: Boldness
• Raise the profile of
Peterborough; and raise the
profile of the arts in
Peterborough
• New, distinctive, high profile,
and nationally/internationally
recognised
• Link to the international
connections of Peterborough’s
diverse population and
‘environment city’
Dortmunder U
La Machine - Nantes
Twin Track Approach
1. Continuing to strengthen artistic product and capacity
• Developing Peterborough Arts Festival
• Creative collaborations
• Relationship with Arts Council England
2. Catalyse Growth – South Bank Arts Shed
• Develop programme to Creative People and Places
• Chauffeur’s Cottage – introducing Metal to Peterborough
• Maximising the collaboration with NPO’s e.g. Eastern Angles
– Forty Years on Project – connections back to place and history
• Business case development and feasibility study
Consensus and partnership development
2. Next Steps cont - Creative People & Places
£37 million national fund to establish around 15 projects
The purpose of this programme is to create 15 action
research partnerships to deliver these outcomes:
1. More people from places of least engagement experience and are
inspired by the arts.
2. An increase in the range of people regularly engaging in the arts.
3. A demonstrable increase in high-quality arts offer for people in
places of least engagement.
4. Sustainable projects and programmes that support the arts and
cultural sector to continue to increase reach and improve
engagement.
Timetable Creative People and Places
22nd Feb →
• Desktop research & development, identification of
stakeholders & communities (ongoing)
9th March
21st March
• Creative People and Places conversations:
Views of communities, arts orgs & artists, key stakeholders.
14th March
• Write-up of workshop
2nd April
• Outline of Creative People and Places EOI
• Identify early partners ongoing
13th April
• EOI submitted to Arts Council England
• Peterborough notified in June
20th Jun →
• Arts Council England selection and interview process
August
• Notification of decision from Arts Council England
Sept →
• Phase 1 – Identifying partners
• Developing partnership and early delivery
31st Oct
• Action Plan produced for Arts Council England
March 2013
• Full business plan produced
Next Steps today and beyond
• Our ambition for the arts in Peterborough should be
bold; Peterborough’s local communities, businesses
and visitors should not be deprived of the unique
and wide-ranging benefits of the arts
• Common issues easy to identify – what we need
today is progress on solutions and priorities
• How will my contribution be used?
• How will the broader arts agenda be developed?