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For Us, By Us: How to create a collaborative arts agency for us?

The Churchill Fellowship

2023- 2024

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In 2023 I was awarded a Churchill Fellowship which is an international research grant that supports individual UK citizens to follow their passion for change, through learning from the world and bringing that knowledge back to the UK.

 

My Fellowship and report For Us, By Us aims to demonstrate how and why the work of place-based arts projects working with underrepresented communities need more funding in the UK. The funding enabled me to:

 

Spend a month in Chicago USA (May 2024) meeting with mainly black-led community projects, arts organisations and spaces in Chicago USA to discuss how they are using radical approaches to bring about social change and transform multi cultural/black neighbourhoods.

 

Host online conversations (April 2024) with international arts organisations, projects, platforms and artist-led collectives doing outstanding arts projects, performance’s and programmes in collaboration with local communities, refugee and asylum seekers, young people, children and marginalised groups.

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Download a copy of the report For Us, By Us

 

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