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Tilting the Mirror
Project type
Civic creativity programme
Year
2022
Collaborating partners and artists
Big Local, YesMake, Lin Kam Arts, Golden Oldies, Peckham Park Baptist Church, Leaders of Tomorrow, Nu Dawn
Funder
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Local Trust, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (UK Branch), National Lottery Community Fund
I led a project for social arts charity Peckham Platform as part of the national Creative Civic Change programme. This experimental funding stream looked to support community development through place-based creativity. The Peckham project focused on co-producing artwork with Black and brown communities in Peckham, specifically focusing on intergenerational knowledge sharing between Windrush Generation Caribbean elders and young people. T
he project responded to the gentrification and change being experienced in the area. Over a series of ten months, with support from a project assistant and freelancers, I organised 15+ collaborative sessions, including art workshops, a community festival on Peckham Square, and a symposium of urban change in Peckham.
As Project Manager, I developed sessions, managed the budget for the project (~100k), commissioned over a dozen locally based POC artists, held the relationship with the funder, and convened the project board.
