Fun Palaces Beginning in 2013, The Fun Palaces movement campaigns for cultural democracy year round, with a weekend of action every year in early October. In this weekend, communities all across the UK (and internationally) run events under the principle ‘community at the heart of culture’ where people participate equally, for free, in any kind…

Derby Museums “When applying a co-production approach the results are so much richer”. Head of Co-production Display Andrea Hadley-Johnson describes the vision of Derby Museum: where cultural democracy is the norm, the innate way to work. A shift to cultural democracy was underway when Tony Butler became director in 2014, and this approach was embedded…

Contact Theatre, Manchester For twenty years, Contact Manchester has given agency, responsibility and skills to young people, using performance and theatre as a force for social change and artistic empowerment. The direction and key management decisions (including all staff appointments) of Contact are shared 50/50 between adult and young people’s leadership panels. For every major…

For those of you reading the guide in print – here is a list of websites and online resources referred to in the document: 64 Million Artists: www.64millionartists.com Case study websites: Creative People and Places: http://www.creativepeopleplaces.org.uk/ Fun Palaces: http://funpalaces.co.uk/ Battersea Arts Centre: www.bac.org.uk Derby Museums: https://www.derbymuseums.org/ Scottee and Friends: https://www.scottee.co.uk/ Citizen Curators: https://www.cornwallmuseumspartnership.org.uk/citizen-curators/ Shop Front: http://www.theatreabsolute.co.uk/shop-front-theatre/…

Scene & Heard Scene & Heard delivers a fundamental element of cultural democracy: creativity in the hands of the participant, facilitated by the host organisation. A unique mentoring project in Somers Town, Camden London, Scene & Heard uses high-quality theatre as a tool to boost the self-esteem and raise the aspirations of young people from…

Citizen Curators, Cornwall Museums Partnership Citizen Curators is a collaboration between Dr Tehmina Goskar and Cornwall Museums Partnership (CMP). It was piloted in 2017/18 as part of the Arts Council England Change Makers programme with volunteers from Royal Cornwall Museum (RCM). Aiming to move away from a tradition of museums just wanting to do things…

Cambridgeshire Libraries – The Library Presents It would be difficult to write a guide to Cultural Democracy, and certainly democratic use of space without mentioning libraries. Much of the main Cultural Democracy guide has indeed been written in an East London library, alongside young women studying for their GCSE’s, people looking for jobs, toddlers eating…

Join the team! We’re looking for a new temporary member of staff to support the team during what is a busy time for the company, especially on our communications. We run the January Challenge – a 31 day programme where we send out a short creative challenge every day for people to Do, Think about…