Wednesday 16th June 2010

Helping People Make Better Places

Beam is…an arts, architecture and learning

organisation for the Yorkshire region,

dedicated to the imaginative

understanding and improvement of the

public realm.

People make places…

beam combines creativity & practicality to help people make better places, through -

• Learning & education• The promotion of good design• The arts in the public realm

Arts of Place: City Park, Bradford

Overall Aim• The overall aim of Arts of Place: City Park, Bradford is to facilitate Bradford Council’s cultural

aspirations for City Park by linking with Bradford City of Film and by embedding the arts, learning and stakeholder engagement.

The Arts of Place • An innovative multi-disciplinary approach to place-making that combines the arts, learning and

public engagement, and places the arts and artists at the centre of regeneration.

Objectives • Embedding Artists & the Arts• Broadening the Impact• Strategic Links• Local Partnerships & Capacity• Strategic Investment

Deliverables

Artists

3 Artist Commissions to deliver 3 Temporary Artworks

Skills

2 Local / Regional artists’ Professional Mentoring opportunities

Partnership & Collaboration

3 awareness raising and best practice learning events

(Launch / ‘Arts’ / ‘Place’)

Research & Learning

National Symposium: Artists in Place Making (working title)

Marketing & Dissemination

http://www.artsofplace.org.uk/bradford

Publication

Film/ DVD

Events Programme 

• EVENT 1 – ‘LAUNCH’ – 19th March• EVENT 2 - ‘ARTS’ – 16th June• EVENT 3 – ‘PLACE’ – 15th July• EVENT 4 – ‘NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM’ – 7TH October

Event 2 – ‘ARTS’Aim

To explore how regeneration and arts professionals can work successfully together

Objectives

Raise awareness about the City Park development

Provide an opportunity to learn from the Arts of Place approach

Share local, regional, national and international examples of good practice

Raise awareness about different approaches to commissioning public art

Explore the value of public art commission programmes - social, economic, environmental and cultural

Helping People Make Better Places