Strike A Light: Let’s Create

This page summarises our current and upcoming activity and how it fits with the ‘Let’s Create’ Outcomes and Investment Principles. You can filter down to specific things you want to see by using the category buttons.

Outcome 2: Cultural Communities

IP1: Inclusivity and Relevance

IP3: Ambition and Quality

Outcome 3: Creative and Cultural Country

Outcome 1: Creative People

IP4: Environmental Responsibility

Making the arts better – for artists and communities

We want to see a world where EVERYONE can access high quality cultural events that are relevant and enriching to them. A world where the systems are fair, adventurous and open to everyone.

black claw hammer on brown wooden plank — Changing Charity Leadership #1: Activism, The Arts And Politics

This is the first of a short series of rants and resolutions about why charity boards/governance structures are often a pale imitation of what they should be, and what we intend to do to change that.

An empty street in central Gloucester — 2020 Year in Review

A year of community x creative collaborations

Large white letters saying Of Earth and Sky in a field with views over Gloucestershire. — Of Earth and Sky

Gloucester goes Hollywood – watch as giant letters appear across the city!

Conrad Murray leant against a brick wall next to metal boxes with stickers on them. He is wearing a black hoodie, black jeans, red trainers and a red cap on backwards. — Artists on lockdown: Conrad Murray

A conversation with actor, writer, director, rapper, beatboxer, singer and theatre-maker Conrad Murray

Young people from Gloucester practice their dance routine for the community fashion show in an empty hall, illuminated by pink and purple lights — Gloucester Presents… Fashion Show

Local residents teamed up with amazing artists to produce their own choreographed fashion show 🔥

Producer (co-created programme) Call Out

We’re looking for an experienced producer to join our team and lead on our co-created programme of work.

Artists on lockdown: Viv Gordon

A conversation with theatre-maker, survivor activist & arts and mental health campaigner Viv Gordon

5 participants in the Communities in Conversation panel discussion sit, socially distanced, in a large semi-circle of chairs at the All Nations Community Centre in Gloucester — Gloucester Presents… Communities in Conversation

A filmed panel discussion, where the guests are all Gloucester residents – sharing their stories of life in the city 🔥

Gloucester Presents… SheSpoke

A small group of women took part in writing workshops to express themselves in poetry – which was then turned into a hand-sewn textile banner 🔥

Let Artists Be Artists

For too long, there have been massive inequalities in terms of who benefits from ‘The Arts’ – both as audiences and professionals. Artists go underpaid, under-heard and under-supported. And it’s not truly open to everyone. We want to change that.

Gloucester presents: White City x Conrad Murray x Lucy Wilcox

What happens when you team up a group of local residents with a pair of incredible artists?

GDIF

We are a national partner with the festival.org Global Streets Programme to bring large-scale outdoor international touring work to Gloucester. We are working with the city council and Gloucester Culture Trust to deliver this.

The World Awakens

Pupils from schools in Gloucester have created a brand new piece of music alongside The Multi Story Orchestra.

Woke Meeting

We’re issuing an invitation to arts organisations and allies to meet on 23 February at 5pm to discuss the “heritage summit” called by Oliver Dowden, our potential collective response as arts organisations and to offer support if appropriate to the heritage sector.

An animated GIF. A group of people dance in a community centre while the lights fade through different colours. — 7 Principles for Great Cultural Events

Since 2013, we’ve been working in Gloucester to create great cultural events and experiences that can bring communities together, make life vibrant and exciting – and change things for the better. In that time, we’ve learned loads about what works and what doesn’t.

A group of 6 young climate activists posing with performers from coletivA ocupação. — Supporting young climate protestors

We’ve been working with the most *amazing* group of Youth Climate Activists over the last year or so. We went along to their Youth Strike 4 Climate and were instantly blown away by their knowledge, conviction, maturity, confidence and energy. In Gloucester they are a small but vocal minority and carry on with their protests in the face of aggression from adults in the street and public criticism on social media. It started us thinking…

I Stand For What I Stand On

Young people from Gloucester’s Student Climate Network present their own original protest performance, under Gaia at the Cathedral

Luke Jerram's Gaia

See a huge replica of planet Earth floating in the middle of Gloucester Cathedral

Workers lift carrier bags of food out of boxes — Hungry Nation

This project is dependent on funding. If successful we will be commissioned by Coventry City of Culture to co-create a nationally significant performance event with food bank users, food poverty researchers and artists