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CREATIVE ESTUARY CO-COMMISSIONS EVALUATION: ICE CREAM VAN INITIATIVE

Through three artist-led workshops, Dartford Arts Network (DAN), developed in partnership with local organisations a summer programme of artistic education, engagement and research to map the arts opportunities (and barriers) in the local area, and explore the need for a mobile art vehicle, which could take arts events and opportunities to the places where they were most needed and wanted.

Organisational successes

  • Developed organisational capacity
  • Enhanced member confidence
  • Raised organisational profile and developed networks and partnerships
  • Established local and regional demand
  • Expand the geography in which the organisation delivers work
  • Developed a formal commissioning processes
  • Developed thinking towards a local arts strategy

ENGAGEMENT

Engaged with local people and created lasting connections and reached new audiences.

OPPORTUNITIES

Created opportunities for network members to facilitate and produce creative workshops and manage a funded project

LONG-TERM

Allowed audiences and participants to input on future activities

Ice cream van initiative in numbers

Salamagundy ’22’ gave 8 Emerging Producers the opportunity to produce a public event for a lead artist and Turner Contemporary and undertake field trips to experience and learn about cultural production.

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