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CREATIVE ESTUARY CO-COMMISSIONS EVALUATION: WHAT’S THE LEGACY?

People Dem Collective – a community organisation based in Margate – connected with audiences, artists, curators, and creative spaces throughout 2022 to explore the Black, Brown and Diaspora experience within arts commissioning and programming. Through podcasts, panels, live case studies and events, participants explored and reimagined what a new creative ecosystem might look like and how a best practice for commissioning and programming can be developed for real, everlasting change and impact.

Organisational successes

  • Connected with Estuary-wide cultural organisations and introduce People Dem Collective’s objectives
  • Promoted Estuary-wide cross-collaboration
  • Explored the commissioning legacy post the Black Lives Matter movement of 2020
  • Developed new regional and national partnerships
  • Developed strategic thinking around sustained collaborations
  • Increased profile through online creative content

ENGAGEMENT

Engaged with Estuary-wide creatives and organisations through surveys, discussions and events and local creatives and audiences through events and online content.

NEW AUDIENCES

Reached new audiences and introduced creative commissioning to non-art organisations and communities.

 

FUNDING

The commission funded 22 creative practitioners and organisations.

 

Creatives involved

What’s the legacy? in numbers

What’s the legacy? delivered X range of commissions including podcasts, panels, live case studies, walks, storytelling and events.

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