The Light Ships: Engaging village communities
By harnessing the energy of Church Wardens, Transported successfully connected with village communities and developed arts activity that cast churches in a different light.
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Transported Live: Assault Events at Elsoms
Transported is a strategic, community-focused programme that aims to get more people in Boston Borough and South Holland enjoying and participating in arts activities. The programme has eleven different strands of arts activity, one of which is Transported Live: taking projects to the workplace and to those who wouldn’t normally engage with the arts. This case study … Read more
On Your Doorstep
In 2014 Transported’s On Your Doorstep project asked people in Boston Borough and South Holland to nominate public spaces which they felt were in need of creative enhancement or improvement. Working with the nominators, Transported have commissioned appropriate and exciting artwork to breathe new life into public spaces.
Transported: arts engagement in rural Lincolnshire
Transported is a Creative People and Places project funded by Arts Council England. This document describes the projects that Transported is currently working on to help raise levels of arts engagement in rural Lincolnshire.
Pop Up Shops Handbook
Transported is a strategic, community-focused programme that aims to get more people in Boston Borough and South Holland enjoying and participating in arts activities. This guide written on behalf of Transported by Dan Thompson of the Empty Shops Network, explains how to use empty shops as an effective arts space.
Transported Empty Shops Report
Transported is a strategic, community-focused programme that aims to get more people in Boston Borough and South Holland enjoying and participating in arts activities. This report on Transported’s Empty Shops project explains how empty shops were utilised as pop up arts spaces in August 2013.
Arts access programme for regional South Australian communities
Country Arts SA is one of South Australia’s largest arts organisations, providing arts and services across regional South Australia through a range of arts programs and initiatives, the management of performing and visual arts venues, and the provision of grant funding which supports the creative endeavours of communities and individuals. This case study provides a brief … Read more
The role of arts participation in regional well being
This paper is a summary of key areas of interest from Julia Anwar McHenry’s research thesis ‘The Arts and Social Well-being in Rural Communities: A Qualitative and Quantitative Assessment in the Mid West Region of Western Australia’. Anwar McHenry’s thesis is the outcome of a research project on the role of the arts in the … Read more
Engaging with rural communities to develop new audiences
When I Was A Rat toured to The Courtyard Arts Centre in Hereford in 2013, two family-based circus skills workshops were organised by The Coutyard at Moccas Village Hall and Kingsland Village Hall. The Courtyard’s marketing team had identified these two villages as being in areas of low engagement with the venue. The workshops linked well with the physical … Read more
How the arts can make a difference to community cohesion, social well being and rural regeneration
This publication from the Western Australian Department of Culture and the Arts features 10 case studies that show the role arts can play in helping to build inclusive, cohesive groups and address health and social concerns.