Art Pop Up are running a Creativity For Wellbeing programme, aiming to support individuals’ wellbeing journeys by helping them explore & develop their creativity in a variety of regular workshops. […]
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Stamford Cheer Club Programme – 2024-27
Art Pop-UP are VERY excited to announce that we have successfully gained funding to support our Cheer Circle Community Project from 2024-27! The Cheer Circle is funded by the Lincolnshire […]
WarmSpace – Winter 2023-25
We are happy to say that the Stamford Winter Warmspace evening is returning to the Free Church every Thursday evening from 4.30 – 630pm again! ‘WarmSpace’ is designed to provide […]
Christmas Cheer Factory – 2022
During October, November and December 2022 we ran a second year of the Christmas Cheer Factory. This involved volunteers from the community in Stamford hand-making gifts and cards, created in […]
Make Space 2023-24
Create with us at a free intergenerational creative space where everyone is welcome. On the second Sunday of the month in 2023-24, we host artist-led workshops and other drop-in activities […]
Nature + Art WALKshops
Botanist Sarah Lambert and artist Kathryn Parsons led a series of free guided tours in autumn 2022 discovering unexpected nature highlights on suburban streets and corners. Each session started with […]
Stamford Orchard
A series of workshops, events and an exhibition over spring/summer 2022 sharing artist in residence, Emily Bowers’ research and inspiration from the community orchard with the local community. Emily led […]
Arts Jam: Summer at the Shack
Over summer 2022, Arts Jam took place at the Shack in Stamford every Thursday evening during the school holidays. It was a free creative workshop programme for 12-18 year olds […]
Wellbeing Map of Bourne
Art Pop Up teamed up with Don’t Lose Hope to undertake research with the Bourne community and produce a Wellbeing Map of Bourne, showing the local opportunities available to support […]
Stamford Connections
The Stamford Connections project was run by Art Pop-Up, in partnership with MindSpace from May to October 2021, carrying out research into what brings the Stamford community together and makes […]
Wellbeing Map of Stamford
MindSpace Stamford and Art Pop-Up created the Wellbeing Map of Stamford based on the 5 Ways to Wellbeing to help the local community look after their mental health. A group […]
Sanctuary
Over summer 2021, artist Emily Bowers joined with Art Pop-Up and the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust to explore the beauty of Deeping Lakes nature reserve. Art Pop Up coordinated with a […]
Sharing Stories
In late Spring 2021, Art Pop-Up invited the Evergreen community and local seniors to share a memory or story to create a memory anthology. Art Pop-Up sent out out postcards […]
The Journals Project: creativity for mental health
Art Pop-Up has developed a programme for schools with MindSpace Stamford teaching creative journaling as a tool for positive mental health. The initial project saw over 2500 staff and children […]
The Secret Doorstep Festival
In the midst of the 2020 pandemic, Art Pop-Up took its performers out to the streets for The Secret Doorstep Festival, creating a new model for one of the first […]
SPARK
The SPARK research and development programme brings together community organisations in Stamford and their service users to consider engagement and barriers to participation in the area. Urban art and nature […]
Stamford Together: COVID-19 emergency response
With the announcement of lockdown 1 Art Pop-Up rallied community support & within a week launched a creative journaling project to reach out to the digitally excluded. With the help […]
Langdyke Stories
The artist’s residency and community engagement programme Langdyke Stories uses art to share and celebrate the wildlife and landscape, history and heritage of the local area on the occasion of […]
Precious Dust
‘Precious Dust’ wanders through the history of cement and the quarry at Ketton, a journey from Jurassic beach to industrial excavation. The works explore the story of the ‘dust’ that […]
Stamford Arts Festival
The Stamford Arts Festival took over the town centre in June 2015 with a wide variety of free performances across 9 designated ‘Performance Spots’ – coordinated with INK Contemporary Theatre […]
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