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 it strong. We wanted to know where connections exist, how they happen and what they mean to the community. Connections with other people are important […]
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 of MindSpace volunteers spoke to local people to discover where in Stamford they recommended as good places to fulfil one (or more) of the 5 […]
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 wide range of community organisations and institutions including Deeping Community Library, local schools, Forest School, Braeburn Lodge, U3A and Deeping Youth Group to create a […]
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 and asking people to get in touch with their stories and memories. Creative writer and poet, Darren Rawnsley, chatted with the contributors and developed their […]
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 aged 4 to 16 take part in a 6 week project at the end of 2020, inspired by the reflective benefits of creativity and self-expression, […]
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 COVID-Secure outdoor performances to be run in the UK. The 10 performances were hosted in partnership with residents at locations on housing estates in Stamford […]
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 inspired conceptual art were new areas for our participants. Overcoming some initial trepidation and figuring out new safe ways of working with our artists Kathryn […]
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 of artist Kathryn Parsons, poet Darren Rawnsley, The Evergreen Care Trust & Morrisons, 400 participants received journals and newsletters. Creative prompts also ran on our […]
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 the 20th anniversary of the Langdyke Countryside Trust. The project draws communities together, creating new networks and strengthening existing ones. Over 300 people of all […]
‘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 is so fundamental to the construction of our civilization.Its manufacture hastens our return to warm, watery Jurassic climes, yet our towers grow ever taller. Our […]
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 – encompassing street theatre, music, dance and performance poetry. Amongst others, a sword swallower, juggler and stilt walking Mad Hatter roamed the streets, contemporary dancer […]
Art Pop-Up collaborated with Stamford Town Council and the local Royal British Legion on the WW1 Centenary Commemoration Programme which focused on the impact of the war on Stamford and the local area. Investigating the initial war period of 1914, the programme identified, explored and recorded how the community was involved in and affected by […]
Over 800 local primary school children entered the art competition that produced Stamford’s Commemorative Book of Messages, in association with The Children’s Society. More than 500 messages of congratulation were written in the Book, donated by Photobox, at the children’s pop-up exhibition in Stamford’s town centre. The Book, including 70 of the winning artworks, was […]
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