Date: December 10th 2023 Time: 2 – 4pm Venue: URC Hall, 29 Broad St, Stamford PE9 2QH. We’ll spend the first hour of the session making beautiful Festive Floral wreaths, […]
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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, we host artist-led workshops and other drop-in activities at the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Once Upon a Time
Once Upon a Time… an enchanted woodland glade arose from the discarded waste of a thousand bottles. Shrouded there were the fairytales of our childhoods. Tales of morality, tales of […]
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 […]
Stamford’s WW1 Centenary Commemoration Programme
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 […]
Jubilee Book of Messages
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 […]
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