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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 mystery, tales of good and evil. There, fairy folk and mythical figures abide in a Babylonian tower, story walls unfold and deforested dryads meet their […]
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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