Dany Louise reports on a Creative People and Places programme in Stoke that is proving that sometimes low arts participation has more to do with lack of provision than lack of interest.
“We want to show there are as many ways to serve up and enjoy the arts as there are to eat a meal.” This is the guiding principle behind Stoke’s Appetite programme, and the food analogies and puns come thick and fast. There is a weekly Pick ‘n’ Mix music programme at the hospital, and in 2013 there was a Taster Menu to give residents an introduction to different artforms, featuring amongst others NoFit State circus and Wired Aerial Theatre.
Several communities in Stoke have been assigned ‘appetite builders’ to work with them on defining and commissioning an arts project they would like, and the Appetite website talks about ‘serving up a jam-packed programme’. Clearly it’s a useful and accessible theme for this three-year Arts Council England funded Creative People and Places programme... Keep reading on a-n
“We want to show there are as many ways to serve up and enjoy the arts as there are to eat a meal.” This is the guiding principle behind Stoke’s Appetite programme, and the food analogies and puns come thick and fast. There is a weekly Pick ‘n’ Mix music programme at the hospital, and in 2013 there was a Taster Menu to give residents an introduction to different artforms, featuring amongst others NoFit State circus and Wired Aerial Theatre.
Several communities in Stoke have been assigned ‘appetite builders’ to work with them on defining and commissioning an arts project they would like, and the Appetite website talks about ‘serving up a jam-packed programme’. Clearly it’s a useful and accessible theme for this three-year Arts Council England funded Creative People and Places programme... Keep reading on a-n