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Artists, Yael Karavan and Silvia Mecuriali are at Lancaster Arts during the week of March 6th further developing their new…
Curator Miranda Stearn shares some of the thinking that has gone into the initial phase of our 2023 annual…
Lancaster Arts Curator, Miranda Stearn, looks back on Jacuzzi Conversations, a week-long residency at the Peter Scott Gallery, talking to…
How do ideas flow? How do we create conditions for collaboration? How does new work happen? How might we create…
By Alice Booth, Creative Producer, Lancaster Arts We are delighted to welcome Jenny Gaskell back to Lancaster to show…
River Tours is a collaboration with Stan’s Cafe theatre company and Lancaster Arts that will take place on the…
River Tours is a collaboration with Stan’s Cafe theatre company and Lancaster Arts that will take place on the…
Conversations with Sewing Café Lancaster while preparing the textile for River Tours Sewing Café Lancaster is a grassroots project…
What’s it all about and how will it happen? ‘Meet Eat and Make’ is part of ongoing research to discover…
We’re seeking families with a child 8yrs+, a parent and a grandparent to experience imitating the dog’s new digital project,…
Birmingham based theatre company, Stan’s Cafe and Lancaster Arts are collaborating to create an exciting outdoor production to take place…
Traces is a year-long research-based project sculpted by conversations with cleaners at Lancaster University and artist, José Garcia Oliva. José…
Canadian theatre company, Zuppa and Lancaster Arts are collaborating to create an exciting site-specific outdoor production to take place in…
Thinking about the future I’m sitting in Halifax, Nova Scotia, thinking about being in Morecambe one week from today (read…
In Minsk, my home city, there is a street called Niamiha – one of the oldest parts of the city,…
St. John’s Church in central Lancaster is quiet and very cold. You can see the light from the colourful stained…
Well here we are! Less than 48 hours to go before seeing almost a year of dreaming, planning and wondering…
Like many cities, Lancaster has a hidden sound running beneath it. The Mill Race is a stream flowing under the…
For a few years now, Lancaster Arts has adopted an annual theme that we apply across all our work from presentational…
Whether we wanted to be mothers or not,Whether family and society pressured us to have children or not,Losing a pregnancy…
2021 has been such a hard year in so many different ways – for everyone. In the cultural sector, we…
We have been programming ‘children’s’ or ‘family’ work for several years, but we have never quite felt comfortable with it. I…
Are you an artist interested in testing and exploring what a creative experience for all generations could look like? Would you like to work in new ways,…
It is very hard not to despair right now about what we are collectively doing to planet earth. Clearly there…
Early in the spring of 2021, Lancaster Arts hosted a call out for artists to explore what belonging means to…
In July 2021, Lancaster Arts launched BRIDGES, a pilot programme that offered two Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA)…
Putting it all on the Line: Leentje Van de Cruys as part of Reckless Sleepers (Nuffield Residency 2021) We are…
Lancaster Arts is putting together a sounding board of people to help shape our programme and our future: an Ideas…
Lancaster Arts is running a call out for those in leadership roles within small arts organisations to take part in a professional development programme in Action…
Early in the spring of 2021, Lancaster Arts hosted a call out for artists to explore what belonging means to…
Over the last few months, Lancaster Arts has supported artist Jenny Gaskell to trial her new work, With My Ear to…
Beacons is a project about hope and love right now when perhaps we need it most. Lancaster Arts is working…
“So, we decided to open the palace doors early.” It’s time to become a Citizen and think of the future……
In October we hosted our annual DIY programme, this year with José García Oliva with ‘White Vinegar’, in partnership with the Live Art…
the wind as it rushes through the turbine: Leo&Hyde (Nuffield Residency 2020) We are delighted to announce that our 2020…
Lancaster Arts is seeking applications for the fourth Nuffield Residency: a practice-based initiative offering one artist, company or collective the…
Lancaster Arts is hosting a series of webinars entitled Catalyst for Conversations. The second 90-minute conversation in this series was…
A conversation with artists in Breathing Space #BreathingSpace is a programme that Lancaster Arts has put together as a response…
Some thoughts from our new programmer Michael Poll on The Chants of the Thar Desert During these strange and unusual…
The Sunday before everything shut, I was on a long walk with a choir. We walked from the end of…
Lancaster Arts is hosting a series of webinars entitled Catalyst for Conversations. Directors of GRAFT, Ellie Barrett and Saul Argent,…
In our #BreathingSpace programme, artist Louise Ann Wilson is collecting maps of our daily exercise routes in Lancaster and Morecambe.…
Assistant Curator Danielle Ash and Associate Creative Producer Lauren Velvick were both new members of staff at Lancaster Arts when…
We’re pleased to confirm that our DIY 2020 commission in partnership with LADA (Live Art Development Agency) is going ahead!…
Lancaster Arts is still going ahead with Action Learning Sets! One of Lancaster Arts’ last in-person public gatherings was the…
Lancaster Arts hosted an artists’ lab in November to explore the question: How can art illuminate, interrogate or provoke political…
We are very pleased to announce the 2019/20 Nuffield Bursary has been awarded to Tara Fatehi Irani for the development…
“If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it; if possible, try for it.” John Ruskin In…
We are currently looking for people that identify as being ‘from’ or ‘of’ Lancaster & Morecambe. Taking The Time by…
If we do not believe that we can do something, then that is the most secure guarantee that we will…
Lancaster Arts is seeking applications for the fourth Nuffield Residency: a practice-based initiative offering one artist, company or collective the…
A conversation about Oracle, a new dance work with George Adams “If you could bottle dance as a health elixir, it would…
What makes a place distinctive for us? Lancaster Arts has been working on something called This Place Project, which has…
For the last 6 months I have been connecting with Lancaster and its communities, through my project A Home for Grief –…
If you asked me the question of whether I would ever imagine completing an internship as the Marketing Assistant at…
As part of our membership of Live Art UK, we are proud that Lancaster Arts is a delivery partner on…
NORTHERN is new jazz project developed by Maja in collaboration with field recordist Hervé Perez and video artist Adam York…
As part of our membership of Live Art UK, we are proud that Lancaster Arts is a delivery partner on…
George and I, LPM co-directors, are responsive to artistic ambition and interested in providing meaningful experiences through dance. Both George and I…
In The Dark September 1st, 2017 We’ve a week coming up in the Nuffield Theatre at Lancaster Arts, part of…
We are delighted to announce that the 2017 Nuffield Bursary has been awarded to Two Destination Language, who will be…
Lancaster Arts and Making Room are proud to announce the artists that have been selected for the inaugural Foot in…
In the new year, Lancaster Arts will be supporting Needless Alley Collective in further developing and refining the ideas they have explored…
