Blogs

Human Rights Bingo: Meet the artists

  Artists, Yael Karavan and Silvia Mecuriali are at Lancaster Arts during the week of March 6th further developing their new…

Thinking about Ritual

  Curator Miranda Stearn shares some of the thinking that has gone into the initial phase of our 2023 annual…

Jacuzzi Reflections

  Lancaster Arts Curator, Miranda Stearn, looks back on Jacuzzi Conversations, a week-long residency at the Peter Scott Gallery, talking to…

Jacuzzi Conversations

How do ideas flow? How do we create conditions for collaboration? How does new work happen? How might we create…

13 years and counting: deep relationships with artists

By Alice Booth, Creative Producer, Lancaster Arts   We are delighted to welcome Jenny Gaskell back to Lancaster to show…

A Tick by the Lune by James Yarker (River Tours)

  River Tours is a collaboration with Stan’s Cafe theatre company and Lancaster Arts that will take place on the…

Writing a River by Claire Dean (River Tours)

  River Tours is a collaboration with Stan’s Cafe theatre company and Lancaster Arts that will take place on the…

Sewing it all together: River Tours

  Conversations with Sewing Café Lancaster while preparing the textile for River Tours Sewing Café Lancaster is a grassroots project…

Meet Eat and Make: Jen Malarkey and Chris Brown

What’s it all about and how will it happen? ‘Meet Eat and Make’ is part of ongoing research to discover…

Seeing in the Dark: exploring cinema with your family

We’re seeking families with a child 8yrs+, a parent and a grandparent to experience imitating the dog’s new digital project,…

Please join us! Audition Notice

Birmingham based theatre company, Stan’s Cafe and Lancaster Arts are collaborating to create an exciting outdoor production to take place…

Traces

Traces is a year-long research-based project sculpted by conversations with cleaners at Lancaster University and artist, José Garcia Oliva. José…

Please join us! Audition Notice

Canadian theatre company, Zuppa and Lancaster Arts are collaborating to create an exciting site-specific outdoor production to take place in…

Now Here

Thinking about the future I’m sitting in Halifax, Nova Scotia, thinking about being in Morecambe one week from today (read…

Let the Rivers Flow

In Minsk, my home city, there is a street called Niamiha – one of the oldest parts of the city,…

To Grief and Back

St. John’s Church in central Lancaster is quiet and very cold. You can see the light from the colourful stained…

People. We need people.

Well here we are! Less than 48 hours to go before seeing almost a year of dreaming, planning and wondering…

BLOG: The Hidden Voice: Marking the Mill Race by Loz Kaye

Like many cities, Lancaster has a hidden sound running beneath it. The Mill Race is a stream flowing under the…

A Thematic Approach to our work: Age & Ageing in 2022

For a few years now, Lancaster Arts has adopted an annual theme that we apply across all our work from presentational…

CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP AROUND FERTILITY AND INFERTILITY

Whether we wanted to be mothers or not,Whether family and society pressured us to have children or not,Losing a pregnancy…

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Our highlights of 2021

2021 has been such a hard year in so many different ways – for everyone. In the cultural sector, we…

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Hand in Hand: testing an intergenerational art practice

  We have been programming ‘children’s’ or ‘family’ work for several years, but we have never quite felt comfortable with it.  I…

Hand in Hand: A 5K research and development opportunity for an artist or artists with Lancaster Arts (in Lancaster) and Z-arts (in Manchester)

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,…

Art in times of Emergency

It is very hard not to despair right now about what we are collectively doing to planet earth. Clearly there…

A photo looking down on a pollution pod with Two people in the pod
On Belonging as a journey of storytelling and connection

Early in the spring of 2021, Lancaster Arts hosted a call out for artists to explore what belonging means to…

Documentation from the Creative Gathering held for Layla Khoo's project
Searching for Artworks

In July 2021, Lancaster Arts launched BRIDGES, a pilot programme that offered two Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA)…

Nuffield Residency Award 2021

Putting it all on the Line: Leentje Van de Cruys as part of Reckless Sleepers (Nuffield Residency 2021) We are…

Join our Ideas & Connectors Group!

Lancaster Arts is putting together a sounding board of people to help shape our programme and our future: an Ideas…

Action Learning Sets: Leadership in Small Arts Organisations

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…

On Belonging: Duality

Early in the spring of 2021, Lancaster Arts hosted a call out for artists to explore what belonging means to…

With My Ear to the Wall

Over the last few months, Lancaster Arts has supported artist Jenny Gaskell to trial her new work, With My Ear to…

Beacons: An interview with artist David Boultbee

Beacons is a project about hope and love right now when perhaps we need it most. Lancaster Arts is working…

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Covid-19 and The People’s Palace of Possibility

“So, we decided to open the palace doors early.” It’s time to become a Citizen and think of the future……

What Does it Mean to be Clean?

In October we hosted our annual DIY programme, this year with José García Oliva with ‘White Vinegar’, in partnership with the Live Art…

Nuffield Residency Award 2020

the wind as it rushes through the turbine: Leo&Hyde (Nuffield Residency 2020) We are delighted to announce that our 2020…

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Nuffield Residency 2020

Lancaster Arts is seeking applications for the fourth Nuffield Residency: a practice-based initiative offering one artist, company or collective the…

Tara Fatehi Irani, 2019/20 Nuffield Residency
Craving the Unexpected: A Catalyst for Conversation webinar

Lancaster Arts is hosting a series of webinars entitled Catalyst for Conversations. The second 90-minute conversation in this series was…

Finding What We Didn’t Know Was There

A conversation with artists in Breathing Space #BreathingSpace is a programme that Lancaster Arts has put together as a response…

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Introducing our first online concert

Some thoughts from our new programmer Michael Poll on The Chants of the Thar Desert During these strange and unusual…

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Daniel Bye: information about an experience, without the actual experience

The Sunday before everything shut, I was on a long walk with a choir. We walked from the end of…

Shared Survival: A Catalyst for Conversation webinar

Lancaster Arts is hosting a series of webinars entitled Catalyst for Conversations. Directors of GRAFT, Ellie Barrett and Saul Argent,…

Lockdown in Lancaster and Morecambe

In our #BreathingSpace programme, artist Louise Ann Wilson is collecting maps of our daily exercise routes in Lancaster and Morecambe.…

Walk, Run, Pedal, Push, Map
In Conversation with…

Assistant Curator Danielle Ash and Associate Creative Producer Lauren Velvick were both new members of staff at Lancaster Arts when…

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DIY 2020: call-out for proposals

We’re pleased to confirm that our DIY 2020 commission in partnership with LADA (Live Art Development Agency) is going ahead!…

Professional Development opportunity for Creative Producers

Lancaster Arts is still going ahead with Action Learning Sets! One of Lancaster Arts’ last in-person public gatherings was the…

Artists Lab: All without saying a word.

Lancaster Arts hosted an artists’ lab in November to explore the question: How can art illuminate, interrogate or provoke political…

Mishandled Archive: Tara Fatehi Irani (Nuffield Residency 2019/20)

We are very pleased to announce the 2019/20 Nuffield Bursary has been awarded to Tara Fatehi Irani for the development…

A Conversation about The People’s Palace of Possibility

“If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it; if possible, try for it.” John Ruskin In…

Taking The Time

We are currently looking for people that identify as being ‘from’ or ‘of’ Lancaster & Morecambe. Taking The Time by…

The People’s Palace of Possibility

If we do not believe that we can do something, then that is the most secure guarantee that we will…

The People’s Palace of Possibility
Nuffield Residency 2019/20

Lancaster Arts is seeking applications for the fourth Nuffield Residency: a practice-based initiative offering one artist, company or collective the…

Maja Bugge Nuffield Residency
Oracle

A conversation about Oracle, a new dance work with George Adams “If you could bottle dance as a health elixir, it would…

Oracle Rehearsal Photo
What makes a place distinctive for us?

What makes a place distinctive for us? Lancaster Arts has been working on something called This Place Project, which has…

Grief. Women. Wisdom. Lancaster

For the last 6 months I have been connecting with Lancaster and its communities, through my project A Home for Grief –…

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From Volunteering to Marketing Assistant

If you asked me the question of whether I would ever imagine completing an internship as the Marketing Assistant at…

Diverse Actions Commission: Fabiola Santana

As part of our membership of Live Art UK, we are proud that Lancaster Arts is a delivery partner on…

Fabiola A Home For Grief
Nuffield Residency Award

NORTHERN is new jazz project developed by Maja in collaboration with field recordist Hervé Perez and video artist Adam York…

Diverse Actions Commission: Maya Chowdhry

As part of our membership of Live Art UK, we are proud that Lancaster Arts is a delivery partner on…

Maya Chowdhry Interactive
IF

George and I, LPM co-directors, are responsive to artistic ambition and interested in providing meaningful experiences through dance. Both George and I…

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Two Destination Language

In The Dark September 1st, 2017 We’ve a week coming up in the Nuffield Theatre at Lancaster Arts, part of…

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Nuffield Bursary 2017

We are delighted to announce that the 2017 Nuffield Bursary has been awarded to Two Destination Language, who will be…

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Artists for Foot in the Door 2017

Lancaster Arts and Making Room are proud to announce the artists that have been selected for the inaugural Foot in…

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Nuffield Bursary 2014

In the new year, Lancaster Arts will be supporting Needless Alley Collective in further developing and refining the ideas they have explored…

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