Four Corners at the Bluecoat 2009

Ruth Ben-Tovim, Creative Director of Encounters, is this year's Four Corners Artistic Director.  As a city-wide regeneration programme, Four Corners brings together residents, cultural organisations and neighbourhood services to ask the question ‘what makes a neighbourhood’.  Each year five arts organisations (Everyman & Playhouse, Arts in Regeneration, Encounters, Bluecoat and ICDC) deliver the four corners programme in different areas of the city and this year they will each produce high quality participatory arts projects with the theme of the environment.

Using a range of different mediums and spaces Ruth will work with artists Jo Slater and Anne Marie Culhane, to curate the exhibition that will display and tell the stories of the Four Corners projects.  They will also programme a series of interactive events including re-skilling workshops, film showings, world café discussions, swap events, planting, eating and personal story sharing that will generate dialogue, ideas and skills to support change and re-connection with the planet at this crucial point in time.

You can track the progress of the overall Four Corners programme through the Four Corners 2009 Facebook group.