BE PART was a 4-year project exploring the ethics of participatory arts practices, supported by EU funding.
Working with 10 international co-creators, BE PART supported artists and organisations to collectively challenge and explore power structures within participatory arts practice. Though the project, we collaborated with artists to make and share new work in Aberdeenshire, Tunis, Cork, Brussels, Riga, Santarcangelo, Helsinki and many other places.
Through Artsadmin’s work with BE PART, we:
- Implemented a new youth programme for young people local to Toynbee Studios, Tower Hamlets
- Expanded our creative criminal justice work, delivering more projects and programmes in prisons and in the community
- Invited artist collectives to curate elements of our public programme at Toynbee Studios
Projects supported by BE PART
Creative Criminal Justice Programme
- Buddleia: The Unchained Story | Lady Unchained & Tracy Kiryango | 2020 – 2022
- The Forgotten People | Lady Unchained | 2021 – 2022
Artsadmin Canteen Residencies
- The Apocalypse Reading Room | Ama Josephine Budge, Lateisha Davine Lovelace-Hanson, Mohammed Z Rahman | July – September 2021
- Say Yes To Who Or What Turns Up | Jennie Moran | September – December 2022
- biome: experiments in radical kinship | Zoë Laureen Palmer | July 2023 – July 2024
Artist Support
- Artists’ Bursary Scheme | 2020 – 2021
- Artsadmin LAB Residencies | 2021 – 2022
- Artsadmin Radar | 2021 – 2022
- AiR: Artist in Residence | 2023 – 2024
Artsadmin Youth
- Coming soon for 2024
Public Programme
- Huna Wa Hunak | Umama Hamido | July 2021 (co-presented with Shubbak Festival)
- Broken Hearts Club | Katarzyna Perlak | February 2022
BE PART was supported by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.
| Date | Title | Venue | City |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 April 2024 | biome: sprouts and microgreens workshop | Artsadmin Canteen, Toynbee Studios | |
| 23 March 2024 | biome: seeding workshops | ||
| 20 February 2024 | Community Breakfast | ||
| 10 December 2023 | An afternoon with The Gardening Drawing Club | ||
| 9 December 2023 | Artsadmin Youth: exploring collaborative arts engagement with young people | ||
| 25 November 2023 | biome ballroom: hinterlands | ||
| 20 October 2023 | biome ballroom: peatlands | Artsadmin Canteen, Toynbee Studios | |
| 17 October – 11 December 2023 | biome: forrest | ||
| 29 September 2023 | biome: sprouts and microgreens workshop | Artsadmin Canteen, Toynbee Studios | |
| 8 October 2022 | Buddleia: The Unchained Story | SMEEL | Ljubljana |
| 5 September – 1 December 2022 | Say Yes to Who or What Turns Up | ||
| 17 February 2022 | Broken Hearts Club: Live at Toynbee Studios | Live from Eastbourne | |
| 18 November 2021 | Unchained Nights | Toynbee Studios | |
| 14–17 July 2021 | Huna Wa Hunak | ||
| 28 January 2021 | The Forgotten People: Lady Unchained and Tracy Kiryango in conversation | ||
| 18 January – 18 February 2021 | The Forgotten People | ||
| 28 July – 11 September 2020 | The Apocalypse Reading Room: Room2Room |
