Librarians Collaborate with Artists for Creative Enquiry Project
Librarians from ASCEL and artists from Blast Theory come together for a creative exploration to enhance library experiences, celebrate reading, and engage diverse community groups through innovative art projects.
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Susan Goodwin Associate Director Arts Connect
Collaboration between ASCEL WM and Blast Theory
Librarians as Creative Producers Librarians as enlightened commissioners, capable and confident of offering inspiring briefs for artists in the future.
ASCEL agreed to: Explore and agree a focus for a shared creative enquiry project Together with artists, explore potential art forms and creative approaches to raise the profile of their work with young people Develop the framework for an Arts Council England Grants for the Arts application
Librarians would like to explore how the arts can: Celebrate contemporary reading and creative writing celebrating and amplifying library-ness Persuade people into the library, especially people with low literacy and those hard to reach groups, who don t normally come and to help them return as regular users Get people actively involved and feeling part of the library community feeling a connection and wanting to come back
What happened next Librarians found the combination of the 3 artists approaches inspiring All 3 artists invited to return to explore how their ideas might work across several libraries / areas Decided to develop the 3 projects in sequence, with APFOJ as the first
Susan Goodwin Associate Director Arts Connect susan.goodwin@wlv.ac.uk
