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🎉 We're thrilled to welcome three new members to the #FutureArtsCentres network:

🌟 Beacon Arts Centre in Inverclyde

🌟 De La Warr Pavilion on England’s south coast

🌟 Pontio in Bangor, North Wales

Together, they strengthen our collective voice across the UK.

Delighted to have you on board! ✨
Exterior of Beacon Arts Centre, on a sunny day with a clear blue sky. Wide shot of the exterior of De La Warr Pavilion, showing its position on the seafront at Bexhill-on-Sea. The wide angle shows off an expansive blue sky above, dotted with white clouds. Exterior of Pontio, lit up at dusk.
November 28, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Great to see. We hope you all have a brilliant day!

#OurFreedom
gosforthcivictheatre.co.uk Gosforth Civic Theatre @gosforthcivictheatre.co.uk · 5d
On Monday, we had the first full rehearsal of Freedom Moving Then & Now with all performers, choir, and musicians.

We can't wait for Friday, which is now totally sold out! Those who have a ticket are in for a treat!

@artscentres.bsky.social #OurFreedom #VeDay #FutureArtsCentres #FreedomRoad
November 28, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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🌟 New for 2026: Future Arts Centres is launching a Most Significant Change (MSC) training programme, led by Annabel Turpin and Mark Robinson (@thinkingpractice.bsky.social).

Learn how to capture the real impact of your work.

👉 Details and sign-up: futureartscentres.org.uk/what-we-do/p...
A person, with a joyful look on their face and an arm in the air, taking part in activity at Cambridge Junction. Photo credit: Cambridge Junction
November 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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🌟 Great to visit Leeds Central Library yesterday to see the new tapestry panel from their Threads of Freedom project, part of the national #OurFreedom programme.

Created with communities across Leeds, it now sits alongside the Leeds Tapestry.

📌 More events continue: www.ourfreedom.org.uk/events
Four members of the Future Arts Centres team (l-r: Sophia McKenna, Christine Lee, Gavin Barlow, Annabel Turpin) stand either side of the new tapestry panel.
November 21, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Do you have at least 5 years' experience of senior and commercial management within a multi-functional venue, or comparable environment? Scala Worcester is looking for a collaborative, team-focused leader to be their new Deputy Chief Executive/Director of Operations. Interested? Find out more 👇
scalaworcester.bsky.social Scala Worcester @scalaworcester.bsky.social · 27d
We are seeking an experienced Director of Operations to work closely with the Chief Executive & Artistic Director to shape and deliver Scala’s strategic vision and business plans.

Find out more: www.scalaworcester.co.uk/job-vacancy-...

Applications close on Monday 24 November at 5pm.
November 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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🕊️ As Remembrance Day nears, arts centres & libraries across the UK are exploring freedom through creativity. Our Freedom: Then and Now is bringing venues together through a programme of art, performance, and storytelling.

🖇️ Read about some of the highlights so far (events continue through November)
Our Freedom: Celebrating Community, Creativity, and the Meaning of Freedom - Future Arts Centres
Discover Our Freedom: Then and Now, a nationwide arts programme marking 80 years since WWII, uniting 60 UK arts centres to explore freedom through community-led creativity, exhibitions, and performanc...
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November 7, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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'Arts centres, like universities, are places where new ideas and new ways of seeing the world are explored.'

Michael Eades, Head of Civic Engagement at Goldsmiths, University of London, in @artsprofessional.co.uk on the partnership with Future Arts Centres www.artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/fea...
Local engagement, national conversation - Arts Professional
In an era of political division, it’s more important than ever to build collaborative networks that link the local to a wider context, according to Michael Eades of Goldsmiths University of London.
www.artsprofessional.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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📢 We’re delighted to share that Future Arts Centres has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social - marking the start of a new partnership grounded in shared values of creativity, community, and civic engagement.

🔗 Learn more: futureartscentres.org.uk/future-arts-...
Future Arts Centres Co-Directors Gavin Barlow and Annabel Turpin. (Photo credit: Jonathan Keenan Photography)
November 4, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Ending October with reflections from our recent Members’ Meeting which tackled the capital challenge head-on. From urgent repairs to future-proofing, the message was clear: arts centres are civic infrastructure. Investing in them means investing in community: futureartscentres.org.uk/building-for...
Dave Moutrey, chair of the panel on The Fundraising Landscape, stand at a microphone to introduce the topic and his three fellow panellists seated alongside him. An audience of FAC members gathered around circular tables in the Rich Mix Studio watches on. A panel of seven people sitting in front of a projection screen showing images of several Future Arts Centres venues.
October 31, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Libraries Unlimited is taking part in 'Our Freedom: Then and Now'.

Artist Athena Jane Churchill invites people to explore the legacy of VE Day through workshops.

@artscouncilengland.bsky.social @dcmsgovuk.bsky.social @artscentres.bsky.social

www.librariesunlimited.org.uk/project/our-...
Our Freedom: Then & Now - Libraries Unlimited
A community-led arts initiative which explores creativity, connection, and local heritage This project ripples on - if you put a thought in someone’s head, it’s like a seed that grows. This
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October 30, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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🎉 Huge congratulations to our member Bluecoat for winning the Innovation in Social Value award at Liverpool Chamber's Innovation in Business Awards 2025! This is a brilliant recognition of the vital role arts centres like Bluecoat play in driving social change and community impact. Well deserved! 👏
thebluecoat.bsky.social The Bluecoat @thebluecoat.bsky.social · Oct 24
We’re thrilled to announce that Bluecoat has won the Liverpool Chamber Innovation in Business Award for Innovation in Social Value!

The Bluecoat has been at the centre of arts and creativity in Liverpool for almost 100 years, and our commitment to innovation and entrepreneurialism allows us (...)
October 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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💡 Arts centres are delivering culture with purpose - supporting wellbeing, learning, and local regeneration.

Future Arts Centres’ latest Sector Insight Report shows a resilient, community-rooted sector ready to lead - with the right support.

📖 Read it here: futureartscentres.org.uk/new-sector-i...
Young people taking part in a movement session. Photo credit: Bradford Arts Centre.
October 30, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Our Yorkshire member Cast is seeking an experienced and inspirational leader to take it into its next era by providing strategic, artistic, organisational and financial leadership. Interested? Find out more: www.castindoncaster.com/about/jobs-o...

Closing date: 9am, Mon 1 Dec 2025.
An image of Cast, their logo, and text reading 'WE'RE HIRING Director of Cast'
October 28, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Last week’s Future Arts Centres Members’ Meeting at Rich Mix was full of insight, generosity, and shared ambition. Thank you to everyone who joined us - speakers, facilitators, members, and our brilliant hosts. (1/3)
Sign on a stand pointing the way to the Future Arts Centres meeting at Rich Mix. The meeting of Future Arts Centres members listens to the first panel discussion of Dave Moutrey in conversation with Zoe Crick-Tucker (Theatr Clwyd), Caroline McCormick (Achates), and Tonya Nelson (Arts Council England).
October 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Brilliant to see two Future Arts Centres members win at the #UKTheatreAwards! 👏

🏆 Storyhouse - Excellence in Inclusivity
🏆 BEAM - Excellence in Sustainability

And congrats to The Parent Agency, a Storyhouse and Scenario Two co-production, for Best Performance in a Musical 🎉

#FutureArtsCentres
A collage of images showing the Storyhouse team on stage accepting their Excellence in Inclusivity award, and posing with it later. A hand holding up BEAM's Excellence in Sustainability award in front of their venue. The BEAM team posing with their award.
October 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Congratulations to Dr Hannah Phillips who has been appointed as the first CEO and Artistic Director of Future Arts Centres member @scalaworcester.bsky.social ahead of its opening in 2026.

We can't wait to see how Hannah's vision shapes this exciting new chapter for the cultural life of the city!
scalaworcester.bsky.social Scala Worcester @scalaworcester.bsky.social · Oct 14
We're delighted to announce Dr Hannah Phillips as our first ever Chief Executive and Artistic Director, as Scala officially becomes a registered charity.

Read the full story on our website: www.scalaworcester.co.uk/chief-execut...

📸 Rachel Jones

@myworcester.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Great to be at Rich Mix in London today for our third and final Members' Meeting of 2025. Brilliant to have so many peers and specialists here as we consider the realities of maintaining our buildings and developing successful capital programmes.
Exterior of Rich Mix in East London. Members listening to a panel speaking on the fundraising landscape.
October 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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For no other reason than I remembered not everyone in the world has read it, here's the book I wrote about creative resilience & creative communities, pub by @artscentres.bsky.social. Download for FREE or buy paperback to look cool on trains, in waiting rooms, in bed, etc tacticsforthetightrope.com
Tactics for the Tightrope
Samples from the book Tactics for the Tightrope Creative Resilience for Creative Communities by Mark Robinson published by Future Arts Centres - culture, creativity, arts.
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October 15, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Our Co-Director Annabel Turpin will be speaking at Arts & Business NI's Cultural Governance Conference at The Duncairn in Belfast next Thur 23 Oct, sharing insights from her roles at Future Arts Centres, Storyhouse, and Arts Council England. How can organisations be truly community-led?
Promotional graphic for the Cultural Governance Conference 2025, showing speakers Saad Eddine Said (New Art Exchange); Annabel Turpin (Storyhouse); Olwen Dawe (Safe to Create); and Fiona Bell (Thrive).
October 14, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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A huge congratulations to our Yorkshire member Bradford Arts Centre, formerly Kala Sangam, who have reopened this week. We can't wait to see what this new chapter brings!
bdartscentre.bsky.social Bradford Arts Centre @bdartscentre.bsky.social · Oct 9
🎉 BRADFORD ARTS CENTRE IS OPEN 🎉

Bradford Arts Centre has opened to the public, celebrating South Asian culture, contemporary performance and its heritage as Kala Sangam and its founders, Dr Shripati Upadhyaya, and Dr Geetha Upadhyaya.
October 11, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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🌍 This summer, we supported Sophie Cade from The Met, Bury to attend #FAMFEST Chile, a festival championing theatre for young audiences. She’s back with big ideas for Bury and beyond. Read her reflections 👉 futureartscentres.org.uk/famfest-chil...

#FutureArtsCentres #FAMFEST2025 #FamilyTheatre
A group shot of FAMFEST attendees, with a row of people standing, and another row kneeling in front of them
October 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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We're thrilled to extend a very warm welcome to five more organisations joining Future Arts Centres. It's fantastic to have you on board!

Please join us in welcoming:

⚪ Art & Talking - the art centre of Chipping Norton

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Exterior of Art & Talking, a building in the 13th Century Market Square
September 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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A Future Arts Centres member, the Southbank Centre, is marking a significant milestone soon! Our Co-Directors Annabel Turpin & Gavin Barlow were delighted to be at the launch of their 75th anniversary programme last night. Find out what's in store for 2026: www.southbankcentre.co.uk/press/the-so...
FAC Co-Directors Annabel Turpin and Gavin Barlow pose for a photo against the background of activity at the Southbank Centre. Photo credit: Maddy Mills.
September 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Our Freedom Moving platform is part of @artscentres.bsky.social's national Our Freedom Then and Now project to mark 80 years since the end of the Second World War.

It will involve more than 60 performers, dancers, and musicians who will explore what freedom means to us, then.. and now.
September 18, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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This week, we attended a Local History Group session at Gosforth Library to tell them all about Our Freedom Then and Now and the history of our wonderful building.

Housed in the library is the war memorial which commemorates the people of Gosforth who lost their lives in the Second World War.
September 18, 2025 at 9:22 AM