What's on Calendar

“Warm” is a fresh creative initiative supported by Arts Council England, dedicated to exploring the role of the arts in providing warmth and support to displaced communities.

In collaboration with Create North, Newcastle Library is set to host three creative residencies in partnership with Ukrainian communities across the northeast.

Ukrainian artists will design and lead the residencies tailored to three different groups within the Ukrainian community. The culmination of each residency will feature an exhibition in the city library where the groups showcase their work, offering valuable insights into what warmth means for diverse cohorts.

To further enhance the sense of warmth, Create North and regional artists will work alongside the Ukrainian artists, offering insights on how newly settled practitioners can build their creative practice and integrate into the creative community in the region.

Our goal is to use creativity and the arts to explore different perspectives on experiencing ‘warmth’, including notions of being welcomed into a new community, feeling safe, friendship and empathy.

To introduce the project, we are hosting an event in Newcastle City Library on Friday 1^st March, 2pm – 3.30pm. This event will be an opportunity to:

• Learn about the project
• Meet the artists and practitioners taking part
• Discuss how you or your organisation can get involved
• Share information about other projects that might align with “Warm”
• The opportunities we hope this project will create for the future

This event is aimed at:

• Organisations working with refugee and newly arrived communities
• Arts and Culture organisations
• Artists and Creative Practitioners