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Create North has hooked up with the Blanchland Abbey to run an event for artist and creative practitioners who are interested in exploring how rural buildings and settings can offer amazing opportunities to capture new audiences in exciting new ways through performances, shows, exhibitions and workshops.

This event is designed for a multitude of creative practitioners: whether you are a crafts person, an artist, a musician, a designer, a hat maker or a candlestick maker……there is something for you.

The programme will run on 15th July within beautiful Blanchland Abbey.

The Abbey’s community is enthusiastically exploring how it might work with artists to make the very most of what this space can offer. The building has an amazing acoustic chamber so this event might be of particular interest to creatives wanting to be heard.

So switch off from the day-to-day routine of running your business and invest time exploring how you can make the most of the region’s finest rural assets to develop your creative practice.

Over the course of the workshop you will:

• hear about how other creative practitioners have worked within rural settings to successfully generate new creative and commercial opportunities for themselves
• participate in ideas generation workshops designed to help you identify new ways of developing your practice with different audiences in mind
• develop your creative entrepreneurial know-how
• identify new creative and commercial networks that may add value to your work

There’ll be contributions from local specialists, and the programme will be festooned with opportunities to spend time with other creatives and build your networks.

Places are free but limited so please book early to avoid disappointment.