urbanflo Director, Jenni Lewin-Turner has been appointed as the Creative Producer of Brighton & Hove City Council's annual Cultural Framework Summit.  The next event will take place at the Attenborough Centre for Creative Arts (ACCA) on 30th March 2020.

The Cultural Framework’s shared plan of action is wide ranging and co-created in a collaborative process involving hundreds of local people. Whether it is addressing inclusion, creating more opportunities for young people to get into creative employment, helping improve health and wellbeing or ensuring that creativity is properly positioned as the driver of growth and inward investment, Brighton & Hove needs build on its track record as a bold first-mover, and ensure it continues to dare to be different.

The Framework has five ambitions:

• to become a nationally recognised Centre of Excellence for the use of culture in promoting wellbeing and addressing health inequalities
• to develop a best practice co-production model for neighbourhoods, with residents truly in the lead
• to be the best place in Britain to be a homeworker or creative freelancer
• to be an irresistible magnet for creatives, audiences, visitors and investors
• to step up as the regional capital of creative productivity and spill-over innovation

The Summit provides a dynamic opportunity to share the developments of the various strands of the Framework with the wider community, and the theme for 2020 is 'The Art of Inclusion'.  The Summit's mixed programme will be solution-focussed with plenary sessions, provocations, discussions and artist-led workshops punctuated by pop up performances, interventions and exhibitions exploring barriers to inclusion and gaps in cultural provision.

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One of our favourite international commissions involves documenting the Pan African Creative Exchange (PACE) and other elements of the Vrystaat Arts Festival in South Africa.

PACE is a biannual arts market for African artists, developed for national and international presenters and producers. PACE provides the highest quality, inter-disciplinary arts product, covering theatre, dance, music, visual arts, crafts and more from Africa, to buyers, artists and the general public across the globe.

More than 130 international artists participated in the first PACE which took place in July 2018 and featured 8 strands: presenting full shows for tour-ready work; showcasing excerpts of tour-ready work; showcasing excerpts of work in progress; pitching new work; a producer’s shadowing and exchange program; critical debate/roundtable sessions; networking programmes; and key PACE programming events. In the years directly following each PACE, a PACE+ programme is presented building on these strands, and includes a dramaturgical development laboratory; full-presentations of selected work from the PACE showcases; a critical forum reflecting on the previous PACE; and preparatory work (including an SA open call) for the following PACE. The aims of PACE+ are to increase the global reach of Africa’s arts industry to the wider world and to contribute to the continent’s development of future work.

The Barbados National Cultural Foundation appointed urbanflo to curate the 'BARBADOS CONNECTS' exhibition which will be taking place at the Barbados High Commission in London, December 2019 - March 2020.

The exhibition features the work of 24 amazing Barbadian artists based in the Caribbean and the UK;

Adrian Richards
Anton Best
Carl Dottin
Catherine Rocheford
Deborah Younglao
Dominique Bonnett
Eric Belgrave
Hasani McClean
Jaryd Niles-Morris
Joyce Daniel
Kermitt Bentham
Kraig Yearwood
Kyle Babb
Leslie Taylor
M Andrew Thomas
Nick Whittle
Paul Dash
Preston Melville
Rivenis
Rosemary Parkinson
Roslyn Watson
Stephen Wiltshire
William Cummins
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