Posts Tagged ‘Autumn 2023 newsletter’

The Artery’s vision is to bring more creativity more business more culture.  The Artery supports: Creatives to improve business skills through creative Peer2Peer programmes Businesses to be more creative through creative commissions and offers Cultural organisations to work with both as equals Thanks to funding from York and North Yorkshire Growth Hub, we are delighted…

GPLD’s online creative careers resource ‘Create Your Future’ , developed by Innovate Educate, profiles young creatives in the Lakes and Dales and showcases opportunities and toolkits for other creatives to start and support their creative career in a rural place. We regularly add new content and recently commissioned local filmmakers Film On The Brain to…

The new Creative Craven Network (CCN) which launched at the beginning of this year continues to provide relaxed spaces and interactive sessions for creative practitioners and other cultural organisations from across the district with recent meetings including a bob up session at Glusburn Institute and our first digital session via Zoom last month. It’s been…

I am a Masters’ student at the University of York majoring in International Business and Strategic Management. Originally from India, I started looking for an internship even before I came to the UK this September. That’s when I came across an opening with the Artery. What attracted me to the project was how different and…

The Knotted Project’s Forge Festival 22 & 23 clearly demonstrated the talent, dedication & creative ambition that exists within Cumbria whilst raising the volume on young voices in our community. Both years culminated in an extremely successful & unique young person-led festival at the acclaimed Windermere Jetty Museum. Over 2 years, performance companies from across…

Skipton Now 2023, which took place throughout the whole of August, brought together an eclectic programme of diverse activities and events. This month was a celebration of all the hard work Skipton’s High Streets Heritage Action Zone (HSHAZ) and its cultural programme have achieved over the past four years. The team behind Skipton’s HSHAZ, with…

A group of award-winning local young filmmakers and artists came together for a Hinterlands Fringe event at the Plaza Cinema in Skipton on the 31st of August. Funded by Skipton HSHAZ and managed by GPLD, this free event was the culmination of a month-long festival of culture and heritage activity in the town. Featured on…

If you’ve been out and about in Skipton over the past couple of years you may have noticed more and more colourful murals popping up in unexpected places such as down Hallam’s Yard, Hardcastle’s Yard and at Stanforth’s Butchers, as well as the unmissable artwork at Albion Place around the back of the Town Hall…

As part of Skipton Now Festival’s film night on 31st August, film and media student Beatrice Benn has been reviewing filmmakers highlighted on the night and writing profiles for each. Below is her profile on actor, writer and creative filmmaker Clementine Bogg-Hargroves. ‘A multi-talented creative force, Clementine Bogg-Hargroves’ work spans acting, writing, and directing, within…

Nature Matters is a Heritage Lottery Funded project, which is looking at the film archive from an environmental lens. The project involves digitisation, engagement and events and contemporary collecting where they are looking for digital film content from the last twenty years with eco themes. They have just created a new 17 minute short film…

Hi there, my name is Mollie and I have just turned 25. Up until February this year I was living in the Galapagos islands teaching English. I moved out there after finishing my PGCE in teaching languages. I had an itch I couldn’t scratch so spent the last penny to my name on the flight!…

Local singer, cellist and environmental activist Sarah Smout performed at Skipton Town Hall on the 9th November. This show was part of her debut solo tour (also playing at Bury, Sheffield, Milton Keynes, Shoreham and Ambleside) after a decade-long stint as a session cellist in the folk and roots scene. Armed with just her cello…

We are thrilled to announce that Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency, sees the potential in The Artery that we see. Our application to Innovate UK Creative Catalyst fund has been successful. Innovate Educate Ltd’s The Artery supports the business, creative and cultural sectors to work alongside each other, to learn from and with each…