"Regeneration Arts creates projects in deprived urban areas, using text and imagery that create an uplifting narrative. Collaborating with local communities and businesses the projects respond to the site environment, giving local people a sense of ownership and enhancing the local area".
In our project "Poetry Street" the combination of poetic text with imagery encourages engagement with the viewing public and the participation local people. By working with local businnesses and community groups the projects interract directly with the communities, building bridges with diverse communities and providing a platform for possitive dialogue and expression.
There is often need to create artworks quickly to respond to events. The usual funding channels often take a long time for the projects to materialise, by which time the full meaning for the artwork has been lost.
Regeneration Arts of working directly with local businesses, youth and community groups and local councils. This collaborative approach allows greater communication to flourish between the artists and local inhabitants.
"To be a city requires more than houses and people. It needs an ‘imagined community’, or the conviction that other inhabitants in distant streets, whom one will never meet or see, share elements of a common culture and react to events as one would react oneself."
Neal Ascherson The Independant