Our Work

A FREE six-week programme supporting artists living or working in North Tyneside to develop the skills required to co-produce & deliver community led arts projects inspired by the North Shields Heritage Action Zone.

Make It Happen inspired by North Shields Heritage Action Zone.

A development programme for artists.

A flexible, participant-centred programme that provides training and support to encourage and enable people to design, manage and deliver their own activities with their own communities and with experts in the field.

Partnering with Perigrini Landscape Partnership, Make Art Happen participants developed a project to help raise awareness, take part in conservation and celebrate Lindisfarne island.

The Tyneside and Northumberland Mind team worked to provide a programme of high quality participatory arts activities to promote wellbeing and resilience in residents of South Tyneside aged 18 or over.

"Re-Wild Yourself" - a collaborative project between members of WHIST and SANGINI who took part in the Make Art Happen training programme.

Students from Josephine Butler College took part in two Make Art Happen cohorts between 2017 and 2018.

A result of a Make Arts Happen, “Create, Stay and Play” was open to all ages and encouraged the development of social skills, an interest in the arts, health and wellbeing and community spirit.

Telling Tales was developed by a volunteer project team which was born from a capacity building programme “Make Art Happen.”

Participants of Make Art Happen from Bill Quay Farm aimed to create a visual arts project for the local community.

Local residents and volunteers took part in Make Art Happen in 2015 to develop their own participatory project, the Sea of Lost Souls.

A training programme for community and voluntary organisations who want to produce their own arts residencies or festivals.