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Flourish

Ongoing

A FREE mentoring course for artists who live or work in Darlington.

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Contexts:

Online / Artist Development / Equality and Diversity

Partners:

Creative Darlington and Darlington Borough Council

People:

Cheryl Gavin

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Helix Arts wants to support and develop artists and creative organisations working in participatory arts.

Flourish is a development programme for creatives delivering arts projects with Darlington communities.

Helix Arts are working in partnership with Creative Darlington, Darlington Borough Council to offer six artists mentoring and support between Summer 2023 and Summer 2025.

Working with artists who live or work in Darlington, mentee’s work with our director Cheryl who to work creatively with communities between 2023 and 2025. Gaining 1:1 support as well as access to our e-resources and tools to help bring their projects to life.

Flourish 2020

Flourish previously ran in 2020 with our director Cheryl supporting artist develop their projects to offer opportunities to communities across Darlington.

Flourish Mentored Projects

Opening the Closet Door

‘Opening the Closet Doors’ is an art and film project that was created and developed by artist Sarah Li.

Working with local LGBTQ+ adults the project referenced the archives of the Darlington Hippodrome they explored these amazing archives with the incredible and very knowledgeable historian James Davison to uncover LGBTQ+ histories, stories, shows and performers.

Narratives and inspirations from the project were developed into creative responses that were exhibited at the Darlington Hippodrome in August 2022 and are available to view in an online exhibition.

Move Up

Delivered by TeesDance, in partnership with Darlington Hippodrome, MoveUP was 6 month
programme in 2022 for young dancers to learn how to become a choreographer and make their own
dance piece for stage.

This unique opportunity gave young people aged 14 to 19, or up to 25 with disabilities, the
chance to develop their creative, choreographic skills and showcase their creation on
Darlington Hippodrome’s main stage.

Contact us

Are you interested in receiving some mentoring or want to know more about the support we offer artists?

Contact us at:

info@helixarts.com

0191 241 4931

Thank you to our funders.

Flourish is funded by Creative Darlington and Darlington Borough Council.

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Flourish- Full call out

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