Dewsbury Creative Town Arts Programme

Dewsbury Creative Town is a three year arts programme which will include a series of art interventions in the town. Funded by Kirklees Council the programme forms part of the Dewsbury Blueprint initiative, a 10 year plan seeking to honour the heritage of the town, build on recent investments and make the town more attractive.

Arts organisation Beam has been appointed by Kirklees Council to produce the Dewsbury Creative Town Arts Programme between 2020 - 2023.

In December 2019 the Dewsbury Public Art Plan was adopted considering how the town centre can benefit from public art, and how local residents, businesses and community groups can get involved in the commissioning process. It highlights a range of possible public art interventions and potential sites across Dewsbury.

The Creative Town Arts Programme will utilise core elements of the plan and will align closely with the Dewsbury Blueprint which highlights a number of key projects and programmes that will help to revitalise the town centre over the next ten years.

The overarching vision for the programme is:
The Creative Town Arts Programme will enhance Dewsbury's ambitious future plans through art in public spaces engaging with its diverse communities, celebrating its unique heritage and inspiring creativity. The programme will bring all communities together and have a positive impact on everyone's experience of the town centre.

Over the next three years Phase 1 of the Dewsbury Creative Town Arts Programme will include temporary and permanent commissions that:

● Reveal and weave Dewsbury’s rich (textile) heritage with the town's ambitious future;
● Provide opportunities for local emerging artists to develop and grow their practice;
● Embed opportunities for young people to engage with arts, culture and place;
● Encourage playfulness, fun, colour, physical activity and wellbeing in Dewsbury through a series of permanent or temporary commissions;
● Creatively support wayfinding across the town and;
● Embed artists as part of design teams to play a role in the regeneration of the town centre.

View my website https://www.beam.uk.net/events/dewsbury