We are delighted to announce that the Creativity for Wellbeing Culture Club project, which BCA delivered with our partner Peter Pan Teaching School Alliance (PPTSA), has been shortlisted for the Primary School Achievement award by the Creative Learning Guild. The project sought to test the premise that cultural engagement has a positive impact on the
Bedford Creative Arts has been nominated for the national Cultural Charity Award from the Creative Learning Guild for The Culture Challenge. The Creative Learning Guild launched this new award to “celebrate the inspirational innovators, educators and practitioners who live and breathe creative learning”. The Cultural Charity Award is about recognising the difference a single charity
Using the metaphor of ‘twin towns’ the Bedford Arts and Cultural Education (BACE) group are launching an innovative and collaborative leadership initiative that bridges the two sectors of arts and education, for the collective good of Bedford’s children and young people. The Twinning project addresses the current challenges around educational participation and engagement in
BCA is delighted to announce it has appointed a new Director, Elaine Midgley, to the BCA team. Elaine comes to Bedford after ten years in Cambridge, most recently as Business Development Director for Cambridge Live and previously, Arts and Events Manager for Cambridge City Council. Elaine joins BCA with a mission to boost growth and development and build
Contemporary arts charity, Bedford Creative Arts (BCA), and national charity, Music In Detention, have announced the end of their music programme ‘Bedford Music In Detention’ at Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre (IRC) due to an end in financial funding from public service provider Serco. This brings to an end ten years of helping women and children cope with the ordeal of
If you are an artist looking for space to grow, we have an affordable studio opportunity. One of our studios has recently become available and would be suitable to share between two artists or as a spacious studio for one. Submission deadline 10am 5 November 2018. Download an application here: BCA-StudioOpportunityOct18 BCA Studio Policy: BCA-studiopolicy For further questions
Annie Bacon shares her latest blog update, this week on prosocial behaviour. Being prosocial is about sharing, helping or giving for the greater good. Something we would all like to think we’re about. But recently I came across a blog by Frank Flynn, a Stanford Professor, discussing some research from 2011 which shows that the most
Bedford Music in Detention delivered by Bedford Creative Arts in partnership with The Higgins Bedford is delighted to announce a new commission, ‘Routes Bedford’ as part of ‘Routes’ by Theatre Témoin. Routes Bedford will be a large-scale puppetry and sound installation theatre piece. Over the course of six workshops in early autumn, Theatre Témoin will construct the puppets
BCA is a dynamic arts charity that has been working in Bedfordshire and beyond for over thirty years. We bring artists and communities together to create high quality and ambitious art projects which involve the community in the making of the work. You will find us in places where you least expect art to happen, such as shopping
Open call for artists’ proposals. Bedford Music In Detention delivered by Bedford Creative Arts, in partnership with The Higgins, Bedford are inviting applications from socially engaged artists, working across art forms to undertake a residency at The Higgins, Bedford. The work produced during the residency will be showcased at The Higgins at the end of