We Create arts action group celebrates five successful years

  26th February 2021

This month, the We Create art action group will celebrate five years of working together. We Create is a collaborative partnership between the University of Gloucestershire’s Hardwick Gallery and residents of St Peter’s and St Paul’s, Cheltenham, in association with Take A Part.

We Create, which recently became a Community Interest Company, develops ambitious projects and public events with residents, artists and allies. The team aim to stimulate interest and understanding of the area’s rich heritage, connect residents, and catalyse opportunities for people to engage with creativity. In doing so, the team hopes to change perceptions of St Peter’s and St Paul’s and encourage further investment.

The art action group’s first project, in 2017, was Love St Peter’s, Love St Paul’s. Local residents were invited to take part in creative activities (led by artists) such as film-making, baking, foraging, and modelling with locally-dug clay. Children from Gardners Lane Primary School, Cheltenham, visited ‘The Wilson’ and created objects for the Museum of St Peter’s and St Paul’s. You can find out more about their work here.