Peterborough Culture Forum

Providing support and a place to connect for those interested in arts and culture in Peterborough.

What started in April 2020 as an online catch-up for Peterborough’s arts network has since grown into a city-wide open group for artists, arts organisations, community groups and individuals who are interested in the arts.

Free monthly meetings about pressing arts-focused topics and sector needs relevant to Peterborough. Connect with others and get support, build partnerships, trust and skills.

Suggestions for speakers and topics are welcome.

To receive notifications about Culture Forum events, including Zoom links for online events, please sign up for the Peterborough Culture Forum newsletter.

Next Session: Monday 30th June [online session]
What do emerging artists need to thrive?

Online session with Sarah Saxby for artists, exploring what artists need at the beginning of their careers. This session is especially for creatives within the first 3 years of their career, or currently studying, but everyone is welcome, especially if you work with emerging artists.

Sarah Saxby is a writer, actor, facilitator and youth worker (but she usually just goes by the catch-all term, ‘theatremaker’) hailing from the Fens.

What do emerging artists need to thrive?

This 50-minute online session will be the starting block of Sarah’s three culture forum sessions, all aimed at early career artists. This session will focus on creating a road map of what early career artists need and how established artists and organisations can facilitate those needs being met.

1. Introduce yourself and your most recent artistic struggle/roadblock to a Zoom room of other early-career artists and creatives.

2. Share the most impactful thing an artist or organisation has done for you thus far and dig into how it really helped.

This session will end with each artist in attendance leaving with one action they can take independently, and will also be followed up with a session write-up being sent to artist, including Sarah’s own personal ‘roadmap’. 

Use the link below to sign-up for this online training session - we need to know you’re coming to be able to send you a link!

Future Sessions

We have two new hosts, Rose Croft and Emily Bowers who will be hosting the Culture Forum in future sessions. Full announcements to follow. Please makesure you’re signed up to the newsletter so you don’t miss them.

Use the link above to let us know if you’ll be attending any of the sessions. This is essential if the session is online so we can send you the Zoom link, and for IRL sessions it helps us plan for refreshments.

A blog post on October’s online workshop about applying for a DYCP grant is available using the link below