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Ribble Valley Borough Council

Arts Development Service

Ribble Valley's Arts Development team are based in the Platform Gallery, Clitheroe, one of the best-known Craft Galleries in the North West. The Arts Development teams priority is to increase the participation and access to arts based activities throughout the borough and to support the boroughs creative industries. Ribble Valley is positioned in north east Lancashire, the majority of which forms part of the Forest of Bowland, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

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FOLLY

folly is a leading digital arts organisation working across England’s North West. folly presents an active artistic programme that provides creative interaction and collaboration between artists and the wider public using technology.
 
folly commissions, exhibits, promotes and supports creative work and innovation with a strong emphasis on the use of online media, networked systems and integrated technologies.
 
folly delivers a year round diverse and innovative programme of online projects, events, festival activities, artist commissions, exhibitions, artist residencies, workshops and conferences.
 
Through projects like Abandon Normal Devices Festival, Portable Pixel Playground, Digital Artists' Handbook and Love Culture, folly is committed to enabling and working with new audiences, seeking to explore how society makes sense of the world through art and technology.
 
Founded as Folly Trust in 1989, folly now has an office based in Lancaster, and works in partnership with a wide range of both cultural and non cultural organisations from the UK and beyond.
 
folly also provides consultancy services specialising in digital and arts delivery using free and open-source software.

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Civic Arts Centre

The Civic Arts Centre is a brand new facility on the ground floor of the Civic Theatre, Oswaldtwistle in Hyndburn. The Arts Centre is due to open in August 2010 and it will become the hub of all Arts in Hyndburn – from dance to drama, film to music and visual to new media. The Arts Centre will be primarily, but not solely, for young people with many projects starting soon in preparation for the opening. The first production at the Arts Centre will be the youth led production of Romeo and Juliet.

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Regenerate Pennine Lancashire

Regenerate Pennine Lancashire (formally Elevate East Lancashire) is delivering a Housing Market Renewal programme to rejuvenate neighbourhoods with high numbers of terraced houses, many of them empty. HMR funding is used primarily to refurbish homes, and to clear unpopular properties to make way for a wider choice of better quality homes. People living through these changes inevitably feel concerned about their futures. Regenerate wants to give them reassurance and a real say in the changes, and was the first pathfinder to implement a creative programme funded by Arts Council England.

Regenerate’s belief is that culture and creativity play a vital role in creating sustainable communities and making places attractive. The company’s cultural programmes such as the Creative Community Engagement, Design & Heritage Pennine Lancashire, Dreaming of Pennine Lancashire (Includes Pennine Lancashire Festival of Food and Culture, Chic Sheds and Sound Investment), Living Places Partnership and Creative Enterprise & Entrepreneurs are just some of the ways in which Regenerate are delivering culture-led regeneration.

www.regeneratepl.co.uk
www.elevate-eastlancs.co.uk
www.penninelancashire.co.uk

Katy McCormick, Director of Communications, Media and Marketing, Regenerate Pennine Lancashire, Suite 22, The Globe Centre, St James Square, Accrington BB5 0RE katy.mccormick@regeneratepl.co.uk 01254 304550