Remote Talent Development

At Absolutely Cultured, we are committed to supporting creative practitioners through our talent development programmes such as the Hull Independent Producer Initiative (HIPI) and Fruit Factory Network (FFN). Throughout the COVID crisis, access to this support and opportunities for to come together digitally are more important than ever.

On 30 April we hosted an informal discussion forum on the subject of keeping happy, healthy and creative at home.

In these strange and unprecedented times, we are all are having to find new ways to stay healthy, happy and productive (or learning that it is okay not to be).

We discussed how, as artists and creatives, we’re tackling creativity during isolation, where we’re finding inspiration, and explored how we can better support one another to overcome the barriers each of us may be facing.

You can revisit the session here, and listen to what everyone had to say:

Here is more information about our wonderful invited guests:

Dawn Mitchell – We Do Wellbeing

Dawn Mitchell is the founder of We Do Wellbeing, a consultancy and training company focused on helping people to live healthier, happier lives. They offer a range of services that help develop resilience, build wellbeing and support people to adopt approaches to happier living.

Helen Stratford – Artist

Helen Stratford is a socially engaged artist with a background in architecture. Her practice spans performative workshops, site-specific interventions, video, speculative writing and discursive platforms. Her work, including Play Anywhere Now or Never with Idit Nathan, often encourages audiences to rediscover locations or places and to re-evaluate routines that are familiar to them by exploring them in new, critically creative ways.

Idit Nathan – Artist

Idit Nathan is an artist whose work draws on a wide variety of traditions and methods; it is participatory, collaborative and theatrical. She collaborates with artists, curators and diverse communities to develop site-specific interventions and artworks. Idit often uses play as a productive and provocative space in which the participant is challenged to confront their accepted understandings.

Past events

High Street Soundwalk Artist Talk: Jez riley French

Installation view. In My Room, Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings. Courtesy of Focal Point Gallery and the artists, 2020 © Anna Lukala

In My Room, Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings

HSG x GK Beaulah: Design Challenge

Fruit Factory Network site visit to Bloc Projects, Sheffield © Absolutely Cultured

Life as a Creative

Dance Exchange Hull, 2019 © Tom Arran

Meet the funders

Installation View. Practice in Place. Courtesy of Humber Street Gallery and the artists, 2020. © Jules Lister

Practice In Place

HIPI Hang Out Forum, Absolutely Cultured © Absolutely Cultured

Arts Council England under £15k Applications: Top Tips with Deb Ashby

Remote Talent Development

Installation view, 2019. Ollie Dook, Proboscidea Rappings. Courtesy of Humber Street Gallery and the artist, 2019. © Jules Lister

Proboscidea Rappings, Ollie Dook

Dance Exchange Programme, Absolutely Cultured © Absolutely Cultured

Dance Exchange Hull

Language Café © Chris Pepper

Chatty Hull

Hull Takeover: Previews © The Herd/The Roaring Girls/Just Club

Hull Takeover: Previews

Athena Papadopoulos, A Tittle-Tattle Tell-a-Tale-Heart, courtesy of Humber Street Gallery and the artist 2019. © James Mulkeen

A Tittle-Tattle Tell-a-Tale Heart, Athena Papadopoulos

Installation view. Place To Place: Liverpool Biennial Touring Programme. Courtesy of Humber Street Gallery and the artists 2019. © Tom Arran

Place To Place: Liverpool Biennial Touring Programme

Jamie Reid XXXXX: Fifty Years of Subversion and The Spirit © Jamie Reid

Jamie Reid XXXXX: Fifty Years of Subversion and The Spirit

Contains Strong Language © BBC

Contains Strong Language

Land of Green Ginger © Tom Arran

Act VII: Land of Green Ginger

John Grant's North Atlantic Flux: Sounds from Smoky Bay © Chris Pepper

John Grant's North Atlantic Flux: Sounds from Smoky Bay

The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca © Hull Truck Theatre

The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca

Installation view. HSG Open Call - Season Two. Courtesy of Humber Street Gallery and the artist, 2021. © Jules Lister

HSG Open Call - Season Two

Yoga @ Humber Street Gallery

Installation View. HSG Open Call - Season One. Courtesy of Humber Street Gallery and the artists, 2021. © Jules Lister

HSG Open Call - Season One (2021)

Chatty Hull, 2019 © Absolutely Cultured

Making work with and for communities

Installation view, 2020. Jamie Crewe, Solidarity & Love. Courtesy of Humber Street Gallery and the artist. © Jules Lister.

Jamie Crewe, Solidarity & Love

Model City, Absolutely Cultured © Tom Arran

Volunteer Community Support and Crisis Response

Installation view, 2020. Lucy Clout, ZZZ. Courtesy of Humber Street Gallery and the artist, 2020. © Jules Lister

Lucy Clout, ZZZ

Lucy, 2019. Aniara Omann, Equanipolis. Courtesy of Humber Street Gallery and the artist, 2019. © Jules Lister

Equanipolis, Aniara Omann

Installation View. Mike S Redmond and Faye Coral Jones (MSR FCJ), Ecstatic Rituals.Courtesy of Humber Street Gallery and the artist, 2019. © Jules Lister