Create Place – The Placemaking and Co-Creation Leadership Programme

Create Place is a leadership programme focussing on mid-career creative and cultural professionals. This leadership programme focusses on place-making for both heritage & arts organisations in North Staffordshire and Cheshire East. We also welcome applications from creative and cultural professionals outside our regions that have a specific interest in placemaking and co-creation.

Important terms in our cultural approach are co-creation, co-production and co-curation. The programme will pay attention to the socio-economic contexts of second-order cities, including their usually rurally dispersed communities, and their need to attend to locality-specific, narrative-rich partnership work to engage hard-to-reach communities.

This programme is free for successful applicants, thanks to Arts Council’s Transforming Leadership Fund.

Created by a network of cultural leaders based in North Staffordshire and Cheshire East, and supported by Arts Council England, CREATE PLACE is a free leadership development programme focussed on allowing you to be part of the growing community of cultural leaders that make our region so special. It offers essential management, leadership and cultural production skills, one-to-one coaching and live embedded experiences, benefitting from the 16 cultural partners in the consortium. Participants will form a close peer network and have direct access to the region’s leading cultural organisations.

We want to support and invest in the future of our cultural & creative placemakers; the people who will innovate, develop and contribute to the narrative of our places, making our cities and regions feel like vibrant, lively, cultural places to live and be creative.