Our projects create tangible, meaningful interventions in the city

Making change happen.

The Creative Arc projects each speak to an area of focus that addresses outcomes identified within the Shared Prosperity Fund and the University Strategy. These can be further developed through facilitated Design Thinking sessions with communities, stakeholders, partners and the Creative Arc Steering Group.

Our themes for this programme are Health & Wellbeing, Environmental Sustainability, and People & Place-shaping.

  • Health & Wellbeing

    This is where we share details, documentation and outputs about projects within the Health & Wellbeing theme.

    Image: A Design Thinking training session looking at the future of Exeter. Photo by Theo Moye.

  • Environmental Sustainability

    This is where we’ll share details, documentation and outputs about projects within the Environmental Sustainability theme.

    Image: A moth made as part of Art & Energy Collective’s ‘Moths to a Flame’ project. Photo by Jim Wileman.

  • People & Place-shaping

    This is where we share details, documentation and outputs about projects within the People & Place-shaping theme.

    Image: A model created during the RAMM About Town project, reimagining the High Street. Photo by Art Work Exeter.

  • Current Commission: Honeyscribe - Plant Prescriptions

    Opportunities for healthcare professionals at the RD&E Hospital to access free, high-quality creative encounters during the course of their busy shifts to support health and wellbeing, and connect them to the natural environment.

  • Current Commission: Exeter Seed Bank

    Creative Arc funding will provide support for Exeter Seed Bank’s flagship events and activities and produce two new strands of work, including a community growing project to develop a ‘landrace’ broad bean for Exeter.

  • Current Commission: Yellow Mouse Studios - Exeter Animation Academy

    Yellow Mouse Studios will expand their Animation Academy project to offer a training programme that helps up to 30 young people to learn animation in a nurturing and creative environment, from a team of professional animators.

  • Current Commission: All Souls' Day St Thomas

    An inter-cultural festival focusing on celebrating our ancestors while offering meaningful opportunities to talk about grief and reflect on our own mortality. The festival will take place on 27 October, 9.30am-4pm, at the Apostle Church on Cowick Street.

  • Current Commission: Documental Theatre - Sign & Sign and Newsicles

    A project to start elevating the Exeter area to a place where people with learning disabilities take steps into performance and creative careers, supported by a community and aspirational peers working in an accessible and personalised way alongside each other, to realise professional standards and aspirations.

  • Current Commission: Almanac Theatre - The Cultivate Sessions

    The R&D of a new play about the environment, alongside creative workshops, seed planting and a new piece of public art in Wonford

  • Current Commission: Exeter Northcott Theatre - The Commotion Choir

    The creation of a community choir as part of the development and performance of a new play, The Commotion Time, about the Prayerbook Rebellion, to be staged at ENT in autumn.

  • Current Commission: Hannah Mumby & Hannah Hayes - Flood Risk in Topsham

    Working with residents and community leaders of flood risk areas in Topsham Ward to explore their feelings about their lived experiences of flooding and how floods are managed, and the potential impact of climate change .

  • Current Commission: Art Work Exeter - River Radio

    A community radio project that will broadcast 60 hours of place-based, co-created and curated radio content non-stop from Exeter Custom House between 8am on Friday 13 Sept - 8pm on Sunday 15 Sept 2024.

  • Current Commission: Natalie McGrath - Pink Plates & Shipwrecks

    Creating opportunities for a small group of LGBTQIA+ people from Exeter who are impacted by cancer to get inspired, and explore their creativity through writing.

  • Current Commission: Positive Light Projects - The Pelican Press

    The design and build of a completely accessible wheelchair printing press which will then be used to create a range of artworks using various printmaking techniques.

  • Current Commission: Bookbag - Fore Street Stories

    A project connecting young poets, writers, and creatives with independent businesses, people and places as ‘writers in residence’ on Fore Street to inspire Fore Street Stories.

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