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Future Arts Centres @artscentres.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Delighted that Our Freedom: Then and Now, created with our partners Open Eye Gallery, features in Londonist’s Top Exhibitions To See In London: March 2026. Opening this month at the Southbank Centre, it shares powerful stories and portraits from communities across the UK #OurFreedom #ThenAndNow

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The Top Exhibitions To See In London: March 2026

Looking for an awesome London exhibition in March 2026? Here's our pick of must-see shows.

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Future Arts Centres @artscentres.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Arts centres and libraries are trusted civic spaces, and that trust is what made these UK-wide conversations on what freedom means today possible. Read Annabel and Gavin's reflections on #OurFreedom: Then and Now 👇

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Future Arts Centres @artscentres.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

The journey continues. Photography exhibition Our Freedom: Then and Now will tour to 18 arts centres and libraries across the UK this year, sharing stories of people, place and belonging from communities nationwide. Also online from 18 March ourfreedom.org.uk/news/our-fre... #OurFreedom #ThenAndNow

A woman in a long, bright blue cape, with a small crown on her head, stands on a road.

Photo by Anneleen Lindsay with West Dunbartonshire Council, Clydebank.

Future Arts Centres @artscentres.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

We’re delighted to welcome two new members to the Future Arts Centres network ✨ 🌟 Beach Creative CIC - a vibrant, community‑driven arts hub in #HerneBay, Kent, offering space, support and inspiration for artists, makers and local residents. (1/2)

Brick exterior of Beach Creative, with a banner on a fence at the front reading 'beach creative community arts centre / galleries, studios, courses and workshops'.

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Future Arts Centres @artscentres.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

What does freedom look like across the UK today? We’re excited to share that a major photography exhibition marking the culmination of Our Freedom: Then and Now will open at the Southbank Centre this March: ourfreedom.org.uk/news/exhibit... #OurFreedom #RememberOurFreedom #ThenAndNow

A person (hidden) holding up a large piece of material with text reading 'Freedom isn't survival, freedom is fighting for what you believe. Freedom is singing...' (rest of text not visible).

Photo: Leticia Valverdes with Trinity Community Arts

Future Arts Centres @artscentres.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Looking for a new opportunity in the new year? Pocklington Arts Centre is seeking someone with proven leadership experience at a senior level in an arts organisation to be their new Venue Director. If this could be you, find out more and apply here: pocklingtonartscentre.co.uk/pocklington-...

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Pocklington Arts Centre Director Vacancy - Pocklington Arts Centre

Pocklington Arts Centre is looking for an experienced and inspirational leader to provide strategic, artistic, organisational and financial leadership.

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Future Arts Centres @artscentres.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Future Arts Centres is pleased to welcome Elizabeth Woledge as the new Director of @levelcentre.bsky.social. Liz brings rich heritage-sector experience as LEVEL Centre continues to champion inclusive arts and support disabled artists. 🎉 Exciting times ahead - congratuations, Liz!

Head shot of Elizabeth Woledge, a white woman with dark blonde hair and glasses. She is wearing a brown checked jacket and a black scarf, and is smiling for the camera.

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Future Arts Centres @artscentres.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

⏰ There's still time to join Future Arts Centres’ Most Significant Change (MSC) training programme for 2026. ✨ Available to both members and non-members, this is a chance to build practical evaluation skills, share learning, and strengthen impact across the arts and community sector 👇

Future Arts Centres @artscentres.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

🎉 We're thrilled to welcome three new members to the #FutureArtsCentres network: 🌟 Beacon Arts Centre in Inverclyde 🌟 De La Warr Pavilion on England’s south coast 🌟 Pontio in Bangor, North Wales Together, they strengthen our collective voice across the UK. Delighted to have you on board! ✨

Exterior of Beacon Arts Centre, on a sunny day with a clear blue sky.

Wide shot of the exterior of De La Warr Pavilion, showing its position on the seafront at Bexhill-on-Sea. The wide angle shows off an expansive blue sky above, dotted with white clouds.

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Future Arts Centres @artscentres.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Great to see. We hope you all have a brilliant day! #OurFreedom

Future Arts Centres @artscentres.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

🌟 New for 2026: Future Arts Centres is launching a Most Significant Change (MSC) training programme, led by Annabel Turpin and Mark Robinson (@thinkingpractice.bsky.social). Learn how to capture the real impact of your work. 👉 Details and sign-up: futureartscentres.org.uk/what-we-do/p...

A person, with a joyful look on their face and an arm in the air, taking part in activity at Cambridge Junction.

Photo credit: Cambridge Junction

Future Arts Centres @artscentres.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

🌟 Great to visit Leeds Central Library yesterday to see the new tapestry panel from their Threads of Freedom project, part of the national #OurFreedom programme. Created with communities across Leeds, it now sits alongside the Leeds Tapestry. 📌 More events continue: www.ourfreedom.org.uk/events

Four members of the Future Arts Centres team (l-r: Sophia McKenna, Christine Lee, Gavin Barlow, Annabel Turpin) stand either side of the new tapestry panel.

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Future Arts Centres @artscentres.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Do you have at least 5 years' experience of senior and commercial management within a multi-functional venue, or comparable environment? Scala Worcester is looking for a collaborative, team-focused leader to be their new Deputy Chief Executive/Director of Operations. Interested? Find out more 👇

Future Arts Centres @artscentres.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

🕊️ As Remembrance Day nears, arts centres & libraries across the UK are exploring freedom through creativity. Our Freedom: Then and Now is bringing venues together through a programme of art, performance, and storytelling. 🖇️ Read about some of the highlights so far (events continue through November)

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Our Freedom: Celebrating Community, Creativity, and the Meaning of Freedom - Future Arts Centres

Discover Our Freedom: Then and Now, a nationwide arts programme marking 80 years since WWII, uniting 60 UK arts centres to explore freedom through community-led creativity, exhibitions, and performanc...

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Future Arts Centres @artscentres.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

'Arts centres, like universities, are places where new ideas and new ways of seeing the world are explored.' Michael Eades, Head of Civic Engagement at Goldsmiths, University of London, in @artsprofessional.co.uk on the partnership with Future Arts Centres www.artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/fea...

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Local engagement, national conversation - Arts Professional

In an era of political division, it’s more important than ever to build collaborative networks that link the local to a wider context, according to Michael Eades of Goldsmiths University of London.

Future Arts Centres @artscentres.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

📢 We’re delighted to share that Future Arts Centres has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social - marking the start of a new partnership grounded in shared values of creativity, community, and civic engagement. 🔗 Learn more: futureartscentres.org.uk/future-arts-...

Future Arts Centres Co-Directors Gavin Barlow and Annabel Turpin.

(Photo credit: Jonathan Keenan Photography)

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Future Arts Centres @artscentres.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Ending October with reflections from our recent Members’ Meeting which tackled the capital challenge head-on. From urgent repairs to future-proofing, the message was clear: arts centres are civic infrastructure. Investing in them means investing in community: futureartscentres.org.uk/building-for...

Dave Moutrey, chair of the panel on The Fundraising Landscape, stand at a microphone to introduce the topic and his three fellow panellists seated alongside him. An audience of FAC members gathered around circular tables in the Rich Mix Studio watches on.

A panel of seven people sitting in front of a projection screen showing images of several Future Arts Centres venues.

Future Arts Centres @artscentres.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

🎉 Huge congratulations to our member Bluecoat for winning the Innovation in Social Value award at Liverpool Chamber's Innovation in Business Awards 2025! This is a brilliant recognition of the vital role arts centres like Bluecoat play in driving social change and community impact. Well deserved! 👏

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Future Arts Centres @artscentres.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

💡 Arts centres are delivering culture with purpose - supporting wellbeing, learning, and local regeneration. Future Arts Centres’ latest Sector Insight Report shows a resilient, community-rooted sector ready to lead - with the right support. 📖 Read it here: futureartscentres.org.uk/new-sector-i...

Young people taking part in a movement session. Photo credit: Bradford Arts Centre.

Future Arts Centres @artscentres.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Our Yorkshire member Cast is seeking an experienced and inspirational leader to take it into its next era by providing strategic, artistic, organisational and financial leadership. Interested? Find out more: www.castindoncaster.com/about/jobs-o... Closing date: 9am, Mon 1 Dec 2025.

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Future Arts Centres @artscentres.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Last week’s Future Arts Centres Members’ Meeting at Rich Mix was full of insight, generosity, and shared ambition. Thank you to everyone who joined us - speakers, facilitators, members, and our brilliant hosts. (1/3)

Sign on a stand pointing the way to the Future Arts Centres meeting at Rich Mix.

The meeting of Future Arts Centres members listens to the first panel discussion of Dave Moutrey in conversation with Zoe Crick-Tucker (Theatr Clwyd), Caroline McCormick (Achates), and Tonya Nelson (Arts Council England).

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Future Arts Centres @artscentres.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Brilliant to see two Future Arts Centres members win at the #UKTheatreAwards! 👏 🏆 Storyhouse - Excellence in Inclusivity 🏆 BEAM - Excellence in Sustainability And congrats to The Parent Agency, a Storyhouse and Scenario Two co-production, for Best Performance in a Musical 🎉 #FutureArtsCentres

A collage of images showing the Storyhouse team on stage accepting their Excellence in Inclusivity award, and posing with it later.

A hand holding up BEAM's Excellence in Sustainability award in front of their venue.

Future Arts Centres @artscentres.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Congratulations to Dr Hannah Phillips who has been appointed as the first CEO and Artistic Director of Future Arts Centres member @scalaworcester.bsky.social ahead of its opening in 2026. We can't wait to see how Hannah's vision shapes this exciting new chapter for the cultural life of the city!

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Future Arts Centres @artscentres.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Great to be at Rich Mix in London today for our third and final Members' Meeting of 2025. Brilliant to have so many peers and specialists here as we consider the realities of maintaining our buildings and developing successful capital programmes.

Members listening to a panel speaking on the fundraising landscape.

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Mark Robinson @thinkingpractice.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

For no other reason than I remembered not everyone in the world has read it, here's the book I wrote about creative resilience & creative communities, pub by @artscentres.bsky.social. Download for FREE or buy paperback to look cool on trains, in waiting rooms, in bed, etc tacticsforthetightrope.com

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Tactics for the Tightrope

Samples from the book Tactics for the Tightrope Creative Resilience for Creative Communities by Mark Robinson published by Future Arts Centres - culture, creativity, arts.

Future Arts Centres @artscentres.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Our Co-Director Annabel Turpin will be speaking at Arts & Business NI's Cultural Governance Conference at The Duncairn in Belfast next Thur 23 Oct, sharing insights from her roles at Future Arts Centres, Storyhouse, and Arts Council England. How can organisations be truly community-led?

Promotional graphic for the Cultural Governance Conference 2025, showing speakers Saad Eddine Said (New Art Exchange); Annabel Turpin (Storyhouse); Olwen Dawe (Safe to Create); and Fiona Bell (Thrive).

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Future Arts Centres @artscentres.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

A huge congratulations to our Yorkshire member Bradford Arts Centre, formerly Kala Sangam, who have reopened this week. We can't wait to see what this new chapter brings!

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Future Arts Centres @artscentres.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

🌍 This summer, we supported Sophie Cade from The Met, Bury to attend #FAMFEST Chile, a festival championing theatre for young audiences. She’s back with big ideas for Bury and beyond. Read her reflections 👉 futureartscentres.org.uk/famfest-chil... #FutureArtsCentres #FAMFEST2025 #FamilyTheatre

A group shot of FAMFEST attendees, with a row of people standing, and another row kneeling in front of them

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Future Arts Centres @artscentres.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

We're thrilled to extend a very warm welcome to five more organisations joining Future Arts Centres. It's fantastic to have you on board! Please join us in welcoming: ⚪ Art & Talking - the art centre of Chipping Norton (1/5)

Exterior of Art & Talking, a building in the 13th Century Market Square

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Future Arts Centres @artscentres.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

A Future Arts Centres member, the Southbank Centre, is marking a significant milestone soon! Our Co-Directors Annabel Turpin & Gavin Barlow were delighted to be at the launch of their 75th anniversary programme last night. Find out what's in store for 2026: www.southbankcentre.co.uk/press/the-so...

FAC Co-Directors Annabel Turpin and Gavin Barlow pose for a photo against the background of activity at the Southbank Centre.

Photo credit: Maddy Mills.

Gosforth Civic Theatre @gosforthcivictheatre.co.uk · 18/09/2025

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Our Freedom Moving platform is part of @artscentres.bsky.social's national Our Freedom Then and Now project to mark 80 years since the end of the Second World War. It will involve more than 60 performers, dancers, and musicians who will explore what freedom means to us, then.. and now.

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Gosforth Civic Theatre @gosforthcivictheatre.co.uk · 18/09/2025

This week, we attended a Local History Group session at Gosforth Library to tell them all about Our Freedom Then and Now and the history of our wonderful building. Housed in the library is the war memorial which commemorates the people of Gosforth who lost their lives in the Second World War.

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Future Arts Centres @artscentres.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Congratulations to Abigail Pogson on being appointed as the new CEO of our London member the Barbican Centre. Abigail takes up her role in January, and we look forward to seeing her lead the Barbican through their exciting Renewal programme and beyond: www.barbican.org.uk/our-story/pr...

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Abigail Pogson announced as new Barbican Centre CEO | Barbican

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Future Arts Centres @artscentres.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Our Co-Director Annabel Turpin welcomed Chris Bryant MP, Minister for Creative Industries, Arts and Tourism, to @storyhouselive.bsky.social this week to talk about the value and impact of arts centres like this one. Here’s to continuing the conversation about our power to make a difference.

Annabel Turpin, Chief Executive of Storyhouse and Co-Director of Future Arts Centres, and Sir Chris Bryant MP, Minister for Creative Industries, Arts and Tourism, pose for a photo against the backdrop of the interior of Storyhouse.

Future Arts Centres @artscentres.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

"It's time to look more seriously at the role of arts centres as civic anchors... increasingly central to the health and wellbeing of communities" - says our Co-Director Annabel Turpin in this piece for Museums Journal (@museumsassociation.org): www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...

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As councils cut back, art centres step up - Museums Association

The role of arts centres as community hubs has never been more important, says Annabel Turpin

Future Arts Centres @artscentres.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

We’re thrilled to announce 22 photographers from Open Eye Gallery's Socially Engaged Photography Network will be capturing stories from #OurFreedom: Then and Now, culminating in a national exhibition in 2026. Meet them & learn more: ourfreedom.org.uk/news/new-nat... @artscouncilengland.bsky.social

Person (face out of shot) holding a camera