ABCD Plan for Cultural Recovery

Right Here, Right Now: where next for culture in our city and how?

OPEN SPACE REPORT

A lot has happened since the ABCD Plan for Cultural Recovery in Brighton & Hove was published at the end of 2020. The world has changed, although the pandemic is still with us, and we’ve all learnt and experienced a great deal.

It’s a good moment to reflect, but mainly to look forwards, and on 15 June ABCD held a session to share ideas and priorities about the future of culture in the city.

It was an open space event, so the agenda was set by participants on the day. You can read the report from the session here.

The ABCD Governance Group are reviewing the outcomes and will use them to help shape the ABCD programme for the next six months, and also inform the discussion on what comes after the cultural recovery programme concludes at the end of the year.

Watch this space for updates and sign up to the newsletter to make sure you don’t miss anything.

If you have any questions, contact Polly Gifford, ABCD Programme Manager, [email protected]

The disruption of the pandemic brought together over 100 creatives in Brighton & Hove to explore how arts & culture can be more inclusive, sustainable and collaborative in the City in the future.

It resulted in a recovery plan that has so far raised over £400k for the cultural sector in the City. Overseen by an independent group of people formed of a Governance Group and a series of Working Groups, the plan aims to create paid work and opportunities for creative workers in the City, develop a more inclusive cultural offer and encourage partnership working to strengthen the creative sector in the long term.

Our partners include Brighton & Hove City Council, Arts Council England, Brilliant Brighton Business Improvement District, Visit Brighton the Pebble Trust and many funded arts organisations in the City.

The ABCD projects were also funded by the Welcome Back Fund, part of the European Regional Development Fund.

You can find recordings of all the ABCD online activity on our YourTube channel, including the Igniter Events Series, Creativity & Meanwhile Use sessions, Fundraising Strategy workshops and Brighton Creative Stories videos.

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