2025 is going to be an IMMERSIVE year, the first of our three-year program 'Threads in Common' exploring community. Through a focus on wellness, culture and creative arts, the aim is to foster healthy conversations about community, identity, diversity, and inclusion. Weaving together our Threads in Common, nurturing respect and connection through understanding.
We recognise that threads, when joined together, engender strength and buoyancy. Understanding, Exploring and Embracing who we are as individuals and a community benefits our wellbeing and our social fabric. This, in turn, fosters and supports local networks for personal pride, a sense of place and belonging. The impact lies in a greater appreciation of, and harmonious relationships between, people from all backgrounds, cultures, gender, skills, and life experiences in our communities.
Over the next three years, we will be exploring and gaining a deeper understanding of
2025 - Ourselves, our identity, personal pride
2026 - Others, culture, traditions, language, gender, skills and life experiences
2027 - Community, ever changing, that a community and its strength is made up of many different communities
You can take part in Threads in Common by coming along to the creative activities around the region, participate through the creative at home activities or both! Click here to find out more on the Threads in Common Creative from Home (coming soon).
Creative residencies by inspiring artists will play a central role in the Threads in Common program, through community-engaged workshops, exhibitions, events and experiences that bring people together. We are excited in 2025 to introduce new artists to the North Midlands and welcome back old friends:
