We are consistently curious. Over time, we have honed different ways to enable communities to shape the provision of our artistic programme. Generally, this is through longitudinal projects with an on-the-ground team – we go into neighbourhoods, talk to residents, and build activity from there. Our evolving approach is well-documented (and interrogated) by outside evaluators.

Phase 5, From Left to Rights, shifts from a place‑based methodology to a rights‑based artistic programme grounded in lived experience, collaboration, and care. Responding to sustained social, economic, and environmental pressures, the programme positions art as a practical and meaningful tool for connection, agency, wellbeing, and civic imagination.

From Left to Rights is structured around:

• The Right to Grow
• The Right to Wonder/Wander
• The Right to Beauty
• and The Right to Space

These rights challenge deficit narratives about Blackpool and instead ask what becomes possible when communities are supported to flourish, explore,
care for place, and shape their environments.

The programme is rooted in deep, long‑term engagement with residents, artists, and partners across Blackpool neighbourhoods. It focuses on
everyday rituals, land and food connections, shared spaces, material knowledge, storytelling, and cultural myth‑making. We will consider abundance, not as accumulation, but as sharing, care, connection, creativity, and appreciation of what already exists in people, places, stories, and the natural environment.

The programme is adaptive, evolving in response to community insight, changing contexts, and long‑term relationships.