Art and Culture as Society’s Superpower for Positive Change

We hope you can join us for this free, public presentation by Matt Baker, who will draw on 30 years of experience of integrating artistic practice into communities, places and power structures, in the context of Berwick and local momentum for ‘culturally-led regeneration’.

When 

Thursday 28th August, 2pm – 4.30pm

Where:

The William Elder Building
56-58 Castlegate 
Berwick-upon-Tweed
TD15 1JT

Tickets

FREE – book via the Create Berwick Eventbrite page

About Matt Baker

Matt Baker is an artist and leader working at community, strategic and policy levels. From his home region of South West Scotland, Baker has taken his pioneering work in Creative Placemaking from an intimate local level to influence regional, national and international initiatives.

In 2011, Matt co-founded and the led The Stove Network for 14 years. A place-based arts organisation, The Stove has driven a community-led regeneration of Dumfries town centre with five High Street buildings now in community ownership and over £10m inward investment attracted. The Stove was the first artist-led community development trust in the UK and manages a creative placemaking network made up of community anchor organisations and creative practitioners, and supports the embedding of this methodology across a local government area of 6,500 sq km.

From 2020-23 Matt Baker was co-chair of the National Partnership for Culture, a group appointed by the Cabinet Secretary for Culture to advise on delivery of the Culture Strategy for Scotland (2020).