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Global Streets is a national network of partners that co-creates and presents international outdoor arts events with communities living and working in places which are underserved by the arts. We work with local people to deliver free, spectacular, international productions which lift people’s spirits and bring communities together across England.
Our partners use their knowledge of international outdoor arts and placemaking to identify ‘permeable’ productions which enable local people to engage and feel invested in their neighbourhoods, high streets and town centres. Fully integrated audience development, supported by participation, forges connections across diverse communities. Global Streets productions resonate powerfully with local aspirations and stories.
Since 2015, Global Streets partners have brought over 400 performances to public spaces across England, reimagining them as accessible outdoor theatres for which nobody needs a ticket. The programme has reached over 1 million audience members and over 124,500 participants to date.
A Decade of Global Streets: Discover the Impact of the Project
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Global Streets is created with 13 partners across England:
- Festival of Thrift
- City of Bradford
- Leicester City Council
- Cast, Doncaster
- Freedom Festival, Hull
- Revolution, Luton
- Creative Barking & Dagenham
- Greenwich+Docklands International Festival
- Watermans, Hounslow
- Culture Liverpool
- Birmingham Hippodrome
- Crawleu’s Creative Playground
- Strike A Light, Gloucester
In recent years, Global Streets events have included a one year vigil in which 730 people contributed to a 365 day performance in Hull, an enormous structure built entirely from cardboard co-created in Liverpool and a tidal wave of rainbow coloured foam in Birmingham – to name a few. See the full programme.
Global Streets is supported by Arts Council England.
Get in touch about Global Streets by contacting
Kevin Wratten, Global Streets Producer, FESTIVAL.ORG
at [email protected].