What is Percent for Art?
Our Percent for Art team comprises two officers who are based in our Community Engagement Team and work across all areas of Bolton. Our arts officers work with residents, community groups, partners and other community stakeholders to develop socially engaged arts projects that help to improve our communities and benefit customers.
We commission appropriate artists or arts organisations, to work with the local community, and we manage the project from start to finish.
The Percent for Art service actively encourages individuals and community groups to get involved in schemes that can offer creative solutions to neighbourhood issues.
Ideas for arts projects can come from our neighbourhood teams and they will focus on specific neighbourhood priorities or be developed through conversations with community groups, partner organisations or other community stakeholders. Sometimes local arts projects are developed through wider Greater Manchester, regional or national networks or funding.
Our service also offers advice and guidance to our partners with regard to developing arts projects involving other social housing customers across Bolton. We have also been commissioned by partners to project manage a number of community arts and public / environmental art projects in Bolton.
Projects can be in any medium including visual arts, performance, music, crafts, digital art and film. They can take the form of arts based consultation, skills and confidence building projects, arts in health & wellbeing work, festivals and celebratory arts, as well as streetscaping and environmental arts projects designed to enhance the physical environment.
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2019 Arts & Health Informal Exchange
Funded through Live Well Make Art and Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) Great Places the Informal Exchange project is one of four GM projects bringing together arts and health professionals to discuss development opportunities in the Arts, Health and Wellbeing sector. In Bolton this work contributes to Bolton Vision 2030 Neighbourhood Model (health and wellbeing) and Active and Confident (participation in arts, culture, sport etc… and volunteering) supported by Bolton Cultural Leadership Group.
The Informal Exchange initial project in Bolton comprised a consultation with health professionals and an Informal Exchange Event at Bolton Museum in November 2019 with the theme: How can the Arts and Health Sectors work together to achieve better outcomes for Bolton?
The project delivery group includes Bolton at Home, Octagon Theatre Bolton, Bolton Libraries and Museum Service and Bolton CCG.
For more information about this work, see http://www.thenervecentre.org.uk/live-well-make-art-informal-exchange-bolton/