MAIA are to receive £43,525 from second round of the Government’s Culture Recovery Fund.
MAIA are among more than 2,700 recipients of the latest round of awards from the £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund. This award will support the sustainability of our community work, ensuring that our spaces are safe and COVID-secure, as we continue to invest in accessibility, disability justice and redistributing resources.
Read MoreWhen we talk about “building communities”, the conversation can easily become hollow and abstract. This is a problem, particularly as we know that the “community work” buzzword gets thrown around by organisations and reduced down to tick boxes by people in order to appease funders. If we are to truly build communities, we cannot speak in broad, vague or abstract terms.
Read MoreWe are honoured to be a recipient of The National Lottery Community Fund’s Emerging Futures award. Through which, we are exploring new narratives about space and place at The Spatial Imagination convening.
Read MoreToday, we’re super excited to release the MAIA online journal, a space for notes, thoughts, highlights and insights from across our programmes. Watch back highlights from our Spring programme.
Read MoreWe’re very excited to launch a new season from September onwards, all about care and wellbeing. The MAIA Weekender will return in 2021, bolder than ever and we can’t wait to share space with our community once again.
Read MoreToday we have had the joy and privilege of wrapping up our May programme, reflecting on the incredible community we get to be a part of.
A core part of who we are is made up of the Black Community who we love and deeply celebrate. So, while we reflect on the May programme with joy, at the same time, right now, our hearts are heavy with sadness at the news of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Belly Mujinga and so many others.
Read MoreSo that’s a wrap! We’ve come to the end of #MAIAThisMay: what an amazing four weeks of talks, workshops, microfunds, the lot! Here’s a round-up of our highlights from our final week in May.
Read MoreFrom Artist Campus to Artist Roundtable, in Week 3 of MAIA this May we have journeyed, explored, questioned, and re-imagined artistic practise and what it means to be an artist, for both now and in the future.
Keep reading for this week’s highlights!
Read MoreWith the Art-30 Live Art Event now closed, we would like to thank everyone who made a purchase and supported. We also wanted to shout out the 5 talented artists involved in this exciting commission, taking this week to spotlight each artist and their artistic practise. Keep reading to find out more about the incredible Art-30 artists!
Read MoreWeek 2 of our MAIA this May programme brought us powerful, practical, and thought-provoking discussions. From insightful Work On workshops to inspiring Artist Campus and Of the City sessions, here’s a round-up of this week’s highlights.
Read MoreFor #MAIAThisMay, we’ve commissioned 5 artists to make available 6 pieces of their artworks for our Art 30 live event. The premise is simple: for 30 hours only, 30 limited edition, mysterious artworks will be sold for just £30 each. Art 30 is now live until 4pm Sat 16th May 2020.
Read MoreSo that’s Week 1 of our MAIA this May programme wrapped up; what a way to kick off the month! We can’t wait for Week 2 of #MAIAThisMay, however, in the meantime, here’s a round-up of this week’s highlights.
Read MoreInline with our MAIA May programme, we’re pleased to announce the launch of our commissions!
We’ve got, not one, but, two fantastic commission opportunities happening this month including the Open Call MAIA Commission and the Keep Keeping Fund.
Read MoreMAIA this May brings you a month long programme of online talks, workshops and commissions, all centred around joy, the city, arts & community
Read MoreCollectively, we will be back better and stronger than ever, ready for a dope ass future. As natalieisonline posted: we have clarity about who we want to be in community with as we remake the world. We will get through this. Until then, love and take good care.
Read MoreLooking for someone dope to join the team, a storyteller, who can make sense of complexity and ensures we stay in dialogue with our community.
Read MoreThis is very exciting news and it comes at a crucial time in our work. Arts Council’s support is a positive step in the right direction, but we have a long way to go and we’re not naive to the challenges of the road ahead.
Read More“How can we be a good neighbour? It’s the creative community trying to have a foothold in that and to be a really important part of it so it’s not just commercial development. We’re all trying to maintain what is so special about all the different industrial and creative spaces here.”
Read More“I have started to see the very first kernels of what could happen when artists and those passionate about tackling social challenges come together. But we do know that artists need their own very bespoke and specific resources and infrastructure.”
Read MoreAnnouncement: Arts Council England are supporting the next phase of Art Hotel’s development!
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