ART ABOUT US BRIDGEND is a participatory arts residency run by visual artist Rabab Ghazoul. Running from June to December 2012, the project invites members of the Bridgend community to get involved in a range of creative, cultural and conversational activities. Asking questions about what regeneration could be, should be, is and isn’t, the project looks under the lid of what familiar words such as
‘renewal’, and ‘regeneration’ might and could mean…
The project is based at an empty shop on Nolton Street, where various activities, dialogues, and creative events will be occuring. A series of site-specific events and interventions involving local residents and communities are also being developed to take place in and around the town centre. How do we feel revitalised and more connected? To each other, to the places around us? Focusing broadly on Bridgend County Borough Council’s regeneration programme, the project explores not only local residents’ responses to the regeneration plans, but also delves into what helps us feel this regeneration at a deeper level – at the level of community, place, dialogue or exchange. We’ll do this with creative acts, conversation, invitation, food, song, pictures, the written and spoken word, aspiration, collaboration, and the different ways of sharing…
The ‘Art About Us’ Project is part of the Bridgend Town Centre Regeneration Programme which is being funded by the European Regional Development Fund and the Welsh Government
