Shirebrook Market Shop Enlivement

This project engaged the local community through pop-ups and workshops on a range of creative and distinctive ideas to create a more attractive and welcoming environment to the shops surrounding the Shirebrook marketplace, in collaboration with Junction Arts, a community arts charity based in Chesterfield and Zantium Studios, a creative partnership specialising in mosaic and painted murals as part of the Building Resilience Programme in the NG20 area. Our work started with a Pop-up Market Stall where we met and spoke with the local community to gather their thoughts, ideas and stories about Shirebrook Market Place and holding workshops in the local secondary school. A scoping report reviewed how the market shop frontages could be improved to create an attractive and welcoming environment. We also worked directly with shop keepers to see how these improvements could be realised. Watch a video about the project by Junction Arts here.