Creative Peninsula focuses on increasing access and exchange between urban, rural and coastal communities in the far South West of England; celebrating the region’s distinctive landscape and Atlantic coastline, whilst exploring its complex social histories, through place-based arts programming and critical enquiry. 

Creative Peninsula aims to establish a network of partners across Devon and Cornwall and to co-create a platform with local communities for re-telling the ‘stories of place’, working to overcome barriers to social inclusion, wellbeing and environmental sustainability. It builds upon the research project, Outside the Box, which asked how open-air performance might reconnect people with the environment following the peak of the Covid pandemic, whilst also expanding on the work of the Creative Arc knowledge sharing initiative developed by Exeter City Council, the Royal Albert Memorial Museum and the University of Exeter.

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Photo: Stephen Hodge

Health & Wellbeing

Exploring how a renewed understanding of the region and our place in it help us to live better, healthier lives.

Environmental sustainability

The climate crisis isn't going away: how can we act on a regional level and how can we build environmental sustainability into our cultural priorities? 

Place making

How can we make and re-make the places we live? How can we regenerate areas of deprivation so as to put culture at the centre, and with a sensitivity to the diverse histories of these areas?

1

Exeter Streatham Campus

Exeter
EX4 4PY

2

Exeter St Luke's Campus

Heavitree Road
Exeter
EX1 2LT

3

Penryn Campus

Penryn
Cornwall
TR10 9FE

4

Truro Campus

Knowledge Spa
Truro
TR1 3HD

Jon-Paul Hedge

Exeter City Council

Teresa Gleadowe

CAST

Tamzyn Smith

Cornwall Museums Partnership

Anne Barlow

Tate St Ives

Victoria Pomery

The Box Plymouth

Hannah Harris

Plymouth Culture

For all queries, please contact:

creativepeninsula@exeter.ac.uk