Looking to discuss your creative practice, explore a project idea, or build relationships with local organisations?

About the Sessions

We’re offering free 1:1 sessions online or in person for artists who live and/or work within our local area. These sessions will be led by you and cover topics you’d like to discuss. This might include:

• Your creative practice
• Talking through a project idea
• Advice or signposting to different funding routes or opportunities
• Building relationships with different organisations, voluntary groups, partners or venues
• Budget development or reading draft applications

Booking Information

There is one session available per artist and the slots are 1 hour long. Sessions are free and will be open on a first come first served basis. Please let us know in advance if you have any access requirements.

To ensure we can support as many artists and creatives as possible, anyone who has previously booked a slot with us won’t be eligible this time. Book your place [add booking link – button]

Our team will share their experience and backgrounds with the disclaimer that that some things brought into the Open Advice Sessions might be outside of our expertise. In this instance, we will try our best to help in the session.

What you share with us in the session will stay in the meeting. We will not share your ideas outside of the session space.

About the Peterborough team:

In Peterborough, our team have a background working in community roles, artist spaces or as practicing artists, which include photography, performance art and socially engaged work. We have experience developing and delivering participatory projects with artists, organisations and local communities, as well as developing activities with young people and arts for health and wellbeing. We’ve supported artists in a wide range of creative disciplines, including artists who are in the early stages of their career and have a vast knowledge of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire and Fenland. We have experience in supporting artists with their funding applications including Arts Council England.