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Culture Northumberland Research Interviews
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Culture Northumberland Research Interviews

With Horts (Rachel Horton) from Culture Vulture & Mortal Fools

Good afternoon all.

How has your week been?

Claire here. I’m aiming to publish more of the behind the scenes of our current research into the possibilities for Culture Northumberland. I’m almost finished now. There are two more podcasts in this series.

You can find our previous posts/ podcasts here.

A few weeks back I met with Horts aka Rachel Horton from Northumberland based Mortal Fools and her own culture profile raising space ‘The Culture Vulture’

Who are Mortal Fools and what do they do?

Mortal Fools is a multi-award-winning theatre, drama, and creative learning company based in Northumberland - working with children and young people using drama and creative interventions to support their wellbeing and personal development.

They are a company of participatory artists and practitioners who are committed to co-creating compelling, dynamic, socially-relevant, and high-quality theatre-based work with children, young people, and communities.

They work with thousands of children and young people every year, mostly in the North East.

They are a purpose-driven organisation. Our work must be relevant to and matter in wider society, and make a demonstrable and measurable difference to those we work with.

Horts and I talked about;

  • Co-creating for, by and with young people

  • Digital delivery and outreach

  • Audience development

  • Marketing

  • Ashington as a unique place to offer culture

  • Sustainability and staff/ freelancer wellbeing

  • Ticket cost/ free tickets /accessibility

  • And Horts’ work as a freelancer/ owner of The Culture Vulture space

If you’d prefer you can watch our conversation below on YouTube with captions or click here for the transcript of the conversation.

Links to things we talked about

You can watch our conversation on Claire’s YouTube channel here;

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Dates for your diary

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Northumberland cultural co-working dates 2024

Northumberland cultural co-working dates 2024

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Claire

Claire Venus

Culture Northumberland

Thanks so much to our recent supporters here at Culture Northumberland;

Esmé Weijun Wang,Vanessa Priest, Lindsey Mclaren, Louise Mabbs,

Hilary Elder, Republic Gallery, Dex Hannon, Dispel Develop, Alison Edwards, A Recumbent Prattler, Lyn Campbell - you’ll learn more about their work soon.

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