Kim Wide
Founder, Co-CEO & Artistic Director @Take A Part Cio
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WORK HISTORY
Founder, Co-CEO & Artistic Director @Take A Part Cio
Take A Part use creativity to build communities through art, heritage and environmental projects. We are experts in engaging people creatively in places and developing audiences for contemporary art while supporting long-term changes to communities.Based in Plymouth, we work in areas that have been historically underserved to give agency to take on ambitions and create activists for local agendas. All through creative projects that bring people together to make decisions.Our long-term, embedded process starts with listening and supporting communities to set agendas for projects that reflect and address community need and diversity. Our genuine processes with communities leads us to co-commissioning exceptional national and international artists in those communities. We create local activism projects using creativity to catalyse ambition. Crucially, the process of creating the work itself is as important as what is created. Our purpose is to engage, educate and inform new audiences in contemporary arts while developing policy and setting agendas for neighbourhood regeneration initiatives in Plymouth and increasingly, across the UK and internationally. Take A Part’s work contributes directly to social, environmental and economic infrastructures.To date we have:Initiated 10 community interest companies supporting creative economies and community building (UK and international)Established Social Making, the UK\'s only biennial symposium dedicated to furthering socially engaged practiceSupported over 20 cultural and heritage organisations nationally and internationally to increase and cement sustainable engagementWorked with over 15 schools (at all levels) on creative education programmesCommissioned over 60 larger-scale cultural programmesWe are experts in community-led creative commissioning. Get in touch with us to collaborate locally for a more relevant, generative and sustainable cultural sector.
EDUCATION
Hill Park Secondary
Ontario Academic Certificate - Humanities
Sir Wilfrid Laurier University
Honors BA - Near Eastern Archaeology
Sir Sandford Fleming
Post Graduate Degree - Museum and Gallery Management and Curatorship
ABOUT KIM WIDE
I am a leader in Socially Engaged Arts (SEA), placemaking, and cultural democracy…
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