Artist Incubator

Created to Create

Artist Incubator will be a powerful seed style activity to catalyse the momentum and relationship building potential of artists collaborating on work. This will lead to raising a generation of artists arising in the fullness of their creativity.

At Creatives House, everything that we say, do and make originates from the overflow of radical love – to love and engage with each person, whoever you are.

By providing coaching, equipping & support to artists who were created to create... we can cause artists to flourish:

  • Formationally with understanding of their artistic minds

  • Foundationally with love-driven values

  • Frontlines to navigate the arts sector with courage, compassion and the power of being in collaborative community.

What

Artist Incubator will invite artists* working in the Creative Industries^ with their projects/ideas, drawing inspiration from the Bible’s timeless themes, narratives, and literary structures.

Over 5 days, Creatives House will provide:

  • Time, space & finance to incubate new ideas

  • Bible overview consultation

  • Artistic (director/dramaturgy/curatorial/movement) consultation

  • Creative (technical/design/production/media) consultation

  • Food, coffee and restful environment to workshop ideas

  • Scratch Sharing on Day 5 with trusted audiences/artists.

  • Feedback conversations with creative producers to explore turning ideas into new productions first made in Manchester, then goes on tour.

*at least 50% of whom are from marginalised backgrounds, global majority, Deaf, disabled, neurodivergent, migrant, refugee or asylum seeking

^creators and makers working in the Creative Industries of: Crafts and design; Music, performing, and visual arts; Film, TV, radio, and photography. 

Why

…draw inspiration from the Bible?

“The 66 books of the Bible form part of one great drama – what we might call the drama of redemption”
– David Pawson, Unlocking the Bible

  • Widely considered the best-selling book of all time, with an estimated 5 to 7 billion copies printed and distributed. Its enduring popularity is attributed to its exploration of fundamental human questions, and its accessibility through translation into numerous languages.

  • A library of literary genres, written by skilled literary authors in a different language, culture, and time that tell of one redemption story, with timeless themes of truth, justice, wisdom and narratives still relevant to our day.

  • Literary art that speaks to what life is like and looks deeply into the human condition with compassion, pointing beyond oneself to be moved to action and love for another.

  • Communal literature and is therefore meant to be discussed, understood and presented in community