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

Co-curated in partnership with Artefact

Artist Incubator will invite 16* artists working in the Creative Industries^ with their projects/ideas, drawing inspiration from the Bible’s timeless themes, narratives, and literary structures.  

Each artist will bring their idea/project and be given a bursary to spend as they need in order to set aside time to respond to one of 16 story movements as found in the Read Scripture app (see image below).

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 Directors 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. 

Inspiration behind the Incubator

In 2011, Bush Theatre opened the doors to its new home with “Sixty-Six Books: 21st Century Writers Speak to the King James Bible”. At the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible, Bush curated an immersive experience with this great English work, spoken to by a remarkable range of playwrights, poets, songwriters and novelists, from over a dozen countries and across five continents.

“Best of all is Stella Duffy's response to the Book of Ruth, in which the heroine and her mother-in-law, Naomi, are portrayed as two resilient women surviving loss and loneliness together in an alien land: as played by Kate Duchêne and Nikki Amuka-Bird, under Philip Wilson's direction, this becomes a powerful testament to sisterhood…

I will, however, say one thing for the venture: it makes you want to go to the book.” – Review by Michael Billington, The Guardian

What is the book?

“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