Counter Culture - A Burnley Heritage Action Zone Project
Creative Spaces Burnley contributed to the Historic England funded Culture Programme on St James's Street for over 4 years. Along the way, working with the specially established Cultural Consortium, we led on the delivery of multiple engagement projects including a pop up gallery, large street murals (Alexandra Gallagher), and a student research project with UCLAN exploring local pub culture, tea shops, cottage industries and Victorian medicine.
We also contributed to workshops teaching creative heritage skills (shop entrance mosaic making) and hosted street portrait photography projects with artist Casey Orr (Saturday Girl, pictured right).
Perhaps the biggest legacy of Counter Culture is the Cultural Consortium that formed to deliver it. The consortium continues to meet and influence the direction of economic and cultural development plans in Burnley and is Chaired by our 123 anchor tenant, Mid Pennine Arts' Director Nick Hunt.
