Social Learning
Social Learning 2026 – The Deep Dives
Following on from Take A Part’s series Social Learning – The Fundamentals, we are taking a deeper look at the ethics and the practice of socially engaged arts and community collaborative/co-creation practices.
The Deep Dives are for artists, producers, community and voluntary organisations, activists, local authorities and cultural institutions who want to develop more topic and issue-based skills in their work.
Led by the Take A Part core team, these sessions are developed to sharpen understanding, develop confidence, give tools and support that create a solid foundation for working with models of social practice and co-creation.
Workshop 1
Power Sharing in Practice: Shifting from Control to Co-Creation
Online Session
19 January 2026 / 12:OO — 13:3O
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This interactive session explores how cultural producers, activators, institutions and artists can shift from traditional and inherited forms of authority to true power sharing in socially-engaged projects. While navigating the inherent ethical challenges and managing risk, participants will focus on how to establish deep trust by ceding control. Through discussion, real-world scenarios, conversations and supportive worksheets, we will develop practical strategies for formalizing community-led governance and cultural devolutionary practices. Participants will leave with insights on structuring equitable governance at a community-level, clarifying project ownership, and fostering genuine agency and skills beyond the project lifecycle.
Workshop 2
Wellbeing, Belonging and Community Co-creation
Online Session
3 February/ 12:30 — 2:OO
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This interactive session explores how artists, facilitators, and community practitioners can nurture wellbeing and belonging through creative engagement and co-creation. Through conversation, shared experiences, and hands-on exercises, participants will consider how creative processes can build connection, confidence, and collective care. Together we will reflect on the role of creativity in shaping inclusive spaces, identify approaches for fostering meaningful collaboration, and develop practical ideas to embed wellbeing and belonging at the heart of community-based projects.
Workshop 3
Risk, Ethics, and Trust in Socially-Engaged Programming
Online Session
16 February / 1O:OO — 11:3O
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This interactive session explores how programmers, curators and producers support socially-engaged artists and projects while navigating ethical challenges, managing risk, and building trust. Through discussion, real-world scenarios, and participatory exercises; participants will reflect on the focus of these types of roles, develop practical strategies for fostering safe and meaningful engagement, and take away insights they can apply across creative, community, or cultural contexts.
Workshop 4
Building Culturally Confident Communities
Online Session
2 March/ 1O:OO — 11:3O
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This interactive Deep Dive explores how artists, facilitators, and community practitioners can support people to build confidence not only as creative contributors, but as empowered, active participants shaping cultural life. Through real-world examples and discussions, we’ll explore how long-term, embedded ways of working, rooted in local contexts and beginning from where communities are at, support a growth in confidence, foster meaningful engagement, create shared authorship, and enable collective decision-making around cultural activity. Participants will leave equipped with practical tools and deeper understanding around building trust, nurturing creative agency, and supporting communities in stepping into cultural spaces as creators, critics, and co-owners of their cultural landscape.
Social Learning
Take A Part are launching a series of training sessions for artists, producers, community and voluntary organisations, local authorities and cultural institutions who want to nurture and grow a confidence in developing and delivering Socially Engaged Art (SEA) practices/creative community co-created projects.
Developed and delivered by Take A Part CIO, hosted by Bricks, Bristol.
Generously supported by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
Social Learning
Take A Part are launching a series of in-person and online training sessions for artists, producers, community and voluntary organisations, local authorities and cultural institutions who want to nurture and grow a confidence in developing and delivering Socially Engaged Art (SEA) practices/creative community co-created projects.
Returning for Autumn 2025:
The Fundamentals
The Fundamentals is a series of 4 practical workshops that cover topics such as Asset Based Community Development, how to approach and develop models of co-creation, how to structure and sustain the work and how to evaluate it for impact.
Led by the Take A Part core team, these sessions are developed to sharpen understanding, develop confidence, give tools and support that create a solid foundation for working with models of social practice and co-creation.
Workshop 1
The Fundamentals of Socially Engaged Arts Practice
Online Session
4 November / 12:OO — 13:3O
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Join Take A Part for an introduction to the fundamentals of Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) as it applies to community-led cultural programming.
In this 1.5-hour session, you will:
Learn about ABCD and how to apply it to creative commissions and engagement projects.
Understand how to develop and deliver ethical and value-driven projects
Explore how to work with challenges and find ways forward/new approaches.
Create your own reflective ‘approach’ to working with communities.
Workshop 2
Deepening Community-Led Co-Creation Practice
Online Session
12 November / 12:OO — 13:3O
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Join Take A Part for a practical and reflexive workshop on strengthening Community-Led Co-Creation.
In this 1.5-hour session, we will:
Explore the fundamentals of Community-Led Co-Creation.
Interrogate our own approaches to long-term and topic-based co-creation, identifying areas for growth.
Examine where Co-Creation gets stuck, using Take A Part projects as case studies.
Reframe challenges to create more meaningful and impactful outcomes.
Workshop 3
Strategy & Stability – Securing Practice
Online Session
26 November / 12:OO — 13:3O
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Join Take A Part for a look at how, beyond the ideas, you can make things happen in your socially engaged art/community arts projects.
In this 1.5-hour session, you will:
Explore models of governance and structure that will help you create and sustain work (from unincorporated groups through to charity models).
Look at income generation and how to fundraise for your ideas.
Create your own practical strategy for your idea so you can get started after the event.
Take away a project planning checklist to apply and use.
Workshop 4
The Fundamentals of Evaluation & Impact in Socially Engaged Arts Practice
Online Session
2 December / 12:OO — 13:3O
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Join Take A Part for this introduction to storytelling for impact and a look at how you can co-design evaluation and impact frameworks with your community partners to ensure that everyone can share success and narratives.
In this 1.5-hour workshop, you will:
Understand the value of evaluation to your organisation or projects.
Look at the difference between qualitative and quantitative data.
Explore more creative approaches to evaluation that are meaningful and accessible.
Create your own evaluation framework to take away.
Developed and delivered by Take A Part CIO, hosted by Bricks, Bristol.
Generously supported by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.