Organisations we’ve worked with

While we manage the exhibitions programme at Darlington Library and your access to Darlington Borough Art Collection directly, most of our work is taken forward through partnerships led by individuals, enterprises, and organisations beyond Darlington Borough Council.  

We work across different art forms and within and beyond the creative sector.  To date we’ve supported events, exhibitions, festivals, programmes and projects involving people from Darlington borough, Tees Valley, the North East of England, the United Kingdom, and internationally.  Activity in which we play a part does not need to be exclusively held in Darlington borough and sometimes takes place across the wider Tees Valley or North East of England, but the support Creative Darlington may offer partner’s proposal is informed by the level of public benefit they are likely to bring here.   

To date we’ve worked with individual artists, The Auxiliary, Blue Cabin, businesses, charities, choreographers, colleges, community groups, curators, Curious Arts, dancers, Durham Music Service, Equal Arts, film-makers, Forum Music Studios, Helix Arts, libraries, Middlesbrough Art Week, MIMA, museums, Orchestras Live, producers, schools, TeesDANCE, Tees Music Alliance, Tees Valley Combined Authority, Theatre Hullabaloo, Tracks Darlington, universities, voluntary groups, writers, and many more people, enterprises and organisations.  We hope you’ll get in touch if the Creative Darlington vision aligns with some of your existing practice, work or emerging ideas.  We’re keen to discuss proposals and explore ideas which may take one or more of Creative Darlington’s current priorities forward.