People of colour continue to be underrepresented in the UK’s creative sector as audiences, employees and makers. The city of Bristol is a creative and cultural hub, but for young people from the city’s communities of colour it can be difficult to navigate and enjoy cultural spaces when you don’t see yourself represented within them. Since 2017, Rising Arts Agency has been running an action research project, #WhoseCulture, creating specific opportunities for young people of colour to ask questions within Bristol’s creative sector and explore what ‘culture’ means to them.
We strongly believe that the makeup of Bristol arts and culture needs to change—so this project is just one example of how we’re going to make it happen.