Past Projects
What’s Been Happening?
Here are some of the past projects we have loved creating with communities across Peterborough.
We are 10 years old!
2024-2025 It’s our 10th Birthday! Celebrating 10 years of creativity in Peterborough. Peterborough Presents is celebrating 10 years of working with communities across the city to create great art – and for our birthday year, we want to celebrate all the ways in which you can be creative and encourage you to get creative too.
Eye Can Craft – Makers Group
Starting 1st May, 2024 We are really excited about supporting a new craft and making group in Eye Village. People from Eye can join this creative coffee morning where you can make, create and chat. No experience necessary.
LemonWedge Film Making
Starting 12 July, 2024 A summer film making club for teens in Westwood & Ravensthorpe. A different, exciting project each week – get hands on and be part of our Westwood crew in charge of making short film projects over summer.
Bollywood Music Karaoke Workshop
June 2 & 8 2024 Join Peterborough Diwali Festival and VBSS for an afternoon of fun and singing for wellbeing! At this Karaoke Masterclass with Bhagwati Makwana, you’ll get to learn from a professional about the art of singing, while having lots of fun.
The Creative Dome at Peterborough Celebrates Festival!
May 18 & 19, 2024 Its our 10th Birthday! We will starting our celebrations at Peterborough Celebrates Festival at Ferry Meadows this May, hosting our very own ‘Creative Dome’ full of activities and fun
Millfield Planters Painting Weekend
May 11&12, 2024 Expect a buzzing environment of people and paint! Drop in any time to help bring these street planters to life. Do something nice for the local neighbourhood, and have a bit of fun doing something different!
Access in the Arts: A Podcast chat
Watch/Listen: The PP team talk about the changes we’ve made to be more accessible to the deaf, disabled, and neurodivergent communities in Peterborough.
Place Based “Pop Up” Activity – a case study
Read: an insight into how Peterborough Presents created a programme of “pop up” activity in Summer 2023 in Westwood.
Window Wanderland
We worked with Eye to create Peterborough’s first ‘Window Wanderland’. Which is a national project that has lit 100’s of towns and cities throughout the UK, its a project that encourages communities to come together to light up their neighbourhood and to create some shiny joy in the darkest half of the year.
Reasonable Adjustment
Reasonable Adjustment was an exciting programme of artists residencies and events with and for and by people who identify as Deaf, Disabled or Neurodivergent.
Top Tips: Embossed Print Video Tutorial
Watch: a 30 minute video tutorial guiding you through the steps of printmaking! BSL interpretation and Delivered by Fae Kilburn.
Top Tips: Zine Making Video Tutorial
Watch: a video guiding you through the steps of turning your artwork into a zine! BSL interpreted and delivered by Fae Kilburn.