What happens when you give a pair of performance artists and a bunch of kids keys to an empty High Street shop?! Well... #basildon is about to find out as Hunt Darton hit the streets with #kidsbusiness as part of Basildon Creative People and Places 🤣😍🤩 Thanks for our funders and sponsors Eastgate Shopping Centre Basildon Borough Council @artscouncilengland & Orwell Real Estate #creativepeopleandplaces #basildonart #basildonartist #essex #essexart #essexkids #performanceart #business #openlab #highstreet #kids #kidsactivities #kidstakeover

From an empty Thomas Cook to a pop-up #photographystudio 🤩 mark_massey_ is one of our 7 talented artists to transform #basildon High Street with his project 'New Town Portraits' as part of #OPENLAB by Basildon Creative People and Places These beautiful photos represent some of the faces of Basildon. Unique, diverse and full of character...just like the place itself. If you want to be part of this epic body of work get yourself down to Eastgate Shopping Centre More info >> www.open-lab.co.uk Thanks to our funders and sponsors Basildon Borough Council Eastgate Shopping Centre Orwell Real Estate and Arts Council England . #basildonart #basildonartist #essex #essexart #essexartist #photography #essexphotographer #essexphotography #basildonphotographer #portraitphotography #newtown #portrait #creativepeopleandplaces #eastgatebasildon #basildoncommunity #community #diversity

Over the last 10 years we’ve taken over more than 40 empty shops 👀 We’ve had old restaurants, old nightclubs, old betting shops, old party shops... and now we have an old CEX! As part of the Creative Basildon programme we’ve commissioned the wonderful Therapy In Musical Expression - TIME and Strange Pill to transform this vacant unit into a hub of #music and #tech in the centre of #basildon Head over to the Open Lab website for all the information on how you can get involved! www.open-lab.co.uk Thanks to our funders and sponsors Arts Council England Basildon Borough Council Eastgate Shopping Centre Orwell Real Estate #free #freeevent #openlab #creativepeopleandplaces #emptyshop #musicjelly #musicjam #basildonartist #basildonart #essex #essexart #essexartist #musician #basildonmusic #essexmusic #essexmusicians #basildonavmm

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We work is areas of “low engagement”. That means that in the places we work people don’t have the same access and opportunities as others to experience culture and be creative. This weekend we launched #openlab as part of Basildon Creative People and Places Open Lab saw 7 talents artists hit Basildon taking over 7 empty shop units. Seeing the community embracing #music #illustration #theatre #performanceart #collage #film #photography #animation #projectionmapping #streetart is the reason we ❤️LOVE❤️ what we do! . Thanks to the talented artists Therapy In Musical Expression - TIME Strange Pill Family Scribbles Hunt Darton mark_massey_ 6FootStories Our Tiny Windows SDNA Ltd Thanks to our funders and sponsors Arts Council England Eastgate Shopping Centre Basildon Borough Council and Orwell Real Estate Biggest thanks of all to the #local residents who came down! . Open for 5 more weeks! For more info check out www.open-lab.co.uk . #basildonartist #basildonart #basildon #essex #essexart #creativepeopleandplaces #culture #highstreet #emptyshops #art #kids #creative #creativekids