A Cultural Strategy For Enfield 2020-2025

Dallas–Pierce–Quintero Contents

Foreword 4

Our Cultural Vision for Enfield 6

Executive Summary 8

1. A Cultural Strategy for Enfield 10 The Value & Role of Culture What we Mean by Culture Fostering a Healthy Cultural Ecology

2. Context 18 A Multi-faceted Borough Culture & Diversity Cultural Landscape Opportunities to Grow Enfield’s Culture Creative Enterprise Wider Opportunities Responding to Covid-19 Analysis / SWOT

3. Cultural Priorities 42 Sustainable Culture, Creating Opportunities for Young People, Culture Everyday

4. Focus Areas 46 On the Ground The Right Mix Supporting Growth Celebrate Capacity

5. Cultural Action Plan 70

Cover; “Place We Call Home” by King Owusu, 2020 6. Investment & Implementation 80 Commissioned by Artist Hive Studios for the Enjoy Enfield Summer festival is association with Enfield Council.

2 Dallas–Pierce–Quintero A Cultural Strategy for Enfield 3 Foreword

Culture surrounds us and is within us across Enfield: it is who we are and shapes the way we interact with each other. It both influences the path of history and is influenced by history itself, as well as being borne from religion and our multicultural traditions. It is the food we eat, the languages we speak across the borough, our values, beliefs and customs.

For some it might simply mean discussing a book or enjoying our cultural gems like Forty Hall and the Millfield Theatre, while for others it could mean a desire to write poetry, paint, compose songs, make films, create video games or take to a stage and dance. “Culture is for But our culture is constantly evolving and as a Council we must keep pace with it and harness its power and economic benefits for all our residents. everyone across the Meridian Water offers an exciting opportunity for new cultural venues and creative industries. The creation of forests and woodland offer the opportunity to provide green spaces for performance and to transport us to a time in our heritage when Enfield was blanketed in trees. whole borough, with

Culture is vital to our capital’s economy; the city’s cultural and creative industries now employ 1 in 6 Londoners and contribute £52 billion to London’s economy community and each year and we want to attract an increasing share of that prosperity to Enfield. The arts, culture and creative industries have been dealt a huge blow during the cultural festivals at the pandemic but they will rise again and we need to be there to connect groups, compete for grants, provide performance venues and workspaces.

In “Culture Connects” we lay out our plans and priorities for the next five years heart.” and how our unique arts, heritage and creativity will drive forward our economy, our places and opportunities for our residents.

It is exciting to think of all the ways in which cultural experience can transform, delight, inspire, awaken, activate, build and enliven our borough. We look forward to working with residents and organisations across Enfield to make the most of what happens when culture connects us.

Councillor Nesil Caliskan, Leader of Enfield Council Councillor Ian Barnes, Deputy Leader of Enfield Council Cultural Strategy Lead Image: Festival Dancers

4 Dallas–Pierce–Quintero A Cultural Strategy for Enfield 5 Our Cultural Vision for Enfield

“Our ambition is to connect Enfield through culture. We want to connect our rich history of cultivation and industry with creative activity throughout our green spaces, homes and town centres, our young people with opportunity, our diverse communities with shared celebrations and events.

As culture connects us, we will see the borough grow its economy and promote its identity more widely as a bright and diverse mix of city, countryside and creativity. We will connect organisations and ambitions across the borough to achieve our vision for Enfield together. Culture connects.”

6 Dallas–Pierce–Quintero A Cultural Strategy for Enfield 7 Executive Summary

This strategy sets out a robust framework to strengthen and enrich culture across the borough of Enfield. We know that investing in culture brings broad benefits, both social and economic, both of which are needed now more than ever to help us unite and to rebuild.

Three key priorities underpin our creative ambitions for the borough: Sustainable Culture, Creating Opportunities for Young People and Culture Everyday. We want to build a healthy cultural ecology which draws on the full range of our community, creative sector and stakeholder strengths. The strategy outlines what is needed to build this ecology and ensure we have the right mix of provision and support in place that will allow more people across the whole borough, of all ages, to access cultural opportunity and be part of igniting activity.

Enfield Council’s role is that of a champion, a catalyst and a convener. Consultation with Enfield’s creative sector and across the council has identified opportunities to harness the potential that the borough offers, to build on existing provision and work collaboratively to generate new initiatives and increase Enfield’s attractiveness for existing and new communities who live, work and study here or come to visit our cultural and historic venues and parks and our high streets.

We know our cultural infrastructure can grow and we are ambitious to make that change and build on our film and TV production growth, maker-space, performing arts and creative venues. With 1 in 6 jobs in the fast growing creative sector, and creative employment predicted to be resilient to automation, we want to ensure that creative enterprise can thrive here.

Culture connects us and whether through professional or grassroots activity, or within our individual lives, our families or communities, creativity supports our wellbeing, helps us feel we belong and enables us to reflect on the world. We want to celebrate our diverse communities and their talents and interests, and our varied urban and heritage landscapes, including our towns centres, parks and open spaces, which give us a rich context in which to present and experience creativity in Enfield. Lost Treasures: The Regal Edmonton © Dallas-Pierce-Quintero

8 Dallas–Pierce–Quintero A Cultural Strategy for Enfield 9 1. A Cultural Strategy for Enfield

10 Dallas–Pierce–Quintero A Cultural Strategy for Enfield 11 The Value of Enfield’s Culture The Role of this Strategy

Arts, culture and creativity Every year, the UK’s creative industries contribute This strategy articulates and prioritised projects and collaborative networks £111.7bn gross GVA to the economy and culture to increase access to culture and creativity. connect Enfield’s strong diverse contributes £5.2 billion to London. Our creative values the multiple benefits of communities. Creativity has the industries are successful throughout the world, culture and seeks to infuse Enfield This might mean seeing new public art and power to drive positive economic creating 1 in 6 jobs. with culture and creativity. It will festivals in town centres, increasing creative (Source: GLA & Creative Industries Federation) activity for young people and across the and social change in the borough express how bringing people generations, the chance to learn new skills and is intrinsic to our local identity. Enfield’s local cultural offer, in venues, heritage together in shared creative and find creative employment or workspace, houses and gardens, in parks, open spaces, We understand that our shared experiences will help to boost visit a venue for the 1st or 50th time or enjoy high streets, cafés and neighbourhood halls, outdoor culture together. Whatever your age or experiences and varied heritage, underpins the borough’s appeal and ability to the borough’s economy, and the background. Whatever corner of the borough our talents, skills and interests are build community and attract visitors. need to strengthen the cultural you live or work in. and creative sector in order to do central to making Enfield a vibrant, Investment in culture is reaped in so many In Enfield, we will establish culture as core to distinctive and healthy place to ways that are vital to our social and civic fabric so, through a growing cultural place-shaping and encourage partnership, including addressing inequality and growing live and work in. ecology. collaboration and innovative ideas to help attract the economy. investment. In particular we will champion Arts and cultural experiences, whether rooted We will set out a clear view of Enfield’s cultural arts and culture in its many and varied forms in a cultural or community venue, at home or ‘Theatres, museums, galleries and strengths and weaknesses to enable strategic for the positive impact it has on our lives and at school, have intrinsic value to our well-being libraries are the beating heart of support & planning. We will harness the power how it enriches our sense of self and our sense and our sense of belonging. Access to culture our towns and cities. Not only do of culture to support key borough agendas of community. Especially in challenging times such as the 2020 pandemic, culture can give life across the borough, and the many ways in they bring prosperity, they bring including recognising the positive role culture which culture meets wider strategic objectives can play in supporting our well-being. meaning, help us to feel connected and support that contribute to and enrich our lives, are core communities together and make life social and economic recovery. to this strategy. worth living.’ The strategy will seek to make more of the borough’s cultural offer by providing a focus for Below; Youth drama at the Dugdale Theatre © Worlds End Arts Council England Below: Reggae on the Lawn, Forty Hall 2018 Productions -London www.weproductions.co.uk

*Figures from Arts Council England

12 Dallas–Pierce–Quintero A Cultural Strategy for Enfield 13 What we mean by Culture

Recording Studios Rehearsal Production Studios Studios

For this strategy, we take a broad definition of We have referred to the Arts Council’s Creative Artist & arts and culture to mean the many and varied strategy ‘Let’s Create’ (2020) to assist with the Workspaces Maker components of creative and cultural activity definitions set out here. This indicates the Spaces across the arts. breadth of activity which sits beneath the umbrella terms of arts, culture, creativity. This strategy embraces the varied beneficial Making impacts of arts and culture from place-shaping We recognise that cultural lives and cultural and tourism, to economic development, places are created through a wide range Culture employment, lifelong learning and health, and of experiences and activity that extends Community Museums for the sheer pleasure and social benefit of being beyond those set out in these definitions, Spaces part, through all stages of life. encompassing also sport, leisure, the natural and built environment, gardens and food, Performance Libraries Venues travel, books and more.

DEFINITION: Culture DEFINITION: Cinemas Archives

‘Culture’ means many things to many Creativity Experiencing Sharing people and is regularly used to refer to “We use ‘creativity’ to mean the process Culture Culture food, religion and other forms of heritage. through which people apply their knowledge This strategy takes the Arts Council and intuition to make, express or imagine definition of culture as meaning “all something new or individual to the creator.” those areas of activity associated with: collections, combined arts, dance, libraries, Source: Arts Council England Heritage Sport & Buildings literature, museums, music, theatre and Leisure the visual arts”. The Arts Council also Creativity is present in all domains of Venues acknowledge that new technologies and life, whether, for example, singing in the Outdoor Galleries Spaces other societal changes alter the way that shower, making a cake, knitting, growing many artists and creative professionals plants or taking photographs. work and the ways in which culture is made and shared, as the traditional boundaries between and around cultural activities are DEFINITION: disappearing.

Source: Arts Council England Creative Industries DEFINITION: DEFINITION: Industries which have their origin in Cultural Infrastructure individual creativity, skill & talent and These are the spaces and places where culture for a wide variety of activities that include Cultural Identity which have potential for wealth & job is made, experienced and shared. Whilst some culture. Often here, the limitations of the creation through the generation and A shared sense of belonging often rooted are purpose-designed and dedicated to the spaces are offset by the opportunity they exploitation of intellectual property”, in a place, ethnicity, language, beliefs, food process of making and experiencing culture, present for people to take part in cultural including advertising, architecture, craft, or music; frequently celebrated through many other community spaces, including activity in local neighbourhoods, to connect design, film, TV, creative tech, museums, cultural events and festivals. parks, schools and places of worship, are used with diverse cultural providers and for new galleries, performing arts and publishing. audiences to be engaged.

14 Dallas–Pierce–Quintero A Cultural Strategy for Enfield 15 Fostering a healthy cultural ecology

The aim of this strategy is to The term cultural ecology refers to the co- Enfield’s cultural ecology is made up of the “A cultural ecology is the varied help shape a robust cultural dependent relationship that exists between varied professional and community spaces and different focus areas. A thriving cultural ecology places where culture and creativity happens, professional and community cultural ecology that responds to the relies on attention being given to each of these, those who look after, produce or enable it and infrastructure and activity and how unique characteristics of Enfield, strengthening their interactions. Ultimately, the artists, participants and audiences who the aim is to create a cultural ecology that is interact in different ways. this interacts and changes, without its context, its people and the balanced, sustainable and collectively, more hierarchy, all parts of the whole..” interactions that shape our cultural than the sum of the constituent parts. The following 5 focus areas represent the lives. interconnected parts of Enfield’s cultural John Holden, Ecology of Culture 2015 ecology:

Focus 1: On the Ground Focus 4: Celebrate

This focus area refers to the physical conditions This focus area seeks to celebrate, strengthen 3 and spaces that create a platform for and and amplify the borough’s cultural identity, generate cultural activity. From the macro scale, championing its rich and unique community Enfield’s green spaces and urban landscapes, diversity, it’s creativity and it’s heritage. We its connectivity and status as an outer London consider how cultural projects, partnerships and Supporting Celebrate Borough, it’s theatres and venues; to the micro communications can ensure everyone is able to Growth scale, the local hall or corner of public realm that be part of a thriving cultural life. hosts rehearsals or events. The aim is to help create fertile ground within which culture can Focus 5: Capacity flourish, both professional and grassroots. 4 This focus area addresses actions required to Focus 2: Right Mix build and maintain strong relationships between 2 all focus areas, growing the resources needed SUSTAINABLE This focus area reviews existing cultural activity, to allow culture to thrive. It proposes strategic including an assessment of current strengths projects & partnership working, reviews cultural CULTURAL and addresses cultural sector gaps and the planning, and proposes approaches to inward ECOLOGY opportunities to encourage the establishment investment to ensure long-term growth, Right Mix Capacity of new cultural activity. accessibility and economic sustainability.

Focus 3: Supporting Growth

This focus area seeks to support existing and new cultural organisations, creative industries and individuals wishing to develop creative On The Ground practices or careers. 5 It explores how we can help people to flourish, build audiences and establish connections, for 1 both grassroots and professional activity, as well as exploring opportunities to enable pathways for those, especially young people, seeking a career in the creative and cultural industries.

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18 Dallas–Pierce–Quintero A Cultural Strategy for Enfield 19 A Multi-Faceted Borough

Enfield today is a vibrant forward Heathrow Airport. The other direct connections The borough’s changing industries have driven Learnings link to London Kings Cross, Moorgate and the shape of it’s different communities, for looking borough of many diverse Liverpool Street, outward to Welwyn Garden example clothes manufacturing in Ponders • Culture can draw out and share the rich communities, located in an urban City, Hertford, Letchworth and Stevenage. End that attracted a Tamil and Bangladeshi local heritage from large scale industries setting with close access to large workforce. & places to small scale personal stories & A substantial amount of green space and a memories of groups and individuals. swathes of green landscape network of water courses make up over 40% of Enfield has a rich base of community cultures, and fast connections to central the borough and much cultural activity takes with unique heritage stories and creativity which • Diverse communities’ activities and London. place in the many parks and historic buildings. shapes the borough’s cultural identity. This can experiences can continue to be shared, be made more visible through the town centres individually and collectively, through Enfield benefits from easy proximity to central The strong local heritage of farming and market and new development areas, adding character unique events and celebrations. London whilst being located on the rural edge gardens continues today, while new housing and and interest for everyone of all ages. of Hertfordshire and Essex. This diverse setting employment is growing in town centres and on • There is much to be proud of and brings the associated benefits of a varied former industrial land. New creative industries The music, food and traditions of the borough’s build upon including local poetry, landscape to be inspired by and in which to and workspace are developing, diversifying the diverse communities are celebrated through and inclusive theatre companies, with experience culture. borough’s enterprise opportunities which are community festivals and events that take place more to do to ensure all communities welcomed. year round. including LGBTQI+ are supported to The centre of London is 12 miles from Enfield via create and participate. the A10 (London to Cambridge). The borough is bounded to the north by the M25, with the A406 orbiting the south. Five train lines pass through including the Piccadilly Line connecting to

Below: Clockhouse Nursery Enfield Historic Many Grade 1 Museum Museum of Enfield 40% of the The borough’s Fabric & Grade 2 Spaces Forty Hall Museum parks and open buildings, some Whitewebbs Borough is spaces cover more as cultural venues, Museum designated than 9km2 with plus ancient Trent Park Museum Green Belt huge scope for monuments and (planned) cultural activity and historic outdoor access to nature. spaces.

5 town Enfield Town Enfield has This long river Enfield’s From Enfield’s centres with Palmers Green the longest corridor is known as movement and Southgate the New River Loop heritage has communication different Edmonton Green river length and covers more its roots in along the River characters Angel Edmonton of all London than 27 miles. the natural Lea and Ermine boroughs Street, to its topography industrial heritage of river and relationship valleys between urban and rural.

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Borough Make-Up of Enfield’s population were born beyond UK borders and an ONS survey of the same year Understanding the make-up of Enfield’s showed that around 24% of adults don’t speak population helps to indicate where creative English at home. activity can help to support those in most need to flourish, and what kinds of activity will have Young People the most reach and impact. Enfield’s population has more young people Whilst Enfield’s population is large and growing under 20 than in London and England overall, fast, conversely it’s one of the least populated but a lower proportion of 20 to 44 year olds than boroughs in London due to the large % of the London average. The 2018 School Census green space. The number of over 65s in Enfield shows Enfield pupils speak 185 languages is growing whilst numbers of those under 20 or dialects. In 2016, 22.6% of all dependent are high. In 2018, 4% of Enfield’s 16-64-year- children in Enfield were in low-income families, olds were estimated to be unemployed and the 5th highest across London boroughs, and this is expected to have increased as a result of the borough has the 5th highest prevalence of Covid19. overweight or obese children within London, Above: Enfield Museum Outreach Activity c Enfield Council which the council is taking measures to support. The main distinguishing feature about Enfield’s By GCSEs, Enfield students attain slightly below demographic is its rich ethnic diversity with, for the London average. There are three further and example, the largest amount of Greek, Turkish Arts Engagement Learnings higher education colleges in the borough and and Kurdish speakers in the UK. In 2018, 36.8% no universities at this time. In the Active Lives Survey 2015-17, whilst 66.32% • A substantial amount of the borough’s of people asked in Enfield had, in the last 12 community is formed of people from Ethnic & The top five (non- Young & There are months, attended an arts event, museum or a wide range of ethnic backgrounds gallery, or spent time doing an arts activity of and in 2019 Enfield was within the most Cultural English) languages fast growing proportionately spoken by Enfield more children any kind, only 22.17% had attended arts ‘events’ deprived 30% local authority areas in Diversity school pupils, in demographic and young or spent time on arts activities, three times or England. 2017, were Turkish, people under 20 more. Despite a reportedly low level of people Somali, Polish, in Enfield than in regularly engaging in arts activity, many people • This relative deprivation and high Bengali and both London and engage in culturally diverse activity within diversity strongly indicates the need for Albanian. England overall communities and neighbourhoods on a regular a culturally diverse cultural offer which basis which the survey may not have captured reflects all the community, is accessible and which we recognise and value. for everyone to take part, with some being free to access, and in which people This strategy aligns with Arts Council England’s feel welcome to produce and participate. (ACE) new ten year strategy Let’s Create, Childhood Enfield has the fifth Enfield is With a total est. recognising a wide definition of arts and culture • Cultural activity will support the Obesity highest prevalence ranked 333,869 inhabitants, and seeking to increase engagement across the borough’s health, educational of overweight or the proportion of borough. With little regular investment from attainment and employment objectives, obese children amongst children in low- ACE (compared to other London boroughs) in and activity which reflects the borough’s within the London the most income families Enfield’s cultural ecology, the borough is well unique heritage and shares stories will Boroughs, for both in Enfield is the deprived placed to work closely with ACE to secure new support a cohesive community sense of measures. 5th highest of all funds from grant funding programmes, where belonging and well-being. Data from Public Health London London Boroughs. priorities align. England’s HMRC Statistics, August annual National Child boroughs 2016 Measurement Programme

22 Dallas–Pierce–Quintero A Cultural Strategy for Enfield 23 Enfield’s Cultural Landscape

There is already a fledging cultural There are no NPO organisations (National Legacy infrastructure with platforms for Portfolio Organisations are regularly funded by Arts Council England) based in and regularly Culture and entertainment faces that hail from young people to learn to dance, delivering activity locally. Enfield’s cultural the borough include Amy Winehouse, Adele, play music and sing. Communities venue hubs work hard to plug this gap and, Alison Goldfrapp and Bruce Forsyth. are helped to connect and as well as presenting diverse programmes of professional theatre, poetry, music and comedy, A music hall tradition is part of Enfield’s celebrate together and take part in critically operate as points of interaction for performing arts heritage that has shaped the a creative offer across the borough diverse communities’ activity and outreach, and borough’s cultural offer. It inspired a series enable access to historic buildings. All are well of public realm mosaics celebrating Enfield’s that includes choirs, poetry, used and host creative activities that work hard ‘Lost Treasures’ (see p8) including the Empire orchestras, talks and more, with to balance diverse community uses with high Music Hall where the English music hall singer, much led by local producers and quality arts content that reflects and appeals to comedian and actress Marie Lloyd performed in different audiences across the borough. volunteers. the 1920s. Some venue spaces in the borough have been Keats, probably Enfield’s most notable cultural Enfield Council manages a range of venues and lost in recent years. Whilst the existing venues figure, was an English Romantic poet who died programmes, as well as performing a critical are much valued locally, provision is also wanted from tuberculosis at the age of 25. He rose to role as a cultural development catalyst and a within town centres, in particular to the east of prominence posthumously but dedicated his cultural champion. The council’s cultural venue the borough where traditionally there has been short life to the perfection of poetry marked by portfolio provides essential infrastructure to less on offer. Gaps do exist in current provision. vivid imagery and a sensuous appeal. Poetry enable a wide range of activities which reach For example, there is no London-scale venue remains a strong active art form in the borough. a broad cross-section of communities. This is for music or performance, few artist studios complemented by relatively few independent and there is huge scope for greater creative cultural providers. enterprise activity.

Enfield Dugdale Centre Independent Provision across the Council Forty Hall Estate borough includes Green Towers Cultural dance schools, manage a Millfield Arts Venues a blues club, a range of Centre, including maker-space, small Millfield House & cultural museums & creative Theatre activity in cafés and venues Salisbury House. other cultural & community spaces.

Above: John Keats © National Portrait Gallery Left: Dugdale Community Knitting Group Far left: Youth performance at Big Dance, Edmonton Green

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Performance & Outdoor Culture Enfield’s many parks, green spaces and outdoor facilities come to life each year with a diverse Enfield is proud to be home to independent thriving festivals and events scene with many theatre companies, including Chickenshed and for families, and reflecting the diverse make up Face Front who pioneer successful inclusive of local communities. Many are homegrown theatre, and many dance schools, choirs and such as the Ghana Party in the Park and orchestras. Smaller independent spaces such Livestock festivals. Opportunities for larger as Southgate Blues Club and Starfish & Coffee music and outdoor events are growing such as offer music and exhibitions, and an energetic through new uses of industrial land, such as The community cinema programme powers access Drumsheds, which cater for large live music and to arthouse and international cinema in varied club events. This and other new opportunities venues and through outdoor screenings. are being explored at Meridian Water, such as a Drive-In cinema.

Learnings workspace including artist and maker • More can be done to develop and studios. expand Enfield’s cultural provision, especially within town centres. Culture • Outdoor spaces in particular during can play a greater role in borough Covid19 can work hard to enable people health and wellbeing, in economic to reconnect through culture and a development, to shape local pride and creative forum can work to strengthen identity and to better reflect the diverse the offer, plan ahead and collaborate. communities who live, work and play in Enfield • The creative sector can grow and in particular, local creative provision for • Engagement in culture across the young people, some free of charge, will borough is relatively low and there are boost confidence, enrich lives and build gaps in provision such as for visual arts skills, opening up pathways to creative and crafts, music at all scales, creative careers.

Right: Sample of the variety of festivals held in Enfield Below: Performance at Forty Hall Below: Platinum Dance Performance © Platinum Dance

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Enfield’s Cultural Landscape Below: Mapping Cultural Venues in Enfield. (Non-exhaustive list see also mapping of TURKEY ENFIELD community venues on p31.) STREET LOCK 4 10 HADLEY WOOD GORDON CREWS HILL HILL 9 7

8 BRIMSDOWN TURKEY ENFIELD STREET LOCK 15 4 10 ENFIELD 11 HADLEY 1 12 COCKFOSTERS CHASE WOOD GORDON ENFIELD HILL Cultural Centres & Theatres OAKWOOD TOWN 1 The Dugdale Centre GRANGE SOUTHBURY 2 Millfield Theatre PARK PONDERS 3 Chickenshed Theatre 8 3 BUSH END BRIMSDOWN 17 Historic Houses HILL 15 PARK 11 4 Forty Hall Estate ENFIELD 1 12 COCKFOSTERS CHASE 5 Millfield Art Centre ENFIELD 6 Cultural Centres & Theatres OAKWOOD 6 Salisbury House WINCHMORE TOWN 13 1 The Dugdale Centre GRANGE SOUTHBURY HILL Independent Cultural Venues 7 2 Millfield Theatre PARK PONDERS 3 Chickenshed Theatre 3 BUSH END 7 Southgate Club 17 SOUTHGATE Historic Houses HILL 8 Trent Park Museum (planned) 4 Forty Hall Estate PARK 9 Whitewebbs Museum 5 Millfield Art Centre EDMONTON 6 10 Royal Small Arms Factory 05 6 Salisbury House WINCHMORE 3 GREEN HILL 13 Independent Cultural Venues 7 Cinemas 7 Southgate Club SOUTHGATE 11 Talkies at The Dugdale PALMERS 8 Trent Park Museum (planned) 12 Cineworld Enfield 16 SILVER 9 Whitewebbs Museum GREEN 5 EDMONTON 13 Odeon Lee Valley STREET 10 Royal Small Arms Factory 05 ARNOS 2 3 GREEN 14 The Drive In Troubadour (summer 2020) Cinemas GROVE ANGEL ROAD 11 Talkies at The Dugdale PALMERS Cafes with regular live music 16 NEW 12 Cineworld Enfield GREEN 5 SILVER /art exhibitions 13 Odeon Lee Valley STREET SOUTHGATE ARNOS 2 14 14 The Drive In Troubadour (summer 2020) GROVE ANGEL ROAD 15 ArtTown Cafes with regular live music 16 Starfish & Coffee NEW /art exhibitions 17 Stanton’s Coffee House SOUTHGATE 14 15 ArtTown 16 Starfish & Coffee 17 Stanton’s Coffee House 17 Starfish Loves Coffee

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19 Anthony Webb Estate Agents Cafes with Regular Live Music Venues with regular exhibitions Cafes with Regular Live Music Venues with regular exhibitions ArtTown 29-30 The Town, Enfield EN2 6LU ArtTown 29-30 The Town, Enfield EN2 6LU Starfish & Coffee, 92 Aldermans Hill, Palmers Green, London N13 4PP Starfish & Coffee, 92 Aldermans Hill, Palmers Green, London N13 4PP Churches hosting classical music Venues with regular Art Exhibitions Churches hosting classical music Venues with regular Art Exhibitions rehearsal & performance rehearsal & performance Starfish Loves Coffee, 92 Aldermans Hill, Palmers Green, London N13 4PP Starfish Loves Coffee, 92 Aldermans Hill, Palmers Green, London N13 4PP Oakwood Baptist Church Oakwood Baptist Church Stanton’s Coffee House, 7 Queen Anne's Pl, Enfield EN1 2QB St Mary Magdalene Church Stanton’s Coffee House, 7 Queen Anne's Pl, Enfield EN1 2QB Anthony Webb Estate Agents, 348 Green Lanes, Palmers Green, London N13 5TJ St Mary Magdalene Church Bush Hill Park Methodist Church Anthony Webb Estate Agents, 348 Green Lanes, Palmers Green, London N13 5TJ Bush Hill Park Methodist Church St Paul’s Church Classical Music Infrastructure in Enfield St Paul’s Church The Bourne Methodist Church Southgate Classical Music Infrastructure in Enfield Christ Church URC The Bourne Methodist Church Southgate Rehearsal Space Christ Church Christ Church URC United Reformed Church Rehearsal Space Oakwood Baptist Church, Merrivale, Oakwood, London N14 4TE – Enfield Chamber Orchestra Rehearsals, Enfield Film Orchestra Christ Church St Paul’s Church St Mary Magdalene Church, Windmill Hill, Enfield EN2 7AJ – Southgate Opera The Bourne Methodist Church Southgate United Reformed Church Bush Hill Park Methodist Church, 135 Wellington Road, Bush Hill Park, Enfield, EN1 2RS – Rowantree Choir Oakwood Baptist Church, Merrivale, Oakwood, London N14 4TE – Enfield Chamber Orchestra Rehearsals, Enfield Film Orchestra St Mary Magdalene Church St Paul’s Church St Paul’s Church, Winchmore Hill, Church Hill, N21 1JA – Bella Cora Choir St Mary Magdalene Church, Windmill Hill, Enfield EN2 7AJ – Southgate Opera St Stephens Church The Bourne Methodist Church Southgate, 47 The Bourne, London N14 6RS – Winchmore String Orchestra The Bourne Methodist Church Southgate Enfield Baptist Church Bush Hill Park Methodist Church, 135 Wellington Road, Bush Hill Park, Enfield, EN1 2RS – Rowantree Choir Christ Church URC, Chase Side, Enfield, EN2 6NJ – Enfield Community Orchestra St Mary Magdalene Church Winchmore Hill Methodist Church St Paul’s Church, Winchmore Hill, Church Hill, N21 1JA – Bella Cora Choir Christ Church, Chalk Ln, Cockfosters, Barnet EN4 9JQ – Adoramus Choir St Stephens Church Christ Church URC The Bourne Methodist Church Southgate, 47 The Bourne, London N14 6RS – Winchmore String Orchestra Enfield Baptist Church Christchurch Southgate Christ Church URC, Chase Side, Enfield, EN2 6NJ – Enfield Community Orchestra Performance Space Winchmore Hill Methodist Church Christ Church, Chalk Ln, Cockfosters, Barnet EN4 9JQ – Adoramus Choir United Reformed Church, Fox Lane, Palmers Green, N13 4AL – Enfield Chamber Orchestra, Children’s International Voices of Enfield, GreekChrist Music Church URC and Cultural Festival, Rowantree Choir Christchurch Southgate St Paul’s Church, Winchmore Hill, Church Hill, N21 1JA – Enfield Choral Society Performance Space The Bourne Methodist Church Southgate, 47 The Bourne, London N14 6RS – Southgate Symphony Orchestra, Winchmore String Orchestra St Mary Magdalene Church, Windmill Hill, Enfield EN2 7AJ – Southgate Symphony Orchestra United Reformed Church, Fox Lane, Palmers Green, N13 4AL – Enfield Chamber Orchestra, Children’s International Voices of Enfield, Greek Music St Stephens Church, 56 Village Rd, Enfield EN1 2EU – Southgate Symphony Orchestra and Cultural Festival, Rowantree Choir Enfield Baptist Church, Cecil Road, Enfield, EN2 6TG – Rowantree Choir Winchmore Hill Methodist Church, Green Lanes, Winchmore Hill, London N13 4EP – Winchmore String Orchestra St Paul’s Church, Winchmore Hill, Church Hill, N21 1JA – Enfield Choral Society Christ Church URC, Chase Side, Enfield, EN2 6NJ – Enfield Community Orchestra The Bourne Methodist Church Southgate, 47 The Bourne, London N14 6RS – Southgate Symphony Orchestra, Winchmore String Orchestra Christchurch Southgate, The Green, Arnos Grove, London N14 7EG – Southgate Christchurch Choir St Mary Magdalene Church, Windmill Hill, Enfield EN2 7AJ – Southgate Symphony Orchestra St Stephens Church, 56 Village Rd, Enfield EN1 2EU – Southgate Symphony Orchestra Enfield Baptist Church, Cecil Road, Enfield, EN2 6TG – Rowantree Choir Winchmore Hill Methodist Church, Green Lanes, Winchmore Hill, London N13 4EP – Winchmore String Orchestra Christ Church URC, Chase Side, Enfield, EN2 6NJ – Enfield Community Orchestra Christchurch Southgate, The Green, Arnos Grove, London N14 7EG – Southgate Christchurch Choir Opportunities to grow Enfield’s Culture

Culture takes place in the places As town centres uses are In Enfield’s regeneration areas, including This focus on rebalancing the local cultural Meridian Water, some housing estates and in ecology creates the chance to cultivate Enfield’s where we live our lives, across diversified and new housing some town centres, plans can be shaped to cultural identity through planning, to consider community centres, religious grows to accommodate a larger ensure new cultural and creative enterprise specific sector and community needs and what venues, libraries, parks, outdoor population, culture will be woven provision is included which meets local will draw people from within and from beyond community need and supports growth of the borough boundaries. spaces and in homes. In some part into strategic place making to creative economy. of the borough, work is underway ensure opportunities for everyone The green landscape and spaces across the to improve the places in which to enjoy culture all around the This can include both the kinds of spaces which north of the borough contrast with the rest of are flexibly used for culture and creative facilities, Enfield’s more urban character and present people live, work, study and enjoy borough, day and night. some with specific physical or technical needs, as an exciting opportunity to develop a unique free time. well as through investment in cultural projects curated natural destination, opening access to and activity; with, for and by local communities. heritage for Enfield residents and people from 07 further afield. 18 03 08 06 09 02 03 07 03 Below: Mapping Town Centres and Regeneration Opportunity Areas Below: Mapping Community Venues that 07host cultural activity20 05 10

13 08 07 01 18 14 03 01 02 11 10 08 06 Outdoor Events and Festivals 07 18 09 02 13 03 01 Trent Country Park 11 07 14 03 02 Broomfield Park 11 08 03 Hilly Fields Park 07 20 05 0604 09 04 The Green Winchmore Hill 10 09 02 03 12 05 The Drumsheds London 07 03 07 18 Other Event Locations 07 20 13 05 08 1703 06 Forty Hall Farm 04 10 07 Whitewebbs Museum of Transport 21 15 01 08 08 All Saints Church 06 14 13 09 02 09 Millfield Theatre 01 03 02 1508 0711 10 07 0318 10 Dugdale Centre 17 01 03 11Outdoor Oakwood Events Library and Festivals 07 20 16 1316 05 01 Trent Country Park 11 08 14 14 0810 02Hub Broomfield Libraries Park 01 02 0611 11 02 0301 EdmontonHilly Fields GreenPark Library 10 01 09 02 02 03 04 06 04Outdoor02 TheEnfield Green Events Town Winchmore and Library Festivals Hill 07 13 09 03 Outdoor Events and Festivals 13 12 08 050103 Trent TheOrdnance Drumsheds Country Unity Park CentreLondon Library 01 Trent Country Park 07 11 20 14 ENFIELD ENFIELD 02 Broomfield Park 0204 BroomfieldPalmers Green Park Library 02 05 11 01 09 10 TOWN TOWN 03 Hilly Fields Park 03Other Hilly Event Fields Locations Park 17 Community Libraries 04 04 12 04 09 14 04 The Green Winchmore Hill 0406 TheForty Green Hall Farm Winchmore Hill 01 22 05 Angel Raynham Library 21 0215 12 0507 WhitewebbsThe Drumsheds Museum London of Transport 06 11 10 05 The Drumsheds London 06 Bowes Road Library 13 05 08Outdoor All Saints Events Church and Festivals 10 08 Other Event Locations 07 Bullsmoor Library 19 09Other01 TrentMillfield Event Country TheatreLocations Park 13 1501 0517 06 Forty Hall Farm 08 Enfield Highway Library 11 04 14 100602 DugdaleFortyBroomfield Hall Centre Farm Park 17 11 07 Whitewebbs Museum of Transport 09 Enfield Island Village Library 21 15 14 110703 Oakwood WhitewebbsHilly Fields Library Park Museum of Transport 16 16 08 All Saints Church 10 Fore Street Library 01 02 04 0804 AllThe Saints Green Church Winchmore Hill 11 10 08 09 09 Millfield Theatre 11Hub John Libraries Jackson Library 12 0905 MillfieldThe Drumsheds Theatre London 15 10 Dugdale Centre Outdoor1201 MillfieldEdmonton Events House Green and Library Festivals Library 01 10 Dugdale Centre 13 17 06 SOUTHGATE 03 11 Oakwood Library 011302 OakwoodTrentEnfield Country Town Library Library Park 11 14 SOUTHGATE 03 11Other Oakwood Event Locations Library 16 1617 EDMONTON 0203 BroomfieldOrdnance Unity Park Centre Library 11 EDMONTON Hub Libraries 0614 PondersForty Hall End Farm temporary library 04 08 GREEN 0304Hub HillyPalmers Libraries Fields Green Park Library 21 15 GREEN 01 Edmonton Green Library 0715 RidgeWhitewebbs Avenue Museum Library of Transport 02 04 09 0401 EdmontonThe Green GreenWinchmore Library Hill 09 01 02 Enfield Town Library 08Community16 SouthgateAll Saints Libraries Church Library 12 12 0502 TheEnfield Drumsheds Town Library London 04 22 06 03 Ordnance Unity Centre Library 0917 Winchmore Millfield Theatre Hill Library 15 PALMERS 0305 AngelOrdnance Raynham Unity LibraryCentre Library 06 Regeneration Hot Spots PALMERS 04 Palmers Green Library Other1006Community DugdaleBowes Event Road CentreCentersLocations Library 05 GREEN 04 Palmers Green Library 17 10 17 01 MeridianRegeneration Water Hot boundary Spots GREEN Community Libraries 06110701 OakwoodBullsmoorEnfieldForty Hall Highway Library FarmLibrary Community Association 16 02 04 09 16 This map is not exhaustive. 19 05 02 Palace01 Meridian Gardens Water – Enfield boundary Town Community02 Enfield Island Libraries Village Community Centre 04 21 15 12 08 05 Angel Raynham Library 0708Hub WhitewebbsEnfield Libraries Highway Museum Library of Transport 22 03 Edmonton02 Palace Green Gardens centre – Enfield Town 06 Bowes Road Library Many0503 places AngelSt Helier of Raynham worship Community Library in the Hall 05 04 080901 EdmontonAllEnfield Saints Island Church Green Village Library Library 06 01 04 Angel03 Edmonton Edmonton Green centre NEW ANGEL 07 Bullsmoor Library borough0604 Bowes Thehost Living creative Road Room Library classes, 05 15 05 04 091002 MillfieldForeEnfield Street Town Theatre Library Library 10 06 05 Ladderswood04 Angel Edmonton SOUTHGATENEW EDMONTON ANGEL 01 08 Enfield Highway Library rehearsal0705 BullsmoorThe and Lancaster performance Library Centre as 101103 Dugdale JohnOrdnance Jackson Centre Unity Library Centre Library 17 19 05 05 Ladderswood SOUTHGATE EDMONTON 01 09 Enfield Island Village Library part of0806 the EnfieldGreen overall TowersHighway ecology. Community Library Centre 111204 MillfieldOakwood Palmers House Green Library Library Library 16 16 10 Fore Street Library 130907 OakwoodBrigadierEnfield Island HallLibrary VillageCommunity Library Centre 02 09 08 11 John Jackson Library Hub Libraries 12 141008Community Ponders ForeOrdnance Street EndLibraries Unity Library temporary Centre library 04 22 12 Millfield House Library 01 Edmonton Green Library 01 15110905 Ridge JohnAngelBush JacksonAvenueHill Raynham Park LibraryLibrary Children Library Centre 06 30 Dallas–Pierce–Quintero 13 Oakwood Library 02 EnfieldA Cultural Town LibraryStrategy for Enfield 31 05 06 16121006 MillfieldSouthgate BowesSt Barnabas RoadHouse Library HallLibrary Library 14 Ponders End temporary library 10 13110703 Oakwood StBullsmoorOrdnance Pauls Centre Library LibraryUnity Centre Library 15 Ridge Avenue Library 17 Winchmore Hill Library 19 05 120804 WheatsheafPalmersEnfield Highway Green Hall Library Library 02 16 Southgate Library 14Community Ponders EndCenters temporary library 09 13 Christian Alliance 12 17 Winchmore Hill Library 1501Community09 Ridge EnfieldEnfield Avenue HighwayIsland Libraries LibraryVillage Community Library Association 04 22 1410 TheFore Qube, Street Community Library Space For Ponders End Community Centers 160205 Southgate EnfieldAngel Raynham Island Library Village Library Community Centre 06 17150611 Winchmore LowerBowesJohn Jackson EdmontonRoad Hill LibraryLibrary Library Children Centre 05 01 Enfield Highway Community Association 03 St Helier Community Hall 10 1612 Millfield Bountagu House Library 02 Enfield Island Village Community Centre 04Community07 BullsmoorThe Living Centers LibraryRoom 19 05 03 St Helier Community Hall 0501170813 OakwoodEnfieldMottinghamTheEnfield Lancaster HighwayHighway Library Hall Centre Community LibraryCommunity Association Centre 04 The Living Room 0602180914 PondersEnfieldGreenSt Georges TowersIsland End Parish temporary Village Community Hall CommunityLibrary library Centre Centre 05 The Lancaster Centre 0703191015 RidgeAlpha BrigadierStFore Helier StreetAvenueRoad CommunityHall Community Library LibraryCommunity Hall Centre Centre 06 Green Towers Community Centre 0804201116 Southgate ImpactTheOrdnanceJohn Living Jackson Community LibraryRoomUnity Library Centre Centre 07 Brigadier Hall Community Centre 0905211217 Winchmore MillfieldTheBEFTBush Lancaster HillCommunity House Park Hill Children Centre LibraryLibrary Centre Centre 08 Ordnance Unity Centre 10062213Community Darji OakwoodGreenSt Barnabas Mitra Towers Centers LibraryMandal Hall Community Community Centre Centre 09 Bush Hill Park Children Centre 11071401 PondersStBrigadierEnfield Pauls Highway CentreEnd Hall temporary Community Community library Centre Association 10 St Barnabas Hall 12081502 RidgeWheatsheafOrdnanceEnfield Avenue Island Unity Hall LibraryVillage Centre Community Centre 11 St Pauls Centre 13091603 SouthgateChristianBushSt Helier Hill ParkCommunityAlliance Library Children Hall Centre 12 Wheatsheaf Hall 101704 Winchmore StThe Barnabas Living Room Hill Hall Library 13 Christian Alliance 14 The Qube, Community Space For Ponders End 1105 St The Pauls Lancaster Centre Centre 14 The Qube, Community Space For Ponders15Community End Lower Edmonton Centers Children Centre 15 Lower Edmonton Children Centre 16120106 EnfieldWheatsheafBountaguGreen TowersHighway Hall Community Community Centre Association 16 Bountagu 17130207 MottinghamChristianBrigadierEnfield Island AllianceHall Hall VillageCommunity Community Community Centre Centre Centre 17 Mottingham Hall Community Centre 18140308 TheStOrdnance GeorgesHelier Qube, Community UnityCommunity Parish Centre Hall Hall Space For Ponders End 18 St Georges Parish Hall 19150409 AlphaLowerTheBush Living RoadHill Edmonton Park RoomCommunity Children Children Centre Centre 19 Alpha Road Community Centre 20160510 ImpactBountaguTheSt Barnabas Lancaster Community Hall Centre Centre 20 Impact Community Centre 21170611 MottinghamStBEFTGreen Pauls Community Towers Centre Hall Community Community Centre Centre Centre 21 BEFT Community Centre 22180712 Darji BrigadierStWheatsheaf Georges Mitra Hall Mandal Parish Hall Community CommunityHall Centre Centre 22 Darji Mitra Mandal Community Centre 190813 Alpha ChristianOrdnance Road Alliance UnityCommunity Centre Centre 200914 ImpactTheBush Qube, Hill Community Park Community Children Centre SpaceCentre For Ponders End 211015 BEFTLowerSt Barnabas Community Edmonton Hall CentreChildren Centre 221116 Darji StBountagu Pauls Mitra Centre Mandal Community Centre 1217 MottinghamWheatsheaf HallHall Community Centre 1318 ChristianSt Georges Alliance Parish Hall 1419 AlphaThe Qube, Road CommunityCommunity SpaceCentre For Ponders End 1520 ImpactLower EdmontonCommunity Children Centre Centre 1621 BEFTBountagu Community Centre 1722 Darji Mottingham Mitra Mandal Hall Community Community Centre Centre 18 St Georges Parish Hall 19 Alpha Road Community Centre 20 Impact Community Centre 21 BEFT Community Centre 22 Darji Mitra Mandal Community Centre Creative Enterprise Focus on Meridian Water Culture and creativity is being planned as part It is planned that the creative industries will of the large-scale regeneration of Meridian flourish at scale, with a key strand proposed to Water, in the south east of the borough. focus on creating a substantial hub for film, TV and associated industries, adding to existing Over 10,000 new homes, 6000 jobs and at least production facilities and bringing new training The UK’s creative industries are Culture on your doorstep is more important than ever and has a critical role to play in high 6.4 hectares of new parkland in the Lea Valley and employment opportunities to Enfield and internationally renowned and the street recovery, with the increasing importance will be reshaped over the course of the 25 fulfilling the ambition for Meridian Water to be largest growing sector in the UK. of reinvention and creative approaches. year development. Development will harness a ‘place to make and create’. the area’s long-standing industrial presence, In London 1 in 6 jobs are in the Clustering of creative enterprise is especially abundant wild nature and historic network Meridian Water’s Cultural Strategy will align sector, which is growing 4x faster important to enable networking, build identity of waterways, through high quality design with and contribute to the successful delivery than the rest of the economy. of places and to attract and grow the sector. We and landscaping, ensure that these assets are of this borough-wide Cultural Strategy. want to build Enfield’s creative economy and in celebrated and augmented. Creative employment is predicted so doing, we want to ensure to open pathways to offer greater resilience to to employment for borough residents. An area-specific Cultural Strategy will bring The Three Placemaking Pillars are: together values and principles for embedding automation than other sectors, 1. Parklife on Your Doorstep ‘Creative industries are a major driver culture long-term which will align to the aims reliant as it is on human ingenuity in this strategy, and explore ways in which 2. Your Place to Make and Create and with the potential to positively of economic growth. They bind Meridian Water will inter-connect with wider 3. Mixing Uses Animating Streets communities together, delight millions Enfield to benefit existing communities, new impact AI development. and have the power to lead our residents, workers and visitors. Meridian Water Place Vision Whilst Covid-19 is adversely impacting many regeneration as we reposition ourselves cultural and creative industries, conversely there on the world stage.’ is a renewed focus on civic culture, the need to Creative Industries Federation September 2020 Meridian Water will seek to retain our meanwhile pioneers, creative makers, local artists and look forward and to rebuild both the economy manufacturers in the Lee Valley as well as attract strategic businesses from further afield to enrich the and community confidence. Below: Enfield Creative Industries - Location Collective © OMA mix. Our masterplan will foster connections and opportunities within the local economy and wider, Studios & Building Bloqs © David Tothill international networks.

£10m per Generated by Meridian Water Place Vision hour London’s creative industries SOURCE: GLA £47 billion per year Below: Drive-In Cinema at Meridian Water 2020 © Enfield Below: Artist Hoardings at Meridian Water 2020 © Enfield Council Council

1 in 6 jobs London is a leading creative city are in the attracting talent creative from around the industries in world but needs to encourage and London nurture talent on the doorstep too. SOURCE: GLA

32 Dallas–Pierce–Quintero A Cultural Strategy for Enfield 33 Learnings • Together with new affordable workspace Wider opportunities for creative individuals and SMEs, • Enfield is well placed to maximise on focused efforts can position Enfield regeneration opportunities, to grow as NE London’s centre for creative cultural and creative provision. The employment, building on neighbouring borough can better plan for culture by Tottenham’s creative enterprise zone identifying opportunities and ensuring that has begun to establish and Waltham As part of the London to The OMA Film Studio complex is one such new that benefits are felt across local Forest’s recent year as Borough of space in Enfield that is already doubling film communities. Culture. Cambridge Innovation Corridor rental space in London, whilst many productions and the ‘Productive Valley’, and have used the borough as a base. • Attracting significant creative industries, • Importantly, the borough’s northern close to the emerging Thames especially in the east of the borough, green spaces can be sensitivity shaped Additional opportunities are around the games such as the burgeoning Film, TV and to create a unique heritage environment Estuary Production Corridor and to and interactive entertainment industry which Gaming sector, and associated support destination with a complementary neighbouring boroughs’ creative according to UKIE (the relevant UK trade body) business, will bring new creative culture and leisure offer. clusters, Enfield is well placed to is experiencing an entrepreneurial boom, with employment and training to Enfield. growth in the number of companies of 22% year generate exciting new creative on year. London is one of a number of UK game- initiatives and partnerships making hubs, with a push underway to make London the world’s games capital. CREWS HILL within and beyond the borough 07 boundaries. ‘the games industry benefits from co-

location with other creative sectors, TURKEY ENFIELD In particular there is scope in North East London STREET LOCK to build on the emerging large scale film and TV and highlights the importance of HADLEY WOOD GORDON production facilities and support services with a strong broadband and talent HILL the associated employment and training these infrastructure for the development of bring. Creative Work Spaces BRIMSDOWN 01 Hive Studios games hubs.’ 02 Building Bloqs ENFIELD Making COCKFOSTERS CHASE ENFIELD 03 Camden Town Brewery Below: Mapping Film and Television Production Studios within M25 OAKWOOD TOWN 08 04 Enfield (Brewery) GRANGE SOUTHBURY 05 Cheryl Powling Stained Glass Classes & Studio PARK PONDERS 06 London Woodwork Classes BUSH END 07 Shed Load Of Crafts HILL 03 08 Tower Garments London PARK 09 De La Creme Ltd Warner Other Creative Workspaces/ Production in Waltham Forest WINCHMORE 01 Blackhorse Workshop HILL 23 02 Blackhorse Lane Studios Bros 03 Inky Cuttlefish Print Making Studio SOUTHGATE 04 Made by Ore 05 London Art Workshop 05 EDMONTON Elstree 06 Waltham Forest Community Hub GREEN 07 The CentrE17 08 One Hoe Street 21 OMA Film 09 Wild Card Brewery Lockwood PALMERS SILVER 10 Exale Brewing and Taproom GREEN 22 Studios 11 Signature Brew ARNOS STREET 08 04 12 Pillars Brewery GROVE ANGEL ROAD 13 Nirvana Brewery 14 Neckstamper Brewery NEW 02 15 Stow Film Lounge SOUTHGATE 06 01 16 Empire Cinemas Walthamstow 04 06 Barking & 17 Ye Olde Rose & Crown Pub with Studio Theatre 05 London 18 Magic Box Theatre Pinewood Dagenham 19 Flutterby Theatre Screen 20 Onethirtyeight Performing arts theatre 02 National 21 Moulded Theatre Company 19 07 Academy 22 Michelle Warren School Of Dance and Theatre 13 15 23 Chingford Assembly Hall 14 College 18 09 18 Thames 24 Walthamstow Assembly Hall 11 01 26 Creative 10 Estuary 25 Walthamstow Wetlands 08 02 27 Blackhall 26 Winns Gallery/ Artist Studios 11 24 Production Industries 21 08 15 27 William Morris Gallery 03 04 Reading Corridor 20 28 Vestry House Museum 12 19 17 25 07 Other Other Creative Workspaces/ Production in Haringey 28 16 12 01 The Workshop N4 10 06 02 Studio1 Ceramics 17 16 03 Art Class London 09 Twickenham 04 Ricky Grimes Ceramics 20 01 05 House Brewery 06 One Mile End Brewery 07 ORA Brewing Company 05 08 Beavertown Brewery 13 09 Hornsey Town Hall Art Centre 10 Euro Art Studios 03 Long Cross 11 Collage Arts Ashford 12 Bernie Grant Enterprise Centre 13 Blue House Yard Kent 14 Parma House 15 Green Rooms 16 Art house Crouch End Mapping of Creative Industry Clusters in Waltham Forest and Haringey 17 PictureHouse Crouch End 18 Cineworld Woodgreen Enfield can build on the creative clusters in neighbouring boroughs to 19 Vue Cinema Woodgreen 20 Jacksons Lane Art Centre 21 West Indian Cultural Centregrow creative enterprise especially to the east of the borough. 34 Dallas–Pierce–Quintero A Cultural Strategy for Enfield 35 Culture and COVID-19 Learnings

• The Covid19 landscape continues to evolve. The creative sector will need support, and also to be nimble and harness ways to support the community and Enfield’s economic recovery whilst Adverse Impact on Culture A light is also being shone however on issues of digital exclusion. Without good or sufficient offering solace and inspiration to lift digital access, the range of content on offer people through and from a hugely The pandemic has had a devastating impact on cannot be accessed. challenging period. the cultural and creative industries. Many venues remain closed, programmes are postponed ‘Enjoy Enfield Summer of Arts Festival’ in 2020 • Whilst it will take time for building or cancelled and jobs lost. The Creative was able to bring communities together once based venues to return to full use, the Industries Federation has warned of a ‘cultural more with the borough’s creative sector and borough’s many outdoor spaces can catastrophe’, projecting that the creative sector communities at the heart. (See more p38-9). host safe cultural activity and allow will be hit twice as hard as the wider economy. communities to reconnect. Making Ironically, those cultural providers who had most Culture supporting Recovery culture more visible in the town centres will aid a sense of safe return to life, and successfully diversified funding streams away “Creativity is an intrinsic part of the from public investment, are now most impacted Culture is key to the recovery and rebuilding of former industrial areas such as Meridian by disrupted income streams. UK’s cultural identity, and one of our town centres and communities, helping to Water can take the opportunity for larger the things that the country excels at rebuild confidence in venturing out into shared scale socially distanced activity such as Culture Response globally. It is through harnessing this spaces, to reflect on our varied experiences and the recent drive-in cinema. to heal. The sector is thinking about how to put creativity that the UK will begin to • As online content has blossomed, so has The rainbows that adorned our windows prove people at the heart of culture, how activities build a new future…. driving the UK’s a greater understanding of the potential that creative human expression is always central and assets can be re-purposed and what for virtual technology to innovate and to our experience of the world. Artists and economic recovery - and transforming might be the role of buildings which cannot make space for cultural experiences cultural organisations lifted communities during lives for the better - as we re-build. reopen for some time. At the same time, some as part of and beyond gaming culture, the peak of the virus. Many venues have been communities, including in Enfield, have lost If nothing is done, thousands of including VR, in our lives. Expanding in at the heart of Covid19 community response as many of their members due to Covid19, with these sectors can allow Enfield to play a hubs for food distribution, supporting isolated world-leading creative businesses a need for understanding, and activity which part in this innovation. people, contributing strongly to civic society are set to close their doors, hundreds allows for compassion and reflection. and supporting people’s well-being. This civic of thousands of jobs will be lost and • Covid19 has allowed for reflection on role of culture is key to how to we build back. billions will be lost to our economy. Shifting funding priorities how culture can take action to reduce inequality and create space for everyone Much free creative content has been shared The repercussions would have a The UK’s major culture and heritage funding to be able to take part in local cultural digitally to boost home schooling and to hearten devastating and irreversible effect on bodies have refocused funding to support life. Joint working across sectors will us. Online choirs and orchestras have met our country. “ immediate needs. Arts Council, National build a strong base for future partnership and shared their creations. Much mainstream Heritage Lottery Fund and the GLA have reset and greater cultural reach. professional theatre has been available for free, Caroline Norbury CEO Creative Industries priorities to focus on sustaining venues, and on opening access to high quality culture when it Federation June 2020 digital capacity, freelance & workspace support, was most needed. and audience engagement, especially for young people and those increasingly experiencing isolation.

Enfield has successfully secured DCMS funds totalling £672,295 to sustain Forty Hall, Millfield Theatre and The Dugdale and enable the continued delivery of creative programmes Far left: Peace Poem Installation by Robert Montgomery, Enjoy Enfield Festival © Emergency Exit Arts including outreach activity, through Covid19. In Left; Unprecedented, Theatre from a State of Isolation, digital addition, £200k National Heritage Lottery Funds plays on UK pandemic life © Headlong, Century Films and BBC have been secured to initiate cultural heritage Arts Above left: Enfield exhibition Tales of Life under Lockdown by activity and increase heritage capacity. Katrina Campbell © Enfield Council

36 Dallas–Pierce–Quintero A Cultural Strategy for Enfield 37 Focus on Enjoy Enfield Summer of Arts

The UKs first outdoor arts festival since lockdown took place across Enfield in summer “On behalf of businesses in Enfield 2020, delivered by staff of Millfield Theatre and Town, I just wanted to make you aware The Dugdale, together with many of the local area’s creative community. of the success of the community events held on Library Green last week... The 66 events over 17 days of free socially there was a much needed increase in distanced arts highlighted the value of the arts footfall” to support community wellbeing and help the borough’s town centres recover footfall. 91% of the mainly local audiences surveyed wanted Mark Rudling, Town Centre Manager, Enfield Town Business Association 2020 to see more events in Enfield and to see the borough developed as a cultural destination.

The festival showcased Enfield’s strengths in poetry and dance and brought accessible new visual art works to brighten the public realm and connected the diverse population with a single festival of shared stories and experiences

Below left; Enjoy Enfield Performance © Natalie Gee Below right: Southgate Street Art by Dan Maier © Enfield Council

Above; Museum of the Moon by Luke Jerram © Enfield Council

Right: A Place We Call Home by King Owusu © Enfield Council

38 Dallas–Pierce–Quintero A Cultural Strategy for Enfield 39 Analysis - SWOT

3 3 Competition Potential for Local culture Diverse Festivals for cultural / creative cultural ambition supported & / Enfield Presents industry partnerships may to lack community involved through portfolio limit growth potential buy-in programming 4 4 2 2 Grassroots Covid-19 Activity / Strategy Impact / Demand exceeds Youth Dance Strengths Development Threats Economic cultural capacity / Outdoor / Increasing Viability / / Opportunities Community capacity / Access to missed / Funding Festivals / Regeneration Spaces impacted by Inclusive Opportunities Covid-19 Theatre Venues providing Cultural provision valuable community may not benefit whole culture resource / borough / Appetite for major projects, 5 Economic need overrides 5 1 events & cultural tenants 1 culture ‘social value’

3 3 Build on cultural Lack of creative Lack of collective Offer secure tenancies skills development, cultural identity / diversity & heritage (5+ yrs) for creative themes e.g. music, & creative Multiple web pages enterprise & artists / partnerships dilute cultural offer dance, food, Instigate Creative landscape 4 Forum 4 2 2 Lack of artist Parallel work Build on dance, New culture role studios / visual Weaknesses streams don’t yet music & poetry / Opportunities / MW & Estate 1 On the Ground arts / music / little hit culture / No Increased digital Regeneration local trickle down cultural planning / New creative / Cultural policy to secure 2 Right Mix from major events workspace Development / investment Diversify Funding 3 Supporting Growth Culture is dispersed / Major developments & Low provision in town Infrastructure Plan / centres/ Lack of capacity Celebrate 5 Town Centre Plans / 5 4 1 and stretched resources 1 Forest Rewilding Ambition

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40 Dallas–Pierce–Quintero A Cultural Strategy for Enfield 41 3. Cultural Priorities

42 Dallas–Pierce–Quintero A Cultural Strategy for Enfield 43 Culture Connects: Priorities Culture Everyday

Culture is for everyone in Enfield to enjoy - no matter who they are – as part of everyday life. We value the role of culture in community wellbeing and want to ensure that the benefits of The following three priorities stem from cultural participation and enjoyment are shared by everybody. analysis of the borough and underpin each We want culture to be woven in the fabric of the borough, in our of the focus areas outlined in the next outdoor spaces, libraries, parks, estates and town centres. And we chapter. want culture to be woven into our strategic planning, whether as provision for new developments or adding its unique voice to raise awareness for care for our environment.

We’ll make it easier to take part in and make culture, and we’ll support our cultural community to enrich and grow cultural opportunities across the borough. We’ll help culture reach across and connect our communities and enliven our borough in new places and spaces. We’ll build on our strong cohort of venues and organisations working inclusively to give everyone a voice within Sustainable Culture culture and champion initiatives that help broaden culture’s reach.

By strengthening Enfield’s cultural and creative economy, including night-time vitality in town centres, growing creative industries and workspace provision, and through working in partnership, we will establish a smarter Creating Opportunities for Young approach to inward investment to support the People sustainability of the borough’s cultural provision and the economic success of the borough as a Through this strategy we will give priority to developing varied whole. creative ways for young people to develop creative skills and interests, and so improve their life chances. We recognise the value of culture, to individuals, communities and the borough as a whole, as part Through growing the creative industries in Enfield, we will seek of diverse sustainable communities and places. to establish pathways to creative employment, opportunities for We will ensure that where new development co-production & strong supportive networks as well as increasing integrates new provision, this compliments the platforms to nurture and share talents. existing offer. We also want to see access to culture extended to everyone and for intergenerational creative projects that bring the generations together.

Image; Audience at BLOCK Performance, Motionhouse & No Fit State Circus, Edmonton Shopping Centre, with Circulate and Millfield Theatre © Enfield Council 44 Dallas–Pierce–Quintero A Cultural Strategy for Enfield 45 4. Focus Areas

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48 Dallas–Pierce–Quintero A Cultural Strategy for Enfield 49 Focus: On the Ground Focus 1: Case Studies On the ground PUBLIC ART, LOCAL IDENTITY

Town Centre Public Art

Public art programmes create visible beacons and recognisable icons in our towns and high Visible culture in all town Facilitate more cultural & streets. Projects can reflect local heritage, add centres creative activity in parks and to design appeal and involve local communities in the creation of site specific works. Enfield will benefit from greater visibility of open spaces Making Places is an initiative by Waltham culture and increased provision across all five Forest Council, led by Create London to deliver town centres. These are the places where Enfield’s fantastic parks and open spaces already creative projects across the borough, which Top; Rosebank arcade © Ben Wells communities of all ages gather to shop, study, host a range of cultural activity. We can build on will have a lasting impact on communities and work and spend time. this, especially by enabling more outdoor arts neighbourhoods. programmes, to diversify the offer and support Culture forms part of a vibrant place offer those who wish to present work or lead events. Waltham Forest residents nominated sites through performance venues, exhibitions, across the borough that they wanted to see workshops, public art, street and outdoor arts, This may be through supporting volunteer transformed. festivals and events, arts and craft markets, training and funding applications, where bringing us together to experience, take part possible reducing red tape and by developing and share our creative talents and enlivening partnerships to amplify what is already our shared spaces. happening.

Enfield’s night time economy can be enhanced Music of all scales in particular can be developed by new provision such as music, comedy and for the enjoyment of all, in appropriate places, Above; Pinafores, Peabody Estate, Clapham Junction © Rodney independent film to make the evening offer and bringing communities together to share Harris more welcoming and attractive. and celebrate. Left: Making Places, Waltham Forest © Waltham Forest Council Integrate culture within Build a culture & leisure major regeneration offer through the northern programmes borough heritage landscape Regeneration opportunities in Enfield can environment CREATIVE STREET FURNITURE be harnessed through planning and creative thinking, to develop and enhance cultural The substantial and varied green spaces Better Air Benches, Borough Market provision and allow the creative industries to throughout the north of the borough offer flourish. exciting potential as a cultural and leisure Better Air Benches, Borough Market, Wayward destination; to increase access to local nature Plants for Better Bankside - designed to This will enable new spaces and facilities and heritage and provide an attraction to those alleviate and raise awareness of air quality which are not currently on offer locally, initiate from further afield. Sensitive creative thinking issues, containing English Ivy, one of nature’s cultural programmes and commission relevant can harness and amplify opportunities for best air pollution disruptors and bringing new public art with local communities. The environmental learning, physical activity and the colour to animate the street scene. opportunity is to breathe fresh life into different arts as a rewarding day out, for specific events corners of the borough to complement existing or to simply enjoy nature, whilst respecting and provision and lever new investment. reflecting the area’s heritage of farming, market Right; Street furniture by Wayward + Studio MATA, gardens and horticulture. Better Bankside © Micky Lee

50 Dallas–Pierce–Quintero A Cultural Strategy for Enfield 51 Focus: On the Ground Case Studies TOWN CENTRE CREATIVE MARKET Art, Maker & Food Markets Norwood Feast OUTDOOR TOWN CENTRE ARTS FESTIVAL Popular vibrant monthly outdoor market and Imagine Watford & Imagine Luton community gathering offering local food businesses, artists, makers, and musicians with An annual Outdoor Arts Festival bringing a platform to sell and perform and bringing a high quality professional arts performance to lively busy focus to the high street. Uses the High Street, substantially increasing town interstitial public spaces including local church centre footfall and the local business customer public space, library entrance and side streets base and bringing moments of wonder and as there is no central square. delight for all ages.

Above; Swirling Dervish at Imagine Watford © Watford Council Below; Street comedy at Imagine Watford © Watford Council

TOWN CENTRE OUTDOOR CINEMA

Big Screen

The Big Screen is part of a wider programme of Big Events staged by Watford Borough Council and partners. All events are free and curated to appeal to all ages, drawing visitors into the Above: Norwood Feast Below; Big Screen at Watford Event Space town centre.

52 Dallas–Pierce–Quintero A Cultural Strategy for Enfield 53 Focus: On the Ground GREEN SPACE WAYFINDING Case Studies Flocking Birds

Transforming the largely hidden entrances to OUTDOOR EVENT SPACE IN NEW Histon Road Recreation Ground in Cambridge, DEVELOPMENT Flocking Birds is a playful take on the brief to create new gateways to the park. Bishops Square Beginning with a site visit, Dallas-Pierce- Designed by Foster & Partners, as part of the Quintero worked with three classes of 8-10 Spitalfields redevelopment, Bishops Square year-olds from two local primary schools for the acts as a transition space between the City of entirety of the project. London and the East End.

A tented canopy together with curved timber benches delineate an informal performance and event space, used all year round for worker’s lunches and a programme of events. EMBEDDED LEGACY

It’s A Bing Thing, Winchburgh

Inspired by the landscape of oil shale bings that surround Winchburgh, ‘It’s A Bing Thing’ is a playful sculpture that will be used informally for Right; Tango in Spitalfields seating and act as a conversation-starter, whilst Above; Flocking Birds © Dallas-Pierce-Quintero Below; Christmas Choir in Spitalfields © Big Christmas Wind Orchestra & Choir encouraging people to spend time together in the town centre. The artwork also features a poem penned especially for Winchburgh by Scottish poet William Letford. Below; Its a Bing Thing © Dallas-Pierce-Quintero

54 Dallas–Pierce–Quintero A Cultural Strategy for Enfield 55 Focus 2: Focus: Right Mix Right Mix Case Studies

MUSIC & CULTURAL ANCHOR TENANT

World Heart Beat, Nine Elms Fill Cultural Sector Gaps Creative Enterprise Focus World Heart Beat is a leading UK music Some areas of cultural provision are less well The creative industries are one of the UK’s Academy and a Cultural Anchor for south west catered for in the borough. Music of all scales, fastest growing and most successful sectors and London, that is due to expand at Embassy the professional visual arts, crafts and dance, Enfield is well placed to cultivate sectors not Gardens, Nine Elms. and independent cinema in particular are gaps. currently well-established in North East London With planning, Enfield can diversify the cultural such as the Film, TV, Gaming & Virtual Reality The new venue on London’s south bank, will experiences on offer for people across the sectors and associated industries. Demand for enable the academy to double the number of borough to enjoy and take part in. The profusion innovative creative content is ever increasing. students who will benefit over the next few Above; New venue visual © World Heartbeat Music Academy of Enfield’s youth dance opportunities could be years. Opposite the new US Embassy, this will better supported, as some performers move on Alongside offering production and development offer music teaching as well as providing artists, to professional practice. facilities, this can create local opportunities students, community groups and audiences for training programmes and employment with a beautiful new concert venue, as well This can be addressed by supporting current which could be generated. Enfield has the pre- as high-tech facilities – such as digital labs, a providers with their ambitions to boost industrial space and development potential to recording studio, and rehearsal and educational sustainability and enabling platforms for local realise this ambition and build profile as a centre spaces. talent to develop and be shared. Specific gaps of creative enterprise within the London to can be prioritised in new development and Cambridge Innovation Corridor. sustainable providers and operators invited to consider the borough as their new home where opportunities exist, particularly in regeneration New Creative Workspace including Below; World Heart Beat drum performance © World Heartbeat Music Academy areas. for artists and makers

Town Centres Focus Demand for affordable creative workspace and artist and makers studios in London currently Town centres would benefit from additional outstrips supply, for both starter units and cultural attractions as vibrant creative more established professionals. Spaces can be community hubs, as well as spaces within managed by established providers, many of the public realm that offer platforms for whom offer social value through exhibitions, presentation, performance and participation, talks, and learning programmes together with to diversify what’s on offer locally and attract the benefits that networking and collaboration more footfall. This may include co-locating can bring to creative professionals and the new provision with other civic infrastructure chance to sell work. such as within new retail centres or large scale development schemes. This strategy recommends a strategic focus on new temporary and permanent flexible provision Where there is potential for meanwhile use of in existing spaces and new development, to buildings, this should be explored as a way to build on spaces on offer through providers test new approaches, enliven the locality and like Building Bloqs and Hive Studios. Rents create new opportunities whether for culture, need to be workable for the sector, in return jobs or training. New providers, especially when for the creative business development that the in receipt of subsidy, should establish clearly borough will gain to expand the sector and the how they will contribute to local need and local talent pipeline. engage pro-actively with local communities.

56 Dallas–Pierce–Quintero A Cultural Strategy for Enfield 57 Focus: Right Mix TEACHING & MAKER SPACE Case Studies Turning Earth

CO-WORKING & CLIMBING SPACE Turning Earth E10 is a centre for ceramics that opened in the Lee Valley in March 2017, in the Yonder Walthamstow 8,500 sq ft top floor of an old hardware factory.

Yonder is an exciting new facility in The centre includes a large open-plan Walthamstow that combines work, health membership studio where part-time and leisure. Housing a bouldering facility, professional makers, serious hobbyists and fully equipped co-working spaces including a beginners work together in a community wood and metal work workshop, yoga studio environment, with the benefit of shared and cafe, Yonder seeks to offer something facilities. The space also includes a classroom for all and become a focal point for the local for ceramics courses for those new to the community. craft, where 13 courses a week are taught by professional artists. Right; Cafe overlooking bouldering facility © Yonder Below; Bouldering facility © Yonder

CO_WORKING & MAKER SPACE

Makerversity, Somerset House

Makerversity build and run co-working space and equipment for professional makers and bring together people with creative and technical expertise. Learning programmes for young people inspire the next generation and Above Right; Turning Earth Leyton © Turning Earth increase diversity within the creative industries. Below; Learning Workshop © Makerversity CO_WORKING SPACE

Makerversity, Somerset House

Makerversity build and run co-working space and equipment for professional makers and bring together people with creative and technical expertise. Learning programmes for young people inspire the next generation and increase diversity within the creative industries.

58 Dallas–Pierce–Quintero A Cultural Strategy for Enfield 59 Focus: Right Mix Case Studies

FOOD & CREATIVE MARKET VISUAL ARTS CENTRE, CAFE, GARDEN & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT International House, Brixton South London Gallery This 5 yr meanwhile workspace is run by 3space Camberwell for creative and design-led businesses that also provide support for youth entrepreneurship, Since 1891, with the mission to ‘bring art to the community uses, innovation and social people of south London’. 3 clustered spaces enterprise. Low rent space is given away with an Art Block for local children and families when commercial space is rented. Businesses on local estate and an artist-designed garden. must commit to taking an active role in the International visual arts, artists residencies, community around them. learning, events and participation. Thousands of young people and adults take part in Includes Fabric Floor, a fashion and textiles activities. Admission free. workshop with communal machinery and work tables run by Assemble as a local resource Images: Entrance, workshop and cafe © South London Gallery with tenant-led public workshops and classes, exhibitions and open studios, supporting tenants who demonstrate a commitment to Above; Commercial building providing providing opportunities for local residents and temporary creative workspace in Brixton Below: Inside International House © businesses 3Space

60 Dallas–Pierce–Quintero A Cultural Strategy for Enfield 61 Focus 3: Focus: Supporting Growth Supporting Growth Case Studies Below; Lighting skills workshop

ACCESS & PATHWAYS TO CREATIVE EMPLOYMENT

Creative Croydon Support access to culture Grow creative industries skills, Creative Croydon is a local cultural education and pathways into creative training and employment partnership with a Youth Arts Collective at the heart, promoting and championing cultural employment With 1 in 6 jobs in the creative industries, a access for young people With no statutory arts education as part of the greater presence of creative businesses in Enfield will build opportunities to acquire STEP current school curriculum, support is needed ‘Shared Training and Employment Programme’ to boost young people’s access to cultural and creative skills and provide work experience and employment for local people. Many cultural and Part of the Create Jobs programme, young creative experiences and skill development, as east Londoners complete; work experience, part of a balanced education, and to support creative sector organisations and companies CREATIVE INDUSTRIES SKILLS, TRAINING provide training, apprenticeships and entry (at London Living Wage), professional AND EMPLOYMENT well-being and life chances. This strategy development workshops, a team project, build recognises the need to stimulate opportunities jobs to help get careers kick started. Enfield can a strong peer network, work with a specialist High House Production Park to benefit our young peoples’ futures through encourage creative businesses to base in the industry mentor and get equipped with the Houses a range of creative production, partnership initiatives such as forming a Local borough through creating the kinds of spaces, skills, experience and connections to succeed in education and training facilities including for Education Partnership or programmes which rents, networks and support that are attractive. the creative industries. film and tv and artist studios. The Backstage raise awareness of the breadth of creative Centre trains technicians, producers, creative careers and the pathways to move into these. Initiatives such as the GLA’s Creative Enterprise Zones and Create Jobs led by A New Direction Cultivate Routes teams and learners of all ages and at every Cultivate Routes is a programme of workshops stage of a career, including for young people Especially strong is when these opportunities are testing what models are sustainable and achieve the greatest impact and Enfield can led by creative professionals in schools across taking their first career steps. are brokered in the local area, creating Wandsworth. Participants learn about creative networks and opportunities for volunteering learn from these to devise attractive plans. industry roles and undertake a workshop SEEDS and work experience. Local work experience activity related to one in particular e.g. Ravensbourne University ‘Self Employment & and apprenticeships can help to inspire and Establish networking & animation, product design or illustration. Entrepreneurship Diversity Scheme’ focuses open doors and schools can be supported to collaboration on building the freelance careers of a group of understand the real scope for creative skills dyslexic & neurodiverse students, helping to and careers which cannot be automated in set up their own business or starting a career. the future and/or as part of STEAM rather than When many creative professionals are self- ARTS CENTRE/ ARTS DEVELOPMENT/ Animation, Architecture, Digital Film, Post- STEM development (Science, Technology, employed, facilitating strong professional YOUNG PEOPLE production and Fashion students are matched Engineering, Arts and Maths). networks with peer support and opportunities to meet potential collaborators and employers Battersea Arts Centre with senior industry mentors, plus workshops are key to success. Clapham Junction and advice from leading business experts and Town Centre Creative Hub in Old Town Hall life coaching sessions. Enfield can harness its local talent to generate connections and activity which will benefit This town centre based performing arts venue creative individuals and companies, students, has a varied Outreach Programme. They offer educators and the borough as a whole. open mic nights, subsidised workspace, a beatbox academy, schools programmes and a mobile heritage museum programme.

One project, The Agency, is an enterprise programme for disadvantaged local young people to develop a creative project with mentoring support. Right; Youth project at Battersea Arts Centre

62 Dallas–Pierce–Quintero A Cultural Strategy for Enfield 63 Focus 4: Focus: Celebrate Celebrate Case Studies

Increase community connection Improve cultural promotion & through international dance, strengthen Enfield’s cultural music & food narrative

We will work to facilitate and encourage events Our communities make Enfield and together which bring people together to celebrate we make culture. Communicating about our strong local community spirit and shared what’s on offer is key to reaching more people interests. We want to see our many diverse and encouraging a greater participation of all communities come together for uplifting ages across the borough. A stronger outward experiences which celebrate our strengths. articulation of this will ensure that Enfield’s cultural identity is more clearly expressed, This can highlight and draw on the many talents attract more people and help our cultural lives and interests across the borough including our to thrive. varied music, dance and food. During Covid-19, its likely more of our cultural and community Communications need to work through digital experiences will take place outdoors and Enfield and non-digital channels and reach across our is well placed to maximise on the many parks communities, which can be aided by building a and green spaces, whilst staying safe. network of Enfield culture champions to spread RIVER FESTIVAL the message and encourage people to get Increase borough wide access to involved. Hidden River Festival, North London heritage & diversity of local culture Organised by the regeneration partnership The borough’s rich heritage and diverse cultures at Woodberry Down including Manor House give a fantastic basis for cultural programmes Development Trust, the Woodberry Down and public arts commissioning which will make Community Organisation, the London Borough local stories more visible and increase access to of Hackney, Genesis Housing and Berkeley these. Homes, this event is attended by local residents and visitors from other areas of London.

This can be through public realm design, Top; Hidden River Poster wayfinding, contemporary arts commissions, The event follows the New River Path to the Above; Performance on the Wetland Stage digital trails and engagement programmes Woodberry Wetlands, and features kayaking and involve local communities in the making down the New River, stalls from local artisans, plant your own wildflowers, workshops and telling. From an individual story to large Volunteers from the immediate community strategic initiatives, such as the opening up of and walks at the Woodberry Wetlands, The Redmond Rovers (local football club), are involved in all parts of the festival, the borough’s northern green spaces, there is ensuring its success. A wide variety of street much to tell. yoga, box fit; a Hidden River Video Arcade; kids entertainment including The Greatest foods with vegetarian and vegan options are Showman sing along, circus and storytelling, are on offer showcasing diverse local cuisine and more. and supporting local businesses.

64 Dallas–Pierce–Quintero A Cultural Strategy for Enfield 65 Focus: Celebrate BATH VIRTUAL REALITY Case Studies This 5G Smart Tourism at the Roman Baths enables visitors to try out futuristic technology which immerses them in the site’s rich history.

TOWN TO PORT COLCHESTER The trial involved invited guests using a

East Hill smartphone app to download and view virtual Colchester Town centre Castle Park Ipswich This public realm project celebrates the history Road reality & augmented reality content at three East Street of the Hythe, the former trading port of locations around the Roman Baths. Parsons Heath RIVER

Colchester and encourages visitors to explore Greenstead Magdalen Street C The trial app told the story of three periods in the area. A trail of way-markers, seating & Colchester Town Station the World Heritage Site’s history: the mythical Brook Street interpretation tell the story of the disused port, Greenstead Road

St. Andrews Avenue A133 Barrack Street discovery of the hot springs by King Bladud; the embedding its history within the landscape, The Moors and in so doing, strengthening its identity for Wimpole Rd Baths falling into disrepair when the Romans locals and visitors alike. Hythe HillM left; and the renovation in Victorian times. Each period was recreated by Aardman Animations St Leonard Wayfinding and a public art route tell the as an animated 3D scene that plays for several Hythe Community Station centre B minutes, with ‘hotspots’ that the user could story of the historic port using way-markers Hythe Station

Recreation The Hythe Road discover to display interesting information containing the physical materials that were Ground Recreation Rd about various parts. once traded there. Hythe Quay D P Hawkins Road Clacton- on-sea Above and below; VR Project at the Roman Baths in Bath R

Distillery Lane

King Edward Quay University of Essex Haven Road F

River Colne S Old Heath Whitehall Road TOWN TO PORT PROJECT NORTH Hythe Marshes Rowhedge Wivenhoe

Gabion trail markers with seating and map © Dallas-Pierce-Quintero

66 Dallas–Pierce–Quintero A Cultural Strategy for Enfield 67 Focus 5: Capacity

New borough culture Support sector through Build cultural partnership & Harness development and expertise & capacity Covid-19 challenges secure strategic funding planning to contribute to

Support will be needed to help Enfield’s creative culture provision & secure With a new Head of Strategic Cultural professionals and cultural sector respond and Much can be achieved through joint working. investment Development, Enfield Council has committed recover from Covid19. Creative approaches will Culture providers and communities in Enfield additional capacity to work with council be needed to reshape how cultural activity can can develop stronger relationships and seek teams, across the creative sector and with be delivered and enjoyed. funding to enable shared ambitions to be As new development comes forward in Enfield, local communities to implement this strategy. realised. Creative programmes which bring investment can be secured to expand and Expanding the current cultural team’s expertise, This will be especially important to help town the boroughs communities together will be diversify the borough’s cultural provision as part this will enable a broader conversation to take centres welcome people back and to enable especially valued. of social, cultural, community and employment place about culture in Enfield and a refreshed people to reconnect safely and enjoy cultural infrastructure. This could include subsidised strategic focus. experiences. Conversations and work between The National Heritage Lottery Fund has identified spaces for cultural occupiers, affordable creatives, cultural providers, town centre teams, Enfield as a strategic priority area for investment. creative workspace and artist studios, public local businesses and communities will open up This creates the opportunity to ensure culture art commissioning and cultural festival activity Nurture local skills & ideas and solutions. can be part of heritage plans through creative which enhances the life of Enfield. interpretation. Currently Enfield has no NPOs capacity to deliver diverse (National Portfolio Organisations - resident Planning policy and spatial planning including cultural organisations that are regularly funded infrastructure plans and masterplans, as creative activity Creative Green Training © Julies Bicycle by the Arts Council) which indicates scope for well as contributions through S106, CIL and additional investment into the borough to Neighbourhood CIL, can all play a part in A rich layer of Enfield’s cultural offer is created increase cultural access. boosting the borough’s cultural life and creative and produced by people based locally, from economy. Enfield Poets to Talkies Community Cinema, local dance groups, choirs, orchestras and Strategic programmes which improve town community cultural events such the Turkish Diversify income streams centres and public realm can integrate culture Cypriot Festival. These activities rely on in planned work and in future funding bids. New producers and volunteers across the borough’s Enfield’s cultural venues including Millfield models of investment such as The Creative Land communities. Where possible, working together Theatre, The Dugdale and Forty Hall have active Trust can be explored with a view to brokering with communities to plan and facilitate activity creative programmes and are much loved. The new creative workspace partnerships. Cultural will strengthen what’s on offer. diversification of business income streams can occupiers can be identified through open calls be explored to improve long term sustainability, or brokered partnerships with clear agreements With the right development of skills, capacity can broaden audiences and bring more people around commitment to providing tangible be grown and more creative activity can evolve. together to enjoy what is on offer. local benefit including opportunities for young This may be to expand people’s knowledge of people. volunteering, health & safety or diversity and Strategic funding such as for the GLA’s Creative inclusion, or to build skills in fundraising, creative Enterprise Zones can be sought to boost the commissioning and event management. creative industries, open up new roles for cultural venues & providers to engage the local community, and develop a stronger town centre presence. Businesses must also be encouraged to take an active role in the cultural community life around them.

68 Dallas–Pierce–Quintero A Cultural Strategy for Enfield 69 5. Cultural Action Plan

70 Dallas–Pierce–Quintero A Cultural Strategy for Enfield 71 Engagement & Consultation Indicative Action Plan

Many have people have taken This activity has all helped to inform and guide An indicative set of strategic Culture Connects is a collaborative strategy and the strategy and we are grateful to everyone these actions will be owned and delivered by a part and contributed to the who has given time to share views and ideas actions accompanies this strategy variety of LBE teams and key stakeholders across development of this strategy and including: and lays out a route-map for the borough. This principle of connecting for the emerging Action Plan during delivering the aims and ambitions greater impact is at the heart of this strategy. • Teams across Enfield Council’s 2020. of this strategy. The full Action Plan will be reviewed annually. strategic services Engagement and consultation took place The Culture Connects Action Plan is delegated Three priorities underpin all actions: Sustainable through: • Many of the borough’s cultural to the Portfolio Holder for Culture and to the Culture; Creating Opportunities for Young Executive Director of Place. The indicative People; Culture Everyday • Face to face and online meetings and and creative industries sector actions set out below and overleaf illustrate discussions; a selection of the actions identified at the • A questionnaire and follow-up round- • Key stakeholders such as those strategy’s outset – it is not comprehensive. tables with members of the local creative delivering regeneration community to explore the specific focus areas set out in the strategy as well as to help identify needs across the borough; • Representatives of those who • And a series of discussions with key deliver creative community stakeholders within Enfield Council activity including staff working across culture, heritage, libraries, health and wellbeing, Key Projects Summary economic development, regeneration, • Councillor Caliskan, Leader, and community engagement and planning. Councillor Barnes, Deputy Leader, • Cultural Planning Policy and • Youth Culture Catapult Enfield Council Public Art Commissioning programme - to assess and Below; Platinum Dance performers at Enjoy Enfield Summer Festival 2020 Guidance - to build a process grow creative opportunities & mechanisms for securing and career pathways for local investment and ensuring young people quality • Targeted Creative Enterprise • Town Centre Culture Toolkit - Development - to build Enfield’s to guide creative projects to creative industries and support enhance our high streets training and employment

• Enfield Creative Network - to • Creative Recovery Programme build a strong local network - to aid the Covd19 response which can build partnership across the borough and and share resources support social and economic recovery

72 Dallas–Pierce–Quintero A Cultural Strategy for Enfield 73 Culture Connects - Indicative Action Plan

Focus Areas Spotlights Short-term Actions Next Steps

On the Ground Meridian Water Cultural Strategy • Consult on developing strategy to build • Produce an outward facing Culture Strategy ownership and partnership Sector Access Cultural Development for Meridian Water • Ensure developing strategy continues to Regeneration Gaps Diversity Promotion & Planning support delivery of Enfield Cultural Strategy

Supporting Growth Youth Culture Catapult • Assess youth creative offer and provider partners across Enfield Creative Skills & Creative programme • Explore partnerships such as with Pathways Training Networks & Regeneration • To increase and improve creative LBE Libraries & community centres & Pathways opportunities for young people in and Universities outside of formal education, and explore • Embed skills opportunities within all new and existing funding programmes to cultural programmes e.g. volunteering, support ambassadors, workshops, professional visits

Celebrate Enjoy Enfield Summer • Evaluate to include diversity of offer and • Deliver & evaluate a Covid-Friendly Summer audiences, & assess learnings to take Cultural Collective Parks & Town Creative Programme 2020 forward into new programmes, including Promotion ExperienceOpen Spaces Centres Networks LGBTQi+

Capacity Enfield Creative Network • Instigate a monthly meeting • To generate networks and joint working • Create & share a borough creative directory Cultural Cultural & Creative Creative Access alongside a borough creative directory • Establish a sector-facing e newsletter to Partnership Community Networks & Industries Diversity collate and share news and opportunities Pathways to better connect the sector with scope Capacity for mentoring and resource sharing and • Develop informal mentoring and to include identified spaces available for training focused opportunities eg event cultural use. management, volunteering, commissioning • Explore resource sharing including technical equipment

Cultural Planning for the borough • Create a brief • Cultural Infrastructure Assessment to guide • Determine cost/budget Cultural & • Identify funding Development Diversify Town Community future development Regeneration • Commission production & Planning Revenue Centres Infrastructure • Cultural Planning Policy to guide planning gain negotiation to include priority costed • Ensure integration between Planning projects & secure funds Policy & Cultural Strategy • Public Art Commissioning Guidance to ensure quality commissioning

74 Dallas–Pierce–Quintero A Cultural Strategy for Enfield 75 Culture Connects - Indicative Action Plan

Focus Areas Spotlights Medium-term Actions Next Steps

On the Ground Work to facilitate easier access to • Identify key barriers to wider use of parks and open spaces for culture Heritage parks, open spaces and venues Parks & Collective Community • Collaborate to find solutions to increase Open Spaces Landscape Experience Environment Capacity for cultural uses with associated access and use support • Monitor future culture and events use to assess impact

Right Mix Identify a town centre creative • Identify potential spaces including empty buildings, windows, streets and squares, Sector New Cultural & Town spaces, permanent or meanwhile hidden corners Community Gaps Creative Centres • To boost the local offer • Reach out to potential partners including Workspace Infrastructure • To generate creative industries and e.g. Creative Land Trust, studio providers, community opportunities existing providers wishing to expand/ • For creative & wider community to make, Skills & Development relocate Training present and sell work, learn skills, ‘have a & Planning go’ & meet

Support the development of • Identify opportunities to grow the sector including at Meridian Water and with film/ New Enfield as a significant creative Sector Creative Skills & gaming industry stakeholders including Creative Industries Training Gaps Workspace film production and gaming hub Film London with associated employment and • Build on the existing film production activity in the borough training opportunities • Seek to generate creative pathways into Development Creative Regeneration & Planning Pathways professional roles for local young people

76 Dallas–Pierce–Quintero A Cultural Strategy for Enfield 77 Investment Approach Social Value

Local government is under significant financial pressure and Enfield Cultural value is often measured in terms of the economy, health Council has lost £Xm funding since 2010. We will take a sustainable and successful cities and towns, but the social value it generates is mixed economy approach to securing investment for culture and increasingly being understood. the creative industries. Diversifying funding will help to spread the opportunity to secure investment and create a balanced approach. Whilst culture needs to work ever harder Culture can also act as a vehicle to raise to secure and generate investment and awareness of the environmental emergency This may include: • Harnessing planning & regeneration as a contribute to strategic aims, we also know the whether through performance, creative tool for investment and to better integrate intrinsic value of culture to people’s individual activism or through, for example, public realm • Becoming ‘bid ready’ for public investment creativity through development and experiences and capacities. improvements such as creative digital or in strategic programmes across arts renewal of public spaces physical wayfinding trails which encourage and culture, heritage, health, education, • Exploring the borough’s property assets Evidence increasingly supports the walking and cycling. Enfield Council’s Cabinet regeneration and community development to identify opportunities for meanwhile meaningful health benefits of culture for declared a state of climate emergency in 2019 • Levering funding through partnership and activity or new cultural or creative loneliness, for recovery from physical and and committed to making the authority carbon collaborative working on projects such as enterprise uses mental illness, through the soft skills gained neutral by 2030 or sooner. public realm and economic development, • Exploring business streams through hires, through a creative education and increased social value community initiatives or cross sales, ticketed events and commercial ‘employability’ this affords, and the wider way borough/cross region working such as partnerships in which culture connects us as a community. the Productive Valley or the London to • Identifying how culture & creativity deliver Cambridge Innovation Corridor on multiple objectives and recognising • Investing in training and skills development culture’s socio-economic benefits to build local capacity

Outdoor Cinema, Broomfield Park © Talkies Community Cinema

Strategy Implementation • a new Enfield Creative Forum be established and meet regularly to enable Enfield Council has a Cabinet member with networking to amplify and realise joint responsibility for culture. The Cultural Strategy ambitions, generate partnership and Action Plan will be delegated to the Cabinet strengthen the sector. This to also seek to member and the Executive Director for Place. attract new providers, spark inspiration and catalyse new ideas which can be realised. This Cultural Strategy will inform cross council policy and projects and collaborative working. • to involve and work strategically with the local community including businesses and The Cultural Strategy Action Plan to be other key stakeholders such as through reviewed yearly to reflect opportunities and regeneration programmes; to build ambitions as they arise. advocacy and championing of culture; and welcome new creative enterprise It is recommended that: opportunities to Enfield.

• a London Borough of Enfield Working Group focus on the integration of culture across the council’s work, to align aims and ambitions and identify opportunities.

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