Welcome to the Nerve Centre for Bolton's Arts & Creative Industries : the nerve centre

The Nerve Centre is the new web portal for Bolton's Arts and Creative Industries, managed in partnership by Bolton Council, Bolton at Home and the University of Bolton.

If you are working within or looking to work within the Arts and Creative Industries in Bolton, this is your first port of call. If you need some extra help, contact any of thenervecentre team or check out the business help section. We link into a regional portal for Creative Industries via CIDS to ensure you get the latest in updates from across the Greater Manchester area.

This new mechanism for communication will allow Bolton’s creatives to keep up-to-date with all partners’ projects and initiatives. Registering will give you

Full access to the site, Monthly email update of news, events, opportunities and vacancies in Bolton's creative industries
Promote your business for free in our Creative Directory and through adding in your own news and event

This month's featured Creative Project:

DOOR TO DOOR

Door to Door

Autumn 2008 was the tenth anniversary of the first Housing Percent for Art projects, and Bolton at Home considered it a timely opportunity to reflect on the work of the service and on all the creative and innovative regeneration work in Bolton.

In December 2007, Housing Percent for Art commissioned artists Matt and Rob Vale to research and deliver a proposal for an exciting and innovative large scale temporary public art project that would engage communities across Bolton and capture the imagination, and the Door to Door project was conceived. Funding was subsequently approved by Bolton at Home and Housing Percent for Art later secured funding and support towards the project from Bolton Council and Bolton Community Homes.

Throughout the summer and later months around 115 Bolton residents – including local celebrities Mark Radcliffe, Dave Spikey and Jason Kenny - were filmed on their own doorsteps performing various door-based activities. Participants were drawn from all areas of the town and from a range of housing backgrounds - Bolton at Home customers as well as residents from housing associations and from the private sector. The individual films were mapped onto a giant grid, edited and animated, for projection onto the Le Mans Crescent buildings in Bolton town centre over five days (Tuesday 11^th to Saturday 15^th November).

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