We want to bring the pOSsibility Machine back to Oswestry during Summer of Art 2025 and give all ages access to an exciting, vibrant range of pop-up creative activities.
Support the Rural Art Hub to take their POSSIBILITY MACHINE project to the next stage and bring back this quirky trolley for "pop-up" creative activities to the high street. Over last summer we took Possibility Machine V.1 on to the streets of Oswestry in North Shropshire. It was a hugely successful project with hundreds of participants of all ages. The trolley functioned as a portable Graffiti/Doodle wall accumulating markings from a diverse group of people to become an entangled portrait of the town and performance-sculpture. We also delivered a range of other activities including a photography walk, a sound walk and a clay workshop. All out on the street. All free. And for all ages. More than this, in fact, part of the new project involves working with Manchester School of Architecture students to design and build a new innovative trolley that takes our out in the open creativity to a whole new level.
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Why it's a great idea:
Our interdisciplinary projects bring people of all ages together to experience creativity, heritage and sustainability and support transformation and inspiration at the heart of communities. Central to what we do is our belief in the benefits of open-ended, playful creativity that goes far beyond the idea of art to think of creativity as part of everyone’s story and having a hugely positive impact on health and wellbeing. We don't want to create activities for the same usual participants and want to reach wider audiences and all ages. That is why we want to get back out there into the streets of Oswestry and find new ways to bring creativity to everyone. Even those people who don't think they are creative or would not normally go to a creative workshop.
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We are absolutely delighted that Manchester School of Architecture students are getting into gear on the project and have designed this beautiful poster to share their involvement and to recruit BA students to the team action week. You can read more about their interest in the project, why they got involved and find out more about the MSALive 25 project at https://live.msa.ac.uk/2025/group/30/
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How will the money be spent?Target (inc. fees) £8,229
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VolunteerOur innovative, interdisciplinary projects bring together creativity, heritage and sustainability to support transformation and inspiration at the heart of community. We are artist-, volunteer- and community-led, committed to supporting the local and regional arts and rural ecology.
Central to our vision as an organisation are the well-documented benefits of open-ended, playful, exploratory creative processes to support resilience and enable a sense of radical transformation. We bring this open-endedness together with heritage arts and crafts activities to provide an innovative, inclusive volunteer, artist and community-led programme that is unique in the local cultural ecology. We aim to focus on and respond to a number of specific challenges and outcomes for the local population, where there is a high proportion of older people experiencing rural isolation and lack of opportunity for young people.
Our aims are based on a vision for a grassroots organisation that is led by local lived experience and opens innovative ways to create a new sense of community and place across different diverse groups who may not otherwise connect. We are, in particular, focussed on responding to rural isolation and working to support new ways to bring all ages together to think about sustainable futures. We aim to engage with all ages through a diverse programming that mixes more accessible and familiar content, including heritage crafts and art, with other more challenging but rewarding activities that introduce new outcomes and unique experiences. We are particularly keen to provide opportunities for intergenerational creativity where, for example, adults can experience the way children create and play. We create opportunities for reflecting on sustainability through a choice of materials or an understanding of the needs of the natural world and the impact of climate change. We are also particularly interested in continuity by providing long-term activities that can help us sustain engagement and really understand the needs and interests of individuals we work with. Through our “Pay What You Can”, taster and free activities we address inclusivity because of economic barriers. We also signpost to community transport providers and subsidise travel costs if needed and possible.
Project Owner: Rural Art Hub The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.
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