Special Projects

Bridges is a new and exciting programme at Kettle’s Yard for young people aged 14-19 years. It aims to empower young people, giving them confidence and agency in art spaces by using art exploration as a tool to support their personal and creative growth.

This three year programme asks the question:

“What and where do we connect to?”

Cambridge is a city of bridges, connecting people from around the world with learning and culture, it is also the most unequal city in the UK. This project aims to open up those cultural spaces and include young people.

Bridges is a three year project (2024 – 2026). For each year an artist with a socially engaged practice is selected by young people taking part in the project.

Find out more about Bridges here

Together artist Issam Kourbaj and the community in North Cambridge have collated a new catalogue of ‘stories of sanctuary’, told through a series of diverse objects belonging to people in the library’s neighbourhood. Documented by photographer My Linh Le, the objects are cradled in the hands of each individual and presented on warm and welcoming acoustic boards in the newly-refurbished Arbury Court Library in Cambridge.

Like the library itself, each object and each person was full of stories. Sound artist Hannah Kemp-Welch brought recordings of some of these stories together, alongside evocative field recordings, reflecting contributors’ ideas of sanctuary through home, connection, love, creativity, loss, peace, relaxation, serenity and comfort.

Find out more about Sanctuary at Arbury Court Library