Open Culture produces creative projects that aim to:

- increase cultural practice

- develop new audiences

- boost the creative economy

Ultimately encouraging Merseyside people to create culture, not just consume it.

We can provide project management, development, consultancy, mentoring and coaching across a range of arts practises. 

Open Culture also offers our website www.culture.org.uk. It's your online space to use as you want. Share your culture be it an event, photo's, artworks, poems, rants - you decide.

Partners & Clients 

BBC Radio Merseyside, The Biennial, the Bluecoat, Business Improvement District (BID), Culture Liverpool, Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS), Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT), Liverpool City Council, Liverpool Echo and Daily Post, Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, Liverpool Primary Care Trust, Merseytravel, National Museums Liverpool, Radio City, St Georges Hall, Tate, Thrive, Wild In Art and more.

Projects 

Light Night and Long Night, Piazza Arts Markets, Feel Good Fairs, Winter Arts Markets, the Liverpool Map glass sculpture in the new Museum of Liverpool, Now That's What We Call Culture at the Echo Arena, Go Penguins Launch Party and more.

A note from Phil Redmond

It is not perfect nor, I suspect, will it ever be, as one of the key roles, perhaps characteristics, of the term culture is to question. To challenge. To be disruptive in the way technological innovation is disruptive by changing the way things have always been done.
 

It should, at the same time be reassuring. Reinforcing both traditional cultural values while at the same time reaffirming the right to think differently. To depict the world in both recognisable ways but also taking new and different angles. Or should it?

The debate should be endless as it should be timeless, having been around as long as the first guttural sounds became language and cave paintings were open source. Use it how you wish. Comment and post as you wish. Suggest improvements. It's only a start.
There are no real rules, just principles. At the moment it is funded. In the future it needs to be 
self-sustaining. When is not clear. But in the cultural world, what else is new? For now, it is here and will be around through 2008 and designed as a legacy project. But what is that? Discuss?

The over-arching principle though is Open Culture. You can be as controversial, cutting or as critical as you wish while remembering two things. The law of the land and no pseudonyms. Who cares what Scottydog or Mysticman or whoever thinks? Be open. Be honest. Be prepared to be challenged. If you can't, don't. You're missing the point. Start a blog.

So tell us what you think. What you want. What you don't want. How it can help, or even how it can hinder. Open Culture should be a central resource that will point and redirect to other endeavours. It is not designed to displace but to facilitate. It is there for everyone to use as they wish, moderated only by its user community.

You can access as individuals or you can rent space as an organisation. It will show you how to set up your own site, or direct traffic to your existing site. You can come looking for information or you can post information. Look for something cultural to do, or promote your own event. You choose.

It's not perfect, but it's a start. And it will grow and get better through 2008. It can be as big or as unused as its cultural community chooses. Working together.