convenience gallery
Convenience Gallery (Birkenhead, Merseyeside) is a community, contemporary
centered arts organisation focused on delivering accessible opportunities for
our local communities to engage, create, develop, work in and be enriched
through the arts. Taking art out into public spaces, not traditional
environments, mental health settings and working with local people. We’re
advocates and activists for artists fair pay, mental health & wellbeing and
inclusion. We are a small team dedicated to championing arts, artists, and arts
engagement. Always aiming to create high quality, diverse, educational and
challenging programming. We achieve this through: 1. Supporting people from all
backgrounds and career stages. 2. Developing creative pathways for our community
to access. 3. Placing our programming in community spaces to remove barriers. 4.
Delivering high quality, diverse and experimental arts programming made
predominantly alongside local Liverpool region creatives. 5. Working in
strategic partnerships to create links with great local and wider NW
organisations with the aim to co-develop and deliver projects and programming
that address inequalities and promote access, inclusion, wellbeing and skills
building. We have supported people through paid, voluntary and free to access
opportunities to lead and access workshops and exhibitions, co-building projects
together. We've had 4000 people attend our programming since 2019, creating 60+
number paid opportunities, co-built 18 exhibits and installs, worked with 20+