Creative Camberwell With its internationally-renowned Camberwell College of Arts, Camberwell has been a hive of creative activity since the nineteenth century.
Today, numerous artistic and cultural individuals, groups and organisations are being inspired in and working in studios and workshops in Camberwell.
Camberwell’s public arts venues include
Vanguard Court is a cobbled alley of artists' studios behind Lucas Gardens. Regular open days are held there.
The highlight of Camberwell’s creative year is Camberwell Arts Festival which takes place in June.
In addition, in 2006 and 2007 Camberwell Green was host to Bonkersfest, a celebration of madness, creativity and eccentricity.
 Camberwell Creative Network
The Camberwell Creative Network seeks to bring together local creative individuals and organisations to harness the potential of creative activity in Camberwell. The network aims to provide
- Opportunities for creative exchange, debate and showcasing that will in turn encourage new creative activity, partnerships and collaborations
- Access to local cultural information, contacts and opportunities and to link with other localised strategic networks of similar activity
- Promote Camberwell as a desirable place to live and work and in particular, to take an active role in supporting regeneration and urban renewal, aiming to be as inclusive as possible
- Create visibility and define the ethos or 'brand' that is Camberwell as an area of cultural activity
- Listen to the needs of the local community and to develop a network that can have a real 'voice' and an advocacy function with the aim of influencing local policy and opening up the debate around the 'value' of arts and the creative and cultural industries
- Provide a conduit through which local business could also link and help build the profile of the area
Steering committee
The seven organisations currently on the steering committee reflect the breadth of artistic and cultural activity in Camberwell
To get involved in the network, please contact Naomi Bower on 020 7525 6434, or email camberwellcn@gmail.com
For more information contact
Katherine Pitt
Tel: 020 7525 6433
Fax: 020 7708 2484
katherine.pitt@southwark.gov.uk
Southwark Council
73 Camberwell Church Street
London
SE5 8TR
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