Outside the Lines - York and North East Imagination Tour

We’re inviting you to Redhills, the Pitmen's Parliament, for the County Durham stop on the York & North East Imagination Tour, with author and imagination activist Rob Hopkins.

This is a day of immersive, participatory encounters bringing together place producers, artists, changemakers and community leaders from across the County, with a full day of talks, chances to explore Imagination Practice and a panel discussion.

Hosted by No More Nowt and Redhills in collaboration with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, this event creates space to sit with uncertainty and change whilst we explore imagination practice as a tool to create social change in the context of County Durham and our varied communities.

Through talks, workshops and creative experiences, we’ll ask bold “what if” questions about the futures we might still choose, shaped by care, justice and collective possibility. If Imagination Practice is something new to you, then this is the perfect introduction into how it can be used as a practical tool to help people unlock new ways of thinking, doing and seeing their world.

In the first half of the day, author and imagination activist Rob Hopkins will lead us in an exploration of imagination practice, before we break for lunch. We’ll then move into grounding imagination practice within our communities with the help of organisations like Threads in the Ground, Northern Heartlands and SAWDUST.

The day will close with the launch of a number of seed project commissions designed to kickstart imagination practice and the ability for communities to find imaginative ways of starting, developing and sustaining change in partnership with creatives.

This is part of a wider touring programme, but also a moment in its own right, designed to spark momentum, deepen relationships and open up new ways of thinking and doing across creativity and communities.

A limited amount of parking is available at Redhills. In order to access the parking, please drive past the main entrance and take the next immediate right.

More information on travel and parking can be found here.