About People's Palace Projects

People's Palace Projects' mission is to channel the power of art to advance social justice through creative projects, enquiry and advocacy

We create projects to move and inspire people about what art can be in their lives and to create positive change. Through conceiving and producing collaborative, multi-faceted arts projects, we seek to affect individual, institutional and community transformation.

Our programme integrates art, research and debate in response to urgent contemporary issues in the UK and abroad. Learning from the places where the arts matter most in building personal and communal resistance to conflict and adversity, we create work with artists who celebrate and strengthen lives vulnerable to extremity and risk. By building capacity amongst agencies and individuals seeking to create change through the arts, we seek to develop and enable artists and arts organisations to engage with the social challenges of today. We want to provide opportunities for a wide range of artists to develop their skills and advance their thinking.

Many of our projects involve young people in developing their practice and understanding of the arts and our programme is aimed at a diversity of participants and audiences, particularly those outside the traditional arts and academic arenas.

Through forging multi-disciplinary collaborations that connect the arts to other practices, we seek to influence understanding of the arts in social and cultural policy debates

We aim to create international cultural exchanges that enrich UK artists, audiences and communities of interest. A particular focus to our programme is to promote greater understanding of Brazilian culture in the UK and to help British artists and institutions establish creative links with Brazil.

We aim to become a local, national and international resource to promote the transformative potential of the arts as a social practice, and to ensure that all aspects of our work share the ethical values of our mission.