Where Infrastructure Meets the Arts

As Mackie’s Corner closed for redevelopment as a commercial property, we held a last hurrah with an ArtyParti Celebration; celebrating its use as a pop-up arts exhibition hub, and looking ahead to the future.

LAURA BREWIS - Creative Producer, Sunderland Culture:

"Sunderland sort of has all the raw ingredients to be an amazing creative city. It needs some help sort of galvanising those things together. Mackie's Corner has been really successful. We've had people through the building. It's made people see what this space could be used for."

SARAH CARR - Manager, Sunderland Heritage Action Zone:

"It's a project that is really driven by a really strong partnership, animating those spaces and just bringing people into historic buildings that would've just been empty until work start in terms of restorations."

DR. LOES VELDPAUS - Senior Research Associate, Newcastle University School of Architecture, Planning & Landscape:

"People are just interested in the exhibition, but actually walking into the building. And it starts a conversation, which I think is an important one to have with people in the neighbourhood and the city, to come together and make this stuff happen."

More about ArtyParti:

Our website - www.artyparti.comTwitter - @ArtyParti Instagram - @Arty_Parti_ Produced and presented by Jay Sykes.

Our supporters and funders:

The ArtyParti podcast is made possible thanks to the support of our five Patreon backers:

• Tel Erbie - Founder of Sister Shack / DJ Awkward Black Girl
• Jo Howell - Photographic Artist based in Sunderland
• Nicky Kaur - Founder of TryLife TV
• Stephanie Smith - Visual Artist based in Sunderland
• Laura Willis - Emerging Audio Producer

ArtyParti's live "Celebration" events and website are made possible thanks to funding from the Arts Council England & National Lottery Heritage Fund, through the Unlock strand of Sunderland Culture's Great Place scheme.