At the end of May, Culture Commons teamed up with our partners at Belfast City Council to co-convene a series of activities across Northern Ireland as part of our flagship open policy development programme for 2024 looking at cultural devolution.

We share a readout from a high-level meeting with local and combined authorities officers across England exploring how ‘upper’ and ‘lower’ tier authorities already collaborate to support the creative, cultural and heritage ecosystem in their regions.

Director of Culture Commons, Trevor MacFarlane contributes to a new book series exploring how the creative, cultural and heritage ecosystem responded to the Covid-19 pandemic between 2020 and 2022.