CONNECTION, CONVERSATION, CREATIVE ACTION
The Rural Peace Hub, a converted farmhouse in Northumberland, is Arts Lab’s home.
It hosts artist residencies, workshops, exhibitions, and nature-based gatherings that address issues of conflict, inequality, and the climate crisis.
Through art, nature and hospitality, we connect artists, activists, and pioneering, forward-thinking individuals from a wide range of professions and organisations.
Spaces are created for meaningful connection, courageous dialogue and constructive action. Visitors learn creative and practical approaches to relationship-building and social change, and take time to reflect, recharge, and renew their impact in these consistently challenging times.
THE HUB WELCOMES VISITORS:
- Committed to personal and professional development alongside social transformation
- Interested in arts-based methods for community cohesion / social change / conflict transformation
- Who are natural collaborators
- Excited by multidisciplinary approaches
- Curious, open to new ideas, and ready to experiment beyond comfort zones
ACADEMICS, ACTIVISTS, CHANGEMAKERS, LEADERS, PEACEBUILDERS – from the arts, climate action, community health and development, criminal justice, education, and fields of peace and conflict:
A place to meet, rest, and stay. Enquire here →
Join a workshop. Explore here →
CREATIVE PRACTITIONERS – visual artists, musicians, filmmakers, and writers whose work engages with social responsibility:
A place to create, reflect, and stay, with the potential of becoming an Arts Lab artist associate, contributing to our programme of workshops, exhibitions and events with/for Arts Lab, using the Rural Peace Hub as a base. Enquire here →
For day visits, events and residentials, the Hub brings together under one roof:
- Art studio for creative, ‘messy’ art-making workshops.
- Library of arts and peacebuilding books.
- Permanent display of original contemporary artwork (over 100 pieces).
- Outdoor space to create sculptures, installations, land art.
- Quarterly exhibitions by invited artists whose work aligns with the Arts Lab ethos.
- Comfortable spaces inside and out for up to 10 for dining, discussion, and study.
- Spacious kitchen for shared cooking for up to 10.
- Piano and log burner in main relaxing area.
- Overnight accommodation for up to 6 people.
- Scenic walks from the door, including Isaac’s Tea Trail.
