Blog posts

During a time when the arts face huge challenges, artist Michael Steer, whose exhibition I WAS HERE has been installed in our Panorama space this season, explores their importance. Most...

Back in February I had a chat with Kathryn Roberts, due to play The Civic with her partner Sean Lakemen in March. Little did we know what was in store...

Diversity enriches every aspect of our lives, from the food we eat, the way we speak, the music we listen to; celebrating and shining a light on our cultural differences...

We announced on Monday 12th October that we were lucky enough to receive some funding from the DCMS Culture Recovery Fund. The total funding we received was £57,362. This funding...

In this last part of our series of four blogs looking back over a year of Community Engagement, we shine a light of the various way in which we have...

Up until last year, The Civic had only occasionally taken touring theatre companies into non-traditional venues, including village halls, libraries and sports clubs. Our Community Engagement activity gives us the...

In this blog we take a look at #OurNorth, which was a season long programme of exhibitions, pop-up events and community engagement celebrating the culture and creativity of the North....

Twelve months ago, we launched our then new Community Engagement programme; part of a wider audience development plan, its aim was to widen its reach by developing new audiences in...

Like most arts centres across the country, on March 17th we took the very difficult decision to temporarily close our doors to the public. All the hard work that had...

Ashley Gregory gives us the low down… I’ve been undertaking an internship as a gallery assistant here at The Civic through Sheffield Hallam University since the start of January, but...