Make Space

Make Space is a new three-year arts learning partnership between Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham Educational Sanctuary Team (NEST) and Nottingham College, generously supported by The Mildred Fund. It asks how the arts can support young people seeking asylum in Nottingham as they navigate a changing relationship to space: as newly arrived people in the UK, and in relation to the people and collective spaces around them.

HEAL’s Co-Director Anna Ball and Associate Artists MoYah and Ellie Raofi are shaping the programme’s research questions and design alongside Nottingham Contemporary’s associate artist, learning and community engagement team, so that it is built collaboratively from the start.

As a migration arts learning collective specialising in community-engaged co-creation, HEAL holds the relationship between Nottingham Contemporary and our Associate Artists. We bring best practice in multidisciplinary migration arts and a deep understanding of the challenges facing people who have sought sanctuary in the UK. HEAL will also contribute to the programme’s ongoing learning design and reflective practice, embedded throughout.

2026 - 2029

Socially engaged creative practice, Learning and engagement

Collective members: Anna Ball, MoYah, Ellie Raofi, Margaret Ravenscroft