Redcar Peeps is a project led by Tees Valley Arts at our base Redcar Palace on the gorgeous North East coastline.
Redcar Peeps is being funded by Historic England’s History in the Making grant programme. This new grant programme has been launched to encourage young people to engage with and celebrate their local heritage.
The project outcome is to produce a piece of public realm work with historical and modern connotations based around the theme of pride within the industrial seaside communities of Redcar, Juxtaposed with themes of LGBTQIA pride, joy, and the queer histories surrounding coastal towns and how they have historically been spaces for individuals to explore their identity.
Redcar has a seemingly empty LGBTQIA archive and record, we want to question this narrative, and recognise with the ever-changing and open minded demographic of young people how queerness has always existed, especially within working-class coastal communities.
APPLICATIONS FOR THE RESEARCHER ROLES ARE CLOSED.
APPLICATIONS FOR THE PEEP BOARD ARTIST IS NOW CLOSED