Records at Risk (2022-24)

  • A new chapter for Friction Archives
    Friction Arts have always created socially engaged work that makes a real difference. Whether it’s in the local neighborhood or across the world, Friction believe art can change lives. Over the last year Friction have been moving back
  • Safeguarding Birmingham’s Arts Heritage with ‘Young Artivists’ at Friction
    People’s Heritage Co-operative is thrilled to announce a significant investment in Friction Archives through The National Archives Resilience Fund. Friction Arts is renowned for its socially engaged projects will work with ‘Young Artivists’ who will steer the project
  • Friction and Heritage – How can Culture Heal?
    PHC and Friction (Marcus and Manon) presented at Community Archives and Heritage Group annual conference at UCL 10th July 2024. It was a day packed with presentations around digitisation, how, when (and sometimes if) Local Authorities can help,
  • Building on Records formerly at Risk with Young Artivists
    We came back to Friction’s planned refurbishment at the Edge to see how the building work is going with ‘Young Artivists’, members of CREATE Youth panel aged 8 to 18, also members of Friction Art Club, to review
  • Saving stories to share stories at risk
    Our recent work with Friction and the Library of Birmingham has been underpinned by Archives – exploring, documenting and creating new responses to them, building a fuller picture of our city by the people least well represented in
  • Records no longer at Risk
    Thanks to funding from The National Archives we are working closely with Friction to save materials and records of their groundbreaking arts practice from over three decades. Friction Arts has been successful in applying for Arts Council funding
  • Tribute to Her Majesty
    It is a great sadness to us, and all the people we work with to hear about the death of Her Majesty yesterday. We have worked to celebrate the life of the Queen, in this, her Platinum Jubilee