Blueprint

Collaborative artist residencies where young people and artists create public takeovers, events, or installations in the building.

Projects have included:

· Film-making with exhibiting artist Callum Hill, culminating in a youth-led Pavilion Late screening event alongside St Leonards-based Benbow Youth Film Collective

· Fibre to Fibre, a textiles project led by artist–teacher Lara Hailey responding to Tayhin by Claudia Alarcón & Silat. These works were exhibited in the Rooftop Foyer, launching during Bexhill Art Weekender.

Creative youth projects that take place beyond DLWP’s walls — in schools, youth clubs, public spaces, and community-led settings across our region.

This strand has included a partnership with Bexhill Academy Art Club, where young people collaborated with artist Corbin Shaw to design sports shirts responding to Allan Weber’s My Order, exhibited as part of Bexhill Art Weekender.

Upcoming Blueprint: Go projects include a collaboration with Bexhill Train Station, exploring placemaking and community identity, see more here.

 partnership with Talent Accelerator

One-to-one mentoring and creative development for young people exploring socially engaged practice and facilitation.

This programme runs in two ways:

1. Emerging Creative Facilitator roles — paid, mentored positions that support our Learning and Skills programmes. Local artist Harper Fairbrass is the current facilitator within the Creative Sidley project team.

2. Short creative placements — focused on developing and delivering a one-off workshop or project with mentoring support from the Learning team. Three placements take place each academic year, with the first planned for December 2025 – January 2026.

These two routes offer flexible entry points for young people at different stages of their creative journey.

A strand for reflection, documentation, and connection – where participants from across the Blueprint programme are invited to come together and share stories, ideas, and experiences.

Blueprint: Echo focuses on documenting, storytelling, and conversation, creating space for young people to explore what the projects have meant to them and to shape how their voices are represented.

This might happen through sharing young people’s work on our platforms so others can continue to experience it, through young people hosting their own event to talk about their experiences, or through creating a piece of physical documentation.

See Blueprint: Echo in action – watch the Pavilion Late films with Callum Hill on our YouTube Channel.