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Take a look inside Creative Crawley's new space in County Mall Shopping Centre
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19/03/2025
Creative Crawley has a new space in Unit 79/80 of County Mall Shopping Centre. Creative Crawley is launching its Spring Programme on Friday, March 28 but we got a sneak preview and a guided tour by Community Producer Becky Jones
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Hi, I'm Becky, Community Producer for Creative Crawley, and we're here today in County Mall
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Shopping Centre at Unit 7980, which is a new temporary creative pop-up space that we are
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opening at the end of next week with our partners Audio Active and Theatre Centre.
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And shall we take a look inside?
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Yeah, let's go for it, follow me.
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So, in we come.
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So, welcome, welcome.
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So, this is the sort of bare bones of what the opening space of the space will look like.
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We'll have this set up in a way more cosy way, so we'll have tables, we'll have chairs
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that people can sit on, and even though this is going to be a creative space, it will be
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a place that you can just come and have your lunch and hang out.
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We don't want it to feel like you can't come in here if you're not coming to see the art
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or coming to see the exhibitions or the shows.
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Like, you can come and hang out.
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We've also got here, which is a lovely feature, we've got a projector and a projection screen.
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So, we're calling this the Window Gallery.
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So, in here, we're going to be putting out commissions for artists to submit work or
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to come up with new ideas for work that can be displayed in that window, which is really,
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really exciting.
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Excellent.
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Yeah.
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So, then here is kind of where audiences will come in.
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This is like our welcome area.
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So, we can have on the notice board any sort of creative things that are going on, which
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is really great.
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So, our welcome team will be working here.
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This is a lovely feature.
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This was actually made by an artist called Kerith Ogden, who does a lot of the lanterns
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for Glow Wild at Wakehurst.
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Oh, my goodness.
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And she made this for us last summer for our Around the Lake Festival at Tilgate Park.
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And so, it's a lantern, and probably people, you will recognise this.
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This is the bandstand in Memorial Gardens.
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So, it was an ode to that.
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So, we're going to find a home for that.
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So, welcome into this, one of the first spaces.
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This is called the Long Gallery, which you might be able to see.
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It's very long.
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And the idea of the design of this is that we will always have something that's exhibited
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in here that audiences can see it from the window.
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So, like, if they're like, oh, I don't know if I want to go in there, or I don't know
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what's going on in there, they can look in the window and be like, oh, what is that?
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That might pull them in.
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So, it goes all the way down.
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And we've got a lovely bit of scaff here that artists can use if they want to display stuff
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on there.
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But we're going to have an exhibition in this space to start with called Making the Invisible
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Visible, which is by an artist called Eric McLennan.
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And he's worked with four different community groups to basically talk about connection
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and personal objects and the stories around that.
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So, it's going to display some of their objects, recordings of their stories and transcripts
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to really bring home the extraordinary ordinariness of the everyday.
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So, that's going to be a really exciting exhibition in here.
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Wow.
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So, then we come down.
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Throughout the space, there's lots of different zones.
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And it's been designed in a way that it's a flexible performance space, so it can suit
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different needs.
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So, whether it's an exhibition, whether it's a performance, we've got that movable tease,
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as we're calling them, that we can zone in different places.
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So, that's really exciting.
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And then we come down.
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Obviously, a greenhouse.
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A greenhouse!
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One of our favourite features.
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The reason this came to be is because we kind of wanted to just spark a little glimpse at
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how we can actually use different spaces.
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It doesn't always have to just be in a room with tables and chairs, but actually, well,
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why not?
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Why can't we do something in a greenhouse?
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So, we can use this in a multitude of ways.
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We're doing a fashion show in April, and the designers might be using it to put some
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of the garments in there after the show.
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People can just go in there and have a chill time.
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There's breakout space.
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So, it can be used in different ways.
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So, it's just a funky way of thinking about how we use space.
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And again, that's movable, so we can move that wherever we need it to go.
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Wow.
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It's massive, isn't it?
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It's really big.
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So, we come right down to the end of the unit, and it sort of curls into, and this is our
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performance space.
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So, here, again, similar to the rest of the unit, everything's been designed so that it's
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flexible.
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And we've got it in an end-on position at the moment, so it's like a 60-seat theatre.
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But this flooring can come up, the seating can move.
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We've obviously got all the amazing rigging, so we can have lighting and projectors and
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the sound.
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It's pitted out in a way that's really fit for purpose.
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But again, it's flexible to be able to move certain parts of it.
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Brilliant.
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Well, thank you very much for that tour.
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You're welcome.
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