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culture, arts, style, lifestyle, fashion, music and more. It’s a creative magazine by local artists, writers, photographers, fashionistas, socialites, and social commentators that thinks alternatively. Doncopolitan is also the
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energy behind the Doncopolitan Crawl (previously known as the Culture Crawl). It’s an evening event where cultural venues and retailers open their doors for the public to experience what they have on offer themselves as well as the work of a local artist. The first ones
took place in July and October 2018 where local artists and town centre businesses hosted pop-up shops and photo studios, live music, poetry, doodle jams, exhibitions, and scratch performances. Running from 6pm to 10pm, they
created a different kind of buzz around the town as art bridged the gap between the daytime retail economy and night-time
oncopolitan, ‘the unruly child of a rebel town’, celebrates Doncaster’s
art
By Juliet Farrar, Executive Director of the new Doncaster Culture Programme.
LEFT: Doncopolitan Crawl artwork by young artist, Lucina White MAIN PICTURE: 247 property collaboration with Spzero for Culture
entertainment offer; giving a boost to the local economy. The cultural
events were hugely beneficial for the
Doncaster businesses, artists, creative industries and of course the crawlers themselves. People discovered new routes and retailers they’d never known about which not only increased income and footfall throughout the event but ongoing promotional opportunities for the businesses.
Michelle Smith, at The Shoe
Room, said: “We opened for an extra three hours and there was a significant increase in footfall that evening. It’s a definite success with new people coming to our part of town. It’s a great way of targeting the circulation of shoppers to parts they might not ordinarily reach.” Carol Shekle at Dreambakes had
simply expected to profile her cafe with pop-up street food but “loads of people ended up having main meals and desserts – it was a sell- out”. She also sold out with her pop-up shop in Doncaster Minister,
when the 161 year-old church hosted Luke Jerram’s ‘Museum of the Moon’. The touring exhibition attracted almost 16,000 visitors as part of the DN Festival of Light, commissioned by Right Up Our Street and funded through Arts Council Creative People & Places. Other businesses and local artists
brought the town centre alive with the first ever Doncaster Art Fairs in September and December 2018. Each day saw close to 500 people enjoying the work of 50 local artists exhibited across four quirky town centre venues. The energy and artist behind the
fairs was Chinwe Russell who has ambitious plans for 2019 and 2020; with the support of Doncaster Chamber and various local organisations she is working to champion the cause of local artists and town centre businesses alike. Business people are invited to the
‘Museum of the Moon’ is a touring artwork by UK artist Luke Jerram 8 CHAMBERconnect Winter 2019
next Doncaster Business Art Fair on Sunday 31 March for a pre-show tour and the third Doncopolitan Crawl during Doncaster’s Culture Month on Monday 22 July 2019. Doncaster Creates… watch
this space!
Photo courtesy of Warren Draper
Photo courtesy of James Mulkeen
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