Camden Arts Centre
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Camden Arts Centre is a contemporary visual art gallery, dedicated to engaging living artists from across the world. Positioning the artist at the centre of the programme, Camden Arts Centre strives to involve the public in the ideas and work of today's artists.

The exhibition and education programmes are developed with equal importance, and are continually intertwined. The changing programme includes exhibition
Exhibition
An exhibition, in the most general sense, is an organized presentation and display of a selection of items. In practice, exhibitions usually occur within museums, galleries and exhibition halls, and World's Fairs...

s, artist residencies
Artist in residence
Artist-in-residence programs and other residency opportunities allow visiting artists to stay and work so that they may apply singular focus to their art practice....

, off-site projects
Off-site art exhibit
Art exhibits are considered off-site if they are presented outside the traditional venues of museums, art galleries or other cultural institutions. This does not necessarily mean the work is uncurated, or created outside of an institutional collaboration. Artwork may be shown off-site simply...

 and artist-led activities, ensuring Camden Arts Centre remains a lively place for seeing, making and talking about contemporary art.

Making Ideas Visible
At Camden Arts Centre audiences actively engage with the making and process of art. The free activities represent an innovative and integrated approach to contemporary visual arts and education.

Exhibitions feature emerging artists, international artists showing for the first time in London, significant historic figures who inspire contemporary practice, and artist selected group shows relevant to current debate.

Residencies develop artists' practices with practical support, resulting in new work and public participation.

Off-site artists' projects include new commissions and performance in strategic areas such as King's cross and in local schools and community centres.

Education activity includes events which engage audiences in a regular series of talks and discussions, film screenings and live art performances, all alongside family activities, schools and widening participation projects led by artists.

During 2008/2009, Camden Arts Centre's programme featured a strong selection of artists from Britain and abroad, including specially commissioned work from, amongst others, Claire Barclay, Anya Gallaccio and Allen Ruppersberg.

Over the course of the year Camden Arts Centre runs public events including talks and debates, live-art performances, film screenings and family open days.

The building
Camden Arts Centre is a Grade II listed building sited in the London Borough of Camden
London Borough of Camden
In 1801, the civil parishes that form the modern borough were already developed and had a total population of 96,795. This continued to rise swiftly throughout the 19th century, as the district became built up; reaching 270,197 in the middle of the century...

, London
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, England
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, between the areas of Hampstead
Hampstead
Hampstead is an area of London, England, north-west of Charing Cross. Part of the London Borough of Camden in Inner London, it is known for its intellectual, liberal, artistic, musical and literary associations and for Hampstead Heath, a large, hilly expanse of parkland...

 and Kilburn. It is the largest arts centre
Arts centre
An art centre or arts center is distinct from an art gallery or art museum. An arts centre is a functional community centre with a specific remit to encourage arts practice and to provide facilities such as theatre space, gallery space, venues for musical performance, workshop areas, educational...

 venue in North London.

The venue began as the Hampstead Arts Centre in 1965, part of the former 1897 Hampstead public library
Public library
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. It was taken over by the local council in 1967 and renamed the Camden Arts Centre. It ran courses for artists, and also showed artworks. Exhibitions in the larger galleries were the responsibility of the Arkwright Arts Trust, and these were often ambitious and of well-known artists. These aspects of the centre moved away, along with most of the local artists who had frequented the Centre, to become the Hampstead School of Art in 1992.

The original venue reopened as an Arts Council arts centre, after a £4.2 million makeover, in January 2004.

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