In 2025, Grand Union Arts is celebrating its 15th Birthday! It is shaping up to be a brilliant year for us so far…
Harvest Dinner, ‘Congregation: Creating Dangerously’, Growing Project and Alberta Whittle, Grand Union, Birmingham Festival 2022. Image by Nina Baillie.
We’re so pleased to announce that after many years of hard work, we’ve officially secured our new building and home, Junction Works! We have also received crucial support from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s Art Fund programme.
Grand Union opened in Digbeth in 2010, when it was the first cultural organisation to move into Minerva Works, a place which has since become a vibrant hub of artistic and cultural activity, such as Digbeth First Friday. During the last 15 years, Grand Union has developed into a wide-reaching community of people and stakeholders and thinks critically about how a cultural organisation can work with its community in the city context, to create social, economic and environmental change.
Junction Works, and our recent Paul Hamlyn Award, is a lifeline for Grand Union amidst a challenging time for the arts sector, in particular for those based in Digbeth. The intensive regeneration of this part of the city is seeing rents rapidly rising against a context of decreasing arts funding, so this support ensures our continued ability to build community through long-term artistic and regenerative practice.