We are D6: Culture in Transit, visual arts producers with a rooted local presence and established international reach. Our work is co-produced with artists and partners and focused on societal issues that concern and connect us. Through artistic exchange and commissions, we draw threads between communities of difference and explore international common ground with partners across continents.
New ideas, understanding and exchange, lie at the heart of what we do. We support artists whose practice as research represents an exploration of society at the intersection of migration, environmental sustainability, gender, social justice, race, institutional practice and decolonisation. We build relationships, practice and programmes with rigour, care and generosity, creating spaces to enable a deeper understanding of multiple lived experiences and perspectives.
New ideas, understanding and exchange, lie at the heart of what we do. We support artists whose practice as research represents an exploration of society at the intersection of migration, environmental sustainability, gender, social justice, race, institutional practice and decolonisation. We build relationships, practice and programmes with rigour, care and generosity, creating spaces to enable a deeper understanding of multiple lived experiences and perspectives.
News
Artists SELECTED for belongingD6 and partners are delighted to announce the artists selected to take part in a new virtual exhibition. Belonging will showcase seven newly selected artists and four artists from recent ACT residencies.
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national tour for pEnguinTaking audiences on a journey from Syria to Gateshead, we’re delighted to announce Hamzeh Al Hussien’s remarkable debut Penguin begins its UK tour this September, starting in Newcastle.
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WELCOME TO OUR NEW ASSOCIATE ARTISTSWe welcome Dawn Felicia Knox, Amak Mahmoodian and Lucy Nychai to D6 as our new Associate Artists. They join us to influence and shape the direction of our visual arts programme.
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CURRENT programme
ARtists connecting in transitionArtists Connecting in Transition (ACT) is a new programme of international residencies connecting displaced artists in the UK, Turkey and Jordan and addressing the challenges of artistic practice in exile.
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(RE)GroundingA new residency programme between D6 and IZOLYATSIA (Ukraine). (Re)Grounding explores the social, political and environmental injustices of the climate crisis, asking what must be done to bring about the drastic change needed.
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SANCTUARY AND CULTURESanctuary and Culture seeks to support artists with lived experience of displacement, and build the capacity of the local cultural sector.
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OPPORTUNITIESWe offer regular opportunities through residencies, commissions, collaborations, internships and partnerships. Click here to find out more
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Images: Hamzeh Al Hussien performing Penguin | Henna Asikainen, Future Pasts. Photo: Simone J Rudolphi | Lucy Nychai, Systems of Defence. Photo: Matt Denham | Henna Asikainen, Future Pasts. Photo: Saya Rose Media | Zariq Rosita-Hanif in performance at the Star and Shadow for ACT. Photo: Amelia Read | Henna Asikainen, Future Pasts. Photo: Celia Medina | (Dearly) Beloved, Akeelah Betram, performance for Contested Desires. Photo: Jorge Pereira