Creative Community

http://www.nexusartcafe.com/

Nexus is a creative community space in the heart of the city centre.

We opened in September 2005 as a joint initiative between the Methodist & Anglican church. Working in partnership with local council, police, bars & clubs Nexus was able to open as a night café on Saturday nights. Between 2-6am every week, the night café offers a safe space for folks making their way home after a night out. By providing a warm, friendly, fun place and taxi ordering service, we hope we can reduce the problems of bogus taxis and alcohol related crime.

As a result of people coming to the night café, Nexus has been able to develop in other ways. We opened as a full time, not-for-profit cafe in 2008 which has allowed us to foster a completely unique environment where people from all ages, social backgrounds and abilities can gather to explore, reflect and create together on their own terms as well as through our lively participatory arts programme. We host around six exhibitions per year that we invite members of our community to submit work for, have an artist in residence scheme, and we work with all kinds of people on all sorts of one off events, workshops and productions, from gigs to theatre productions.

We also facilitate the work of local grassroots organisations and local groups and work with our users towards sustainable community development projects. Much of this is only made possible by the time, dedication and talent of our volunteers. We have a great volunteer programme that aims to train, develop and continuously support individuals enrolled.

We are a charity- please support our work. You can make a donation by contacting us atsupport@nexusartcafe.com. (HMRC Gift Aid number X65308)