Tell me more about ECDP and your commissions

About Essex Cultural Diversity Project (ECDP)

Since 2007 Essex Cultural Diversity Project has been bringing together artists, museums, libraries, performers and writers with local authorities and commissioners to improve and enhance artistic and cultural diversity, ensure that excellence is thriving, and that cultural integration and understanding is supported through arts and cultural activity. ECDP is an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation (NPO) working across the East of England to support diversity in arts and cultural practice. ECDP has a key role to explore the concept of ‘diversity’ across the East of England and beyond, working with a wide range of partners and providing opportunities for artists and creative practitioners from diverse backgrounds and contexts. Through our commissioning programme ECDP supports the production of challenging work that responds to specific places and the local context, as well as reflecting on national themes and issues around diversity.

You can get a good overview of our past and present commissions at https://essexcdp.com/commissions/