ABOUT ENCOUNTERS

Encounters’ recently expanded core creative team is Ruth Ben-Tovim, Teo Greenstreet, Sophie Hunter, Ruth Nutter, Simon Seligman and Ben Yeger. Together we are a group of artists, sustainability innovators, creative educators, cultural translators and change agents.

Drawing on the experience of Encounters and the skills of the expanded core team, we offer creative, participatory processes that enable people to explore new stories to live by on individual, local, city wide and global levels. These stories are then retold to a wider community through exhibitions, public art, performance, publications and uniquely tailor-made events.

Encounters was founded in April 2003 by Ruth Ben-Tovim and Trish O’Shea, Sheffield based interdisciplinary artists who devised a programme of arts projects using disused shop spaces and street based interventions, that involved participation with local residents and the collecting of urban histories.

Encounters’ recent expansion reflects our focus on creating spaces and processes for people from all walks of life to re-look at who and how they are in the world at this time of ecological crisis and opportunity.