We devise and deliver a wide and diverse range of socially and ecologically engaged projects with partners in cultural, community, rehabilition, reconciliation, education and environmental contexts reaching thousands of people of all ages and backgrounds.

Our first ever project in 2003 was to take over a disused shop in Sheffield and nine shops later these projects continue across the UK.

Our other key programmes have evolved over the years as we broadened the focus of our work from People and Place to People, Place and Planet and as we have expanded to include more practitioners who bring with them their own expertise and passion.

Explore the nine
Themes that
underpin our work...

Since 2003 Encounters have been taking up residence in disused Shops across the UK, working with thousands of people to create evolving, co-authored artworks about the joys and challenges of everyday life.

We take over dis-used shops and re-open them as places for hundreds of local people to exchange memories, stories, ideas, images and experiences about everyday life. more…


An inter-generational food growing and performance project that culminates in a permaculture inspired vegetable garden and a multi-media performance about relationships with the natural world.

Patch of Ground is an inter-generational food growing and performance project about our relationship with the natural world and living more sustainably. more…


Encounters host a programme of events, workshops and conflict resolution processes in the UK for Combatants for Peace (CfP), a grassroots movement of Israeli and Palestinian ex-combatants.

Public events, creative workshops and conflict resolution processes in the UK with (Palestinian and Israeli ex-combatants). A partnership programme with Amnesty International. more…


An opportunity to hone ideas, try out new ones alongside other practitioners. A monthly Encounters Lab for socially and ecologically engaged practice; a place to hone ideas, and explore the fertile edges of this emerging field. more…


Young People Talking is a strand of work which was delivered in collaboration with the Devon Youth Offending Team and other partners within Devon County Young Peoples Service.

The project explored relationship, identity and personal story with young people at risk. A partnership project with Devon Youth Offending Service. more…


We design and deliver a diverse range of One-Off creative interventions ranging in time from a few hours to six months and in scope from a small participatory activity through to a multi-layered project. more…


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