Ragged Edge Productions is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation and is governed by a board of trustees.
Previous work includes Artistic Director of Kirkgate Arts & Heritage, programming the Kirkgate Arts & Community Centre in Cockermouth and managing Arts Out West, the rural touring scheme for West Cumbria. Also: Creative Producer for Lancaster LitFest; Director of North West Playwrights (script-writer development agency) for many years; and leading the creation of the Northern Actors’ Centre. He has also worked as an actor, director and radio journalist/producer.
Chris sits on the Board of the National Rural Touring Forum, and is a Town Councillor for Cockermouth.
Originally trained as a painter, British artist Celia Burbush became C-Art Cumbrian Artist of the Year in 2017, won her episode in BBC’s inaugural series of ‘Home is Where the Art Is’; and received critical appraisal in Joshua Sofaer’s book Performance, Objects, Participation’ (eds. Mock, R & Paterson, M, 2020, Intellect Live). Most recently, she co-created The Baltic Centre of Contemporary Art’s first remote outdoor art trail and hosted their first online symposium in 2021. She was Director of New Arts North 2009-2019, receiving many funding awards for her community art projects and working with major cultural venues.
Celia is also currently a doctoral researcher with Manchester conducting practice-based research concerning processual elements of community art practice.