About Critics Club
Critics Club is an ongoing project originally developed by Three Rivers and The White Pube ( Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad) in 2021. The first cohort of Community Critics were Janice Aribisala, Valentina Simion Craciun, Maria Northwood, Nicole Omotoye, Agnes Otuedon and Dani Tagen.
About Three Rivers
Three Rivers is a creative action research programme bringing local people and partners together to work out how we can use art to make a difference in Bexley. We collaborate with the people who live, work and study here, to produce festivals, run radio stations, become art critics and stitch quilts. We want to create a new way of making culture in Bexley, by empowering local people to make it themselves.
About Worms
Worms is a print publishing platform showcasing the work of under-represented writers working in underground publishing. Worms Magazine is a literary style magazine that celebrates female and non-binary writer culture whilst Worms Publishing works across form and genre to bring experimental writers to the literary top-soil.
About the Creative Maintenance Allowance
Our Creative Maintenance Allowance (CMA) is available to community collaborators working with us for three or more consecutive sessions on a project. The rate is based on the current London Living Wage of £11.95. CMA is inspired by the Educational Maintenance Allowance that supported students and those undertaking unpaid work-based learning in England between 2004 and 2010. It aims to value community members' skills and knowledge fairly, as well as recognise that participation in free art activity still has a cost involved particularly during a cost-of-living crisis