Start planning

Get started planning your own Imaginarium! To support you, we’ve developed great free resources, including a planning checklist and bookable Imaginarium Event Kit.

Your quick start guide

To begin

Be guided by the ‘Recipe For An Imaginarium’ principles (see below) as you begin making plans for your event.
Check out and book the Imaginarium Event Kit for brilliant physical props, provocations, equipment and materials. The kit can be borrowed free of charge, though donations are welcome. To book, please check the Imaginarium Event Kit Calendar to see when the toolkit is in use, and email with your preferred date.
Access step-by-step guidance on planning an Imaginarium in the Planning Checklist.
Think about how to turn imagination into action with our spark action resources.
Before your event, email to agree a time to pick-up the Imaginarium Event Kit from the CCF office. You’ll be asked to complete our Loan Agreement form.
Once the big day arrives, make sure you enjoy it and soak it all in!
After your event let us know how it went by completing our Imaginarium Host’s Feedback Form.

Optional: Professional creative support is an option if you are in a position to employ CCF’s Imaginarium Artist in Residence Hilary Cox Condron for the day, or longer. Contact us to find out more. Please note, you’ll need to confirm Hilary’s availability separately to booking the Event Kit.

“I was thrilled to see how the Imaginarium enabled people engage with such an important topic in wonderfully creative ways. Our community always inspires me with their creative responses to nature and climate, and I hope the event has enabled new ideas and conversations to continue.”

David Cain, Cambridge Festival Manager, University of Cambridge

poss imaginarium pic for website Andrew Wilkinson

Poss Imaginarium pic for website Andrew Wikinson

Recipe for an Imaginarium

An Imaginarium

Recipe

Be the change you want to see and model inclusivity, kindness, environmental awareness and creativity as you concoct your Imaginarium.
An Imaginarium welcomes everybody, recognising that whatever age or background, everyone has experience, local knowledge, stories or ideas and visions that are all equally important as people imagine a better future and consider the actions needed to get there. Together.
An Imaginarium is a tantalising and provocative space inviting people without urgency or expectation, to be playful and imaginative.
An Imaginarium recognises that making space and taking time to nurture our collective imagination is a positive action in itself.
An Imaginarium is a free to enter, physically accessible, informal space which is easy to navigate and uses straightforward, non-academic language.
An Imaginarium shares inspiring stories and examples which provoke creativity, conversations and connectivity. It’ll offer many different kinds of communication and involvement: for example: drawing, mapping, chatting, making or just quietly pondering. There will be no wrong answers.
An Imaginarium is sensitive and environmentally gentle – be thoughtful about materials used, travel, infrastructure and minimising waste.
An Imaginarium allows for not knowing what the outcomes will be, or quite how participants will arrive at them. It trusts that wonderful creativity, connections and ideas will emerge. They always do.

“The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.”

John Maynard Keynes, Economist

Son of Cambridge’s first female City Councillorand Founder of The Arts Council and Cambridge’s Arts Theatre.

Start planning

Get started planning your own Imaginarium! To support you, we’ve developed great free resources, including a planning checklist and bookable Imaginarium Event Kit.

Your quick start guide

To begin

Recipe for an Imaginarium

An Imaginarium

Recipe

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