Joe Mackintosh

Joe Mackintosh is the Artistic Director and CEO of Out There Arts – a National Centre for Outdoor Arts and Circus based in Great Yarmouth on the East Coast of England. Joe has built the organisation over 25 years. The work of Out There includes the Out There International Festival of Street Arts and Circus, The Drill House Creation Centre, Artists Housing, the Ice House, Local, National and International partnerships for creation, touring and community participation, and a wide range of year-round events that engaged 120,000 people In Real Life in the last year.

Great Yarmouth is a disadvantaged area and Out There has a strong emphasis on socio-economic regeneration, community empowerment, and growing participation and engagement with those otherwise least engaged in Culture including the large diverse migrant community in the neighbourhood around the Drill House. Out There was largely grown through International Work including 23 EU projects between 2007 and 2021. Post-Brexit, Internationalism through Reciprocation remains central to the organisation’s mission.