So what is Creative Advocacy?
Pretty much what it says on the tin.
We work creatively with groups who are 'labelled' as vulnerable and/or excluded from society. At present we work exclusively with adults, but that is only because this is where our skills and experience lie.
As creative 'advocates' we see our role as facilitating people to be creative and speaking up for the rights of all to access creativity in whatever form they choose.
We have undertaken projects with groups with Learning Disabilities, a range of Physical Disabilities, Mental Health Issues and other socially excluded groups.
We are currently working on practical and theoretical projects with the aim of bridging the gap between policy and practice and achieving praxis in our activity.
Our focus is on creativity as a basic human need - being creative is an important part of health and well-being and yet often inaccessible to those groups we work with. They may be offered 'therapy' but therapy does not go all the way to addressing a healthy creative being - imagine if you were only allowed to write, play music, paint as part of a 'therapy' group. We appreciate the value of therapy but feel that too often it is used either as a 'sticking plaster' approach to tick policy boxes, and therefore becomes a 'label' in and of itself.
We want to move beyond labels, to give people creative opportunities for and of themselves. As this site develops we'll show you some of our past successes and some of our ideas for the future as well as confronting some of the barriers in the place of achieving creative access for all.
We work creatively with groups who are 'labelled' as vulnerable and/or excluded from society. At present we work exclusively with adults, but that is only because this is where our skills and experience lie.
As creative 'advocates' we see our role as facilitating people to be creative and speaking up for the rights of all to access creativity in whatever form they choose.
We have undertaken projects with groups with Learning Disabilities, a range of Physical Disabilities, Mental Health Issues and other socially excluded groups.
We are currently working on practical and theoretical projects with the aim of bridging the gap between policy and practice and achieving praxis in our activity.
Our focus is on creativity as a basic human need - being creative is an important part of health and well-being and yet often inaccessible to those groups we work with. They may be offered 'therapy' but therapy does not go all the way to addressing a healthy creative being - imagine if you were only allowed to write, play music, paint as part of a 'therapy' group. We appreciate the value of therapy but feel that too often it is used either as a 'sticking plaster' approach to tick policy boxes, and therefore becomes a 'label' in and of itself.
We want to move beyond labels, to give people creative opportunities for and of themselves. As this site develops we'll show you some of our past successes and some of our ideas for the future as well as confronting some of the barriers in the place of achieving creative access for all.