Organisation Specialism: Drama/Theatre

Creative Community Resettlement

Creative Community Resettlement (CCR) This Greater Manchester community offer provides create support, experiences and opportunities for people facing the greatest level of discrimination and adversity. The project has been funded by Arts Council England and One Manchester, vitally meaning that it is free at the point of use for all it’s beneficiaries.

 

Current referral partners include NW prisons, GM mental health units, housing associations and refugee and asylum seeker charities. Any adult or young person facing additional barriers and disadvantages, or facing mental health challenges is welcome to apply.

 

Aims:

  • To increase a sense of belonging, connection and purpose
  • Improve well-being and mental health
  • Develop protective measures and resilience
  • Encourage work-based and creative skills

 

Objectives:

  • 1-2-1 ‘wellbeing’ theatre workshops
  • Specialist therapeutic theatre programmes (themes: relationships, resilience, communication, mental-health)
  • Training and performing alongside professional artists/facilitators
  • Beneficiary led performances, showcases, films, campaigns
  • Accreditation
  • Paid professional opportunities for all participants

 

CCR wants to challenge the misconception that people who have experienced adversity, trauma and incarceration are ‘other’.

CCR does not think that people who have served custodial orders are the same as people who have been sectioned under the mental health act or the same as people seeking asylum, but it recognises that individuals with any of the previous lived experience are likely to have faced multiple barriers and trauma and require a needs-based, flexible, person-centred, trauma informed and safe approach to working with them.

CCR adopts high quality theatre, arts-practice and arts practitioners, that is also underpinned by therapeutic, trauma-informed, restorative, strengths based and non-violent communication approaches.

CCR is community-led, meaning that the design and practicality of the programme respond to the needs of the people and the communities we work with.

CCR is testing new ways of working and not conforming to the status quo in how people who face experience racism, inequalities, disadvantage and discrimination engage with theatre, arts and culture.

Love and Loss weekend workshop

LOVE & LOSS – WEEKEND WORKSHOP (FACE TO FACE)

Date: March 25 & 26 2023
Time: 10 am – 5 pm
Venue: The Artworks London Bridge, 60A Weston St, SE1 3QP
Cost: £150
A weekend workshop exploring creative and embodied ways of sharing experiences of love and loss through body-based work, performance and storytelling. In 2017 we premiered Total Eclipse, a performance that we produced following the deaths of our mothers. The show uncovers the depth of emotions that can be felt during the grieving process and also at times of significant change and transition.

It’s been a challenging 2 years for many of us involving significant change, transition and loss.

This workshop is an opportunity to explore how you can use Moving Pieces’ integrated approach to reveal, share and help manage these experiences, building skills in a sensitive, relaxed and perhaps surprisingly uplifting weekend.

The Johnny Barlow Theatre Company

The Johnny Barlow Theatre Company has been going for nearly 30 years. It was started by the late Johnny Barlow back in the early 90s, when ‘Friends’ was launched in the US, Tamagotchis became the pet everyone wanted and ‘The Macarena’ became a movement!

Safe to say, Johnny Barlow was well ahead of his time, using drama and music in a therapeutic way to help people recover from mental health illness.

The ethos of group has remained the same in all that time. However, the group have now added social change into the mix. Yes, the group use music and drama to improve their wellbeing, but they are also creating edgy, often hard hitting, always uplifting, original music theatre that brings people together to make a difference.

The work created by The Johnny Barlow Theatre Company gives people with lived experience an opportunity to shape the future of public services. It also gives socially engaged organisations the opportunity to invest in communities wellbeing while gaining much needed insights from ‘real’ people.