Get Creative: arts for all

Enabling homelessness services to develop and deliver creative activities

Get creative: arts for all is a national project which aims to increase homeless people’s participation in arts and cultural activities in England, as a sustainable route out of homelessness.  Already leading arts and homelessness organisations have successfully worked in a range of creative and innovative ways, bringing about lasting change for excluded people. For many people the cycle of homelessness is interwoven with complex issues to do with family breakdown, discrimination, drugs and alcohol, mental health issues and offending. Creative activities can help build self-esteem and improve wellbeing, they can provide an opportunity to be part of something and enable people to re build social networks and skills. Creative activities can also provide opportunities to find meaning and inspiration that change the way we think about and understand the world around us.

HOW TO GET INVOLVED

We aim to build the capacity of homelessness agencies to run arts activities for their clients. This may mean supporting agencies to set up activities such as singing, painting, digital photography or creative writing as well as supporting homelessness agencies to build strong and lasting partnerships with artists and arts organisations.

• If you are a Homelessness organisation and want to find out more about how to get support , please read our criteria and offer document.
• If you are an artist or an arts organisation and would like to know more, please read our call-out to artists document. If you would like the details promoted to homelesssness services, please fill in the artists details form and return to Jessica.plant@homelesslink.org.uk

Workshops

We have teamed up with the award winning charity Streetwise Opera  who will present workshops on the successful delivery of arts activities within the homelessness sector. The next workshop will take place in Cambridge on Wednesday June 13th 2012 , for more details, please download the flyer. We will announce more workshop dates throughout 2012. We also want to share good practice and help agencies to network, so please contact me if you any examples of innovative work.
 

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Get Creative: arts for all has been funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.