Funders & Sponsors: Arts Council Lottery; Cheshire West and Chester; Earl of Chester Trust; Cheshire Community Foundation; Blacon Education Village: Avenue Services.
Co-researcher from EHU: Prof Helen Newall
Cultivate
Exploring the benefits of grassroots projects.
Exploring the benefits of grassroots projects.
Cultivate aims to explore the benefit and impact of arts activities in relation to grassroots social projects, with particular focus on community farming schemes in the Northwest.
Co-researchers from EHU: Dr Barnaby King and Dr Victoria Foster
Evaluating Drama-based Crime Intervention: Young People’s Affective Engagement with Performance
This project explored how theatre can support young people’s personal and social education and contribute to community safety objectives.
This project explored how theatre can support young people’s personal and social education and contribute to community safety objectives.
This project carried out with the Royal Court Liverpool Trust involved a multi-method approach and included the use of participatory, arts-based methods with young people at Notre Dame Catholic Academy in Liverpool. The work was funded by Liverpool John Moores University and the Rayne Foundation. The project’s dissemination was supported by Edge Hill University’s I4P.
Written by Dr Kim Wiltshire, this piece explores the benefits system and how the creative industries are being utilised through projects to address issues they are not equipped to deal with.
Written by Dr Kim Wiltshire, this piece explores the benefits system and how the creative industries are being utilised through projects to address issues they are not equipped to deal with.
This was a two and a half year project, and funding came from ACE, Lime Arts and Health as well as the Research Investment Fund and support in-kind from Bolton Octagon Theatre.
Kim worked with 31 creatives and artists to make the piece. The idea was to explore what it means to live on benefits, how it feels to live without work, but also how society views the creative industries. Kim also wanted to explore the use of audience participation, to create a sense of a real-time event unfolding in front of the audience.
The play was performed 5 times across North West England and the Midlands in 2017, and published by Aurora Metro theatre.
