Resources

A resource for practitioners working at the intersection of arts and social transformation.

Creative Lives works with communities, organisations, policy-makers, funders and creative individuals as a voice for positive change, to improve and expand the landscape in which creative participation can take place. It hosts art-form specific networks, including Theatre.

This academic text explores the process of making contemporary performance in social contexts. Nicola Shaughnessy, 2012.

Creativity Exchange is an online community where school leaders, teachers and those working and interacting with schools can embed teaching for creativity and learn from each other.

Documentary film from the civil rights movement exploring how the arts might be used to awaken pride in Black culture and as a means to develop Black consciousness. Dir. Woodie King Jr, 1978

Innovations in Socially Distant Performance is a project which studies the aesthetics, philosophies, tools, and artists who are transforming the fields of virtual live performance and socially distant productions. This continually updated website is a place to create community, share information, inspire invention, and document the expanding art form, with an emphasis on sharing the tools and techniques of a reimagined trade.

A collection of the most significant plays/performances written and performed in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and among their diasporas since 2000.

Part of a UK wide cultural programme inspiring urgent and inclusive action on climate change, this is a digital collection of tips, case studies and resources to help people use the arts and culture to work for a more sustainable future.

Meanwhile In An Abandoned Warehouse is a fortnightly podcast featuring interviews, conversations and opinion an all things community, participatory and applied arts with four years of back episodes available to view.