Participation

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.

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.

Originally an exhibition, now an archive exploring Black British performance histories via archives, arts and heritage education.

Future Histories is an independent archive for African, Asian and Performing Arts in the UK.

This is the first scholarly book to focus exclusively on theatre and learning disability as theatre, rather than advocacy or therapy and realigns the - hitherto unvoiced - assumptions that underpin such practice and proposes that learning disabled artists have earned the right to full critical review. Matt Hargrave, 2015.