Create-Ability: the changing meaning of art and artistry
Gerard Lemos, Create-Ability: the changing meaning of art and artistry (July 2011)
Gerard Lemos reviewed a database of several hundred arts organisation that Lemos&Crane has compiled over many years - it concludes with 10 good reasons to support arts projects working with vulnerable people.
The database included projects engaged in creative writing, storytelling, music making projects, choirs, book clubs, visual arts classes and exhibitions, drama workshops, theatre skills, playwriting and digital arts. From these he selected a range of arts projects to visit, watching and discussing their work, in a range of settings, including a care home for older people, arts centres, a women’s prison, a young offenders’ institution, secondary schools, a training centre, Sadlers Wells and the Albany in Deptford.
Those selected included arts projects promoting literacy, working in prisons, in community centres, in theatres and art galleries, projects which focused on particular client groups such as homeless people, people with mental health problems and prisoners and ex-offenders.
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Lemos & Crane websiteRelated organisations
Clean BreakDance United
Doncaster
Fine Cell Work
Parc
Synergy Theatre
