NW Live Arts, London
In 2023 I was asked to join NW Live Arts as Participation Manager and lead facilitator. I was incredibly excited to join Caroline and her team, and to boost the profile and scope of NWLA’s social outreach projects.
Each outreach project worked concurrently with the preparation and rehearsal of incredible live concerts, featuring musicians from around the world. My workshops were imbedded into the community surrounding the venue selected for the concert, such as St John’s Waterloo and Cecil Sharp House in Camden, and we invited particpants to join from organisations such as Write to Life (Freedom from Torture), Crisis, Women for Refugee Women and local homeless charities. I also invited several young musicians from the Guildhall School to join in project as part of their training in workshops skills.
Each project resulted in incredible, origical music often intertwined with poetry and spoken words, and I was humbled by the generosity of spirit and creativity of the participants
I was also really excited to put together a handbook articulating our philosophies, practices and methodologies, and to have an opportunity to more deeply consider our evaluative and reflective frameworks. It’s organisations like NW Live Arts who are helping to keep pushing the remit and the quality of the socially engaged arts projects that we do, and it was wonderful to be a part of it.
You can read more about NW Live Arts here.
