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Projects facilitated by Restorative Arts UK 2007 / 08 - BBC Blast - Commissioned to holistically design and project manage Blast on Tour events across the UK, which offer opportunities for young people to develop a range of creative skills and produce their own content with guidance from industry professionals during free participatory workshops (film, music dance, drama, digital Arts etc.).
2006 - ITV “Kyle’s Academy” Commissioned to facilitate participatory drama workshops with five participants dealing with a range of emotional challenges. The venue was the stage at the Prince of Wales Theatre, Leicester Square. Jeremy Kyle presented a two-week series of different approaches used to help people build their self-esteem, confidence and positive decision making processes.
2005 - "Your Story" (Children who Foster - Portsmouth Social Services) - A one day Intensive Restorative programme. Using Music and Drama as tools to create a safe, stimulating and relevant environment for children to contemplate and visualise their perspectives and experiences of Fostering.
2004 - "Untold Stories" (Melbourne, Australia) - A six week drama, music and visual arts programme working with young men in Melbourne and Malmsbury Juvenile Justice Centres in conjunction with the Victoria YMCA. The participants developed themes on freedom and exclusion to create a devised performance of fictional stories, songs and an interactive play.
2004 - NAYJ (National Association of Youth Justice) - Restorative Arts UK were invited again to facilitate two workshops for practitioners to highlight the long term benefits of the company's progressive work.
2004 - IMB (Independent Monitoring Board for Prisons and Immigration Removal Centres) - Restorative Arts UK was commissioned to present an interactive plenary session at the conference on the use of Arts within the Criminal Justice System for 450 delegates.
2003 - "Your Voice" (Nigerian Rainforest) - Building positive relationships and creating awareness of mental health issues with local villages, manic schizophrenics and young offenders in a large scale collaborative arts event in the Nigerian Rainforest.
2003 - "Choices" (HMYOI Thorn Cross) -Commissioned participatory drama. music and visual arts film project exploring participants ideas and perspectives of exclusion and prejudice through structured workshops. The participants devised, produced, performed, filmed and directed "Choices" for the benefit of new inductions into the YOI environment as part of a wider on going programme. The group wanted to acknowledge the negative effects of bullying and highlight the choices available to those who feel isolated and powerless in such an institution.
The film depicts the possible causes and effects of bullying upon young men at Young Offender Institution's (YOI's). It is the product of twelve workshops with a group of twenty young men at HMYOI Thorn Cross, where we facilitated our Responsibility, Empathy and Tolerance (RET) process to engage the young men to contemplate and envisage the consequences of their behaviour on those around them.
We believe the film is a positive indication of the level and quality of work Restorative Arts UK are dedicated to achieve. The Youth Justice Board nominated the video for an award and they have requested an article to be published in the YJB newsletter highlighting the positive and proactive work facilitated by Restorative Arts UK.
2003 - NAYJ (National Association of Youth Justice) - Restorative Arts UK were invited to facilitate two workshops for practisioners to highlight the long term benefits of the company's progressive work.
2002/3 - "The Denied" (LIPA) - A participatory music and drama project facilitated, organised and directed by members of Restorative Arts UK. It was a nation wide first time event and we worked with a range of participants from HMP Liverpool, HMYOI Thorn Cross and Merseybank Bail Hostel facilitating drama, expressive writing and visual arts workshops over a period of three months.
Itwas an all day event, which was situated in The Paul McCartney Auditorium at The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts and comprised of interactive art installations created by participants from HMP Liverpool (BIG HOUSE ARTS) and HMYOI Thorn Cross during the day.
The climax of the day was a live satellite link with two way audio between Merseybank Bail Hostel and The Paul McCartney Auditorium stage showing a devised performance created by residents of the hostel. The day ended with an 'In conversation with…' Professor James McGuire a leading criminologist and The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts Chief Executive and Principal Mark Featherstone-Witty. The role of the arts within Criminal Justice was discussed and questions were taken from the 200 strong audience.
2001/2 Participatory drama, visual arts and music workshops with offenders at: -
Participatory drama devising workshops with children and young people at: -
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