Are you an artist or professional working with young people?
This year in the UK 38,792 children and young people will enter the care system*. In 2023, a total of 83,840 children and young people were looked after**.
This training will explore how creativity can support the wellbeing, personal and educational development of care-experienced children and young people.
Attendees will:
be introduced to the policy / strategic context of the care system;
unpack terminology around care and young people;
discuss the benefits of creative work for care-experienced children and young people;
consider aspects of good practice in working with care-experienced children and young people;
explore practical approaches and creative ideas for the work.
Online Event: This training will take place online using Zoom. You will receive an email with the link. Please note – we do not record the sessions because of the sensitive nature of the topic.
Length: 3 hours
Ticket Cost: For attendees supported by their organisations the full price of a ticket is £40.00 For freelancers and individuals from non-regularly funded organisations attendees the price of a ticket is £30.00 For those on low or no income the ticket price is £18.00. They also have a small number of bursary places available for those with limited funds, please email info@collective-encounters.org.uk Please Note: Ticket sales will end 24 hours before this event is due to start.
Although it’s very important to maintain the distinction between art and therapy, participatory artists are often in positions where they need to support their participants’ mental health. This training is specifically for artists and facilitators and takes a person-centred approach to understanding trauma and incorporating this understanding into your creative practice.
This training will:
Unpick popular perceptions and misuse of language around trauma and PTSD;
Provide an overview of the physiology of trauma and an insight from the perspective of a clinical psychotherapist;
Offer practical tips for creating safe spaces for participants and avoiding practices which may retraumatise participants;
Create a space to explore problem solving using real-life scenarios;
Explore asset-based approaches to understanding trauma within social justice frameworks.
This event is aimed at artists working in communities, theatre-makers and activists interested in using the arts as a tool for positive change.
Online Event: This training will take place online using Zoom. You will receive an email with the link.
**Please note: we do not record the sessions because of the sensitive nature of the topic.
Ticket Cost: For attendees supported by their organisations the full price of a ticket is £55.00 For freelancers and individuals from non-regularly funded organisations attendees the price of a ticket is £35.00 For those on low or no income the ticket price is £18.00 They also have a small number of bursary places available for those with limited funds, please email info@collective-encounters.org.uk * *Please Note: Ticket sales will end 24 hours before this event is due to start.
What’s your dream festival line up? Make your own posters featuring all your favourite musicians in this family friendly printmaking session!
Sun 25 May, 1-1.45pm & 2-2.45pm
With the help of our expert facilitators, you’ll learn all about screen printing, and even be able to pull your own screens to create your own festival posters to take away with you.
They have two sessions available:
Session 1: 1pm – 1.45pm
Session 2: 2pm – 2.45pm
Suitable for all ages
£5 per child, booking required
Join Amanda Huxtable, director of Takeaway, for a workshop on how a play can speak to a people and a place, reflecting her process of directing a piece rooted in Liverpool.
This is a great workshop for aspiring Writers, Directors or anyone just interested in how a play comes together.
The workshop runs from 11:30am – 1pm. If you’d like to see the matinee performance of Takeaway (2:30pm), they have a discount code for those attending the workshop – use promo code TASTY10 for £10 tickets.
No experience needed. Just bring yourself, a notebook and a pen. If you have any access requirements, please let them know, email boxoffice@everymanplayhouse.com or call 0151 709 4776.
Join acclaimed theatre maker Andy Smith and award-winning applied arts practitioner Lynsey O’Sullivan for a day of play, discussion, and action.
This day will see three performances of plays from the ongoing project PLAYS FOR THE PEOPLE: A CITIZENS’ ASSEMBLY, HOW CAN WE BE MORE ANTI-RACIST? and THE ACTIONS. These plays tackle the climate emergency, inequality and political activism. They are plays designed to be read aloud together and then discussed. They are plays where the people in the room play the people in the play. Plays that ask questions of acting in both a theatrical and ethical sense.
Audience-participants for this special event will each be given a copy of a new publication containing the plays. Over the course of the day, through the activity, they will be trained in how to undertake performances themselves. Following it, they can then organise them for their own communities and constituencies, free of any charge.
All are welcome. Lunch will be provided. They’d like people from diverse places to join us – arts and educational institutions, community and grassroots organisations, freelance artists and interested individuals. For this reason, tickets are being offered on a pay what you can afford basis between £15 and £45.
They suggest a price of £15 for freelancers and individuals, £25 for teachers, youth workers and those representing smaller arts organisations, and £45 for participants representing bigger institutions such as arts centres and universities. Please do consider paying what you can, as it will allow us to offer bursary places and support for those who for whatever reason are not able to afford to attend.
At Kook, they enjoy exploring the boundaries of comedy and tragedy – what makes a moment simultaneously beautiful, painful, and funny? How can you challenge yourself to view your work from a different perspective and be courageous enough to tear it down and start anew?
This session will focus on your individual spirit of play and how it integrates into an ensemble dynamic. Sean Kempton, a seasoned performer, director, and teacher with over 30 years of experience, has created and performed work for numerous international companies, including Cirque Du Soleil. Sean has also been a core teacher at the National Centre for Circus Arts.
Participants must be 18+
This workshop will focus on being rather than doing.
Through games & impros, we explore the present moment, connecting with ourselves and others. Embracing innocence & wonder, you’ll embark on a personal journey to discover your unique sense of humour & truthfulness, by listening & being receptive.
Join Culture Liverpool Resident Artist, Dora Colquhoun, at a series of family-friendly workshops exploring the meaning of home.
Dora, and co-facilitator Og the Giant, will be hosting a series of family workshops at Spellow Community Hub and Library. The pair will lead fun creative exercises for attendees of all ages to explore the concept of home.
Dora Colquhoun is a neurodivergent writer, facilitator, performer, and theatre maker. Her original shows (ADHD The Musical, and The Lodger) have both met with rave reviews, and are headed to Edinburgh Fringe this summer. Co-facilitator Og the Giant (AKA Isaac Nixon) is a Liverpool based children’s storyteller, with a wealth of experience working with families to unlock their imagination through play and storytelling.
Together, Dora and Og will deliver these creative workshops for families to explore what home means to them.
Molly Farquhar is your facilitator who is taking her award winning one-woman show, Hairy Bastard, to Edinburgh Fringe this year. She will be on hand to guide you in writing your own solo performance whether it is auto-biographical or fiction.
Sunday 18th May 12.00 to 1400
What to expect:
Finding your Story
Setting the Journey of your character
What should/shouldn’t I share
Adding humour
Giving the light and shade a rhythm
Avoiding the Pitfalls such as self-indulgence.
Cutting and editing your show
Please be on time, wear comfortable clothes and bring a notebook and pen.
Sharon Colpman is your facilitator who has developed this characterisation workshop after her struggles with one very tricky character that hid in the shadows of a play she was writing. It led her to examine what it means to be human and which parts of ourselves do we hide or hold up for examination.
Sunday 4th May at 12.00 to 1400
What to expect:
Finding your character
Setting out the four different aspects of your character with the help of an actor
P typing your character
Evolving a character throughout your play
Putting a character in difficult situations
Please be on time, wear comfortable clothes and bring a notebook and pen.
