Arts based approaches
Using art is a core element of the Partnership’s approach.
Art helps people to really engage with the issues and explore things from a different perspective. It provides a relaxed, non-confrontational (and fun!) platform from which to work and is therefore an ideal way to engage with disadvantaged and vulnerable people who may not otherwise open up.
Art can transform and can turn the most difficult consultation into a truly empowering experiencing and it gives a voice to those who often go unnoticed. Above all it puts positive experiences into the most difficult, impoverished and often traumatised lives.
We know that creativity and the use of the Arts is one of our most successful methods of intervention and working with young people, as demonstrated by the depth and variety of our projects over the past few years.
Something Brilliant at the barn
Our new arts section Something Brilliant at the barn is now live ! The new resource captures all the findings/ideas from our recent creative Barnstorming day in March and will be of benefit to anyone interested in working creatively
with vulnerable groups. Watch a clip of this day
“One of the things I really like about the Partnership is that
it does that really difficult work but with an interesting edge”
Ian Blair (Lord Blair of Boughton), Chair of Thames Valley Partnership
Supporting young people on the edge
We support young people in a variety of ways and in collaboration with a wide spectrum of partners. Take a look at the sort of work we have been involved with.
Transit Dance Project
An example of the way we work is our ‘Transit’ Youth Dance Project. “Dancing is like marching, you have to be in the right step in the right time.” If [...]
Moving Forward
The Partnership has recently embarked upon a new piece of work, supported by LankellyChase, around young people who have experience in some way of domestic abuse and may subsequently have [...]
Developing the Arts
We continue to explore, support and evaluate a number of different arts projects in the future.
Working with victims of domestic abuse
Creative activity is immensely absorbing and rewarding. It can often be the key that opens the door on a brighter and more hopeful future, helping women to change their futures. [...]
Family Matters & the Arts
We have supported our Family Matters programme and have worked in Aylesbury Young Offender Institution, Reading Prison and in the community. Our work in Reading supported Ballads of Reading Jail – [...]
Community payback
Our Hidden Garden project built on the close link forged between The West Wing Arts centre in Slough and Thames Valley Probation under the unpaid work schemes. The project offered [...]
Community projects
We have brokered a number of projects set in the community: QuarreTiles in Aylesbury, Changing Walls in South Bucks and Gener8 in Newbury.QuarreTiles. Our community project in Quarrendon Aylesbury has [...]
Publications for Arts Based Approaches
- Art & Community Safety - An Evaluation of the Community Arts Programme (Feb 2005)
- Art of the Possible – Achieving Change Through Creative Practice (2006) – A pictorial Conference reminder
- SROI – Measurement for the Future – An Evaluation of the Urban Beatz project 2007
- Tales from the Riverbank - A write-up up of the 2007 Lifecrafts Conference by Richard Ings
- Phat Kanz Street Art Support Pack for Young Artists
- Phat Kanz Street Art Support Pack for Support Workers
(Note – these files are very large- you will require Acrobat Reader version 6 or later to read them; if you wish to print you will need to select the “fit to paper” option in Acrobat Reader).
- Runners Support Pack - Designed to accommpany the Runners dvd which looks at the sensitive and difficult issue of young people becoming involved in drug dealing. Dvd copies can be obtained from judy@thamesvalleypartnership.org.uk
