About Odd Arts
Odd Arts deliver issue-based creative programmes with vulnerable and excluded groups.
We work within: Criminal Justice; Education; Community; Mental Health
Odd Arts Aims:
Reduce-risk of (re) offending
Build more cohesive and safer communities
Improve mental well-being including increased confidence and self-worth
Improve work-based skills through accreditation, communication-skills and therapeutic learning
Increase access and engagement to arts and culture for disadvantaged groups
Values:
Empowerment and enrichment for all
Passion for arts and social justice
Freedom to explore new ideas and create
Equality of expression for all staff and stakeholders
Learning from and within everything we do
A restorative and strengths-based approach
Outputs:
Issue-based drama and creative social-action projects (film, creative writing, theatre, visual arts) - responding to the needs of the people we are working with
Therapeutic theatre programmes (usually in prisons and other secure institutions)
Interactive, issue-based theatre performances (including radicalisation, exploitation, domestic abuse, self-harm, sexual assault)
All of our theatre programmes are underpinned by non-violent communication, restorative approaches and are trauma informed.
Key focus areas:
Mental Health
Violence Reduction
Community Cohesion
Our programmes are delivered in schools, communities, hospitals and prisons, in the health, education and predominantly criminal justice sector.
www.oddarts.co.uk
char@oddarts.co.uk
Odd Arts Registered charity number 1182477
