participatory arts

How join-in stories for kids are bringing climate action to life

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We’re really pleased to share this blog from the Energy Saving Trust Foundation, reflecting on our Youth Climate Action Fund-supported project. Over two years, we brought together children from three Tameside primary schools, members of our Hearts & Minds group and talented local creatives to explore climate change through storytelling, music and imagination. Together, they

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Planet Exercise: turning lived experience into stories that reach thousands of families and empower those involved

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The brief: helping families understand Parkinson’s and movement through story When we partnered with Parkinson’s UK on Planet Exercise, the brief was clear. Create a story that would help children understand Parkinson’s in a way that felt accessible and not frightening, while showing that movement can play an important role in living well with the

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Double Punishment: Capturing Lived Experiences of Social Care Needs in Prison

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Made By Mortals has been working with researchers and participants on the Empowered Together programme funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), to co-produce research-informed story about autism and social care in prison. The story will be brought to life in a new short film called ‘Double Punishment’. The film will use

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Walking on Eggshells: Ending Male Violence Against Women – Key Learnings

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What happens when you bring together practitioners from safeguarding, education, health, social care and the voluntary sector, and immerse them in stories shaped by lived experience? As our ‘Walking on Eggshells: Ending Male Violence Against Women’ conference showed, you get a day filled with insight, emotional honesty and a renewed sense of purpose. “This was

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The Role of Music in Lived Experience Training: Learning Beyond Words

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he Role of Music in Lived Experience Training: At our recent conference, ‘Walking on Eggshells: Ending Male Violence Against Women’, the learning didn’t rely on slides or written materials. Instead, we brought our participatory arts approach to life with immersive audio stories, film, music, theatre and hands-on workshops. Among all of these, music emerged as

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Utilising Lived Experience in Participatory Arts: Why Creative Approaches Work

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‘Lived experience’ is a term used frequently across the safeguarding and domestic abuse sectors, but meaningful and ethical involvement of those with lived experience can be tricky to get right. At our recent conference, ‘Walking on Eggshells: Ending Male Violence Against Women’, we demonstrated how creative mediums allow lived experience to be central without placing

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