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(Consent and Healthy Relationships) An emotive, interactive theatre experience exploring consent and sexual assault. The PlayA hard-hitting performance and workshop using professional actors and facilitators to explore issues around consent, sexual boundaries, and assault. The play invites participants to intervene, reflect, and practise responses to complex real-life situations. The safety and wellbeing of participants are…
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(Mental Health) A powerful, interactive theatre experience tackling youth mental health, exploring anxiety, depression, self-harm, and suicide, and using performance and workshops to inspire support, help-seeking, and positive wellbeing. The PlayA thought provoking performance exploring the struggles between three friends at college, each facing different personal challenges and struggling to ask for help or talk…
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(Cyber-bullying) A powerful, interactive theatre experience exploring cyber-bullying The PlayA hard-hitting performance exploring cyber-bullying, including phones, specifically the use of phones, social media and AI as tactics to cause distress and harm through bullying. This is an interactive play where participants are given the opportunity to intervene and test out being an active participant in…
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(Knife crime) A powerful, interactive theatre experience exploring knife crime and community violence amongst young people. The PlayA hard-hitting performance exploring violence involving teenagers and young adults in the community (specifically knife-related incidents). Participants use the interactive play to explore early intervention to prevent violence and knife crime. This performance was co-developed and co-written by…
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(Radicalisation) A powerful, interactive theatre experience exploring hateful extremism and radicalisation. The PlayA hard-hitting performance exposing complex societal issues linked to the far right and International or faith-based extremism. Participants then use the play to explore solutions and early intervention to prevent hate and harm escalating. 💬 Themes Include: Primary school version available Cost: £800/half…
Read MoreOdd Arts Annual Report 2024-2025
“This year has felt overwhelming for many, with world conflict & injustice impacting the way people experience the everyday. Odd Arts has tried to provide spaces that challenge, hold safety, and open up discussions that otherwise feel shut down. We have also worked in more prisons than ever, and are proud to have played a role in offering people who are locked up in increasingly challenging prison environments – with the space to connect, create, and hopefully re-build self-worth. Incredibly, in Jan 2024 we reached our 20th year!
Read MoreOdd Arts Annual Report 2023-2024
“This year has felt overwhelming for many, with world conflict & injustice impacting the way people experience the everyday. Odd Arts has tried to provide spaces that challenge, hold safety, and open up discussions that otherwise feel shut down. We have also worked in more prisons than ever, and are proud to have played a role in offering people who are locked up in increasingly challenging prison environments – with the space to connect, create, and hopefully re-build self-worth. Incredibly, in Jan 2024 we reached our 20th year!
Read MoreOdd Arts Annual Report 2022-2023
This year we have continued to build on the themes that matter so deeply to us: Overcoming hate, discrimination & racism; reducing violence (in its many forms); celebrating unheard stories; and mental health.
We have seen an increased demand for our work and the complexity that can come with it. In the ‘post covid’ era we see increased inequalities, a cost of living crisis and a huge strain on funding across the sector. Thanks to our most dedicated, talented and compassionate staff and freelance team, we have continued to find creative solutions to ensure we maintain the most meaningful and high quality experience for the people we serve.
Read MoreOdd Arts Annual Report 2021-2022
It’s once again hard to know where to start with summing up the last year for Odd Arts. Like everyone, we had to continue to be flexible & resilient to overcome the ongoing hurdles & unpredictability that the world kept throwing at us. The creative solutions we responded with have enabled us to deliver some of our most innovative & forward thinking practices & projects to date.
Read MoreHow Odd Arts unlocks creativity to empower young children
Odd Arts delivers issue-based creative programmes for vulnerable and excluded groups. The company uses specialist applied theatre and creative techniques to address and explore contentious and challenging issues. Our focus is on developing a learning environment which both enables young people’s creativity, critical thinking and empathy as well as helping them to develop understanding and resilience to negotiate complex life challenges.
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