We are raising funds to work with people to leave isolation behind through the provision of drama skills and engage with our 20-year social network of local and grassroots artists in the Liverpool City Region.
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Situation
People are more vulnerable to face isolation when facing uncertainty in their everyday lives. This is partly a result of the pandemic, decades of underinvestment in social services and high costs of living. Isolation takes different shapes, for example, when people are seeking a home, young people in the care system feeling alienated, or women leaving violent relationships. People feel isolated when their backgrounds break with 'normality'. They feel out of place, introverted or stigmatised.
Solution
Because isolation happens in communities that are physically, politically and emotionally marginalised, people have little or no interaction with the arts. Through our drama workshops, we bring for the first time many people living in these communities together. People build connections through storytelling and reflecting about their experiences to seek solutions that are unavailable. Through these skills people question ‘normality’, they build self-confidence and begin a new journey.