Our work
We provide inclusive arts workshops for any age group to increase wellbeing and develop participation, access, or craft. We use arts-based activity to bring people together. We have exciting connections with local and national institutions, including: The National theatre, Saatchi Gallery, Flourish and Playhouse Creatures New York, as well as good working relationships with local providers like Volunteer Centre and ADKC.
Workshops we’ve been involved with have been poetry, sculpture, music, film, or fine art. If you have a need, or a story to develop, we can help. We’re interested in producing new theatre work if it includes community at its’ centre and can demonstrably improve wellbeing and decrease isolation.
We run LGBTQIA+ specific arts groups, we have masterclass opportunities with industry experts for creatives, we organise Panel-led debates, provide experiential and participatory theatre making, play reading groups, online creative writing classes and even festivals.
During August we have two taster sessions, in collaboration with We Start and WCC.
At our ‘community play readings’ we invite community members to read a play, in front of a live audience, sitting alongside professional actors and supported by musicians and specialist performers.
Our first Well Played co-produced event was ‘Execution Of Justice’ which was a celebration of LGBTQIA+ history and culture. The evening featured special guest and American Hall of Fame inductee, the writer Emily Mann, who spoke to the audience and facilitated local writing workshops to a number of groups. This event-type can be adapted to many spaces and has previously featured free community meals, panel-led discussions, Drag hosts and spoken word poetry performances. Actors involved on ‘EOJ’ included Nina Wadia, Marc Elliott, Talitha Wing and Joseph Rodriguez.