Inclusivity and Relevance: Communities
Tip: Directly answer the prompts from the guidance doc: Tell us who you want to reach with this project, how you have identified them, and how they have been involved in the planning and/or creative process.
Tip: Directly answer the prompts from the guidance doc: Tell us about the steps will you take to make sure your project is open and accessible to people within the communities you plan to work with
example answers
This project is created with and for Muslim youth in Corshton, Townbridge and Erlingstoke. We worked with youth groups, local mosques, PSHE leads in local schools and IM15 support services to engage young people in development workshops and the project came from ideas shared in those initial workshops. We have since established a IM15Youth advisory group who will work alongside us to deliver the project and support audience engagement. They will also be advising on making sure the project is open for their peers. Suggestions so far have included…
3 key communities: 1.Young men 18-25 in Langton 2.Young adults with CR syndrome 3. Health professionals.
Identified through previous R&D, steering group (see partners table) and:
1. Outreach workshops, local Facebook groups, Langton College alumni
2. CR Support groups, social media micro-influencers, CR forums
3. Langton Health Trust, CR Society newsletter
Open and accessible thorough:
- A hybrid event with quiet spaces, captioning and BSL interpretation
- Site visit to prospective venues to assess suitability and test accessibility
- Advice from our partners on additional accessibility requirements for the CR community.
We will put in place:
- Extended breaks between workshop sessions…
This project brings together an intergenerational group and so it was important to us to work with young people from the music club but also older people from the retirement home next door throughout the development of the project. We have planned to share the new composition at several stages during the project and the composition itself will include the recordings made with each group and they will be able to share extracts from the digital recording with friends and family, in the run up to the live concerts. This will help to identify and reach potential audiences and also to make the final concerts more accessible as people will feel a sense of ownership and…