creative:connection
creative:connection is our award-winning project that tackles disability prejudice. We bring together disabled and non-disabled young people with our professional artists to create visual art, music, film and more.
Arts activities have been shown to affect people positively by improving social skills, sensory perception, emotional regulation and more (see WHO report, ‘What is the evidence on the role of the arts in improving health and well-being?’).
The Centre for Excellence and Outcomes’ ‘Improving the Wellbeing of Disabled Children’ report identifies numerous benefits of taking part in creative activities: “Playing and interacting in inclusive activities and settings helps disabled young people’s social development, particularly in terms of their understanding of peer culture; they can allow disabled young people to learn and develop skills; they can also promote [their] sense of belonging to their local community.”
Disabled people’s access to such activities, however, is limited, with barriers including lack of opportunity, inaccessible provision, exclusion from popular culture and financial cost. Research has shown that disabled people are significantly less likely to participate in cultural, leisure and sporting activities than non-disabled people.
Create is committed to redressing this balance and challenging this inequity.
Click below to find out about our projects with disabled children and adults.
changing:minds
changing:minds is a three-year project that uses art, dance, music and drama to enable disabled schoolchildren in the London Borough of Harrow to think about the environment and our impact on it.
More Creative
Create has delivered More Creative since 2008, bringing together disabled adults with schoolchildren to break down barriers, build new skills and develop shared understanding.
creative:discovery
creative:discovery is our multi-arts project empowering adults living with mental ill health and/or emotional issues.
environment:matters
environment:matters is our project providing SEND children with access to high-quality creative arts workshops exploring the theme of “the environment”.
environment:tales
environment:tales is our multi-artform project with neurodivergent children, exploring the theme of “the environment”, inspired by the speeches featured in Greta Thunberg’s 2019 book “No One Is Too Small To Make A Difference”.
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