Community Music and Storytelling

I have worked as a community artist for over 20 years and developed, managed and delivered small and large scale projects in:

• Care homes

• Hospices

• Hospitals and acute mental health units

• Special schools

• Community groups

• Mainstream schools

• Nurserys and early years settings

Over this time I have specialised in the following areas:

• Elders, dementia and end of life care

• Autism, Learning Disability

• People at risk of marginalisation and social isolation

Previous long term collaborators include RDASH (Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber NHS), Doncaster and Bassetlaw NHS Foundation Trust.

Ethics

As a community artist I believe that creativity and the arts are a unique forum to foster wellbeing and social inclusion. My work is underpinned by community music practice, Social Pedagogy (www.thempra.org.uk), rapport-based communication (Laurie 2021) and person-centred arts.

Please get in touch if you’d like to discuss a future collaboration.