Performing Places: working with local councils to reach new communities and facilitate wellbeing in living environments

其重点是扩大影响和参与从以前的研究补助金，表演地方将使用艺术实践，以改善两套人的生活环境在两个需要在英国的地理区域：卡姆登（伦敦）和奥尔德姆（大曼彻斯特）。这些项目的结果将向英国所有地方当局传播和宣传，促进一种新的服务提供模式，以提高复杂生活环境中的健康和福祉。项目参与者将接受地方当局的监督和服务，地方议会将帮助在其提供者框架内协调活动。艺术实践包括一个名为"表演场所"的文化产品，该产品是在以前与艺术组织有联系并通过艺术组织参与的弱势群体进行的实际研究项目中开发和测试的。在该项目的基础上，在这一新的发展中，我们在地方议会内就优先领域进行了协商，他们已经确定了今后需要进行这种工作。将计划两个实际项目，一个在卡姆登，一个在奥尔德姆，艺术领导人和其他部门，心理健康在卡姆登和更强大的社区在奥尔德姆之间的工作。规划和交付期间都将包括与当地理事会代表、主要工作人员和主要艺术家/主持人从业人员以及新的最终用户合作。 在卡姆登，我们将在支持生活计划的至少一个理事会拥有的区域工作，在那些需要“垫脚石”支持的建筑物中，以更独立地生活，其文化参与也可能处于自治市镇内频谱的低端（这是健康和福祉的指标）。我们将运行15个基于住宅每周会议，从事成年人与他们的当前和潜在的“地方”。 在奥尔德姆，我们将在克拉克斯菲尔德的病房与长期居民和相对新来的罗姆居民合作，缓解同一当地社区内因不同文化理解而产生的不和谐。这项工作将遵循不同的表演场所实践模式-一周的密集参与，而不是每周的研讨会（如在卡姆登）-并将在2016年夏天进行一周以上。 在项目的规划和交付过程中，我们将与专业的主要促进者合作，遵循和调整上一个项目中使用的模型，“通过在社区环境中的实践来实现“流动”场所的概念”，2011 - 2014年（流动场所）。这些活动将包括一系列根据日常业务和行为进行的即兴创作和表演活动。没有一个参与者可能是表演者，但这些活动是无威胁的，可访问的，并在可能存在障碍的地方提高文化参与的水平。这是表演场所的一个重要组成部分，它可以被没有特殊技能或表演经验的参与者访问。(See例如www.example.com。） 这两个后续项目的影响和参与情况将根据地方当局的报告正式记录在案，并通过现有网站上的简单网页、三次专题讨论会和一份32页的文件（包括执行摘要）予以传播。这份文件将发送给联合王国400多个地方当局，目的是推广和吸收这种做法，以便在其他优先领域使用。两个研讨会将在伦敦和曼彻斯特举行，邀请所有附近地方当局议会的代表以及全国的代表参加。第三次研讨会将为伦敦艺术论坛的33名成员举行。

With its focus on expanding impact and engagement from a previous research grant, Performing Local Places will use arts practices to improve the living environments of two sets of people in two geographical areas of need in UK: Camden (London) and Oldham (Greater Manchester). Findings from these projects will be disseminated and publicised to all local authorities in the UK, promoting a new mode of service delivery for enhancing health and wellbeing in complex living environments . Project participants will be within the oversight and services of local authorities and councils will be helping to broker the activity within their provider frameworks. The arts practices comprise a cultural product called 'Performing Place' which has been developed and tested in previous practical research projects with vulnerable groups affiliated with, and engaged via, arts organisations. Building on that project, in this new development we have consulted on priority areas within local councils who have identified a future need for such work. Two practical projects will be planned, one in Camden and one in Oldham, working between Arts leaders and other departments, Mental Health in Camden and Stronger Communities in Oldham. Both the planning and delivery period will include working with local council representatives, key workers and leading artist/facilitator practitioners with the new end users. In Camden we will work in at least one Council-owned area of the Supported Living Programme, in buildings that house those with need of 'stepping stone' support to live more independently and whose cultural engagement may also be at the lower end of the spectrum within the Borough (which is an indicator of health and wellbeing). We will run 15 weekly sessions based in the residences, engaging adults with their current and potential 'place'. In Oldham, we will work in the ward of Clarksfield with long-term residents and comparatively newly arrived Roma residents, assuaging disharmonies arising from different cultural understandings within the same local community. This work will follow a different model of Performing Place practice - a week's intensive engagement rather than weekly, workshops (as in Camden) - and will take place over a week in the summer of 2016. In the planning and delivery of the projects, we will work with specialist lead facilitators following and adapting models used in the previous project, 'Challenging concepts of "liquid" place through performing practices in community contexts', 2011-2014 (Challenging Place). Such activities will include a range of improvisation and performance-related activities that are shaped from everyday operations and behaviours. None of the participants are likely to be performers but the activities are non-threatening, accessible and shaped to raise levels of cultural engagement where there may be existing barriers. This is an important part of Performing Place, that it can be accessed by participants without particular skill or experience in performance. (See http://www.performingplaces.org/placepracsitesotw.html for example.) The impact and engagement of these two follow-on projects will be formally documented in line with local authority reporting and disseminated via simple web pages on the existing site, three symposia and a 32-page document (with executive summary). This document will be sent to the 400+ local authorities in the UK with the intention that such practice be promoted and assimilated for use in other priority areas. Two symposia will take place in London and Manchester with representatives from all nearby local authority councils invited, as well as nationally. A third symposium will take place for the 33 members of London Arts Forum.