We have very strict policies related to diversity and inclusion, but we also have a vast interest in working with BAME groups.
Our vast group include people from diverse backgrounds, experiences and family heritage, and we are always learning new things about different cultures and ways of life.
We are working in a project related to identity and culture, where people express their feelings, fears, exclusion, racism and discrimination by painting or sculpting.
These are expressions motivated by social influence or Covid-19, but they carry a message and a vision.
We meet each week online, on Zoom, to learn tricks, how it is developing, what are the issues and how can we work together to sublimate those feelings that hurt.
When the artwork is ready, we want to create exhibitions in Durham, to show everyone a glimpse of the BAME soul.
This is a project supported by the Lottery Fund, Global Children Fund and Phoenix Fund, which has allowed us to do a research on minorities in County Durham and create a wellbeing project, completely free, where we send our minority groups packages with painting and sculpture materials.
This a project where we celebrate working together, using art and supporting each other, to celebrate culture and identity from minorities and to fight isolation and loneliness in adults.
And we are very glad to have you with us!
The project includes: participants receive a set of materials for painting or sculpture at home, safely, and we will have Zoom group meetings every week, where we will talk about the issues we are encountering, show the progression of the artwork, discuss different approaches and what obstacles we are facing.
In the end of the project, we will have an exhibition with all the paintings and sculptures, either physical, like a normal exhibition, or online, with photos of the artwork and of the person that did the work (Covid, that mystery!!!)
We want to show that different people, from different cultures, and with different identities, are also lonely and isolated, but can get together and produce something wonderful!
