CREATIVITY AS URGENTLY, PRACTICALLY USEFUL Images of Felting workshop by Padma Rao, Sangini and FODI women's group suppored by The Cultrual Spring 2. And to do that from a perspective of co-creation means that you increase your chances to succeed in terms of impact in your communities, because they have been part in designing whatever responses you are offering” Saad, HOME Slough
“Arts and creativity are one of the best tools to help people recover, learn, evolve from a crisis. The CPP approach of working with, for and alongside communities was viewed as a vital tool in helping Places to cope with, adapt to, and recover from the effects of COVID: Looking to the long term effects of the crisis, Places were deeply conscious of the ways that COVID will shape their communities for years to come. Unless you want to step back at the end of the conflict and look at a society that has been fed and housed but is completely destroyed emotionally - you need to have art and storytelling and creativity as part of the support that you’re giving to your communities” - Saad, HOME Slough Whenever there is a crisis - a pandemic, a conflict, an environmental disaster - food is essential, housing is essential, and they come as number 1, but they are not enough. “Art in crisis or art in conflict… I think it’s essential, and I think that’s something we should really hold on to. Just as the impact of the virus for individuals was shaped by social and economic factors, the physical restrictions of lockdown sit side by side with a burgeoning crisis in mental health and emotional wellbeing: ADDRESSING THE IMMEDIATE AND LONGER TERM EFFECTS OF THE CRISISĭeeply connected to their communities, CPP Places were clear that they had a key role to play in helping people to cope with the effects of lockdown.
As people struggle to meet their most basic needs, what is the role for creativity in communities? 1. Essential needs agencies and key workers fought to keep up with demand for food parcels, meet housing needs and provide debt and welfare advice.ĭrawing on an earlier conversation with East Durham Creates, who are embedded within a charity (East Durham Trust) providing basic needs services, I was keen to explore how CPP Places had experienced their role in this context. With lives and health under threat, poor (or no) housing, inadequate food and loss of work meant that many people were struggling to meet even their most basic needs. The effects of COVID and lockdown starkly highlighted the divisions and inequalities in British society.
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