A weekly arts programme responsive to beneficiary needs through the processes of co-design and co-production

Meet Me at the Albany

Visibility & Mainstream Engagement

Agency & Voice

Promoting independence & wellbeing

Embedded and sustained practice:“Staying connected with an arts space in your community ”

Older participants, volunteers and artists sharing power to plan and deliver work together

Presenter

Presentation Notes

Artists are very good at is living with uncertainty and vulnerability. Exposing themselves. Taking risks. Real risks. Because if you are involved in a creative process you do not know where that play or that song or that painting will actually be any good at the end of it

Ingredients

The artist embedded within a civic space that is safe and open and owned by the community

A broad range of referral routes-

self-

referral, adult social care referral, family referral, GP referral

Consistent team of ‘holding’

artists

A dynamic volunteer programme

‘

The three weeks I wasn’t at Meet Me over Christmas were the longest weeks of my life’