About Participation

Our participation work aims to engage with people (particularly young people) who don’t necessarily identify as artists or have limited access to creative opportunities. For us contemporary performance practice provides a unique and valuable means with which to question and inspire, which we believe helps develop life-skills and creative thinking.

Participation for us is about opening-up creative opportunities, developing new ideas and passing on ways of working and thinking that come from our practice. It’s about increasing access to the approaches developed in our artistic work and about learning from people whose experience and skills are new to us.

In all the projects we make and develop, collaboration with partners is essential to reach a broad range of people. Current partners include The Element Society, ACCT, SAYiT and Handsworth Grange School in Sheffield and the British Council who supported our ‘Table Stories’ projects in Sri Lanka and Nepal.

Our participation activity is led by Terry O’Connor and Jessica Matthews (Participation Producer) who work alongside a team of freelance practitioners.

To hear more about our participation work or for more information about any of our projects please contact fe@forcedentertainment.com.

Financial support for our participation work enables us to create exciting and accessible projects, particularly with young people who are less engaged in the arts or have limited access to creative opportunities.

We would like to gratefully acknowledge financial support for our past and current participation projects from the following Trusts and Foundations. This money supports our ongoing work with children and young people, alongside developing plans for future activities.

Find out more about how you can support our work here.

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