Engagements
The arts encourage the heart and liberate the mind. They see beyond boundaries and feed the creative imagination; making them a powerful tool of advocacy, equity and development. The arts empower people, and people change the world. It is this deep conviction in the power of people that drives everything we do.
FEATURED PROGRAM
Write Out Loud is an international women’s development program that uses a series of creative writing and theatrical workshops to create authentic content for women and by women across cultures, and across socio-economic divides, empowering truth through community.
Write Out Loud is designed to share incredible stories through multiple channels such as documentaries, books and digital content. Allowing the truth of women from around the world to advocate for gender parity, women’s rights and protections, the power of choice and inform actions that will rewrite the narrative.
An amazing mixed medium workshop using storytelling, music, art and crafts to take kids on a magical journey culminating in a published anthology of stories written by children around the world, for children around the world.
Improv Leadership is an interactive program that works with young people from maginalized and at-risk communities using humor and improvisational comedy to help channel difficult emotions and create a powerful outlet for self expression.
Improv Leadership uses techniques and practices from improvidational comedy to internalise key leadership behaviours that allow our kids to become effective leaders of both, their own lives, and their communities.
The program also hosts an annual Improv Leadership Conference, bringing together young people from all over the world. Program participants grow into mentors for both their own communities and for communities around the world.