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Email glitterfishlara@gmail.com
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About
I am a community artist and educator with over 20 years experience. In all my roles and projects, I aim to use creative practice to enrich lives and promote social change. I endeavour to provoke a response in participants and the audience that makes them stop, think and question, possibly shifting opinions or inspiring them to challenge the status quo through their conversations and actions.
In the last 12 months my work has developed around changing migration narratives and challenging xenophobic representations and inhumane developments in government policy. I have been working closely with Care4Calais, local community groups and other voluntary organisations to develop projects and activities that build relationships between immigrant and host communities facilitating opportunities for exchange of skill, knowledge and culture (transculturation) in both directions, an idea initiated by Tania Bruguera in her 2019 “School of Integration”.
Resilience
It is my belief and experience that creative practice has a powerful role to play in developing resilience. Introducing the risk of failure in incremental steps to the work through experimentation with media develops a growing willingness in even the most vulnerable young people and adults to embrace future challenges and adversity with confidence.
