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Organisations working with ex-prisoners
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Here you can find some links with the organisations mentioned in this website.
Please bear in mind some of those organisations are very small and might not have the capacity to respond to your query straight away. Don't feel let down and keep going!
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CLEAN BREAK
(Dance, Drama, Creative writing)
Clean Break is the UK's only women's theatre education and new writing company for ex-offenders, prisoners, ex-prisoners and women at risk of offending due to drug or alcohol use or mental health issues. Clean Break delivers an innovative programme of theatre performances & new writing projects, drama-based education and specialist support, professional development and training, and advocacy.
Clean Break works with female ex-offenders on a regular basis and is a good organisation to contact for advice.
http://www.cleanbreak.org.uk/
Clean Break
2 Patshull Road
London
NW5 2LB
020 7482 8600
(Multi Arts)
Escape Artists works through the arts to break down barriers and encourage social inclusion. The company presents high-quality and challenging artistic productions and organises innovative education projects. The organisation works with ex-offenders on an ongoing basis and offers them support on their release.
http://www.escapeartists.co.uk
Escape Artists
91 Cherry Hinton Road
Cambridge
CB1 7BS
01223 412 695
HELIX ARTS
(Multi Arts)
Helix Arts runs projects in a variety of arts froms and specialises in the development of initiatives, which explore the role and potential of the arts in a social context. Projects are created for specific contexts and artists are selected for the relevance and quality of their work.
They are available to give you advice and guidance over the phone.
http://www.helixarts.com/
Helix Arts
2nd Floor The Old Casino
1-4 Forth Lane
Newcastle upon Tyne
Tyne and Wear
NE26 1SA
0191 241 4931
FIRST TAKE
(Film, Visual Arts, Creative Writing)
First Take is an arts organisation providing digital video and multi-media productions, training and participatory projects to the Voluntary, Community, Arts, Education and Local Authority Sectors across the North West. Our organisation's stated aim is to work with and enable communities and disadvantaged groups to use video to represent themselves.
Please contact them if you need information on their forthcoming projects.
http://www.first-take.demon.co.uk/
First Take
13 Hope Street
Liverpool
Merseyside
L1 9BH
0151 708 5767
INSIGHT ARTS
(Multi Arts, Music, Dance, Film, Drama, Creative Writing, Photograpghy, Visual Arts)
Insight Arts is one of the country’s leading arts organisations offering exciting opportunities to prisoners, ex-prisoners and those on probation to get involved in arts projects. We promote the rehabilitation of offenders through drama, film and multi-arts projects, some leading to large-scale public performances. These projects actively challenge offending behaviour, enable the development of new skills and build self-confidence.
Insight Arts works with ex-offenders on a regular basis and is a good organisation to contact for advice.
http://www.insightarts.org/
Insight Arts
7-15 Greatorex Street
London
E1 5NF
0207247-0778
LONDON SHAKESPEARE WORKOUT (LSW)
(Multi Arts, Drama, Film/video, Music, Photography, Creative Writing, Visual Arts, New Media)
The LSW aim to be of service both to the theatrical profession and to the broader community at large. By virtue of an ever burgeoning series of varied incentives, actors, film-makers alongside offenders and ex-offenders of all ages, genders, races, creeds, nationalities and orientations are given opportunities to further explore and develop skills of self-expression and jointly enhance confidence through the glorious balm which is Shakespeare's language, as well as that of other major dramatic voices and thinkers and film-makers who have been inspired by the Bard throughout time.
LSW works with ex-offenders on a regular basis and is a good organisation to contact for advice.
www.londonshakespeare.org.uk
181A Faunce House
Doddington Grove
Kennington
London
SE17 3TB
020 7793 9755
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The Actors Centre is the UK's foremost training centre for professional actors. Our classes are taught by leading practitioners in theatre, film and TV - actors, directors, writers and industry professionals.
www.actorscentre.co.uk
The
Actors Centre
1a Tower Street
London
WC2H 9NP
020 7240 3940
BRITISH AMERICAN DRAMA ACADEMY
The British American drama academy was founded in 1983 to enable students from around the world to study classical theatre with leading actors and directors of the British Theatre. Courses on offer include Midsummer in Oxford Program, The London Theatre Program, The Shakespeare Program and The Midsummer in London Pre-college Program.
www.badaonline.com
Paul Costello
BADA Europe
14 Gloucester Gate
London
NW1 4HG
020 7487 0730
LAMDA (LONDON ACADEMY OF MUSIC AND DRAMATIC ART)
LAMDA is an independent drama school, dedicated to the vocational training of actors, stage managers and technicians in the skills and levels of creativity necessary to meet the highest demands and best opportunities in theatre, film and TV.
www.lamda.org.uk
LAMDA
155 Talgarth Road
London
W14 9DA
020 8834 0500
RADA (ROYAL ACADEMY OF DRAMATIC ART)
RADA is a vocational training establishment, which equips student actors, actresses, stage managers and technical craft specialists, for careers at the highest level in theatre, television, film and radio.
RADA selects students solely on the strength of their talent, potential, individuality and suitability to be trained; regardless of gender, religion, disability, ethnic origin or income".
www.rada.org
62-64 Gower Street
London
WC1E 6ED
020-7636 7076
Prospectus Tel: 020-7908 4710
THE TAVISTOCK REPERTORY COMPANY
The Tower Theatre Company (Or Tavistock Repertory Company) has been entertaining audiences in North London for over 70 years. They are the only full-time non-professional company in London playing in public theatres, staging some 18 productions a year.
www.towertheatre.org.uk
The Tavistock Repertory Company
11 Canonbury Place,
Islington,
London
N1 2NQ
020 7226 5111
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NCD (NEW CROSS GATE NEW DEAL FOR COMMUNITIES)
The NDC is giving the local community a chance to contribute to its own regeneration. They have many different projects, where you can get involved as a volunteer.
www.newcrossgatendc.org.uk
020 834 9894
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DANCE UNITED
Dance United is an artist-led company driven by the vision of a team of experienced and committed dance practitioners and other arts and development professionals. It is a registered charity providing services to people of all ages and abilities marginalised through economic and social deprivation and conflict, and to those who work with them. It delivers contemporary dance to the highest professional standards and is committed to building new audiences and to training and sharing skills with beneficiaries, dance practitioners and organisations.
www.dance-united.com
Dance United
PO BOX 27780
Hackney
London
E5 0JW
020 8533 0001
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WRITERS IN PRISONS NETWORK
The Writers in Prison Network is a national organisation created in 1992 and co-ordinating long-term projects within prisons that explore and develop language, communication and working with others. It also runs smaller projects with ex-offenders and offers a postal writing mentoring service.
Writers in prisons network
PO Box 71
Welshpool
Powys
SY21 0WB
01938 811 355