“Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.”
Mary Louise Cook
Streams and Projects
The Arc Studio Programme
The Studio Programme at Arc consists of:
• Pathways to Recovery, Arc’s main programme. Half-day sessions on Tuesdays and Wednesdays aimed at creative people who wish to gain practical skills and use their participation as a stepping stone to further education, volunteering or employment
• Arts For Life, a partnership with Age UK Stockport, mainly for older people which takes place on Thursdays
• The ArtsTrain, offering a wide range of transferable skills and work experience in events and exhibitions
Young Person's Arc
This initiative reaches out to the most vulnerable young people in Stockport, through partnerships with Mosaic, Kite, Jigsaw and the Youth Offending Service, through a studio programme and working out in the neighbourhoods.
Community Outreach Programme
Projects with a range of constituents across the neighbourhoods of Stockport, including the Arc2 studio at First House in Brinnington and creative play projects at Children’s Centres across the Borough.
Free and Quiet Minds
Activities at the Mental Health Unit (Arden and Norbury wards) and the Cobden Unit at Stepping Hill Hospital, run in partnership with Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust. Activities have included visual arts, creative writing, photography and music.
Pearl
A creative programme for parents at risk or experiencing post-natal depression, run in conjunction with SMBC and the NHS at Reddish, Abacus and Brinnington Children’s Centres.
Styal Prison
Arc associate, Charlotte Brown, has been doing a year-long residency at Styal HMP which will lead to an exhibition at Vernon Park Museum and Art Gallery in May 2012.
Art in the Park
A partnership between Arc, SMBC Ranger Service and the Friends of Reddish Vale, which includes a programme of participatory art activities at Reddish Vale Country Park for families and adults, the development of a children’s activity area and the Visitors Centre and visual branding of the Park through community mosaics, interpretation and literature.