Changing Stories is our flagship prison programme. Changing Stories is a multi-year programme of week-long residencies in the fifteen NW region’s prisons. Funded by NHS England, the project is primarily for people in recovery units. Over the lifetime of the project, Changing Stories will see us delivering upwards of 100 weeks of work delivering creative projects to over 1,000 people in prison.
Changing Stories is built around the idea that we all have stories that we like to share; stories that define who we are. Changing Stories draws on these narratives, and encourages participants to take control of them, share them, and change them.
Changing Stories residencies develop participants’ theatre improvisation and devising skills, creative writing skills, acting skills, and visual arts skills; they learn to paint, draw, act, play instruments, compose original music, write lyrics, and perform live together as an ensemble. The project is designed to equip participants with the language of the creative arts so that they can legitimately speak about the life experiences that define who they are.
Changing Stories
Our creative prison programme.
“We age not by years, but by stories.”
Maza-Dohta
“Thank you for a brilliant time from the bottom of my heart. It’s been one of the best experiences of my life. Very memorable. Thank you very much.”
Changing Stories is a practical articulation of TiPP’s mission to provide opportunities for some of the country’s most underserved and disadvantaged people to benefit from high-quality participatory arts. You can get an idea about the project by watching the short video below.
“[TiPP] have been brilliant this week and have worked with some difficult men who would not normally mix together. Key people watched their performance today and were very impressed with the performance itself and also what the men said afterwards regarding reducing violence. ”
Images of 3D Collages made as a part of a Changing Stories residency.