The Arts: A Powerful Tool for Building Belonging - How community projects to help engagement and support wellbeing.

Belonging. It's a fundamental human need. My current and ongoing work explores the role of the arts in fostering connections between people and ideas to create a combined sense of belonging and 'home'.

Through all sorts of media, including music, dance, literature, theatre, story-telling, painting, drawing and textiles, I believe that the arts provide a unique opportunity to express individual and collective experiences, promoting empathy and understanding between people from different generations, cultures and societies.The sense of community goes way beyond geographic boundaries.

Through my work I want to continue to explore the power of the arts in everyday life, and to observe the positive impact on ordinary people.

I am very interested in connecting with other people who are involved in community arts projects, bringing diverse people together and who just love the arts!

I'd love to learn about what you're doing.