Creative Support is a high quality provider of person centred social care services for people with learning disabilities, mental health and other needs. We’re looking for artists with specialist experience in participatory and applied arts for a residency, engaging with up to 20 residents between the ages of 70 and 100 within one of our care homes in Carlisle.
We’re open to considering applications from artists working across a range of disciplines, but are particularly interested in hearing from artists working within Dance, Visual Arts, Digital Arts, Combined Arts and Creative Writing.
Ideal candidates should demonstrate an understanding of the needs of people experiencing dementias and should have experience designing bespoke, community based workshops and residencies with and for older people, with a person-centred approach.
Proposals should have ‘participation’ at their heart, with a strong focus on quality of experience and co-production. Process is as, if not more, important than product, though the residency will be artist-led.
You will work closely with our Applied Arts Development Practitioner, but the focus of the residency will be based on your own discipline and artistic responses to engaging with participants, as well as participant’s responses to engaging with you.
Further details and to apply here
Deadline: 5pm, 27th May 2019