Current work with Partners

In association with Barnardos and with support from the Victoria Wood Foundation, we continue to facilitate monthly work with Young Carers across Lancashire. In January the Young Carers took over King Streets Studios in Lancaster for a Clay Workshop with Kath McDonald and Roy Smith. Here’s what they had to say about the project:

“King Street Arts supports the Dukes and believes it is so important to be able to work with groups like the Young Carers who support our society and in fact are the very fabric of it; to offer a connection through creativity that everyone can relate to and benefit from. It is part of the glue which just may help us all keep being human and feel connected and supported by one another. It provides a safe place, a second home, to find ourselves again and restore the sense of humanity to ourselves and others, in this fractured turbulent and disconnected world”.

For more information on this project and other work we do with and for communities, please contact creativecommunites@dukeslancaster.org or 01524 598522

We are working with Lancaster RAIS, collaborating with people with experiences of resettlement. Sessions have focused on puppetry, improvisation and devising and we’ll shortly be sharing a piece developed with Animikii Theatre as part of Our Freedom: Then & Now, a UK-wide, locally-led arts and creative programme led by Future Arts Centres.