Ghyama Arts!
Ghyama Arts (Awesome Arts!) provides high quality arts activities in theatre, film and circus to increase confidence and independence for disabled adults who attend the day service provision of our friends and tenants: The Bangladeshi Parents and Carers Association (BPCA) in Tower Hamlets and Newham.
Ghyama Arts creates a space for powerful, joyous experiences for everyone involved, including participants and their support workers.
Thanks to generous funding from the City Bridge Foundation, we have been delivering a range of arts workshops with the BPCA for the past four years, in partnership with some fantastic companies and artists including:
Spare Tyre Theatre: a leading artist-led participatory theatre company that seeks to reflect society, challenge its prejudices and make life equal.
Half Moon Theatre: the UK’s leading small-scale young people’s venue and touring company who give participants the opportunity to enhance their theatre experience both as a participant and audience member.
Chocolate Films Workshops: delivering creative empowering digital media workshops to enable participants to discover more about video, animation, photography and other digital media.
National Centre for Circus Arts Practitioners (including Dan Rose and Ed Stephen): delivering sessions in juggling, spinning, balancing, hula-hooping and gentle acrobatics.
If you would like to find out more, please contact the Project Coordinator, Lara Flynn (ghyama@stmargaretshouse.org.uk).
Below you can watch the video of the 2024 Summer Term Celebration: