Welcome to The City Art's Doctors
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We are highly skilled and experienced artists, musicians, storytellers, and therapists. Each of our practitioners are renowned for their ability to empower participants whilst breaking down barriers. We bring unique methods of engaging with the community, tackling sensitive issues, managing difficult problems and producing innovative and high-quality art installations, and performances bringing art and culture to the streets and strengthening community relationships.
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Our aim is to support organisations and communities to think outside of the box, seeking a common ground for magic, playfulness and exploration. By establishing common goals, equal status, intergroup cooperation and personal interaction, together we create art installations that bring communities together. ‘The City Art’s Doctors’ achieve this by building safe space through drumming, art, music, words and magic.
STORYTELLING
Storytelling is a powerful tool to address complex and difficult issues. Life-stories, fairytales, myths and legends are woven into every aspect of the work we do, whether drumming, art, singing or poetry, whilst, performance storytelling creates a rich and sociable event in a limitless variety of spaces. As entertainment, a shared experience or to spur the imagination, through storytelling we find a deeper understanding of each other and ourselves.
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In times of flux and transition, humour is a means to bring the community together in a common understanding, reframing difficult issues, creating flow, and offering up alternative perceptions. Through the light approach of laughter and comedy it's possible to address difficult issues about diversity and culture, further using art to exchange ideas, differences and similarities.
MUSIC AND PERFORMANCE
There is musicality and performance in everything we do, whether it's running workshops or developing arts projects. Performance is a means to empower individuals, communities and organisations.
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"A surprise. [the workshops] gave me permission to fail…It gave me confidence, being with people of my own age. Realized - if I can drum I can do other things, like day trips. The group were supportive, no one put anyone down, I’m quite reserved, don’t open up that much, I was surprised that I was able to take part in the group therapy parts. …I loved playing the drum, my worries disappeared, release you from worries, the beat knocks out the worries. Fantasy that I’ll find some place to drum."
Participant from Drumming and Storytelling