Inspiration Works will be a creative studio space for young people aged 11-25 to access a mixture of creative therapies, workshops and creative groups. Off the Record’s experienced Art Therapist will oversee a team of volunteer studio assistants and art therapy trainees to ensure the studio operates on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, from 9am to 8pm, with all services FREE to access by young people in Bristol.
By day (Tuesdays and Thursday), the space will be dedicated to developing the training branch of OTR. In the evening, the studio will transform into a space for young people who access other OTR groups – for example, Freedom, Zazi and Mentality.
Off the Record are passionate about supporting young people with mental health issues and complex needs and do this through a variety of different projects around Bristol. Art Therapy is one of our most popular and oversubscribed therapies we provide. Due to the ever increasing demand by young people Inspiration Works was born to respond to this need and to significantly improve the environment in which it is delivered (because we believe young people deserve this), as well as to ensure that we continue to widen our menu of creative resources.
Inspiration Works will be run by a mixture of experienced OTR staff and volunteers, including art therapists (qualified or in the final stages of training) and studio assistants (who are either local artists or young art graduates looking to further their creative careers).
This young person friendly venue will offer a large flexible studio space (which will be a large messy area for groups and offer a wide range of art materials), one medium sized training room, a small pod (for brief discreet conversations), a kitchen (the kitchen area will be used to encourage/teach young people to cook), and a dedicated small art therapy room for 1-1 sessions. With this additional capacity that the new premises will provide, we should be able to accommodate up to 30-50 young people per day.
Important note!
We need your help to get Inspiration Works off the ground. Please donate what you can via our Crowdfunder.
OTR is offering a number of different incentives per level of donation; including the opportunity to have equipment named after you at the site!
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