Blogs
OWT ON STAGE Community Collaboration
January 2025
Coming soon…
Merry Everyday! Our Christmas Story
December 2024
We love expressing ourselves in our Thursday morning creative writing sessions and the writing we create is often powerful. After sharing our personal stories about our lives and the ups and downs of Christmas, we decided to produce a book.
There is no miraculously happy ending to our Christmas story. We are not cupped together in the soft mitts of a large man in a red velvet suit. If there are bells, it is not the sound of someone visiting us and saving the day. We are mainly alone on Christmas Day. Some of us eat pizza or pie or cornflakes. But in this time of full front rooms and jolly kitchen discos, alongside despair is joy holding our hands and leading us towards the days when the transport links reawaken and light the way towards normality, friends and routine.
This isn’t a sad story. It’s not even a story of festive hope. It’s just about us and the stories we retell ourselves, the stories that top up our smiles like every other of the 364 days of the year. Merry Christmas everyone. Merry Everyday!
Click here to read our wonderful story (uploading soon)
Coproduction and Creative Voices
July 2024
We were invited to the Creative Voices event in Preston at the amazing Creative Space Centre in July to take part and share our understanding of coproduction. The centre is a truly inspirational place to visit with all the staff being amazing and helpful. We are hoping to take advantage of the cinema room very soon!
We also enjoy having our voices heard and are very happy to share our experiences and ideas for change. As we write a lot of spoken word poetry in our creative writing sessions we decided to write a piece which Creative Together Centre Manager Zoe would perform.
“I found it a bit nerve-wracking! However we all encourage each other and aspire to modelling courage and creativity, so it had to be done!” she said.
It’s finally happening!
March 2023
Read centre co-ordinator Zoe’s blog about the exciting new projects at Creative Together this year, including a Eurovision Song Contest and Music Festival!
Imran’s Art Class
February 2023
Our member Imran started his own art class at the centre every Tuesday, and everyone is welcome!
Click here to read his blog about how the first class went
Black History Month
October 2022
In celebration of Black History Month this October, Creative Together would like to show you the art we have created, focusing on the themes of Prints of Africa and Aboriginal Dot Art.