Focus
- People in vulnerable situations e.g. domestic violence
Interest
- Community outreach and engagement
- Development of education and training materials and programmes
- Policy, advocacy and campaigns
- Cultural and artistic innovation
EU Project Experience
No experience
EU Funding Goals
Scale Up: Training new community facilitators, Increase participants - expanding star weaving and creative workshops, prioritising survivors, migrant women, traveller women LGBTQI +. Deliver additional workshops nationwide, with a focus on underserved areas.
Scale Out: Continue to partner with community groups and cultural organisations, develop into Northern Ireland and partner with organisations in Member States Large scale public installations hosted in 3 major cities, amplifying visibility and dialogue. Enhanced monitoring and evaluation, including digital storytelling and participant feedback.
Scale Deep: Deepen individual impact through a flexible creative pathway participants may join as a weaver, develop as an artist, progress to exhibition curator, or gain skills towards employment.
Strenghts
Unlike traditional awareness campaigns, our approach uses the simple, universally accessible creative act of weaving an eight-point star. This acts as both an entry point to the arts and a symbol of solidarity and there is no other project like this nor at this scale.
Equal Access to the Arts is embedded in our model by removing financial, cultural, and skill barriers to participation. Workshops are free, inclusive, and trauma-informed, enabling individuals from marginalised communities to join at any stage and remain engaged for as long as they wish.
Our non-linear creative pathway is unique: participants may begin as star weavers, progress to artists, become exhibition curators, or develop skills for employment. There is no fixed trajectory and needs led. This flexibility allows people to engage at their own pace while building confidence, creative skills, and social networks.
Public installations transform private acts of healing into large-scale, highly visible symbols of collective action, sparking conversations that bridge diverse communities.
We embed the 8 Points of Healthy Relationships into the creative process, ensuring art making also delivers education and advocacy. By blending art, social change, and empowerment in an inclusive, scalable model, our project creates measurable personal and community impact beyond what most arts or anti-violence initiatives currently achieve.
