Investment theme: Moving on from abuse
Purpose:
To run a remote arts project and to stay connected to 30 isolated women who they support through their various arts groups in Glasgow.
Year of grant: 16/4/2020
FR Number: FR-0052868
Amount awarded: £5000
Location: Glasgow
Full description
At the soonest possible point, AMP will launch AT A DISTANCE TOGETHER. This project will involve:
- continuing to undertake regular one-to-one check-ins by phone or video call with all AMP participants to ensure wellbeing of those we work with, and to signpost to support services where required. Importantly, this will also allows us to act as an important point of contact for any of our participants who might experience domestic abuse during this period of isolation;
- the dissemination of fortnightly creative tasks to AMP participants. These will be set by AMP Artistic Director as well as guest artists associated with the organisation, and will be disseminated using social media/whats app/videos/post (whichever suits individual participants the most);
- monthly online creative workshops for the Women's Creative Company and Social Bite women's group, and a monthly online workshops for our Shared Space participants;
- through these creative tasks, and the monthly workshops participants will have an opportunity to share their work back with one another, discuss their reflections, and share how they are coping with isolation/social distancing measures;
- across this period AMP's producer will document the work as it is produced, sharing it (where participants give permission) with out wider online audience through our social media channels, and building an online archive through our website;
- to culminate the project (at a time where social distancing/isolation measures are behind us) AMP will work with designer Saffa Khan (who we worked with on Stories to Survive to) to bring together an online and printable publication which documents the work made, and that tells the story of how AMP's participants stayed At A Distance Together during this global and local crisis;
- As ever we will be trying to mitigate the practical and emotional barriers to participation. A key aspect of this will be to find ways to offer our participants 'data vouchers' to ensure they can access the online enagement. We hope to do this, in the same way that we offer, as standard the equivalent of an all day bus ticket to our participants so that they can attend workshops. We are doing this because many of our participants do not have wifi provision at home, and ordinarily rely upon libraries, cafes and public spaces to access online content for free. With these resources currently unavailable we want to ensure our participants can ind ways to remain connected with us - and those around them.
