Community building through music, arts, drama & dance
Celebrating creative communities. Supporting positive mental & emotional health through meaningful & inclusive arts & wellbeing-related workshops & events.
We work with:
Early Years children & their families
Children & adults with additional learning needs
Schools, colleges & universities
Festivals & smaller event organisers
Communities
Prisons
Local & national partner arts organisation
Local & national organisations supporting mental health (eg, NHS, & CAMHS)
Visit our projects page to see a selection of our community projects
Find out more about our arts & wellbeing projects - Previous and current.
LW Arts has been engaged in community-building wellbeing projects since 2016. We are based in Nottingham and have formed great partnerships with other arts organisations, such as Nottingham Music Hub and ChalleNGe Nottingham Cultural Education Partnership.
Thanks to support from our funders and in-kind contributions, we’ve been able to plan and deliver high quality workshops, programmes and events; including group music-making, art, dance, and musical theatre. We are continuously seeking to improve our organisation, with the key topics of inclusion and diversity being important priorities for us all at LW Arts.
We also collaborate and co-curate projects alongside other creative organisations, locally, nationally and internationally, to help strengthen and make relevant overall community support for wellbeing through the arts.
Read more about this in our ‘projects’ section.
(The accompanying photo features Reception children in Ashfield, Mansfield, taking part in our Arts Council England supported early years multi-arts project, Bouncing Back)
CommuniTree Festival 2024 - Celebrating creativity, culture & community in Nottingham!
In our first year of supporting CommuniTree at Clarendon Chambers, a live music & community arts hub in Nottingham, with their first series of festival events and community workshops, we are looking forward to co-curating an exciting lineup of musicians, artists and creatives representing music and creative arts from all over the world.
Artists are welcome to apply to take part in our festival throughout the year. We are already making plans for CommuniTree Festival 2025, which will be a city-wide celebration of all communities in Nottingham. Click here to Contact us. We’d love to hear from you.
Find out more about past events for all ages on our Projects page.
“Absolutely brilliant! I left the workshop with so much energy. The live music and the dancing were infectious. Such a great event to be able to attend, and for no charge as well.
Thanks so much!”
— Bhangra dance workshop participant
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