We are a Birmingham-founded Community Interest Company, established by two First Class creative writing graduates, with an initial ambition to create a local space to share stories.
We now use multi-disciplinary creative activities to empower communities to share compelling stories through workshops, performances, publications and events.
Professionalism, accessibility and authenticity remain at the heart of our organisation.
Our Values
High Quality and
Community-led Outputs
To empower our community to create
high quality publications, performances and events.
Accessibility and Inclusivity
To never leave accessibility as an afterthought.
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To proactively include diverse voices into planning processes.
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To proactively invest in our team’s development.
Nurturing and Championing our Communities
To be thoughtful and authentic in supporting our participants to build skills and confidence.
To celebrate and platform their stories and be unafraid of engaging in difficult conversions.
Openness
To welcome new ideas
and voices and strive to say 'yes!'
Fun!
To safeguard our team's excitement through always budgeting for smiles.
Making Spaces
To build inclusive creative spaces
both at the heart of our locality and around the world.
Our Mission and Values
Our Mission and Values
Tell us a story in black ink or charcoal. Tell us a story with your whole body or just your index finger. Tell us a story with puppets made from leaves or tin cans or your dad’s old socks. Tell us a story with juggling balls and wear the gold mask you made or paint your face blue. If you’re a dancer or a photographer or a nurse or a plumber, we’d love to share a cake and make stories with you.
We’re mostly playwrights who run creative arts workshops for everyone in Birmingham. As well as writing plays, we write poetry, make masks and puppets, and teach some circus skills as well. We established Windswept Workshops because we want to tap into the creativity that thrums at the heart of Brum’s community to make performing arts a part of everyone’s everyday lives.
About
Windswept Workshops!