Tutubi offers Arts Therapy to foster hope and healing, Arts Workshops to empower people emotionally and socially. Training to encourage professionals to develop and reflect on their work. Our sessions are run by facilitators from different but complementary fields and who are from a range of cultural backgrounds, drawing on the richness there is in diversity.
Tutubi has teamed up with Samsah, France in a continuing effort to provide services and support to victims of brain trauma and their families. Arts therapy workshops are held weekly with brain trauma victims in an effort to encourage self expression and self esteem.
In an effort to diminish isolation amongst the elderly, Tutubi facilitated a storytelling through photography workshop with a group of older people in England.
Funded by the Arts Council of England and in partnership with the Claremont Project, Tutubi welcomes 2010 with a new theatre project, "Midsummer Madness". This is a partnership project that will bring together people in Canonbury from different generations and backgrounds. Participants will co-create a multi-ethnic summer “pantomime” at the Walter Sickert Centre. Creative participation will catalyse social cohesion, improve health and psychological well being and engender on-going social development. The project begins in February and closes in July with a free performance.
On the 12th of September, Isabelle Rodker and Paula Holme of Tutubi facilitated a workshop at Oxford University for the annual conference of the British Association of Dramatherapists (BADth). Entitled "Lost in Translation", the workshop explored the theme of Bridging Cultures, looking at the complexities of applying Arts Therapies in Southeast Asia, combining Arts Therapy with photography and of integrating Art Therapy with Dramatherapy.
In partnership with Caritas Cambodia, a group of women living with HIV in Cambodia took part in a Tutubi Arts Therapy and Participatory Photography project. The workshops focused on creating a therapeutic environment in which the women could explore their feelings through movement, art, drama and photography. The project culminated in a slideshow of their photographs presented to those they wished to invite.