Communities
Wolf + Water work across the human life span, from early years to the elderly and everything in between. When working with groups, we are particularly interested in exploring notions of community – how different groups of people can co-exist and learn from each other, and how we can develop sustainable and supportive societies.
For example, much of our work around conflict management has been about planning how communities can rebuild civil structures and peaceful society following war. Our work with people with learning difficulties explores how they can be included and accepted within their wider communities.
On a wider community level, Wolf + Water have worked with groups of people who are homeless or vulnerably housed, women’s groups, and even artists! We have run visioning and active planning processes for local councils and performed commissioned pieces for Regional Development Agencies.
Young People
We work with young people across a wide range of statutory and non-statutory settings, including schools, youth clubs, community organisations (everything from Young Farmers to the Princes Trust), the mental health and youth justice systems.
We use a range of arts skills to enable what are often seen as challenging or at risk young people to unlock their own expressive and creative potential in a positive and pro-social way. We use creativity to support them to learn new personal and interpersonal skills, to develop a critical awareness towards their own communities and the wider world and to explore their rights and responsibilities in relation to that.
Older People
Wolf + Water have worked on a huge range of projects, including creative reminiscence work, gentle dance and movement projects, creating books and radio plays and visual arts projects. This has included working with groups with sensory disabilities and those with dementia, Parkinsons disease and other limiting conditions.
We believe that older people have a huge amount of experience and wisdom that is often overlooked, and our work aims to celebrate and share this fact. Many of our projects have involved mixed groups – for example bringing together older people and school or youth club groups.