workshops
The team behind BORN::FREE have 15+ combined years in delivering arts education work across the UK and internationally for client groups of all age ranges, access needs and experiences.
Over the years, BORN::FREE has established its own pedagogy for delivering poetry, creative writing, writing for performance, theatre + sound art workshops / alternative learning spaces in a range of environments: from schools to galleries; festivals to pupil referral units; seminars to community centres.
Sessions can be booked to standalone or as a series, with tailoring options available so that content can be adapted and delivered to your requirements.
creative consultancy
BORN::FREE offers creative coaching to individual emerging artists who are seeking advice, mentorship or artistic development – available on a sliding scale, prioritising African and Afro-diasporic* artists. If someone in the team is unable to support you, we will put you in the direction of other artists who can.
Also available to individual artists or collaborators is offering dramaturgy that subverts the white European literary canon, aiding writers + makers in developing anti-colonial approaches to structuring narratives, world-building, literary criticism + performance.
For organisations, BORN::FREE’s team has the skillset to support with embodied, interactive group anti-racist training, honing transferrable creative skills for enhancing teams and nurturing equitable leadership, as well as being a soundboard for teachers, educators and facilitators who seek to deliver a more inclusive education.
*We use the terms ‘Afric/kan’, ‘Afro-diasporic’ and ‘Black’ to describe more heavily melanated people of African descent from Sub-Saharan Africa, and people who are of mixed- or dual-heritages which consists of this demographic. This includes (but is not limited to) how others may describe as: Black British, Black Afric/kan, Black Caribbean, Afric/kan American, Afro-Latinx, Afro-Arab and any other ethnic group usually prefixed by ‘Black’, ‘Afro’ or ‘Afric/kan’.