Arts for Action, London (2026)

Arts for Action makes performances and artistic work, provides training in, and applies the use of the arts and communication for change, and works with humanitarian, development and cultural sectors to provide best practice in applied arts, communication and community engagement through on the ground programme delivery, expert advice, and strategy development. We have trained 1000s of practitione

rs over 20 years in how to use theatre-based, community centred approaches. We have worked in Southern Africa and South Asia delivering innovative community-centred change projects using theatre, arts processes combined with developmental disciplines. Arts for Action is a global network made up of practitioners from across theatre, contemporary dance, music, visual arts, photography, film, design, social research, activism, development, education and legal practice. Practitioners are leaders in their field and together deliver the very best arts and communication for social justice, positive change, activism and development. Arts for Action implements projects for good governance, justice, human rights, conflict resolution, sexual and reproductive rights, public and environmental health, and is dedicated to the most effective application of innovation in the arts to create change – at personal, social, and political levels.

08/07/2025

Register here https://www.movingparts.art/training
(link in bio)
Applications for 2025/26 are open!

16/06/2025

🎭Applications are open! 🎭

🌟 We are delighted to invite physical performance artists to join us from December 2025!

🧚🏼‍♀Join us for performer, facilitator training or artistic residency. Certified Professional Training for Physical Performer-Creators in Physical Theatre, Contemporary Dance, Acting, Devising & Choreography is for performers who want to nurture their skills; the residency is for trained performers who want space to create and collaborate. Weeeeee!

💞 Curate your experience. Join whichever combination of 'parts' suit you best.. .

🦎Professional Training: 3rd Dec to 28th Mar (Part one - 3rd to 23rd Dec. Part two - 5th Jan to 31st Jan. Part three - 12th Feb to 14th Mar. Part four - 16th to 28th Mar.

10-DAY FESTIVAL
Join workshops or showcase your work at the Festival: 1st to 10th Feb, 2025!

Facilitator training requires joining the full course.

Artistic residency is self-determined.

Limited places on all programmes.

Application Deadline: 30th July
Early-bird offer open till: 1st September

For info and registration: https://www.movingparts.art/training

26/05/2025

🦕 Applications are open!

🌟 We are delighted to invite physical performance artists to join us from December 2025!

🧚🏼‍♀Join us for performer, facilitator training or artistic residency. Certified Professional Training for Physical Performer-Creators in Physical Theatre, Contemporary Dance, Acting, Devising & Choreography is for performers who want to nurture their skills; the residency is for trained performers who want space to create and collaborate. Weeeeee!

💞 Curate your experience. Join whichever combination of 'parts' suits you best.. .

🦎Professional Training: 3rd Dec to 28th Mar (Part one - 3rd to 23rd Dec. Part two - 5th Jan to 31st Jan. Part three - 12th Feb to 14th Mar. Part four - 16th to 28th Mar.

10-DAY FESTIVAL
Join workshops or showcase your work at the Festival: 1st to 10th Feb, 2025!

Facilitator training requires joining the full course.

Artistic residency is self-determined.

Limited places on all programmes.

Application Deadline: 30th July
Early-bird offer open till: 1st September

For info and registration: https://www.movingparts.art/training

19/05/2025

What a journey it has been. Through the sloughs of doubt and showers of sweat and euphoria - always ‘together together’ haha!

Together, students and facilitators travelled through the familiar and the unknown — from the fun of games, to discovering different forms, a full spectra of feeling, stumbling and fumbling and finding possibility.

You played, fell, rose, listened, leapt. You questioned, transformed, and created. We celebrate the risks taken, the limits tested, and the hard truths revealed. It's far from an easy ride. May the tools, insights and visions cultivated here continue to echo in your bodies and your practices as you move forward. With admiration and love — congratulations to every one of you. 💫

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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Visit https://www.movingparts.art/training to know more about our work and upcoming workshops/festivals.

13/05/2025

What a journey it has been. Through the sloughs of doubt and showers of sweat and euphoria - always ‘together together’ haha!

Together, students and facilitators travelled through the familiar and the unknown — from the fun of games, to discovering different forms, a full spectra of feeling, stumbling and fumbling and finding possibility. You played, fell, rose, listened, leapt. You questioned, transformed, and created.

We celebrate the risks taken, the limits tested, and the hard truths revealed. It's far from an easy ride. May the tools, insights and visions cultivated here continue to echo in your bodies and your practices as you move forward. With admiration and love — congratulations to every one of you. 💫

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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London

Telephone

+447542630069

Website

http://artsforaction.org.uk/

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