At the Root Arts CIC is an arts organisation based in West Lothian working to amplify and empower the voices of different communities, people and places through the creative arts.
ABOUT
Our Mission
We are committed to working in the grassroots of communities to provide high-quality, engaging, and meaningful weekly workshops, projects, and events.
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Our mission is to create spaces for different communities to come together and be creative in collaborative and safe spaces. We aim to amplify and empower the voices of different communities, people, and places through the transformational power of the creative arts.
What We Do
Weekly Workshops
We are committed to providing fun, creative, and engaging workshops in different communities on a weekly basis.
Project Work
We are dedicated to providing high-quality, exciting and meaningful projects to different audiences and communities.
New Writing
Through our performance programme, we showcase new writing enabling agency within our performers to engage with new work.
Skills Development
We believe in creating spaces where artists, audiences and participants can develop new skills in safe and nurturing space.
Events & Entertainment
We provide high-quality, fun, and creative activities, events and entertainment for children including parties, Christmas elves, and much more!
Training & Development
We are committed to providing a space for artists, participants and creatives to train and hone their craft in a safe and non-judgemental space.
Inclusive Creativity
We create spaces that are inclusive and diverse encouraging everyone from all communities to embrace their creativity and imagination.
Encouraging Play
We create spaces that encourage play and participants, audiences, and creatives to be curious through workshops, projects and events.
Who We Are
We have an amazing team of directors, facilitators, artists, volunteers, and young people who work with us on a regular basis. Our team ethos is to be kind, to be enthusiastic and to create spaces that are welcoming and fair.
Martine Browne
Director
Becca Lamont
Director
Matthew Swan
Creative Director
Taylor Learmonth
Facilitator
Anna MacLellan
Facilitator
Teagan Munnik
Young Leader
Holly Dunlop
Young Leader
Cassie Kaiser
Young Leader
Hannah Machnik
Young Leader
Jordan Dunlop
Volunteer Assistant
Sadie Ferguson
Volunteer Assistant
Our Core Values
We embed fairness, kindness and inclusion in our practice. We believe that the arts are for everyone. Our workshops and projects create spaces where participants can fully be themselves, grow in confidence and make new friends.
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Our approach to the creative arts is collaborative, curious and playful. We create spaces where participants take agency and ownership in the performances they make and share. In our workshops, we are responsive to what the group wants to do. We are not a one size fits all organisation, we tailor make projects and workshops to suit the participants and groups.
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At the Root Arts CIC exists as a platform for communities and participants to play, make and grow through participating in the creative arts.
We exist to:
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Champion local people and stories in safe, creative and inclusive spaces.
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Promote positive mental and physical wellbeing through the creative arts.
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Celebrate, challenge and explore the world around us using theatre, music, storytelling and the wider creative arts.
