| Turtle Key Arts' main objective is participation in the arts for all with an emphasis on disabled, disadvantaged or socially excluded people.
Turtle Key Arts has played a committed and innovative role in advancing disability arts, and is widely recognised as a leader in this field. As such, the company supports disabled and integrated performance companies including Amici Dance Theatre Company (integrated) and Extant Theatre Company (blind and visually impaired).
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Turtle Key Arts pioneers arts participation projects that identify and fill the gaps in education provision, often charting new territories, for example, with our projects aimed at autistic (The Key Club, Turtle Opera) and blind teenagers (Key Moves). Also, as Turtle Key Arts is independent and flexible, these projects were developed at a time when few other people were working with these groups. More information about these projects is in the "Production history" section under "Participation & education" on this web site.
Turtle Key Arts has also developed original ways to market the companies and performances in an accessible way to encourage integrated audiences. These have included embossing braille text on leaflets and innovative use of emails and the internet.
| Turtle Key Arts current Education & Participation projects:
| The Key Club is an arts club for over 16’s on the autistic spectrum which meets once a month, during term time, on a saturday at Paddington Arts in Westbourne Park. It currently has 30 members. Past workshops have included composition, writing for TV, large scale artworks, song-writing, creative writing, film and video, drama, book-binding, clock-making, kaleidoscopes, cartoons and graphic design.  2007 Exhibition
2008 Radio Play
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| Turtle Song is a Turtle Key Arts, English Touring Opera and Royal College of Music partnership project. It aims to bring music, movement and singing to people with Alzheimer’s and their carers. Over the course of the project the participants will write the lyrics and compose the music for their own song cycle. The piece will then be recorded on CD and shared with friends. |
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| Planet X is a fun tactile environment created to stimulate the senses of young disabled people through sound, light, colour and texture. It is a unique walk in sensory installation space with many different areas to explore, all themed upon space travel and strange planets. There are trained co-ordinators to encourage the participants around the space helping to enhance the experience. Planet X is held on the third Friday of each month at Paddington Arts, Westbourne Park. |
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| Play in a Day is a one school day experience whereby workshop leaders from Turtle Key Arts visit Primary Schools and enable the children to create and perform a piece of theatre. The participants (age 9-11 years old) write the script, compose the sound track, design and make masks, props and costumes and rehearse the piece. The day ends with a short performance in front of parents/carers and friends.
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| SCOPE Movement & Dance 2008. A workshop and performance project for disabled people in The Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea run by SCOPE in association with Turtle Key Arts & Amici Dance Theatre Company.
SCOPE Movement & Dance 2007
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| Documentary Filmmaking Course is for people aged 16 to 26 who have been diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome or High Functioning Autism. It guides students through documentary filmmaking and the participants produce their own documentary film that focuses on issues relevant to their lives. It is taught by experienced professionals in a friendly atmosphere at Paddington Arts and held once a week for 10 weeks. It is a free course and an Open College Network Qualification.
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