| 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. You can also see many of these projects in this short Promotional Film. Turtle Key Promo  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 and now there's the new Key Club Bucks in High Wycombe. 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
The making of the Radio Play 2008
 Radio Play Part 1 Radio Play Part 2
Radio Prog. Pt 1 Radio Prog. Pt 2
2009 KCTV
|  | 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 | |  | Every Picture Tells A Story is an art, animation & music project for young autistic people. Turtle Key Arts teamed up with the National Portrait Gallery and the Wigmore Hall to run a week long film making.
Inspired by the portraits in the National Portrait Gallery participant devise a story, draw pictures and create an animation. |
Turtle Key Arts previous Education & Participation projects:
| 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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| OSJ Key Rhythms Summer 2008 A workshop run in collaboration with the Orchestra of St Johns for children with Asperger’s Syndrome and high functioning autism. During the course of one week, the participants worked with members of the OSJ and an artist and movement director from Turtle Key Arts to create a short music/movement piece which was performed at the Wigmore Hall. Making instruments from recycled household objects, the children created their own graphic scores and used these to inform the final piece.
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