Humourisk draws together the talents and skills of under-represented communities and artists to create community powered, theatre, performance and public art. Humourisk also designs applied arts training programmes, aimed at engaging young people and adults who respond to in-formal learning environments, connecting through arts, crafts and trades.
The Humourisk team of artists and community practitioners create a bespoke street-based engagement process for each project, ensuring wide and diverse participation of residents who do not traditionally engage with projects or services.
Humourisk builds safe creative and learning environments, focusing on mutual learning with humour, recognising individuality and commonality, informal and formal knowledge and skills, challenging stigma, always starting where people are at.
Humourisk adopts 5 main principles that informs its work:
1. Peer Support
We create a safe supportive space to empower individual and collective creativity
2. Creative Dialogue
We value the equal exchange of ideas to connect communities to their creativity and inspire our artistic practice
3. Humour
Our work values the power of humour to reach new audiences and highlight our individuality and commonality
4. Starting where people are at
We recognise the diverse experiences and knowledge of the communities and participants we work with, and the value this brings to our work
5. Creative Risks
We encourage creative and artistic risks to find new ways of seeing, to challenge stigma and inequality
Humourisk Team
Susie Miller Oduniyi
Artistic Director/ Shed Life support Lead
/Safeguarding Lead
Tia Martin
Company Director/ Facilitator
/Safeguarding Second-line Lead
Shenelle Thomas
Assistant Artistic Director/ Well-being Coach
& Facilitator/Safeguarding Second-line Lead
Nakisma Thomas
Outreach Director/ Horticultural Lead/Facilitator
Ayodele Oduniyi
Associate Director /Conflict Management Adviser
Pam Dumbleton
Associate Director /Resident Representative
Raeitzer Solitar Farrell
Associate Director /Mental Health Adviser
/Arts Facilitator
Kevin Brooks
Shed Life Resident Lead
Jeff Blair
Associate Writer/Recovery Practitioner
Bayley Cooper
Support Artist /Shed Site Supervisor
Jersey Baker
Support Artist /Arts and Crafts
Manygot Ghataora
Support Artist /Combined arts
Wasif Bhatti
ShedLife Disability Rights Adviser
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