The Re-Psych Project: Developing for the future

 

We are the Re-Psych Project Community Interest Company (CIC), a performance and art-based, environmental and social awareness program.

Working with refugee communities throughout Europe and events or educational centers in the UK, We use music, food and scrap crafting to promote equality and sustainability. Thanks to our previous Gofundme and fundraising campaign in 2019, we brought our project all the way through Northern and Eastern Europe to the Greek islands, the frontline of  Europe's Refugee crisis. We delivered hundreds of donated instruments along the way and held workshops at community centres, schools and aid stations, documenting what we learned and experienced each day. We intend to complete a video, telling the stories not only of the communities we worked with, but also the aid workers who give their lives to help those in need. 

 

We have been described at events in the past as an interactive 'Stomp'. We teach how to build and play homemade musical instruments and create rehearsed orchestral ensembles using live performance technology. We also teach a wide variety of crafting techniques working together to design brand new ideas, fusing cultural styles from all around the world.

 

Within our team are professional live loop musicians, beatboxer's, expert craft artists and fully qualified teachers. We combine our skills and knowledge to provide workshops for groups of all ages and backgrounds, telling a different story every time.

 

Our plan now is to expand from our event and overseas work and create eight curriculum standard units. These will be delivered at community centers and schools across the UK. These units will help to build a connection to other cultures, especially those from modern day conflict zones and promote compassionate thinking, not only towards each other but the environment as well. More details on the expenses required for the research and development of the course can be found below. We also intend to throw our own fundraiser events to promote our project and help reach our target to begin writing on the 1st November 2021.

 

We will be creating these units with the help of refugee communities in the UK, holding multicultural and multi-generational events to share musical and food experiences, forming new community friendships.

 

Working alongside other NGO's or charities including AidBox, Bristol City of Sanctuary and SEND project in Nottingham, we intend to have the course ready for delivery by January 2022.

 

For more information on our project and the units we intend to create please click the link to our website below. Thankyou to everybody who donates and helps bring our plans to life. And to all those who donated towards our European tour, It would have never happened without YOU. x

 

Many thanks.

 

David Cullen.

Project manager.

 

https://www.repsych-project.co.uk/what-we-do/

 

R+D cost:-

 

- x8 units will be researched and written by a team of up to 7 artists and teachers.

 

- Necessary tutorial videos, worksheets + databases will be built for age ranges either 5-11 (Primary) or 12+ (Secondary). Powerpoint presentations and interactive digital resources will also be developed.

 

- Each unit will have a week to be created (so an 8 week period in total). Travelling for team meetings and training with Arts Awards and Art Refuge will be required.

 

Week/unit. Content. Team required.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The pay rate to all team members will be £15 p.h with a maximum of £450 per week each (30 hours a week). The amount of team members required for each unit is shown above.

 

Team wages - £12,150.

Est. Equipment/ Software/ Website - £580

Est. In-house training + travel costs - £740

Contingency fund (venue/artist hire etc.) - £1200

 

Total R+D costs- £14,670.00