Language Café

This partnership provided a weekly creative input at the regular “Language Café” facilitated by the GREC staff team at Aberdeen Arts Centre. The café attracted a wide range of participants from diverse ethnic communities, with many common interests and needs.

This project encouraged participants to use a variety of creative platforms to share their stories, both past and present, and developed a stronger understanding of each other’s lives, challenges, and ambitions.

Their stories could be expressed through a range of written, spoken & digital medium and could be fictional or true, rooted in or about their homeland and culture, or express their lived experience and future hopes. Through the sessions there were also opportunities for participants to share and explore their personal cultural traditions that were important to them.

The approach was completely flexible, so participants could join in and engage with a large group activity as well as with the focused and smaller group activities.

The openness of the sessions meant those who had creative skills, backgrounds, and practices could feel comfortable to share these talents with the other participants.

The partner organisation for this project was Grampian Regional Equality Council (GREC)

Read the Language Cafe case study.