Our Communities
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Since 1994 VDT has delivered a vast range of free workshops and special projects to engage our local communities in creative activities. Introductory workshops enable participants to generate original responses to agreed themes and ideas and through these workshops VDT identifies potential non-professional collaborators to work alongside VDT’s professional collaborators in co-creating new work based on their lived experience.
The sessions have really helped my week feel better.
Participant, 2025
Coming here gives me a chance to breathe.
Workshop participant 2025
Art of Recovery is an ongoing creative health project providing a safe space for women at risk to explore and capture their creative voices.
From April, VDT will facilitate a new series of free creative workshops for women in Brighton. Small group sessions are facilitated by Artistic Director Charlotte Vincent and explore creative ways of carefully capturing women’s stories through writing, crafting and moving. Art of Recovery workshops are safe, closed and confidential spaces, designed to build trust and deepen peer relationships.
Art of Recovery Workshops seek to capture participant voices as research and development towards a production in November 2026. This process will be facilitated and directed by Vincent and supported by VDT’s Participation Producer Antonia Grove alongside gatekeepers and key workers, with the process supported by supervision and therapists when necessary.
VDT facilitate our groups with a skilled, trauma informed approach and with Safeguarding embedded at every stage of our creative process and practice. Check out our Safeguarding Policy.
For more information call Gemma Morris on 07525 233 965 or get in touch using our contact form above.
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London Road Network (LRN) is a nascent collective of arts and community organisations working to support meaningful, long-term change, building a cultural heart around London Road in Brighton.
Initiated by Vincent Dance Theatre, Quiet Down There and Dr. Cara Courage, the LRN brings together Phoenix Arts Space, Lighthouse, Sew Fabulous, The Rose Hill, Magnetic Ideals, Radio Reverb, the London Road Area Trust and the University of Sussex.
The aim of LRN network is to identify, develop and expand interdisciplinary, intergenerational partnerships and pathways between cultural and grass roots organisations and the communities who live in, and transit in and out of, the London Road area in Brighton.
In July 2025, funded by Co-Lab at University of Sussex, LRN worked with Digital Media MA Student Julide Es to map the London Road Area, finding out which arts and grass roots organisations operate in the area. You can see the emerging map here.
If you work or live within the Cultural Heart of London Road and would like to get involved, please take part in our LRN Survey and contact VDT Administrator Gemma Morris to register your interest gemma@vincentdt.com
LRN is a partnership project with Arts Fundraising & Philanthropy, with support from University Of Sussex Co-Lab.
Map of the London Road area with landmarks highlighted and outlined in red, forming a heart shape. Includes parks, studios, and community centres.
These workshops offer self-motivation, emotional wellbeing and self-confidence. Participant, Art of Recovery Creative Workshops, Feb 25.
Movement based activity was excellent and much needed. Hope to have this as a regular part of the session. Participant, Art of Recovery Creative Workshops, Feb 25.
Coming here has made me realise that I like using my hands and do something creative. Participant, Art of Recovery Creative Workshops, Feb 25.
Both LRN Ethical Fundraising Workshops were extremely useful. They consolidated my existing knowledge while also introducing new ways of approaching collaborative and ethical fundraising. I had already begun drafting an ethical fundraising policy for my organisation, and the workshops were particularly helpful in guiding me through the key steps and considerations needed to develop this work further. Overall, the sessions supported the network in clarifying our next steps and building confidence in how we move forward. Lucy Day, Phoenix Art Space CEO.
Other Participation opportunities:
Schools and Colleges
Workshops for young people aged 11- 19 in mainstream schools and colleges, in special schools and alternative education provision.
Higher Education
Workshops, facilitated screenings and licensing agreements for VDT productions in arts and non-arts Higher Education Institutions
