Theatre in Action
Home In A Bag
Home In A Bag is a performance co-created with our Stronger Together Leaders and theatre-maker Erene Kaptani as part of our #NoticeUs campaign to improve Temporary Accommodation in Greenwich.
The performance talks about the challenges experienced by women in temporary accommodation with not being given enough notice to move and what the impacts are for themselves and their children.
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Huge thanks to Trust for London, Disrupt Foundation and
University of Greenwich for supporting us to develop this piece and take it to wider audiences including key decision-makers. ​
“Beautiful performance, raising awareness on such urgent issues.”
Count Yourself Lucky
In 2023 South East London’s Local Maternity and Neonatal System (LMNS) partnered with five community organisations, including Creating Ground, to better understand the barriers migrant and underrepresented women face in accessing maternity care.
Through a series of creative workshops, we identified key challenges that shaped a detailed report and inspired the
co-creation of Count Yourself Lucky — a performance based on the lived experiences of migrant women.
Thanks to further funding from MigrationWork Weaving Bonds Count Yourself Lucky was co-created by Creating Ground members, guided by theatre-makers Erene Kaptani and
Rachel Griffiths.
In early 2024 we were invited to perform at the LMNS’s engagement event and later that year, we were approached to film the performance to support staff education and training.
Our hope is that it fosters empathy, compassion, and a deeper understanding of the challenges migrant women face when navigating and accessing services.
We now continue to take Count Yourself Lucky to key stakeholders to not only have our voices heard, but to start a dialogue to make real lasting change for migrant women accessing healthcare services.
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"Creative health is an enabler to amplify patient experience and voice: creative activities can make visible and uplift lived experience. In turn, this improves personalised care routes and leads to more inclusive conversations in healthcare. For example, Creating Ground’s Theatre in Action project allows migrant women to explore issues around healthcare access in a way that has tangible impact, seeing the theatre group performing for key stakeholders of the Integrated Care Board. By harnessing creative methods of co-production and evaluation, healthcare services can better understand the experiences of those who may have traditionally gone unheard. This feels key to the reduction of health inequalities in South East London."
(Flora Faith-Kelly, City Hall Blog The power of cultural social prescribing for health, March 2024)
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Read full article here.
Taking our scenes to key decision-makers
Our Stronger Together Leaders co-created a Forum Theatre scenes focusing on health inequalities faced by migrants, guided by theatre practitioner
Erene Kaptani. Also linking our work to the
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We have been asked to forum the performances with a variety of audiences including key stakeholders, such as the NHS South East London ICB meeting, which you can read more about on their website here, and see our work mentioned in a GLA article here.