Drama

Community Drama has a great deal of benefits for the participants: It provides an outlet for self-expression and helps develop imagination and artistic awareness. It can be used as a tool for developing social awareness, mental awareness, self-knowledge, self-respect, self-discipline and self-confidence. It helps people learn to work together and co-operate. It can provide people with a safe environment in which they can deal with real life issues in a non-threatening space and manner.

Community Drama is a unique and valuable tool for promoting individual and social change. It is a form of communication and expression that can often allow sensitive and potentially divisive issues to be addressed more easily; it not only allows participants to address any issues but also it enables them to have a voice to be heard.

'Drama's language is simply the language of social experience; what it 'feels like' to be alive...' (The Potential of Community Drama; Chris Johnston; 1998; The House of Games)

All the latest Drama news from Valley and Vale Community Arts:


October 31st, 2011 Wellbeing Conference Drama at ESIS Wellbeing Conference 2 We were invited to host a workshop at the Wellbeing Conference for Primary and Secondary teachers in South Wales on 13th and 14th October 2011.
October 27th, 2011 Tondu Transitions School Project Tondu Transitions Project At the beginning of this term two of our local schools have merged: Tondu Primary and Pandy Infants in Aberkenfig. As part of their rolling programme to make the transition as smooth and positive as possible they asked for a Drama workshop to be run with every pupil in the school.
October 27th, 2011 Bridgend Pupil Referral Unit Drama at the Pupil Referral Unit, Bridgend We are working in partnership with Bridgend PRU this year to deliver Drama for Emotional Health workshops across Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4.
September 7th, 2011 Summer Arts College Summer Arts College What an adventure we have had this Summer at Valley and Vale! We have been coasteering, visiting woods, sculpture parks, galleries, sound recording studios and even building our own outdoor sculptural installation!
August 19th, 2011 The Raven in the Trees - the battle Forest Arts Weekend Photo Gallery Valley and Vale Community Arts hosted a family weekend filled with outdoor creativity and local folklore. The families had great fun making fires, creating puppets, building dens, organising a battle, celebrating a wedding and diving into a cauldron!
August 19th, 2011 Midsummer Night's Dream filming ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Feedback The young people who opted to take part in the filming of the project learnt a huge amount, not only in the actual filming but also the editing of the film and the support and encouragement they received from the Valley and Vale crew was greatly appreciated.
July 29th, 2011 7 Corners A Midsummer Night’s Dream As part of our 30thAnniversary programme we have been working with groups and communities that we haven’t worked with before to reach new audiences in a new outreach project that we are developing across Wales and beyond.
July 25th, 2011 Shadows of people Reflections on the Mary Immaculate School Drama Project So what happened in that 6 weeks? How do we evaluate that kind of work? If we are communicating on a level far beyond language, how do we identify what is really happening?
July 19th, 2011 Eyeball Drama at Mary Immaculate High School We were introduced to the school by Cardiff City Councils’ Anti-Bullying Officer. A small group of Muslim boys in the school were struggling on a number of levels, not least the cultural clash of being part of a Catholic school.
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