User:Garyoliverpoet

Gary has worked as an applied theatre practitioner for over twenty years, in community and social settings, health and wellbeing, and restorative justice. For the last seven years he has been the lead applied theatre practitioner at the Urban Arts Centre’s Unit 7, based in Stoke-on-Trent, an applied arts centre that utilises urban art forms to create social intervention.

He has developed and delivered various types of interventionist theatre projects contributing to the overall strategic development of the Arts Centre’s community and outreach work. Creating innovative urban arts solutions to contemporary issues such as social inclusion with the Map Rap, mental health and in restorative justice, which have made a contribution to the field of applied theatre practice with in urban arts.

Gary is known to take a holistic approach to its intervention strategy with participants by examining and resolving, with them, current issues that affect their lives. He has produced many publications and is an expert in using Verbal Arts suchs as poetry and rap  an interventionist tool to explore an aray of issues  and community problems.

Gary has worked with an aray of  individuals with varying needs ranging from 7 to 80 years old. Also worked  with a multitude of organisations and statatory bodies and agencies  for arts and consultancy purposes.