Wellcome: How Social Action Drives Youth Wellbeing
Improving mental health and well-being in young people through engagement in social and political collective activism.
Project Overview
From ‘being …
Augusto Boal Digital Archive
A new digital platform hosting the collection of Augusto Boal – theatrical innovator and creator of the Theatre of the
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Creative Climate Connections Xingu-Wales (CCC)
Young people from indigenous villages of Xingu, in the Amazon basin and a group from South Wales are now linked …
Kamukuwaká VR: enabling digital futures for indigenous knowledge from the Xingu
Virtual Reality brings back to the Wauja Indigenous Community, in Xingu, the educational experience of visiting their most sacred cave.…
PIECEs
Improving the wellbeing of people with psychosis in Pakistan and India through a participatory theatre technique.
Using a technique created …
Respect Due – Museum of Colour
An online museum celebrating the contributions of people of colour to the UK’S creative industries from 1766 – 2016.
Museum …
Heartbeat – Creating Recovery
Online Shakespeare methods for autistic young people during the Covid-19 pandemic
Autistic individuals and their carers have been amongst the …
Communicating through Covid
Supporting healthcare professionals non-verbal communication through arts based education.
Since the Covid-19 outbreak, communication between patients and healthcare professionals has …
Far Apart but Close at Heart Latin America
Community Arts Organisations have adapted their practices to support the mental health of young people through COVID-19 pandemic
The arts …
Far Apart UK
Looking Beyond Lockdown -How UK Arts Organisations Can Continue To Support Young People’s Wellbeing During COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has …
Roots of Resilience
A collaborative research project on the heritage value of Brazil’s Iron Quadrangle, in partnership with the Inhotim Institute and funded …
Twenty Years of Fuel
Twenty Years of Fuel: The Role and Development of the Independent Producer in Theatre and the Cultural Economy is an …
Indigenous Research Methods
A Series of events on Indigenous engagement in research partnerships and knowledge mobilisation.
Since 2019 People’s Palace Projects has
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Resisting violence, creating dignity
Negotiating Violence Against Women and Girls through community history-making in Rio de Janeiro
This new research project, funded by the …
The Sacred Cave of Kamukuwaká
In September 2018, as part of PPP’s The Challenge of the Xingu project, an expedition to the sacred cave of …
Building the Barricades
The international research project Building the Barricades investigated the impact of armed conflict and urban violence on the mental health …
Museum of Colour – People of Letters
People of Letters is the pilot project for Museum of Colour, a digital museum focused on the creative journeys …
OLA- Building Resilience
Building Resilience and resources to overcome depression and anxiety in young people from urban neighbourhoods in Latin America.
Depression and …
Beyond Exchange
This project continues a collaboration between Paul Heritage, Leandro Valiati and two partner cultural NGO’s in Rio de Janeiro: …
Counting Culture
Leandro Valiati of NECCULT (UFRGS) will undertake a two year British Academy Newton Advanced Fellowship at Queen Mary University of …
Stages
Stages is a practice-based enquiry into how performance can be used to stimulate reflection on “othering” processes in society that …
The Verbatim Formula- Hear it, See it
How can we change things for the better through listening?
The Verbatim Formula was initially developed to rethink the way …
The Agency
A creative and entrepreneurial programme on youth protagonism, providing opportunities for young people living in underserved areas of the UK.
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With One Voice
With One Voice 2012 was the first time in history that an event for homeless people was part of official …
Museum of Colour (MoC)
Museum of Colour (MoC) is a research project focussed on the creative journeys of British people of colour.
The overarching …
Public Address Systems
From 2016-2019, People’s Palace Projects is partnering with our Associate, Professor Lois Weaver, supporting with production aspects of Lois’ …
The Challenge of the Xingu: Indigenous cultures in the Museum of the Future
PPP is extending its relationship with AIKAX (Association of Indigenous Peoples of the Upper Xingu) and Associate Artist Takumã Kuikuro…
Relative Values
Relative Values is a research project led by Paul Heritage at People’s Palace Projects (Queen Mary University of London) and …
Violence Against Women and Girls
In Brazil, approximately 15 women are murdered by men every day. In the last three decades, at least 92.000 women
Contemporary Narratives Laboratory
Artists and journalists construct narratives that help us understand the world and shape our sense of reality, but digital technologies …
Xingu Residency – September 2017: The Currency of Cultural Exchange
According to the indigenous Kuikuro people in Brazil, artists are itseke, powerful spirits of invisible knowledge. As part of …
Someone to watch over me
Research investigates the relationship between Police, culture and favela in Rio de Janeiro
Xingu Residency – May 2017: Utopias (Creative Lab)
Utopias (Creative Lab) was a two-week artistic residency wherein Takumã Kuikuro, an indigenous filmmaker from the Brazilian Xingu territory, collaborated …
Creative Lab
CreativeLab/LabCriativo was curated by Batman Zavareze and Paul Heritage, and is produced by People’s Palace Projects and Festival Multiplicidade in …
The Art of Cultural Exchange
The Art of Cultural Exchange is a research project investigating cultural exchange as an act of translation. It focuses on …
Metamorphosis: Audiencing Atmospheres
PPP is delighted to be partnering on this new digital project, led by Dr Martin Welton (QMUL Drama) in collaboration …
Circus Unlimited
Circo Sem Limites (Circus Unlimited) is a three-year exchange between Graeae Theatre Company (UK) and Circo Crescer & Viver (Brazil)…
Scene Change
Scene Change is a cultural skills exchange project aimed at fostering creative learning between cultural institutions in the UK and …
Horniman Museum and Gardens – Brazil Festival
PPP was engaged in the consultancy for The Horniman Museum and Gardens Brazil season, a festival celebrating the richness …
No Feedback in the Creative Commons
No Feedback In the Creative Commons was a practice-based research study to evaluate whether discovery-based learning through participatory performance can …
Utopia – 500 Years
People’s Palace Projects, in partnership with SESC São Paulo and with support from British Council Brazil under TRANSFORM, promoted the …
Shakespeare Forum 2016
To know more about the programme in each city, please click on the links below:
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London as a Village
In April 2015, film maker Takumã Kuikuro travelled all the way from his village, set within the Xingu Indigenous Territory …
Becontree Hundred
HOW DO YOU SEE BECONTREE?
In March 2015, Becontree residents, digital artist Gary Stewart and Brazilian photographer AF Rodrigues came …
Research impact: reports and evaluations
The Impact of People’s Palace Projects’ Work in England: Summary of Evidence 2006 – 2010
Report by Nick Williams, commissioned …
Fórum Shakespeare Rio de Janeiro
09 a 23 de abril de 2014 CCBB Rio de Janeiro
Amor, guerra, corrupção, …
Fórum Shakespeare Brasilia
23 a 30 de abril de 2014 CCBB Brasília
Amor, guerra, corrupção, poder, liberdade, transformações. Por que a obra de …
Fórum Shakespeare Belo Horizonte
30 de abril a 05 de maio CCBB Belo Horizonte
Amor, guerra, corrupção, poder, liberdade, transformações. Por que a obra …
Fórum Shakespeare São Paulo
07 a 12 de maio de 2014 CCBB São Paulo
Amor, guerra, corrupção, poder, liberdade. Por que a obra de …
Olympic and Paralympic Cultural Forum
The Olympic and Paralympic Cultural Forum took place in Rio de Janeiro [17, 18 & 19 April 2013]. It was …
Unlimited: Arte sem Limites
Following the Olympic and Paralympic Cultural Forum this April in Rio de Janeiro, People’s Palace Projects co-curated with the British …
Encounters: Transforming Lives
Encounters: Transforming Lives re-mixes and re-imagines the relationships between digital technology, debate, and live performance.
Developed by Gary Stewart …
Points of Contact
Points of Contact / Pontos de Contato is an exchange programme between Brazil and the UK to create new dialogues …
Shakespeare Forum
A partnership between People’s Palace Projects and Teatro Vila Velha brings the Shakespeare Forum to Bahia for the first time.…
Rio Occupation London
30 Rio Artists, 30 Days in London, from 6 July to 5 August 2012
Commissioned by Rio de Janeiro’s State …
Shakespeare Forum
People’s Palace Projects and The British Council were delighted to welcome the Royal Shakespeare Company to Rio de Janeiro to …
St. Paul’s Way Trust School
Between 2010 and 2013, People’s Palace Projects built a special relationship with St Paul’s Way School, one of only two …
Cultural Warriors
Cultural Warriors seeks to inspire young people to fight for social transformation through art and culture. This collaborative project aims …
Points of Contact
“Brazil revels in both proposing and tackling big conceptual ideas that have the power to change society through culture…In the …
Encounters
Encounters: Transforming Lives combines cutting-edge visual technology, topical debates, and live performances to create an exciting and innovative look at …
From the Favela to the World
Based on the inspirational performances of Rio de Janeiro’s cultural warriors AfroReggae, Favela to the World seeks to strengthen the …
Amazônia
The Amazônia programme created a dialogue around climate change and environmental degradation between artists and young people in the UK …
Research Impacts: Amazônia
The Amazônia project engaged with over 5,000 participants and audience members in Brazil and with almost 50,000 people in the …
Favela to the world
Favela to the World was a project by People’s Palace Projects that began in 2005 and has its own archived …
Lives On line + Be Seen, Be Heard
Whilst working intensively in Brazil, People’s Palace Projects also undertook two smaller pilot projects with young people in the UK …
Love in Time of War
In the summer of 2004, Paul Heritage conceived a special performance project in Rio de Janeiro in association with Grupo …
Changing the scene
In 2002, People’s Palace Projects established an office in Rio de Janeiro with local staff, responsible for the implementation of …
Staging Human Rights
People’s Palace Projects followed its AIDS/HIV programme in Burkina Faso with a new project entitled Staging Human Rights, which began …
