Results 2019
Applicant: Theatre Anon Arts Foundation
Reference Number: PTP-13-19-4193
Project title: Restorying Lives – Creative Stories for Persons Living with Dementia
Amount Awarded: € 5,964
The project seeks to employ creative storytelling – in particular timeslips with people with early to middle stage dementia living in the community – in a bid to: stimulate memory; reduce social isolation through an inclusive creative space; support and empower caregivers (notably families) to work with, support and stimulate members living with dementia. This will be done by: equipping them with key creative skills; providing an enjoyable space for self-expression, where play and laughter are often missing with this population; and offering a space for these often-forgotten lives and voices to be validated, listened to and prioritised on their own terms. Play, in particular will be used on account of its ability to not infantilise and trivialise people with dementia, but instead to explore expressional potential, meaning making and relationship building.
The project will work in groups in 5 different day-care centers in a range of localities with people living with dementia and their families – using movement, music, and storytelling. The emphasis of the project lies on process, including skill building among caregivers through a set of practical tips and activities they can replicate at home; and an intensive creative process for people with dementia in a safe and relaxed environment.
Applicant: Outlook Coop
Reference Number: PTP-03-19-4172
Project title: Ir-Raġel li Jara b’Widnejh
Amount Awarded: € 6,000
The project addresses the needs of visually challenged and impaired persons and, through theatre, proposes a space for creative expression and meaningful community exchange, while challenging stereotypes on disability and disabled persons that still permeate the national psyche despite important advancements in the development of disability services and policy.
Applicant: ŻfinMalta national dance company
Reference Number: PTP-09-19-4179
Project title: Get Loose
Amount Awarded: € 6,000
Get Loose is a call to loosen the tight boundaries of labels and compartments in our minds when it comes to identifying people. The project is aimed at challenging and unpacking gender codes through dance, searching for the expansion of boundaries of self-discovery through simple tasks, and involving a groundbreaking collaboration between ŻfinMalta, ŻiguŻajg and MGRM in addressing youth and gender variance.
Applicant: St Jeanne Antide foundation
Reference Number: PTP-05-19-4174
Project title: A Stitch in Time
Amount Awarded: € 5,963
The project addresses women who have survived domestic violence and women who care for others in the family with mental health challenges – women being historically socialised to accept their lot and get on with it, often leaving women suffering burnout, depression and complete mental and physical exhaustion from striving to tend to their family's needs before their own. The project sets out to create spaces for community, sharing, healing and inclusion, reviving the cultural tradition of handmade bobbin lace and helping participants to focus to the here and now.
Applicant: Step up for Parkinson’s
Reference Number: PTP-08-19-4177
Project title: Step up for Parkinson’s
Amount Awarded: € 5,190
Adopting a research-and-evidence-based interdisciplinary approach to caring, the initiative provides free specialised movement classes in the community to people with Parkinson's Disease and their caregiver – challenging the myths and stereotypes associated with PD and PD sufferers, while raising awareness about the disease in Malta.
Applicant: Karl Vella Foundation
Reference Number: PTP-12-19-4184
Project title: Shaping Dreams Together
Amount Awarded: € 15,000
The project stems from an understanding of the importance of creative play and experimentation in a holistic plan for therapy and care. The proposed programme of activities aims at creating structure in the participants' lives - a crucial aspect for children coping with disruption in their family life, and builds on previous experiences involving the use of clay in creative expression as a means to help bring closure and build self-confidence.
Applicant: Young People’s Unit
Reference Number: PTP-06-19-4175
Project title: Shout Out for Mental Health
Amount Awarded: € 6,000
The project aims to foster greater awareness and combat the stigma often faced by mental health patients, and to bring about more awareness on mental health. Engaging young people in mental health care in weekly creative expression workshops – leading up to the production and recording of a song inspired by their experiences, the project taps into the value of creative process and expression in terms of social belonging, the quality of social bonds involved, and greater well-being through the arts.
Applicant: Fondazzjoni Wens
Reference Number: PTP-04-19-4173
Project title: Empowering through Murals – Using murals to empower, team build and create a place of public memory for residents
Amount Awarded: € 5,106
The project involves a series of creative expression sessions led by street artist James Micallef Grimaud, with residents of the MERĦBA home in Fgura – exploring narratives and images related to the 4 seasons, leading up the composition of a mural aimed to add vibrancy and vitality of a residential home for persons with a disability.
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