Exploring what freedom means, here and now, in the context of the end of the Second World War, ARC Stockton will invite local people to join them at ARC’s creative engagement classes to collaborate on leading and shaping pieces of creative work. These will be brought together as recordings filmed across Stockton and live performances, in a public event in November that will reflect Stockton’s unique voice.

Working with three distinctly different communities, each of which already has roots at ARC, will ensure a diversity of voices that belong to the area. These will be Full Circle, an award-winning independent theatre company of learning disabled theatre makers; refugees and asylum seekers (the Borough is a major resettlement area for displaced people); and participants in ARC’s weekly creative engagement classes for adults across Stockton (from Tai Chi and art, to ukulele playing and Taiko drumming).