ONE ROOF PROGRAMME
ONE ROOF TERM 2 IS COMING…
After a fantastic first term of animation and theatre session, this term - which starts on Fri 9th May 2025 - you can join award-winning artist and performance poet Surfing Sofas for a series of hands-on zine-making workshops. You will be guided to create zines and fill them with thoughts, art, poetry and collages. We’re also hoping to record some poetry work to feature on a special One Roof album - watch this space!
The climax of the term will be the One Roof Zine Exhibition, held on Thurs 5th and Fri 6th June: an opportunity to showcase your work, and interact with other artists and zine-makers.
SIGN UP FOR THE SECOND TERM OF CLASSES:
Sign up below for the second term of classes. The term runs from 9th May - 6th June: the four sessions are taking place on Fridays 9th May, 16th May, 23rd May and 30th May, then the Zine Fair is taking place on Thursday 5th and Friday 6th June. You can sign up for the whole course or specific dates.
One Roof is open 11am - 5pm and the course is 1:30-4:30pm.
ONE ROOF FESTIVAL 2025
Term 1 will feature a series of morning workshops in different styles of stop-motion animation, led by Stephanie Griffiths of SomeString Different: a returning facilitator to One Roof for the past three years, Stephanie is looking forward to broadening the scope of One Roof animation outside of her popular string animation workshops, and passing on her skills in other areas. Afternoons will be theatre-based creative exploration workshops, led by Response Ability Theatre (RAT).
We are also delighted to announce a partnership with RAT in the coming months, with CEO Nell Hardy on loan to the One Roof Programme as our Year 1 Creative Producer. Working closely with One Roof Programme Manager, Claire Rivers, Nell will be using her extensive skill and experience in trauma-conscious and survivor-led work to ensure that the One Roof programme is an inclusive and authentically co-created endeavour. We feel extremely lucky to have her on board.
The 2025 One Roof Festival went down an absolute storm, with participants, facilitators, staff and guests alike all celebrating a fantastic two weeks of creativity and community. The best part of this is that unlike in the past - when we lived from festival to festival - we now have the support and funding to run workshops (for artists with experience of homelessness) throughout the year too! That’s right - Fridays at ODAC are going to be our One Roof Programme days, offering a morning and afternoon workshop every week, with a diverse and ever-evolving series of sessions, based on feedback from this year’s festival. We’ll be announcing these to the community term-by-term and are delighted to reveal that our first term of courses is now in place! We are running two strands for each 6-week term, one of which will be focused on either visual arts, theatre and performance, or creative writing and with a contrasting session running alongside it, in order to offer plenty of choice to our attendees. In addition to this, the One Roof producers will be on hand for 1:1 mentoring and advice sessions, and an open-door approach to visitors who just want to pop in for a chat and a cuppa.
With thanks to The Linbury Trust, Arts Council England National Lottery Good Causes, The Tedworth Charitable Trust and our other generous donors.
