Our History
Worcester Arts Workshop closed during Covid after a 40-year history of community-based arts in Worcester. Mobilise re-emerged to embed Worcester Arts Workshop's most recent work around diversity and inclusion in the arts, making new socially engaged work and arts and mental health into Worcester's cultural sector.
Mobilise Vision
Mobilise is a socially engaged queer arts company based in Worcestershire. We create and produce bold new live and digital work, events, festivals, workshops, consultancy and training, and practice-as-research projects which focus on the arts as a tool:
for positive social change
to support mental health and wellbeing
as a form of agency for marginalised artists, participants and audiences
We care
We embed care and self-care in the foundations of our work. We believe access and inclusion is about supporting artists’ self-care and well-being as well as their practical needs.
Artists need to feel energised, understand their own self-care needs and be resilient to effectively work with vulnerable participants, work with challenging or sensitive content or to make change in their community.
We work
We work across art forms and sectors.
We work with adults and young people. We work with professional artists and emerging talent.
We work towards an industry that is open, accessible and inclusive.
Who We are
Mobilise was founded by Artistic Director, Dr Hannah Phillips, former Director of Transformation of Worcester Arts Workshop, theatre maker, writer, producer, academic and activist.
We work with a range of creatives – performers, visual artists, musicians, composers, film makers, digital artists, set designers, facilitators and consultants.
We work in partnership with arts and third sector organisations.
We work with PR Consultant Helen Annetts
& Digital Arts Marketing Consultant Stephanie Brown.
We work with a skills and experience-based advisory steering group,
rather than a board of trustees.
