Leicester charity SoundCafe will be celebrating the culmination of a three-year project with the launch of a powerful short film entitled Speaking of Homelessness this month

Added by Love Business East Midlands | 12 June 2022

UPDATED: 14 June 2022

Funded by Arts Council England, the invitation-only premiere will take place at the end of June at the King Power stadium's Community Hub.

The project has fostered the creative development of SoundCafe guests, who are people that are homeless or socially vulnerable due to their housing conditions. They have shared their lived experience of homelessness with the support of a professional dramatist.

Speaking of Homelessness has addressed the limited opportunities available to people who are homeless to participate in the arts by allowing them to develop, write and perform an artistic, rather than documentary, film. It is a collection of stories that raise awareness of the challenges of being homeless or vulnerably housed and explore what it is to be on the edge of society. The process has empowered the participants and enabled the voices of those on the fringes of our city to be heard, as well as providing a learning experience for everyone involved - volunteers and staff alike.

The film will be available for interested organisations to download from the SoundCafe website. They will also be shared with schools from September 2022 through the Leicester Diocesan Board of Education. SoundCafe’s Director, Rachel Griffiths, said

‘I am absolutely delighted with the films produced and what this means to the guests. To be able to raise awareness of the true experiences of homelessness through the sharing of personal stories is extremely powerful and the film is incredibly moving.’

Find out more at https://soundcafe.org.uk/

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