Involvement in the education of young people has always played an important part in what Superact! sets out to achieve. This is witnessed by the lengthy involvement with Somerset College and their Learning Disabled Unit where two musicians, Moss Velez and Ben Hughes were asked by us to use their considerable experience to guide, encourage, entertain and develop a wide range of skills amongst the students.

The resultant series of public performances and the production of 'Things I Like', a CD of their music, made a deep impression on all those who witnessed it.

The project was run alongside the Bronze Level of the Arts Council England's Arts Award scheme which all students attained through written work, practical activity and, probably the highlight, a trip to see 'Joseph' at Plymouth. Front row seats and dancing in the aisles were all part of a fantastic experience for the participants!

Opening doors.

It is becoming increasingly well recognised that arts based tools can assist learning, understanding and expression for many types of audience, but particularly those for who more academic methods can prove difficult.

Superact! exists to help audiences gain access to arts based projects and initiatives that deliver awareness, principally within the healthcare, education and criminal justice systems.

It might be helping a person with dementia maintain stronger links with a fading past, helping a young offender discover a sense of self-worth and expression that might prevent re-offending or giving children the chance to experience the creativity of other cultures.

Our workshops are designed specifically to suit the needs of the recipient audience and to be exciting, informative and very hands on.

Superact! uses many types of arts activities to reach its audiences including music (across a huge variety of genres and cultures), story telling and drama.

We work with audiences at a very local level as well on initiatives that are regional, national and international in nature. Whilst a number of our activities are based on delivering government policy, we are keenly aware that helping people is best done on a very personal level and we are very happy to respond to requests for our services from individual communities and establishments themselves.