About the Project
Three Minute Heroes (https://thewarren.org/Projects/three-minute-heroes/) is a music and mental health programme, developed and facilitated by The Warren Youth Project in Hull, that uses creative writing to support young people, and turns their words into music, by using local musicians and singer/songwriters. We then developed this programme into Three Minute Monologues, using the same model of creative writing sessions with young people, but this time commissioning professional playwrights to turn young people's words, themes and thoughts into monologues.
We are pushing this project even further and are looking for a candidate who can facilitate creative writing sessions to support young people's mental health and wellbeing, whilst connecting with local musicians, script writers and artists to produce creative outputs that are entrenched in youth voice.
Three Minute Heroes sessions will allow young people to have access to high quality creative writing sessions as a means to better their mental health and offload their thoughts and experiences. We will then take those writings, anonymise them and give them to local young musicians, spoken word artists, playwrights, artists and illustrators to make an array of creative output inspired by the young people who use writing as a way to make sense of what they are going through.
As we have ran two versions of this project before, we are interested in keeping the creative writing sessions the same, allowing young people to come along to a Three Minute Heroes session, and feel supported enough to write down what they are feeling, thinking and experiencing. We know from running these sessions in the past, how powerful they can be and how much young people can gain from these sessions. What we are interested in this time round is how creatives respond to being given the same anonymised material, creating a bank of art, theatre and music that is inspired by what young people are going through now.