Who we are

All of the workshop facilitators at Advocreate have undergone rigorous training in the drama workshop approaches of Advocreate. All workshop facilitators are experienced in working with people with learning disabilities and have undergone an enhanced criminal records bureau check. All of our facilitators also have public liability insurance.

Workshop Director: Nick Llewellyn

Nick Llewellyn set up the company in London in 2007 to further the research and practice that he developed through working at Hijinx Theatre in Cardiff. (www.hijinx.org.uk). As Outreach Officer for 3 years at Hijinx, he developed many one-off, series and larger scale workshops and projects mainly for people with learning disabilities and carers throughout the whole of South Wales and occasionally beyond. By collaborating with many learning- disabled host organisations, Nick developed creative approaches to many of their objectives. In South Wales, Nick worked with:

Nick’s proudest moment was developing an innovative approach to making democracy creative and exciting by project managing and facilitating the 2006 All Wales People First conference. Around 150 people with a learning disability took part in a mock mass demonstration to develop skills in protesting, using the media and lobbying. These skills have now been put into place when protesting against recent social services cuts in Cardiff and are already being used to campaign for the All Wales People First manifesto for the May 2007 Welsh Assembly elections.

 
Nick graduated from the Central School of Speech and Drama with BA (Hons) Drama and Education degree and has a Foundation in Mime and Physical Theatre from the Desmond Jones School. Nick has also trained with the Brazilian theatre director and activist, Augusto Boal on the ‘theatre and therapy’ work of the Rainbow of Desires and with the Touch Trust using sensory therapeutic approaches to working with people with profound and multiple learning disabilities. Nick has a huge passion for this work and vast experience in project managing and facilitating many small and large- scale workshops and projects.