Kala Sangam - Bringing people together through South Asian and Interdisciplinary Arts

Yuva Kala (meaning Youth Arts) reached out to rural youth communities, providing tasters of arts activities, consulting with them on what they would like to do and encouraging them to actively participate in and enjoy the arts. Acting as a pilot to highlight the need for further rural youth arts, Yuva Kala nurtured and developed the creativity of young people, developed their understanding of and appreciation for different communities through arts, heritage and culture and provided a springboard to reach new heights of personal development. Yuva Kala encouraged inclusion and the integration of young people into their community thereby promoting their development, environmental awareness and appreciation of different communities.

 

Background

An initial study and research by the Government Office for Yorkshire and the Humber, Rural Strategy 2004 and the Yorkshire and Humberside Framework highlighted the level of deprivation in particular marginalisation of communities and youth. The report also highlights the growing gap between rural and urban communities and in particular rural cultural diversity.

Yuva Kala has helped form the basis of a larger project Kala Pal (meaning Arts Bridges) which aims to bridge the social gap between rural and urban communities exposing youth and arts from both communities to work together appreciating differences and sharing similarities.