Call to action
CALL OUT: ARTISTS, CREATIVES & COMMUNITY SUPPORTERS
Artlandish – Community Arts for All invites artists and supporters of all kinds to be part of
HERE WITHOUT HOME
We are seeking artists, musicians, poets, filmmakers, writers, performers, volunteers, workshop providers, gallery workers, poster makers, and anyone who feels called to support this project.
Here Without Home gathers stories from people with lived experience of homelessness and displacement — including those forced to flee home due to domestic violence, war, or upheaval. These stories will become inspiration for new creative work that builds empathy, understanding, and connection within our wider community.
We are looking for people willing to respond with care, respect, and imagination.
How you can be involved
- Create new work inspired by lived-experience stories
- Facilitate or support creative workshops
- Offer time, skills, or practical help as a volunteer
- Attend exhibition, screening, or performance
- Support installation, documentation, or outreach
- Help amplify the project through networks and platforms
We welcome all art forms, all levels of experience, and all backgrounds. What matters most is a willingness to listen, collaborate, and contribute to a project grounded in dignity and shared humanity.
If you don’t see yourself listed but feel you have something to offer — we want to hear from you.
How to get Get involved
📧 Contact: info@artlandish.co.uk
🌐 Project: Here Without Home
🎨 Organisation: Artlandish – Community Arts for All
Together, we can turn stories into spaces of understanding, creativity, and compassion.
Call out for folks with lived experience.
Herefordshire Artlandish invites people with lived experience of homelessness to share their stories through art Artlandish, a voluntary community arts organisation based in Hereford, is launching a new creative project to shine a light on the real experiences of homelessness in all its forms.
The project, part of the Here Without Home initiative, aims to collect personal stories and transform them into powerful art of all forms that challenge perceptions, educate the wider public, and support meaningful change.
Artlandish is inviting anyone in the Midlands who has experienced homelessness — whether through sofa-surfing, rough-sleeping, a way to escaping trauma or domestic abuse, mental health challenges, eviction, insecure housing, care leaver experiences, or difficulties linked with criminal convictions — to come forward and share their story in a way that feels safe for them.
Stories can be submitted anonymously, including through voice notes, or shared with contact details if the person would like to be involved more directly. “These stories matter — and art can help people truly hear them” Homelessness is often hidden, misunderstood, or oversimplified. Many people move between temporary or unsafe living situations without ever being seen or counted.
Through this project, Artlandish hopes to give space to the lived voices behind the statistics. “Art allows us to feel what someone else has lived,” said Artlandish. “A painting, a poem, a collage, a sound recording — these can open hearts in ways facts alone can’t. We want to honour the courage, challenges, resilience and truths of people who have navigated homelessness in all it forms.
These stories deserve to be heard, shared, and learned from. Participants can choose to:
– Tell their story in their own words
– submit a voice note (anonymous or named)
– create art themselves, with optional support from Artlandish artists.
Stories and artworks will contribute to community exhibitions, performances, workshops, and public conversations throughout Herefordshire, helping people understand the realities of local housing struggles — and why change is urgently needed. A safe, respectful invitation Artlandish emphasises that sharing is completely voluntary, and participants can share as much or as little as they’re comfortable with. No personal information is required unless someone wants to be contacted for follow-up.
All experiences are welcome. Every story — big or small, past or recent — helps build a fuller picture of homelessness in our community. People can submit their story or voice note by contacting: info@artlandish.co.uk