Rosetta Life

Rosetta Life is a Creative Health Charity and Catalyst organisation, collaborating with organisations to develop innovations that impact change, through storytelling and performance.

Our vision is to ensure that every person living with life altering illness or facing loss has the opportunity to lead a full creative life. We develop innovative practices and deliver professional performances that challenge the stigma of life altering illness or loss, engaging participants in transformative creative processes that enable them to alter their own perception of a life altering illness. We develop confidence and creative skills so that individuals are able to create performances that change the perceptions of audiences about the experience of life with serious illness and that build tolerant inclusive communities.

We deliver four main arts in health programmes.

1. Brain Odysseys, a 12-week performance arts programme for people living with the effects of stroke and brain injury. . https://strokeodysseys.org/

2. We work with young people facing loss and illness in the UK and across the world. This peer-led young people's poetry programme is Dream A Difference. https://dreamadifference.art/

3. The Heart of Care, an arts- led platform for unpaid carers to connect with artists and share examples of creative care. https://heartofcare.net/ We work nationally and internationally with carers and arts organisations delivering programmes to develop performances that give visibility to the role of the carer in society.

4. Place4Hope is Rosetta Life’s programme designed to have an impact on climate justice. Led by a youth leadership board, we support young people aged 15-20 to engage with an arts-led education programme around climate action and health, and to co-create a global artworks for local community impact through youth-led dissemination.

Rosetta Life, established in 1997, comprises a small charity with a big impact, we are three part time staff with an established network of freelance artists who have trained with us for over the last ten years.

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