Stella Barnes, Artsplan Trainer
Stella has been developing youth arts policy and practice in London for two decades. For ten years she has been developing new arts projects and training initiatives at Greenwich and Lewisham Young People’s Theatre (GYPT). Her focus over the last five years has been in developing arts provision for young refugees and asylum seekers. The majority of her work has been in Drama and Theatre though she has recently developed a number of video projects. The video ‘Safe’ made by five young refugees won the LWT ‘Whose London?’ award in 2002 and was screened on LWT. Another short film ‘Birthday Boy’ will be screened on Channel 4 in summer 2004. In 2002, Stella set up the Arts in Education Training Programme for exiled artists an annual professional development opportunity delivered in partnership with the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith.
