Slam Out Loud: Arts for All Programme

Slam Out Loud (SOL) is a non-profit that uses the transformative power of performance and visual arts to help build creative confidence and skills like communication, critical thinking and empathy in children from disadvantaged communities. Through the Arts for All programme, Slam Out Loud enables free access to quality arts-based learning resources, as a contextual solution to prioritize and deliver mental wellbeing and socio-emotional learning support to the most vulnerable children. The resources are free of cost, interactive, need-sensitive and accessible in English, Hindi, and Punjabi (and translated in more regional languages). They are made available through low-tech distribution channels like WhatsApp, Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS), radio and TV, for use by organisations, teachers, parents and children. The programme was aimed at fostering socio-emotional wellbeing in children aged 7-17, the programme builds artistic confidence, selfesteem, leadership skills, creative communication and critical thinking in learners. Through knowledge partnerships with Girl Rising and World’s Largest Lesson, Slam Out Loud focused on content that is centered around gender, climate action, and social justice, to ensure children learn about and are equipped to deal with the challenges of the 21st century. During SOL’s eightweek pilot project with the Government of Patiala, children created more than 460 artworks and 120 response videos.