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Case Study: Slam Out Loud - Arts for All

SDGs Impacted

Slam Out Loud (SOL) 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 in India. SOL works with professional artists and e-learning resources to help children build the skills to dream bigger and create mediums through which to raise awareness of issues like gender, climate action and social justice - in the hope of creating more positive futures. 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.

Impact / Outcome
Through sustainable partnerships with over 610 NGOs and educational institutions across the world, Arts For All reached 4.7 million children, across 23 Indian States and 19 countries. During SOL’s eightweek pilot project with the Government of Patiala, children created more than 460 artworks and 120 response videos. During the pandemic, SOL has enabled the creation of more than 100,000 artworks, comprising audio-visual responses of children’s poems and stories.
Funding sources
Public
Key Metrics
Support equitable remote art learning for students
Locations
ASEAN, India
Sector
Education
Intervention lever
Policy
Operating model
Fully public
Target populations
Women & girls, Children, Youth
Year published
01 January 2021
Organization involved
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United Nations

The EDISON Alliance

A World Economic Forum Initiative