Reclaiming Our Heritage Project

Larry

Writer, playwright and facilitator, Larry, has been organising arts activities throughout the UK for several decades. 

Name: Larry Butler  

Years: 1970s – Present  

Writer, playwright and facilitator, Larry, has been organising arts activities throughout the UK for several decades. 

Larry co-founded Project Ability, a highly successful visual arts organisation, as well as the therapeutic poetry collective, Survivors Poetry Scotland.  

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“At that time, it was just still such a strong taboo about really opening up and allowing yourself to share your innermost feelings through words or through images or through music, because of a fear of being sectioned.” 

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