Arts-in-Action (AiA) is the Applied Creative Arts outreach unit of the Department of Creative and Festival Arts at the St Augustine Campus of the University of the West Indies. The company specializes in using creative and performing arts disciplines (theatre, dance, music, visual arts, storytelling, spoken-word, Carnival Arts, etc) in creating educational workshops and developmental projects for a wide range of audiences and settings.
To date, Arts-in-Action has completed over 3,000 applied creative arts projects across the country as well as the Caribbean, the USA, the UK, and Europe, dealing with pertinent societal issues to over half a million participants.
They have received such awards as: UWI Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence (2001), Trinidad Express Newspapers Merit Award to Youth Group or Organization (2002), bpTT Spirit of Community Awards, just to name a few.
AiA conducts programmes and workshops in:

Schools:
• Teacher training in applied creative rts
techniques
• Environmental literacy
• Bullying and youth violence
• Youth sexuality, HIV/ AIDS
• Peer pressure and drug abuse
• History, heritage and culture
• Difference and race relations
• Spoken-word and drama
• Drama in Mathematics and English Literature
learning

Communities:
• Domestic violence
• Child sexual abuse
• HIV/AIDS and STI awareness and education
• Storytelling in early Childhood
• Community practices and the environment
• Community violence
• Alcohol and drug abuse
• Male and female sexual health
• Aging
• Difference and race relations
• Disaster preparedness and management
• Training in applied creative arts techniques

Workplace
• Stress and anger management
• Communication
• Change management
• HIV/AIDS in the workplace
• Sexual harassment and gender relations and
discrimination in the workplace
• Leadership and team building
• Safety in the workplace
• Appreciating administrative professionals
• Drama and role-play in simulation-training
• Product and policy launches