Our team uniform; royal blue polos and black pants; show our solidarity with victims of domestic violence. Along the way, AiA has earned a number of significant awards, accolades and partnerships such as:

1998 -’99

XI FITA ’98 Festival Internationale di Teatro Aruba, Best Production.
BP AMOCO Leaders Award
Environmental Category.

2000 – ’03

CANADA FUND Award for HIV/AIDS Awareness, 2000-2003.
2000 to Present- Arts-in-Action/Civilian Conservation Corps Induction Training Programme- Social Issues for The Ministry of National Security.
2001 UWI Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence.
2002 Trinidad Express Newspapers Merit Award to Youth Group or Organization.
2002-03 Tidy T&T Outstanding Project: Environmental Literary Category.
2003 Green Leaf Award – Environmental Management Authority (EMA).
2003 bpTT Spirit of Community Awards – The Environment Category.
2003 bpTT Spirit of Community Awards – Arts & Culture Category.

2004 – ’05

2004 Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Youth / MasterCard Entrepreneurship Award (Culture).
2004 bpTT Spirit of Community Awards – Youth in Education Category.
2005 UNDP Small Grants Programme Award for DRAMATHICS.

2007 – ’11

2007 Salzburg Fellows – Salzburg Seminars 446.
2008 UNICEF grant for ‘Apprentice Theatre’ (done in partnership with the National Commission for UNESCO).
2009-2011 IGDS UWI, Coalition Against Domestic Violence, ASPIRE-Project Research Partnership and Applied Creative Arts Research Instrument Design and Implementation- “Break the Silence”.

2012 – ’15

2012 cited as a significant contributor to Drama Education, “History of Drama Education: A Search for Substance”, Gavin Bolton, Volume 16 of the series Springer International Handbook of Research in Arts Education pp 45-66.
2014/2015 UNDP partnership for National Security Consultation St. Kitts and Nevis.
2015 UNDP partnership National Security Consultation St. Lucia.
2015 GEF SGP UNDP Grant: “Care and Love for the Environment and Nature (CLEAN)”, Environment Protection and Heritage Reclamation.
2015-2016 World Cultures Connect- World Cultures Training Program- Ambassador Patrice Briggs– ACP Cultures and National Arts Registry, Edinburgh Arts Festival 2016.

2016 – ’17

2016 UNWOMEN sponsored training in Gender Advocacy, Trainee-Facilitator, Brendon Lacaille, Arts-in-Action.
2016 UNDP partnership National Security Consultation St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
2016 UNWOMEN “Applied Arts Training for Theatre Practitioners” in Dominica using Arts-in-Action Educative Theatre model.
2016 UNWOMEN GBV TOOLKIT Certification, Gender Advocacy, Jamaica, December 11-19^th.
2017 BHP commission for Safe Spaces, Anti-bullying Project.

2018 – ’19

2018 JUMBIE BIRDS– written by Brendon Lacaille, directed by Michailean Taylor. A Discovery Camp/Discovery by Stage Children’s Theatre Production Camp to approach VAWG in Trinidad. Sponsored by UN Women. July 2018.
2018, AiA/BHP Safe Spaces in the communities of NE and SE Trinidad.
2019, AiA/BHP Safe Spaces in the communities of NE and SE Trinidad.
2019, The Golden Lantern– written and directed by Rayshawn Pierre. A Discovery Camp/Discovery by Stage Children’s Theatre Production Camp. July 2019.

2020

2020, AiA/BHP Safe Spaces in the communities of North and South East Trinidad.
2020, Arts-in-Action invited to the prestigious International Community Arts Festival , Rotterdam 2020 (ICAF 2020), postponed due to International COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown.
2020, AiA/Angostura Pilot-project with The TTPS IATF “Hearts and Minds” Programme– DREAMATICS– Success Laventille RC. Postponed due to National COVID-19 Lockdown.
2020, AiA/Republic Bank Ltd.– CHOICES for Police Youth Clubs in Port of Spain- with The TTPS IATF “Hearts and Minds” Programme. Postponed due to National COVID-19 Lockdown.·

As of 2020, we have extended our portfolio, having successfully transferred our applied creative arts methodology to other media, e.g. radio and television, with the production of entertaining and educational programmes such as:

“YouToO!” – a tourism education video for children which was produced by Tourism and Industrial Development Company (TIDCO),
“The Rough Season” – a Caribbean audio soap opera (in English and now Spanish) on hurricane disaster preparedness produced for Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) and The Association of Caribbean States (ACS, et al),
“The Right Move”– a thirteen-part video series for primary and secondary schools (AiA/IMDU- Ministry of education),
“That’s Life”– an eight-part video training tool for OJT training, Ministry of Tertiary Education Life Skills Unit.

Our current gaze into the use of other media has also produced a newsletter and a Cyber Theatre programme of online-live theatre workshops called The Blue Chair Series.

We continue to revolutionize the way in which the arts can work for you!