All About Enrich
Where it all began
The original concept of Enrich Festival came from a local social worker from the adult care services.
With support from a wide range of people across Watford’s networks and communities, the flagship festival was funded by Arts Council England and Hertfordshire County Council across several locations in Watford.
In 2020, running of the festival was handed to Herts Inclusive Theatre. It has been hosted exclusively at Watford Palace Theatre since 2022.
Image description:
Left: four people hold connected coloured strings with their hands up. A man and a woman each wear orange t-shirts with the Enrich Festival logo. One woman is dressed as an ice-cream with a cherry hat. We see the back of a man in a black and gold wig, red head-dress, cupcake patterned top and a light blue skirt.
Centre: The back of a person with long brown hair in a black tshirt playing guitar. Bright yellow stage lights above the happy, dancing audience.
Right: A woman in a black shirt with long white sleeves and their hair in a bun reads a poem from their phone, standing in front of a microphone. Next to them, a woman in a long black dress and black bracelets provides BSL interpretation for the poetry, their hands raised in sign.
Enrich Festival today
Since 2020, we have continued the ethos of giving space and visibility to incredible disabled and neurodivergent artists whilst creating engaging, inclusive and accessible spaces for participants.
It is our aim that at Enrich, art knows no barriers and everyone belongs.
Video Description:
Dancers in black and white costumes on a black stage move their arms gracefully. They form an archway for a dancer in a wheelchair. Audience members dance, smiling. A bearded guitarist with long hair strums a guitar and sings into a microphone. Stage lights flash in changing colours.
A lady with a blue head-dress smiles. Two smiling women wave, dressed identically in sparkly red outfits with fluffy red hoods, pink sunglasses and orange antennae. Smiling participants dance; many are dressed in black t-shirts with the Enrich Logo. They hold sparkly silver fabric over their heads.
People smile with shakers and conga drums; the workshop leader smiles and stomps to the beat with her brown boots. A child forms shadow shapes behind a screen lit with red light. Three actors sat in chairs communicate with hand gestures. Participants dressed in red, blue and black t-shirts lift their arms together in a movement activity.
Dancers dressed in white sit in a line on a dark stage with their faces lifted up. They raise their arms in sync to form a beautiful movement. Standing, they take a bow with happy smiles. The video finishes with logos of Herts Inclusive Theatre and Enrich - a pair of green cartoon eyes with long lashes.