Collective Encounters is a professional arts organisation specialising in theatre for social change through collaborative practice. We use theatre to engage those on the margins of society, telling untold stories and tackling the local, national and international concerns of our time.

Established in 2004 Collective Encounters delivers participatory theatre programmes with geographical communities and communities of interest across the Liverpool City Region and in 2019 we launched a Centre for Excellence in Participatory Theatre to provide training, advocacy and networking for the national and international participatory arts movement.