The Society for Contemporary Arts (SOCA) supported by the Youth in Action programme has been running a series of creative theatre workshops over a period of two months at Residential Drug Rehabilitation Komunita Santa Marija (KSM), Luqa, Malta. SOCA collaborated with drama therapist Lou Ghirlando and applied drama practitioner Anna Formosa, who led the workshops offered to residents at KSM to evoke participants’ creativity through individual expression and team work. Members of SOCA also participated in the workshops to encourage artistic and human encounter. For this project to happen SOCA members together with the workshop leaders worked closely with members of staff working at the residence who have openly discussed, co-operated and supported the project.SOCA focuses on engaging youths within the artistic contemporary field through activities targeted to enhance the opportunities of young people to fully explore and utilize their creative powers in various cultural artistic fields through community, research and education projects. The involvement of the members of SOCA in this project provided a positive energy to the group which enabled the residents to further engage in the project. The workshops aimed to create a supportive environment for communication, meeting and creativity, enabling participants to first of all distance themselves from their everyday environment, develop their creativity, and ultimately discover new things about themselves and their environment.Following the workshops, members of SOCA worked on the creation of a publication called ACT: ART, COMMUNITY, THEATRE – a report of a community project. This publication is a resource for organisations and individuals who are interested in setting up community art projects. The content of the book shall guide the reader to a clearer understanding of the steps that were made towards setting up a community project. It is presented through the lens of the individuals involved in the project, including those organisation representatives, workshop leaders, project co-ordinator, volunteers and KSM residents.Initially the project was planned to be held at Mount Carmel Hospital involving its residents. However,the administration lagged the process and there was no other way but wait. After not getting any replies for over two months, SOCA started to look for other alternatives. At that stage it was SEDQA that accepted to collaborate with the project engaging a section of their residents at Komunita Santa Marija (KSM), who have similar issues as patients at Mount Carmel.This change was approved by Kevin Apap, a program officer at EUPA Malta, following a monitoring meeting in December. In the proposal submitted to the National Agency, it is mentioned that the series of workshops will be finalised by a presentation to be presented to the public. Following discussions with drama therapists leading the workshops, it was suggested that since the participants are undergoing rehabilitation which involves partial seclusion from the society, it might not appear to be the right direction to develop an open presentation with them where the participants would have to be exposed to the public. It was suggested and approved by the National Agency that a publication would be created instead of a presentation to document the experience and distributed to both general public and parties that took part in the project. This decision was only made to support the participants involved in the workshops; by creating a safe environment which allows them to develop social, personal and creative skills.