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Open Ya Mouth CiC is is a community organisation from Portsmouth dedicated to encouraging arts and culture in overlooked communities in Portsmouth and the surrounding area. They have built an extremely diverse audience and built cultural bridges across many groups. Open Ya Mouth have organised multiple community arts fairs, highlighting local art and culture and they were recently awarded an £80,000 Arts Council grant for a multi-cultural arts festival in coordination with the Victoria Parks Rejuvenation Project.

Open Ya Mouth has been a starting point for many musicians, poets and performers to reach out to bigger venues and festivals, and in many cases receive regular paid work.