Current or Recent Projects 

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Outside The Frame Arts, Manchester 

Co-director of a new arts collective in Manchester aims to raise the profile of underrepresented and marginalized communities by giving a platform to those absent from the mainstream and using the arts to challenge the status quo. Our current project ‘Platform for Palestinian Arts’ aims to shine a light on Palestinian writers by exploring playwrights and poets with diverse communities through a series of creative writing workshops to inspire new writing.

 

 

The Edge Theatre and Arts Centre Manchester

Weekly Facilitator and director with an adult theatre company for learning disabled actors called, 'Expressive Edge', we devise 2 shows a year

 

Speech Bubbles (Peoplescape), Moston 

Weekly drama workshops for kS1 to develop, communication, confidence and well-being, A story drama approach placing the child at the centre of the activity, who become at different times, author, performer and audience

 

 

Cybertots Nurseries London 

External creative consultant for the three nurseries, supporting stuff regularly in planning how to activities creatively.

• Training in confidence building and collaboration, storytelling skills and how to plan creatively in line with EYFS areas of learning 

 

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Short term projects

I regularly deliver short term projects for different community groups, theatres, and educational settings, for example, Manchester Univeristy applied theatre and undergraduate drama students, Octagon Theatre workshops, Odd Arts, DIY theatre company and more...

 

 

             Past Projects 

 

 

Octagan Theatre Bolton, 2011- 2016

• Participatory arts workshops in Cawdor estate for children who do not normally access the arts with 'Bolton at Home.'

• Schools aspirations workshops 

 

The Lowry Theatre Salford, 2011- 2015

• Weekly ‘#GetInvolved’ drama drop in for young people aged 11 to 19 years

• Story workshop for children

• Young carers project 

 

Lesbian Immigration Support Group (LISG), Manchester, 2014 - 2015

Project manager and facilitator with a group of refugee and asylum seekers seeking asylum for their sexuality, alongside a digital artist to create a stop animation

 

Community Arts North West, 2014

Artist for a refugee women’s project called ‘Heart’s Core’ creating a piece of theatre to be performed at ‘Z Arts’ in Manchester, includes assisting the project manager, planning with artistic team and facilitation

 

Purple Patch Arts North West, 2011 - 2014                                                                    Delivered Weekly, drama, movement and art workshops with a group of adults with learning difficulties, at Mencap in Trafford

 

Burnley Youth Theatre, 2010 - 2013   

Youth Arts Worker in implementing, developing, project managing, and delivering the Core Outreach Programme. Worked with young people and children in a range of outreach settings, facilitating drama workshops and devising/directing theatre productions. Some examples of projects included: project manager and director for a play about forced marriage, wrote and directed an adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream,  a theatre exchange project with Northern Ireland, created four films and a piece of multimedia theatre about knife crime with young offenders, mentoring young people to be facilitators and leaders, facilitator for INDRA: theatre for social change group as well as various drama and movement workshops for children and young people with disabilities

 

Big Foot Arts Education North West,  2010 - 2012                                                   Storytelling in schools including Black History Month, bespoke drama workshops, theatre in education projects, PSHE and Citizenship Development, Drama and Literacy

 

Curious Minds Creative Partnerships North West, 2010 -  2011                                          Worked in schools across the North West in collaboration with other art practitioners

                                                                                                                 

Mencap Manchester, 2009 -  2010                                                               Project Manager for action research project for young people (aged 16 to 23 years) with learning disabilities. Developed an action theatre piece of research with young people with learning disabilities, of which the findings were presented as a piece of drama that toured schools. Co-ordinated a conference to share and process the findings, including a workshop on inclusivity and theatre.

                

DIY Theatre Company Salford, 2009 - 2012                                                                                      

• Co-delivered the arts award at a special needs school in Stockport (13-14 years)

• Weekly artistic support for a learning disabled adults theatre company