🛠️ 5 DAYS UNTIL SILENCE 🛠️

SILENCE starts its first technical rehearsal today!

Our team are hard at work getting the show's brand new design ready and it's already looking BEAUTIFUL

Get tickets quick to make sure you see it for yourself

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Happy World Poetry Day! 🌎

As part of our 2023 Cabaret for Freedom with YOUNG IDENTITY powerhouse local poets Billie Meredith Ella B!TEZ🫀 nasima ‘bad b’ bee poet created and performed this blazing tribute to ‘black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet’ Audre Lorde. youtube.com/watch?v=eld_Ox…

'When they see what we left behind, they will see that is was impossible for us to envision earth without us, (...)'.

A huge thank you to poet @BillieMeredith from YOUNG IDENTITY for her moving performance on the many emotions wrapped up in climate action.

Celebrating #WorldPoetryDay with some clips of our favourite Young Identity performances. You can watch them all on our youtube channel! #WorldPoetryDay 2024 #WPD 🌎

🎥 Watch Now: youtube.com/youngidentitym…

It's all ways beneficial to honor artist be they poets, painters or actors, but what should artists learn about the creative industries? Check the link provided to see if you agree!

#IWD2024 - Conversations in Creativity - Highlights Reel youtu.be/FnIfTfu2Fis?si… via YouTube

The power in this room today with Gaia Vince & Esme Ward at Manchester Museum, as they start the discussion on what kind of radical and creative solutions we need to combat the climate crisis🌏

“I just want to say that I would have never felt like I could have done a masters in creative writing if it wasn't for the time I spent in YI” Whalley Range 11-18 High School Parrs Wood High School and Sixth Form College Levenshulme High School CHS South William Hulme's Grammar School Stretford High Trinity High Co-op Academy Manchester Department for Education

This weeks workshops ahead!

Monday: Writing in the Age of Artificial Intelligence with B!TEZ🫀 and Louis Registe

Tuesday: This Kind of Black on the Black Canon

Wednesday: Politics & zine-making with Christopher Brown & Lauren Temple

For workshop updates: tinyurl.com/Young-Identity…

I would like to highly recommended. Silence its a play about partition. Brilliant, thought provoking and relevant. It’s on tour and you can see it at HOME, Manchester
30 APR – 4 MAY | 7:30PM, 2PM YOUNG IDENTITY Tara Theatre HOME Whalley Range 11-18 High School Levenshulme High School Burnage Academy for Boys

To all School partners please do share this opportunity with your young people and Moss Side Millennium Powerhouse free workshops in the community. Parrs Wood High School and Sixth Form College Whalley Range 11-18 High School Levenshulme High School Burnage Academy for Boys Co-op Academy Belle Vue The Barlow RC High Cedar Mount Academy CHS South Stretford Grammar Trinity High

I am happy to report Dustin Charles Young are working on a project in East Berlin. The first cohort repping #OneMicStandUk showcasing the best of slam poet! #Manchesterstyle . Arts Council England ACE North The National Lottery Community Fund Uncle SAF nasima ‘bad b’ bee poet Leyla Barakat CourtsWrites #SpokenwordAcademy

I've unashamedly pilfered this fantastic photo off Misan Harriman of
Diane Abbott MP .
I spent 4 long and fun evenings in Diane Abbot's company filming Celebrity Come Dine With Me and found her to be well read, extremely intelligent, humble, caring about society and community,…

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On a personal note working as an Associate Director can lead to many exciting things.
Ask me about my journey as Associate Director to Artistic Director 😊🤩🙋🏽‍♀️

This type of racism and gender base attack is a constant and has been for the best part of 500 years. And if it’s not that it’s precious individuals not wanting to accept that privilege is a real for some and not others.

To all those observing this month, Ramadan Mubarak.

We acknowledge that this is not a peaceful and safe time for many who would be observing this month.

We call for an immediate ceasefire and to end the genocide and conflict.

Enough is enough.

I am absolutely blown away with these new workshop facilitators who are dedicating themselves to sharing their brand of poetry through facilitating for other young writers Uncle SAF nasima ‘bad b’ bee poet Christopher Brown Lauren Temple B!TEZ🫀 This Kind of Black OldGrey

We need a Poetry chart show. I’ve been saying it for years BBC Radio 4 well done Uncle SAF to write such profound poetry in the weeknd of listening and being inspired by music #bbcradio6musicfestival
2024 is absolutely wonderful thank you Cerys Matthews Craig_Charles_FTM.

Dr Kim Moore Shirley A May B&W Thornton of Stratford-upon-Avon The Verb BBC Radio 3 Ian McMillan joelle taylor Rommi Smith Sarah Jane Morris Tony Remy Thanks to everyone for an engrossing, sometimes disturbing* but ultimately heart-warming programme.

* My hackles rose as you related the tale of the bloke who suggested you frame your poem around the man's point of view. I was going 'NOOOOOO!' 🤯🤬