Voicebox: From Voice to action

We catch up with Alexandros Plasatis, an immigrant ethnographer who writes fiction in English, his second language, and recently completed a project for Writing East Midlands working with refugees and asylum seekers.

We catch up with artist Dion Kitson, an international British artist with a political message in his fine art. 

Thinking of using art and creativity to make the world a better place? Here are a few tips from Danny of BP or Not BP? to get you started.

There seems to be a misguided belief that people with autism or mental health difficulties want to cheat the system by getting a blue badge. I've never heard anything so laughable. 

Rosie Jones’ Fifteen Minutes is a thrilling hour full of endless surprises, obscene jokes and witty social commentary.

When you start to think about some of the things we’ve discussed, it can sometimes be difficult to find a way of responding. Where do you begin? How do you get involved? What can you offer?

We catch up with Nicki Carter from BP or Not BP about using theatre for activism and how they feel about BP sponsoring the Royal Shakespeare Company.

There’s a saying in the autism community: “If you’ve met one person with autism, you’ve met one person with autism.” There’s a serious humour at the heart of it, a wilful contradiction of logic spoken with an eyebrow raised that asks for change. It speaks to the frustration felt by autistic individuals who have seen the story of their identity told through harmful medical hypothesising, misguided neurotypical guesswork and deeply entrenched stereotyping – and usually by people who are not autistic.

A touching story told in a lively and dynamic one-woman performance.

Written by Naziaty Yaacob, Hope for Persons with Disabilities (Harapan OKU)

We catch up with the team at Clay Party, stars of brand-new dramedy, Outside, produced in association with the Pleasance Trust, currently at Edinburgh Fringe!

An intriguing drama about what happens when we let toxic masculinity take control.