Olivia Watkins reflects on a workshop with Verity Standen.

Today is World Mental Health Day, and so we're publishing our new Mental Health Policy, developed through MAYK’s participation in Arts Council England’s Agent for Change programme.

After three wonderful years above St Nicholas Market with Stand+Stare, Interval, Bristol Circus City and Bristol Pound, we've moved across to the Bristol Festivals Hub on Unity Street.

As the Can You Hear Me Now process picks up speed, we thought it'd be interesting to share some of the exchanges between Bristol, Kigali and Kampala. Here's an email from Caroline Williams to Brian Geza (in Kigali) and Sarafina Muhawenimana (Kampala) following our session on Tuesday where we tried for ages to establish a three-way Skype.

I’m sitting in the rehearsal room for Can You Hear Me Now, our East Africa Arts project where young people in Bristol, Kampala and Kigali are collaborating to make a performance in each city that is linked through digital technology (developed by the brilliant Tim Kindberg).

MAYK receives four-year funding from Arts Council England through its National Portfolio programme.

Are you a young person (aged 15 to 21) who would be excited to be in a new live performance  performed in three cities simultaneously? Check out our call for participants.

On 26th January we hosted Demostage at the Tobacco Factory Theatres Bar. We were joined by five artists who presented ideas at various stages of development in front of an audience who lent critical and responsive ears.

Firebird Theatre are a company of sixteen disabled actors, ranging in age from 22 to 70. Their new show A Spark and a Beating Heart tells their stories, intertwined with the myth of the firebird.

Just after Christmas, we spent a day with Firebird and photographers Paul Blakemore and Jack Offord taking a series of portraits of this unique company.