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The Power of Voice by Olivia Watkins
Olivia Watkins reflects on a workshop with Verity Standen.
MAYK's Mental Health Policy
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.
We've moved!
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.
We can't really ask the bigger questions until we're friends...
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.
Does Uganda have more mobile phones than light bulbs?
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 remains part of Arts Council England's National Portfolio 2018-22
MAYK receives four-year funding from Arts Council England through its National Portfolio programme.
Can You Hear Me Now? Call out
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.
Firebird at 25: portraits of the company by Paul Blakemore
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.