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We want to provide accessible and inspiring theatre making opportunities for children/young people in the Deaf community to build confidence, creative skills and support wellbeing.
North East Deaf Youth Theatre is an accessible group for children/young people in the Deaf community to explore theatre making and develop creative skills. The group is led by Unfolding Theatre's Creative Associate, EJ Raymond, who is profoundly deaf. Based at Gosforth Civic Theatre, the project will engage 20 children/young in a 5-day summer school in August 2024, in addition to our regular monthly sessions. The summer camp will involve the children and young people developing a co-created theatre project that will then be performed for family, friends and guests. North East Deaf Youth Theatre provides an inspiring and confidence-building opportunity for deaf children/young people to develop creative skills, work alongside Deaf role models who are working in the creative and cultural sector, build connections, and create their own theatre productions and creative work. Funding will support the costs of creative freelancers, BSL interpreters, venue hire and workshop materials.
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“Young deaf people have their own unique creativity, imagination and talent. For years I was told deaf people can’t make or create theatre and that’s not true.” EJ Raymond This is what EJ was told when they were younger, so we want to ensure deaf children/young people are not made to feel like this now! North East Deaf Youth Theatre celebrates the creativity of deaf children/young and provides access to creative opportunities that will inspire our next generation of performers, directors, script writers, lighting designers and more! Sessions are led by deaf creatives, providing positive role models for the children/young people that attend. We provide a safe and accessible space for deaf children/young people to explore their creativity, build confidence, make new friends and develop useful transferable skills. Since 2022, we have engaged 49 deaf children/young people and are determined to continue providing long-term, meaningful creative opportunities.
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Thank you so much to all our backers for supporting North East Deaf Youth Theatre! By donating and backing our project, you have also helped us unlock match funding from the North of Tyne Fund. This means we have now exceeded our fundraising target and are now able to support the delivery of our monthly drama sessions too. Thanks again for your kind support and we hope to see you at an Unfolding Theatre performance or event soon. Thank you! Unfolding Theatre
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Volunteer“Unfolding Theatre is one of the North East’s most precious cultural assets, making eclectic big-hearted performance work rooted in community participation and co-production.” North East Bylines
Unfolding Theatre inspires people through big-hearted, responsive and impactful theatre and community-based creative projects. Since 2008, we have won awards for our work with under-served communities (NCCPE Engaging Young People Award 2014, Journal Culture Awards: Performance of the Year 2010/2017, Arts and Business Partnerships 2019).
Our mission is to bring together surprising combinations of people who are representative of the world we live in. This enables us to generate remarkable theatre for national audiences, reflecting the stories of people from a range of communities.
Based in Newcastle upon Tyne, Unfolding Theatre became a charity in 2016. Our vision has three core aims: 1) more people are leading happier, more creatively fulfilled lives, 2) mainstream theatre better reflects England’s diversity and drives excellence and 3) people with different life experiences are better connected.
We aim to reach people of all ages and backgrounds and specialise in engaging with people that do not typically engage with theatre and the arts. Our current programme of work engages older people (50+), children and young people (including many of whom are neuro-diverse and/or d/Deaf), schoolchildren, adults living in areas of low arts engagement and socio-economic disadvantage, families and antenatal mothers.
Since 2018, we have carried out 8,600 creative engagements with over 3,500+ participants through 645 community-based activities, workshops and sessions. We have reached 31,500+ live audiences and 23,000+ digital audiences.
Project Owner: Unfolding Theatre The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.
