Award winning, Workie Ticket Theatre CIC is a North Tyneside- based and female-led organisation; producing work across the North-East which reflects current social issues. Workie Ticket specialise in supporting mental health, delivering workshops, collaborative community theatre and engaging groups from Amble to Sunderland and beyond. We aim to amplify unheard voices and to create safe inclusive spaces that celebrate women's stories. We use drama as a tool to engage socially isolated groups whilst exploring issues that affect their lives such as domestic abuse and sexual violence. Workie Ticket deliver workshops and projects in areas that have high social deprivation to empower participants to tell their stories. Our past projects have included working with female veterans, military partners, women from rural Northumberland and women who have experienced domestic violence. A commitment to creating real positive social impact through theatre is at the very heart of what we do. In July 2022, Workie Ticket won two awards for their Community Archive project -Womxn Up? which explored how the pandemic impacted women from the North East through a podcast and film. We are currently delivering #AllMenCan the next phase of our Womxn Up? project to engage boys and men from our region to discuss violence against women and girls, in a way we can educate, raise awareness and include them in the conversation. Inspired by the White Ribbon campaign, to end male violence against women ‘together’, we will be delivering workshops, creating a survey and finally, a podcast with audio response plays. The aim of the project is not to ‘point fingers’ or accuse ‘all men’ but to create a safe space to prove that #AllMenCan can be part of the debate. This has been funded by Operation Payback.
In November 2022, we celebrate five years of being proper little Workie Tickets (and surviving the pandemic!) To find out more about what we have been up to check out our promo:
Howay the Lasses promo video
