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New fierce writing at The Sprint Festival.
"They tried to bury me...But they didn't realise I was a seed." -Sinead O'Connor
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Happy New Year!
“The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.” ― Maya Angelou
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Bespoken and Mama Quilla LIVE PERFORMANCE
" A Scratch Night With Sharp Nails." - Kay Adshead
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NEW! Princess Amelia live at Gunnersbury Park Museum
''Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be." Diana- Princess of Wales
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Bespoken Back At The Old Operating Theatre
"Lemon balm. Soothe all troublesome care. Marigold---cureth the trembling of harte. "- Virginia Hartman
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Windrush workshop for schools
“We are not makers of history. We are made by history” - Martin Luther-King
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We’ve Got The Power! Summer 2022
‘’When women have power, we can be free!’’ Sophie student aged 14
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Bespoken welcomes Emma Dalmayne
“Be you, there’s only one of you. Know that you are not faulty or disordered.”-Emma Dalmayne
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Bespoken back at Kew Gardens May 22!
"A walk in nature brings the soul back home" Mary Davis
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Bespoken adaptation of Mother Courage And Her Children. April 2022
"War is like love; it always finds a way." - Bertolt Brecht. 1939
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Compassion In Crisis. Windrush performance and workshop.
"Paved with gold, no-but yes, diamonds appear on the ground in the rain." -Andrea Levy
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And the Carnegie Mentally Healthy School Silver Award goes too.....
"What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candour, and more unashamed conversation."- Glenn Close
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Ordinary at The Old Operating Theatre Dates Released!
"Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is engineer transformation"-Thomas Pynchon
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First tickets released for Ordinary at The Ninth Life November!
"And anyway, it’s not as though I’ll never see Mum again, is it?”- Luna Lovegood.
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Theatre projects with Age Exchange July 2021!
“Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” Ryunosuke Satoro -Writer Poet
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WATCH OUR NEW FILM COMPASSION IN CRISIS! JUNE 2021!
"Old people are young people who've just had a few more heartbreaks, thousands of more workdays, and who've prepared a dozen more eulogies" -Karl Kristian Flores.
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Creative writing project with the Mother and Baby Unit.
"A word after a word after a word is power."- Margaret Atwood
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BOMBS BLITZ AND BRAVERY Projects for 2021!
"There's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end."- Scott Adams
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Smile With Us initiative! A massive Thankyou! March 2021
"I just want the audience to have a wonderful, happy feeling inside them and leave with big smiles on their faces." - Andy Kaufman
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Trailer for Ordinary gets over 5,800 hits on Social media! Feb 2021
“When women support each other, incredible things happen.” -Unknown
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Compassion in a Crisis. Performance at Cleeve Meadow November 2020
“War, like death, is a great leveller, and mutual suffering and endurance had made us all friends.” .. Mary Seacole
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Creative writing project at the Bethlem Mother and Baby Unit Autumn 2020
""We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist?"- Waiting For Godot
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Thank you for your love and support December 2020
"There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met."-William Butler Yeats
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Immersive Science and Story telling with Social Arts For Education
“The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.” ― Kakuzo Okakura
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Bespoken receive Special Purpose Award
"I can shake off everything as I write; My sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn."- Anne Frank
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Autumn becomes Winter... New dates announced 2021!
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” - Louisa May Alcott.
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A MASSIVE THANK YOU! September 2020
"Whoever you are... I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." Blanche Dubois
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Getting through this difficult time. Spring 2020
"The work of today is the history of tomorrow, and we are its makers."- Juliette Gordon Low
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Senses And Sensitivity at Cleeve Meadow School March 2020
"Not the senses that I have but what I do with them is my kingdom" -Helen Keller
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From Strength To Strength With Kew Gardens Feb-Mar 2020
"(I will) try to learn from the lovely world which surrounded me" -Marianne North
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02/11/19 Bespoken welcomes its first Patron Rebecca Prichard
"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass." Maya Angelou
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Theatre workshop's with Autistic Inclusive Meets. Feb 2020
“Being different is a gift, It makes me see things from outside the box." Greta Thunberg
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Castles, Conflict And Change at Cleeve Meadow School. Jan 2020
“Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.” ― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
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New Year at Kew! Sunday Stories return.
("On a sunset:) I cannot speak or move. I am drunk with beauty!" Marianne North (1830-1890)
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Christmas show 2019!
"His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him." Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol.
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17/10/19 For The Love Of Trees performance and workshop
"Embrace the trees and Save them from being felled; The property of our hills, Save them from being looted." Sunderlal Bahuguna
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17/07/19 Theatre in Residence at Bethlem Hospital.
"The arts are not just a nice thing to have- they define who we are." Michelle Obama
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SUMMER AT KEW! What Makes Plants grow?
"Ring all the bells sing and tell the people everywhere that the flower has come." Minnie Riperton
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Projects with MAMA QUILLA 01/11/19
"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." Helen Keller
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A most peculiar love story! AUTUMN AT KEW!
"Tis Vegetation’s Juggler - The Germ of Alibi ." - Emily Dickinson
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Transformation Storytelling and Workshop at The Bethlem Hospital. 12/06/19
"Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things." Lao Tzu
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Masterclass with Punchdrunk Theatre June 2019
"These things are mysterys not to be explained But you will understand when you get there alone..." Punchdrunk
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Easter storytelling at the Botanic Gardens of Kew. New for 2019
“Bed rest and perhaps a large, steaming mug of hot chocolate. I always find that cheers me up.” — Albus Dumbledore
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03/04/19 Launch of Persephone and the Pomegranate.
"Give me but one firm spot on which to stand on and I will move the Earth." Archimedes.
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