Are you passionate about arts and culture? Want to develop your ideas and confidence to make a change? Aged 14 – 21?
Then our Youth Advocates group is for you! Through monthly sessions and creative workshops, you’ll have a platform to explore ideas that are important to you and work with others to produce your own creative projects.
This Autumn Term our workshop series is ‘Document Where You Stand: Make A Magazine’. Youth Advocates will be involved in workshops around writing, conversation, photography and graphic design. The outcome will be a collective printed zine full of everyone’s ideas and creations.
Session 1 (Thursday 26 September): Write Where You’re At – poetry and expressive writing workshop with KCHANNA
Session 2 (Thursday 24 October): Connect With Who You Know – conversation and interviewing workshop with Unitas Youth Zone
Session 3 (Thursday 21 November): Capture What You See – photography workshop with Cheniece Warner
Session 4 (Thursday 19 December): Design What You Have – graphic design workshop with LIVING PROOF
We also can provide remote involvement if accessing these spaces is a challenge for you
Our auditions take the form of creative group workshops led by professional theatre practitioners and are friendly spaces where we explore acting, singing, movement and team working skills. All disciplines are taken equally into consideration when casting our shows, so give everything a really good go. If you’re feeling anxious, it is totally understandable, and the BYMT staff members are there to support you through your audition experience. The most important thing is commitment and enthusiasm!
Every year hundreds of young people 11-21 year olds perform in fully staged musicals created by West End writers and directors, on the professional stages of venues such as Southwark Playhouse, Lyric Theatre Belfast, and Birmingham Hippodrome with BYMT. For your chance to take part in the next Easter and Summer seasons of shows all you have to do is come and audition and show us what you can do. Sing, dance, act, play a musical instrument.
The 2025 National Audition Tour is now on sale! Online Auditions will take place in November 2024 and In-Person Auditions will take place in January and February 2025.
Deafinitely Youth Theatre is back! Join us for another fantastic theatre term where you will end with performing your show on a theatre stage.
Deafinitely Youth is for anyone aged 14 – 21, deaf, hard of hearing or BSL/SSE users and is completely free!
Our next DYT workshops will run every two weeks from October 2024 – February 2025 in London.
Here you can build up your acting skills with theatre professionals, before making a show to perform during the February half term!
The show will be performed on a real theatre stage, with your friends and family in the audience.
At DYT you will:
Eastern Angles is very excited to announce the launch of EA Young Company alongside the news that we will be participating in the National Theatre Connections Festival 2025!
This is the first time ever that any organisation in Ipswich has participated in National Theatre Connections, and the EA Young Company has been created especially to bring together a talented ensemble of young performers who will participate in the festival.
Sessions are free to attend but admission is by audition only. Auditions will be held on Tuesday 22nd October 6pm-8pm at the Eastern Angles Centre.
EA Young Company regular sessions will take place every Thursday evening 6pm-8pm, during school term time.
BAC Next Gen Producers is our annual programme for young people aged 18 to 29 who want to develop practical skills in live event producing. The programme takes place over 15 weeks between January and April.
We take on 8 young people each year and hold weekly sessions where we host creative workshops facilitated by BAC staff and other industry professionals. Participants can expect to hone their producing skills in areas such as budgeting, contracting, marketing, artist liaison and event delivery.
As the cohort develop these skills, they are also working towards building our annual Homegrown Festival. This is the culmination of the programme which sees an entire building takeover across a weekend in mid April.
Are you an aspiring or early-career arts writer/journalist based in Scotland who would like to develop all aspects of your work?
Disability Arts Online in partnership with Creative Scotland and The Skinny are offering six writers who are either disabled* and/or Black people/People of Colour an accessible development opportunity which includes a bursary of £1500 (in addition to travel, accommodation and access costs), mentoring, workshops, feedback and the opportunity to have your work published.
The workshops will cover the following topics:
As media partners for the project, The Skinny are offering participants the opportunity to have their work published as part of the programme. There will also be further paid opportunities to have writing published on Disability Arts Online. Several of the previous programmes’ cohorts went on to have their work published in mainstream outlets, including The Independent.
Will your next job be backstage?
The Technical Academy is your chance to experience working behind the scenes in theatre and live events. Successful applicants will be offered a grant so there are no financial barriers to stop people taking part.
Ever considered a career working in technical production? Want to find out what it’s all about?
The Technical Academy is hands-on production training for people with little or no experience, taught by the technicians who do it every day.
If you’re 18+ and live in London, our three-week training programme could be your next step towards a brand new career. Everyone is welcome.
Find out about the range of work that happens backstage in creative venues – from building stages, rigging lights and setting up drum kits, to designing sound, lighting and audio visual effects. The Technical Academy is your chance to learn the basics, see how technicians work, and discover the need-to-knows for getting work in the industry.
Southbank Centre offers a grant – which we process in instalments – to help Technical Academy participants take part. We will also give you lunch on training days and cover your travel costs (London travel zones 1 – 6) to the Southbank Centre and to our partner venues that you visit on the programme.
The Southbank Centre provides:
Are you passionate about backstage and the technical side of theatre? Are you aged between 13 and 19?
Applications for Young Technicians 2025 are now open.
The Lighthouse Young Technicians programme is back! Aimed at young people who are interested in getting to grips with lighting, sound and stage management in a variety of indoor and outdoor settings, the course runs over a twelve-week period in the Autumn here at Lighthouse.
Paid places are charged at £150 for the full 12 weeks. Cost should never be a barrier to accessing the arts at Lighthouse so, please head to the bottom of the application form if you would like to apply for a bursary place.
Bursary spaces will be means tested to assure they are being accessed fairly.
If you consider yourself to have a disability, please tell us on the application form how we can make the course accommodating to your needs. NB. Lighthouse is committed to making it's programmes as accessible as possible and actively encourages applications from those with additional needs. Please email the address below to discuss further.
This autumn, we’re presenting a free 5-week workshop series on stage writing led by our Resident Artist, Misha Duncan-Barry.
We’ll also explore connections to Black History Month, drawing inspiration from both contemporary and historical figures to generate new works.
Open to writers of all backgrounds, whether you’re a beginner, a student, or an experienced writer, this course is designed for you. Whether you have an idea for a play, monologue, or scene you’ll have the time and space to create during the workshop. We especially encourage those from under-represented communities to apply.
Please note that by booking your ticket for 21 September, this also registers you for all the subsequent workshops.
Applications are now open for our brand new playwriting group
Do you want to create new stories for the stage?
Are you a first-time writer or an early-career playwright with no more than two plays produced?
Do you have a passion for storytelling, a talent with words and an interest in writing for the stage?
