Youth barriers

Youth barriers was a theatre performance developed in partnership with young people attending an alternative education provision in Middlesbrough. They worked towards a performance based on their own lived experience to ensure that varied service leaders in the region better understood the challenges they faced and how to support overcoming them. The young people performed to a large conference audience and engaged delegates in forum theatre to find solutions. All the young people achieved an accreditation.

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Everyone involved received an ASDAN in leadership. You can see some of the campaigns created here: am beautiful exploring ADHD)

‘L’ was quiet for the first session, initially struggling to understand instructions and initially resistant; gradually L joined in the games or activities and became highly enthusiastic. L commented at least twice that he ‘wasn’t any good at drama’ and ‘can’t act’ but became enthusiastic and forthcoming when given the freedom to create a character and added the most input into this character, saying afterwards “It’s a bit like me that”. L performed skillfully as the lead role within the performance at the conference. L was really proud of himself and told us that he couldn’t believe he did it. Feedback from the audience was fantastic and added to L’s sense of pride and achievement.

We delivered an interactive, theatre based training, including a live performance for teachers across Greater Manchester. The session provided teachers with skills for healthy debate and holding challenging conversations around race and racism. We continue to deliver anti-racism training across the North West using theatre as a tool for learning.

We also delivered a schools conference of our anti-racism play Going Home in partnership with The National Football Museum. A phenomenal conference