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As part of our community engagement work alongside our production of The Bone Sparrow, we asked young students to tell us about a special object and what it means to them.

As part of our community engagement work alongside our production of The Bone Sparrow, we asked young students to tell us about a special object and what it means to them.

As part of our community engagement work alongside our production of The Bone Sparrow, we asked young students to tell us about a special object and what it means to them.

As part of our community engagement work alongside our production of The Bone Sparrow, we asked young students to tell us about a special object and what it means to them.

As part of our community engagement work alongside our production of The Bone Sparrow, we asked young students to tell us about a special object and what it means to them.

As part of our community engagement work alongside our production of The Bone Sparrow, we asked young students to tell us about a special object and what it means to them.

As part of our community engagement work alongside our production of The Bone Sparrow, we asked young students to tell us about a special object and what it means to them.

As part of our community engagement work alongside our production of The Bone Sparrow, we asked young students to tell us about a special object and what it means to them.

As part of our community engagement work alongside our production of The Bone Sparrow, we asked young students to tell us about a special object and what it means to them.

As part of our community engagement work alongside our production of The Bone Sparrow, we asked young students to tell us about a special object and what it means to them.

As part of our community engagement work alongside our production of The Bone Sparrow, we asked young students to tell us about a special object and what it means to them.

As part of our community engagement work alongside our production of The Bone Sparrow, we asked young students to tell us about a special object and what it means to them.

As part of our community engagement work alongside our production of The Bone Sparrow, we asked young students to tell us about a special object and what it means to them.

As part of our community engagement work alongside our production of The Bone Sparrow, we asked young students to tell us about a special object and what it means to them.

As part of our community engagement work alongside our production of The Bone Sparrow, we asked young students to tell us about a special object and what it means to them.

As part of our community engagement work alongside our production of The Bone Sparrow, we asked young students to tell us about a special object and what it means to them.

With the UK back in national lockdown this month, we've been focusing our attentions on the lessons we learned during the spring and summer, and how we can better look after ourselves and each other now and in the future. Forming part of our Lockdown Lessons series, this podcast with Belgrade Embedded Community Producer Kim Hackleman looks at how we've worked creatively with a range of community g...

As part of our ongoing Black Futures programme, we're hosting a virtual exhibition by photographer and Belgrade Audience Development Officer Ayesha Jones. Titled Motherland , the exhibition documents a three-year journey she took to Africa with her mother to rediscover her family's roots. In our latest podcast, she talks about that journey, and offers insights into African family structures and sp...

October is traditionally a time for reflecting on Black history, but how does history inform our understanding of the present, and how will current events shape the histories of the future?  With the Belgrade Theatre and Maokwo teaming up to explore these questions in their pioneering Black Futures programme this month, 2021 Co-Artistic Director Corey Campbell takes some time to reflect on the fut...

From 2017-19, over 800 people died sleeping rough in the UK. Many have never been identified. Produced by Roughhouse Theatre, Dougie Blaxland's new audio play Unknown dramatises the true story of one young man's life on the streets of Bath.  Developed in collaboration with seven people with recent experience of homelessness, the play has been developed to support both homeless people and UK theatr...

As lockdown stretches on and the Black Lives Matter movement makes headlines around the world, it's been a strange and unsettling sort of summer. In the first episode in a new series of lockdown podcasts, Belgrade Theatre Co-Artistic Directors Balisha Karra and Corey Campbell respond to the some of the big issues of the day, with support from some special guest speakers. 

The current lockdown situation is a challenging one, but it's also an exciting opportunity, and we're using it to take the time to introduce you to our Co-Artistic Directors, who will oversee our programme of home-produced shows in 2021.

As Crongton Knights enters its second week at the Belgrade Theatre, we're wrapping up our podcast series by chatting to Alex Wheatle, author of the award-winning YA novel that inspired the show.

Following a stint in Club 2B over Christmas, local actor Aimee Powell is back at the Belgrade in 2020 to star in the world premiere of Crongton Knights . Ahead of its opening from 8-22 Feb, she told us more about the pains and pleasures of the rehearsal process.

In the second episode of our Crongton Knights series, we chat to Olisa Odele (Chewing Gum, Scarborough), who stars in the show as McKay. Crongton Knights premieres at the Belgrade Theatre from 8-22 Feb.