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Sibling Arts has toured marginalised-led, lived-experience-based musical theatre to 12 countries to standing ovations every night, with a Guildhall PhD published on our participatory pedagogies.
Sibling Arts produces music theatre & film that platforms hidden voices, wins over hearts & minds to justice & transforms relationships across communities, sectors & industries. Open projects: Forgotten Stories trans/non-binary arts workshops in schools, Arts Action Festival a one-day national cross-pollinator & Roots Forward incubator for marginalised creatives' projects.
Music, theatre, film workshops in schools exploring trans/non-binary experience over the ages across different continents.
Open to new primary & secondary schools APPLY HERE.
One day of workshops, grassroots performances, talks, stalls, bands to connect artists, change makers, NGOs & creative industry to turbo charge impact for all.
Open to proposals for performances, workshops & interventions
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Training programme for marginalised artists in multi-arts production skills, collaborative writing & small scratch performances or creative interventions. Public workshops share Sibling's unique pedagogy collaboratively writing & devising in community settings with powerful results.
Workshops & open calls COMING SOON.
Transforming our award-winning 2.5hr musical into a feature-length film based on stories from around the world. A multi-genre epic on how we are all entangled, bodies and economies. A personal-is-political cultural whirlwind.
Seeking development & production funding & partners LEARN MORE.
to transcend binaries such as 'professional' & 'community' arts we unlocking talents & activate hidden artists to stun audiences through authenticity & urgent storytelling
there is no such thing as the 'voiceless' (Arundhati Roy) but true voice comes from owning the production, creative direction & distribution of creative media
creatively involving communities at all stages of a project the more the impact reverberates through communities & sectors inc. human rights, public health, policy & culture.
All powerful art that reaches people starts with a compelling narrative. Sibling Arts' original short film has been to 5 film festivals. Sibling Arts' shows have toured the to 9 countries to 20,000 people to standing ovations every night & transformed the narrative around quality in community theatre, with £4M in independently estimated press/media impact. Sibling Arts continues to R&D & produce powerful shows under Creative Leadership of Co-Directors Siobhán Knox & Alex Etchart.
Real access to platform & creative careers comes from longitudinal relationships, career pipelines into creative & production roles. Lived experience participation with mentorship at every layer of a creative project enables budding cultural workers to learn on the job no matter their socioeconomic background or challenges faced, to make an arts industry that thrives in showcasing all voices.
Curated programmes platform a plurality of voices, ensuring there are no 'monoliths', so singular experience platforming, to effectively transcend stigma & stereotypes. Sibling projects have facilitated songwriting workshops for non-artists across the UK & in 12 countries. Our SW story collection collated over 100 stories from 18 countries across 6 continents.
Connecting creative practice to social change, delivering social impact arts & improving messaging for campaigns & inter-movement, cross-sector connectivity. Sibling has co-delivered creative interventions fro women's, queer, disabled, migrant & decolonial justice movements. Narrative workshops platforming lived experience to improve social integration, mental/health & policy in NGOS, arts institutions, conferences, universities, government departments have included Amnesty International, Royal Opera House, Cambridge University, Latin American Women's refuges & the Dutch Ministry of Justice.