Profiles

Diverse City works in partnership on different sectors of the creative industries developing and delivering strategies and programmes that empower participants and champion social change.

Here are some examples of our work:

Playing Up

A learning strategy and programme that transformed National Youth Theatre’s outreach work, Playing Up has given the opportunity to disadvantaged young people to access training and qualifications that had significant impact on their lives.

Diverse City and NYT re-imagined the value of creative learning and diverse audiences and successfully engaged other stakeholders. We developed and worked on a brief with NYT’s senior team to design a curriculum that is diverse, structured and flexible to the needs of the participants.

Shoreditch Audiences

An example of working in partnership with a regeneration agency, Shoreditch Audiences is a successful audience development and community engagement project. Developed and supported by Shoreditch Trust, the project is now managed by Diversity City,

Shoreditch Audiences encourages local people to attend theatre, music and dance performances by offering a range of support and advice aimed at making attendance easier - including affordable tickets, volunteer Ambassadors and local ticket outlets.

The Remix

An innovative, creative and integrated learning programme, Remix is the result of an effective partnership-working model in the cultural and public sector. Supported by Activate, a performing arts development agency, local government and the education sector, the project is been artistically managed by Diverse City’s team.

We helped create a sustainable model of learning that has significant impact on participants’ lives by bring together diverse participants in an environment that is inclusive and inspiring.

Bexhill

Diverse City in collaboration with Bexhill College, delivered The Tea Dance, a performing arts project that focused on integrating groups of young people from Bexhill and London and exploring their experiences to create a theatre production.

The show was performed at the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill and was an extravaganza of theatre, dance, music and film that told an original story of wartime love and loss spanning the generations. The Tea Dance featured young people from London alongside Performing Arts and Media students from Bexhill College as well as students from the Glyne Gap, a school for young people with severe and profound learning difficulties.

Flight

Diverse City was commissioned by National Youth Theatre to project manage an inspirational intergenerational and community project. Flight had the support of Age Concern/Help the Aged and local communities across the country.
Flight brought together National Youth Theatre’s young members with young and older people in Dudley and Kent to celebrate the centenary of the first flight over the English Channel. It transformed participants’ beliefs about each other by engaging them in a creative process
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Londonmet Widening Participation 

Our widening participation work promotes education as a route into the artistic professions and work to encourage under-represented groups to undertake formal artistic training.

The project provided an inclusive and fully accessible experience of HE level training by utilising classical, contemporary and experimental performance techniques. We explored the transferability of skills gained in performing arts training and introduced participants to a diverse range of artists working in the creative industries and higher education.

From career advice and information to opportunities to work with student ambassadors, we offer under represented groups a vast creative resource of new visions, new voices and new form

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Performance Innovations

We believe in the value of nurturing future generations of cultural entrepreneurs and we champion work-related learning strategies and programmes.

Diverse City’s creative consultants work with London Metropolitan’s senior academic team to devise and develop innovative postgraduate courses that explore research as creative practice.

It offers new opportunities for dance and performance practitioners who want to establish innovative and entrepreneurial pathways in the Performing Arts industry. The Performance Innovations project has secured support from the Creative Way and offers participants enterprise, business, creative and work-based learning opportunities that respond to individual career plans and industry needs.