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:

The Quick

"Jo runs for miles in her cell. She battered Gavin to within an inch of his life. Now he wants to meet up: but for what? Would you want to meeting the stranger who ruined your life?

The Quick - a poweful new play that explores how it feels when you can't control your life - and how chance encounters can change everything."

Diverse City was proud to produce the premiere of this devastating new play by Stephanie Jacobs and directed by Lucy Richardson.

Diverse City worked in partnership with Lewisham Youth Theatre, Clean Break and Playing Up students from the National Youth Theatre to create a curtain raiser with ten young people in response to the play directed by Claire Hodgson. It was performed at the Tristan Bates Theatre.

See Time Out Critics Choice here.

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.

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.

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.