Training & Learning
Graeae champions creative platforms for Deaf and disabled artists, children and young people through our productions, training and creative learning projects. Read more...
We have a strong track record in working inclusively and collaboratively across a range of training and learning environments. Our projects encourage children and young people to be curious, creative and ambitious.
To get involved or find out more information contact our Creative Learning Director Jodi-Alissa Bickerton on jodi@graeae.org.
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The Festival of Rights: work in progress
Graeae Young Company presents The Festival of Rights On Saturday 25 February at Rich Mix, Graeae Young Company performed and devised a one-hour performance to raise the roof on human rights. The performance was BSL interpreted, with creative use of audio description in the script. Watch our short film Love & Justice by the Young […]
“Our stories and our experiences come together to celebrate choice, power and joy. It’s our festival of rights.” -
The Paradis Files – what inspires you?
Maria Theresia von Paradis inspired the team at Graeae and now we want to know what inspires you? It could be a place, a person or even yourself. Send us your inspirations to the Von Paradis Exhibition and have your work displayed online. What do you have to do? On an A4 piece of […]
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The Paradis Files – Join our participatory arts community!
Join our FREE group workshops on our UK tour of The Paradis Files. You’ll create your own accessible art pieces which will form part of a public art installation and as an online exhibition. Open to all groups aged 16+
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Love Letters from a Caravan Holiday
Alongside the production of Kerbs, we offered creative workshops to the local community and produced a nation-wide installation of Love Letters. Follow on Instagram to see the full collection.
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The Young Company
Love theatre and acting, and want to develop your practice? Take a look at joining our Young Company.
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Paper Plum Studios – Queensmill Residency 2021
This autumn we explored musical theatre with a group of brilliant students from Queensmill School.
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Graeae’s Young Company for 6-11 year olds
We’re inviting Deaf, disabled or neurodivergent children to join our new drama group in 2022 – a new online space for drama (the good kind!). Get in touch with mette@graeae.org
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Let Me Be
Let Me Be is a new digitally-delivered course created by 1623 theatre company and Graeae to develop your theatre-making skills. Apply now!
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Ensemble: Certificate of Higher Education Theatre Making and Leadership
Graeae Ensemble was established in 2015 to deliver a radical alternative to traditional drama training. Ensemble’s driving mission is to serve new generations of diverse Deaf and disabled talent to thrive as equals in the UK’s theatre industry, on stage and off.
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BEYOND: Develop
We offered free online training & wellbeing workshops for Deaf & disabled creatives during the pandemic.
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How Do We Do Drama Now?
It’s a question secondary school teachers have been asking us, and we have been asking ourselves since the world turned upside down under the pandemic.
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BEYOND – Graeae’s bespoke Artist Development programme
Since launching Beyond in July 2020, 46 Deaf and disabled artists have signed up to the programme. We are delighted that it’s had this response, and that our theatre partners across the North, North East, West of England and the East Midlands have been able to help support a wide range of artists in developing their careers and creating new work.
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Ensemble 2020
Launching a new generation of Deaf and disabled theatre makers, creatively supported and accredited by Rose Bruford College.
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One Under Workshop Programme
What Connects Us? is a unique creative workshop programme linked to the tour One Under, written by Winsome Pinnock and produced by Graeae and Theatre Royal Plymouth.
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Graeae’s Ensemble 2018 – Hurricane Protest Songs
In 2018, Graeae’s Ensemble of young theatre makers performed Hurricane Protest Songs, a breakthrough new production interweaving spoken word poetry, movement, music and storytelling.
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This Is Not For You Education Programme
With the centenary of WW1 making its mark across the world and especially in the UK, Graeae’s Training and Learning department developed an education programme alongside the outdoor performance This Is Not For You.
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Training and Learning
To find out more about Training and Learning contact our Creative Learning Director Jodi-Alissa Bickerton on jodi@graeae.org.
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The Rollettes present Babushka’s Winter Adventure
The Rollettes performed an adaptation of the Babushka folk-tale using a combination of beautiful aerial work, storytelling, music and their unique humour in 2017.
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Protest Song Hub
As part of Reasons To Be Cheerful 2017, Graeae called upon singers and songwriters from across the globe to raise their voices for freedom and compose, record and submit Protest Songs that spoke to the struggles of the 21st century.
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Deck the Stalls
In 2016, Graeae’s unique wheelchair dancing troupe, the Rhinestone Rollers, a group of young artists rolled out their own show.
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Pakistan
‘People will watch us do this (performing) and believe that we ‘Deaf young people’ can do anything’
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Hackney Youth Theatre
Hackney Partnership Youth Theatre perform during February half-term each year. It is run in partnership with local learning disabled young people, Huddleston Centre and Immediate Theatre.
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The Rollettes
‘I want to fly again. That was the best day ever!’
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Artistic Residencies
“The Graeae artists spent time individually with each student – nobody faded into the background.”
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Workshops
“Thank you for an engaging and insightful workshop. It felt collaborative and freeing.”
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Creative Access
We’re proud to collaborate and work in partnership with a wide variety of partners across the cultural sector, informing our practice and providing many opportunities.
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Dare You training
Dare You is a creative learning experience that develops skills for inclusive leadership – building leaders that leverage diversity to get the best out of all their people.
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Production Related Workshops
We deliver education and outreach programmes to groups alongside many of our latest touring productions.
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