The Happiness Sessions Spreading a little joy throughout January We’ve teamed up with our friends at Creu Cymru to bring you The Happiness Sessions. The sessions will be run free of charge & are aimed at arts workers in Wales who’ve been badly hit by the covid pandemic including freelancers, furloughed venue staff & arts […]
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Policy Panel Callout Deadline 4th December, 5pm We are looking for 10 arts freelancers to make up our Policy Panel. We want to make sure the way we run Taking Flight is fair, equitable and that we represent the voices around us.Who can apply? Freelance arts professional in Wales- you could be a facilitator, dancer,
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Explore our lesson plans and links to the curriculum.
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Explore our lesson plans and links to the curriculum.
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In March it became clear that the physical production which had been planned at The Egg with Bath Spa productions was not going to be possible. I still thought there must be a way to make something happen – I just wasn’t sure at first what that might be. The result was Lockdown Landscapes. Continuing
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Join us for a live Q&A session to find out more about our free Youth Theatre for Deaf and Hard of Hearing young people aged 4-18 which usually happens in Cardiff. Want to know more about our Deaf lead youth theatre, where it runs, how often – and what we’re all getting up to during
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Taking Flight is proud to be a signatory to an open letter to the Culture Secretary, UK Government, copied to the Deputy Minister for Culture, Sport and Tourism, Welsh Government from Disabled Cultural Leaders, Artists and Inclusive Companies on Safeguarding the future of Disability Arts in the UK. We will also be taking part in
A Warm (and wet) Welcome in Treorchy On a very wet day in February (more on that later), delegates from across Wales and beyond gathered at the newly transformed accessible studio at the Park & Dare in Treorchy. Taking Flight’s 5th Access Symposium was hosted by RCT Theatres and in collaboration with hynt. Funded by
Peeling by Kaite O’Reilly In shadow, 3 performers await their brief moment in the light. Alfa, Beaty and Coral wait… wait while once more the action plays out elsewhere. Often blisteringly funny, at times almost unbearably painful; peeling takes us backstage into a world of secrets, a world of stories about mothers and their children,
You’ve Got Dragons Based on the book by Kathryn Cave “Dragons come when you least expect it. You turn round…and they’re there.” Lots of people get them; bad dreams, swirly tummy, feeling prickly. And sometimes they make you feel alone. So, what can a young child with a bad case of the dragons do? A
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