Category Archives: Community Arts

March 2019 – CHIVA conference

Emotional responses to todays performance of Life Growing Up at the CHIVA annual families conference. Thank you again to the yong people who shared their stories and to our brilliant performers, Jack James Ryan, Maia Watkins, Alistair Nwachuwku, Anneka Gouldbourne, Fejiro Emasiobi and musician Aga Serugo Lugo.

“Every time I watch Life Growing Up it gives me goosebumps…”

24th July 2019 -AIDS2018

We premiered our storytelling/spoken piece “Life Growing Up” which shares the experiences of young people living with HIV,  at the worlds largest health conference; AIDS2018 in Amsterdam. This is a project for CHIVA; The Children’s HIV Charity.

Our brilliant team (Maia Watkins, Alistair Nwachukwu, Jack James Ryan and Aga Serugo-Lugo) wowed everyone with a really powerful performance on the main stage at The Global Village.

Feedback through Twitter….  ” Fantastic” “Absolutely brilliant” “Powerful Stuff” “Incredible” ….

24th July 2018

After a lot of hard work we are very excited to present the premier live performance of Life Growing Up; true stories of young people growing up with HIV, at IAC Amsterdam 2018. Tuesday 24th July, 16.30, Main Stage of the Global Village. This performance is open to the public. Written, directed and produced by Sarah Sutcliffe and Danny Scheinmann for CHIVA; The Children’s HIV Association.

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27th June 2018 – Filming Life Growing Up

Filming Life Growing Up; true stories from young people growing up with HIV in the UK.  Working with the super talented director Simon Baker, alongside producer Tamsin Herbert and their amazing team to create a film from the live performance. Our wonderful actors Alistair Nwachukwu, James Jack Ryan and Maia Watkins gave brilliant performances….. The film will be previewed at the International Conference in Amsterdam AIDS20018 next week, and officially launched in the UK on December 1st World AIDS day. It will be freely available on YouTube as a resource.