11/02/2025
Dave Young: A Journey of Inclusive Creativity When Dave Young first joined Diverse City’s youth theatre in 2007, he was just 12 years old and full of ambition….
News
30/01/2025
Big News! We’re overjoyed to announce that Diverse City has been awarded £150,000 in core funding from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation to drive inclusion and representation in the arts….
21/01/2025
At Diverse City, we believe in the power of stories—those that are too often unheard and those waiting to be told. Did you know… Our Next Generation Residency…
15/11/2024
Celebrating 30 years of the National Lottery: A Game- Changing Journey A BIG thank you to The National Lottery players! Your support has meant Diverse City has connected more people, in…
30/07/2024
Garry Robson 1952-2024 A statement from Joint Artistic Director of Diverse City, Jamie Beddard, who valued Garry as a friend, colleague, and voice for disabled artists for over 30…
13/12/2023
In November of 2023, we hosted a collaborative, week-long, aerial skills residency in partnership with Theatre Royal Plymouth. Artists and practitioners from Diverse City, Extraordinary Bodies, Cirque Bijou…
02/11/2023
Job Opportunity: Diverse City are recruiting a part-time Personal Assistant (PA) for Eilís Davis, Artistic Director of Extraordinary Bodies Young Artists. We are looking for a confident and organised…
04/11/2022
PRESS RELEASE Performing Arts charity Diverse City is happy that it will continue to be a key part of Arts Council England’s National Portfolio (NPO) from 2023-26. The grant…
22/09/2022
In this, the second part of our series on Humane Employment, we’ll be taking a look at things from a producer’s perspective. If you missed part one – a…
Outreach is one of those terms thrown about in the arts which a lot of people aren’t entirely clear on. What is Outreach? Why is it important? What does…
01/08/2022
We are fortunate, here at Diverse City, to have not one, but two Artistic Directors: Claire Hodgson, and Jamie Beddard. On paper, their role is to lead the company’s…
21/06/2022
Back in July, Diverse City, with Cirque Bijou and an integrated cast of dancers, achieved a successful attempt on the Guinness World Record for mass disco dance at Camp…
06/12/2021
Diverse City is happy to say that last month The National Lottery agreed a £197,397 grant for our 3 year, national Connecting Communities programme: “We are delighted to build…
24/11/2021
We are delighted to announce that we will be benefitting from the third round of the Culture Recovery Fund. We will receive £69,940 on behalf of Extraordinary Bodies. This…
15/06/2021
Women make up around 70% of arts audiences and 70% of the arts workforce, but only about 30% of arts leadership (Elizabeth Freestone and The Guardian). This sort of…
01/06/2021
Today is Global Day of Parents. Over the past year, reduced childcare has made it deeply challenging to be a working parent. Supporting those who care for children and…
04/05/2021
This year, we have been amplifying Unexpected Leaders’ voices through Connecting Communities, a proactive and optimistic response to the isolation of the past year. We’ve been working with community…
05/04/2021
Last week, Diverse City received £69,940 from the second round of the government’s Culture Recovery Fund. We are among more than 2,700 recipients to benefit from the latest awards from…
08/03/2021
For International Women’s Day, we look at how leadership roles are still being kept away from women and how Women Leaders South West aims to claim these back. Please…
02/11/2020
It’s November 2020. March 2020 seems like a lifetime ago. We’d had great funding news. We were about to launch massive plans. We were planning our next 10 years……
