Dear friends, What an amazing time we have had recently at Eastside. In March 2022, as part of SPOKEN WORD POWER, children in Merseyside, South Yorkshire, Essex and London attended inspirational poetry celebration events in selected local theatres, performing their own original poems live to audiences of supportive classmates, friends,

Dear friends, So much has happened here at Eastside since we returned from the festive break at the start of the year. On 11th January we launched SPOKEN WORD POWER at the Criterion Theatre in central London. Generously supported by Arts Council England, John Lyon’s Charity and the UK National Commission for UNESCO, this exciting spoken word

Dear friends, Seasons greetings to you and your families. Throughout 2021 Eastside has worked hard to overcome all of the challenges caused by the lockdowns, social distancing requirements, and the ever changing set of guidelines needed to work safely with young people.  We have achieved a huge amount, and our

Dear friends, As we approach the end of another extraordinary year, we are reflecting on a busy period of activity, through summer and autumn. As ever, the Eastside team has been hard at work, dedicated to providing as many creative and cultural opportunities as possible to children and young people

SEPTEMBER 2021 Dear friends, I hope you are well and have enjoyed a happy and restful summer holiday.  As we ready ourselves for the new Autumn term we are delighted to announce a brand new creative initiative available to every school across the country – Eastside Online. This new creative

Dear friends Congratulations on completing the 2021 summer term!   I hope you will be able to enjoy a relaxing break in the near future. As we come to another milestone in the Covid 19 pandemic, with restrictions lifting across the UK and the academic year coming to a close, I

Dear friends, I hope you are all doing well and enjoying the arrival of Spring. We are so pleased to be working with schools once again and sending our talented artists and practitioner teams to deliver much needed creative activities for teachers and students across London and beyond. Throughout this

Dear Eastside friends, Welcome to our March blog in which we send our WARMEST WISHES to our friends, partners, schools, students, young people and teachers across the country as we all prepare to make our return to school, college, university, workplaces and so on as society prepares to re-open.   At

As we gear up to celebrate World Book Day Eastside caught up with drama and storytelling facilitator Sarah Walcott. We asked her how she finds teaching remotely & quizzed her for some new & exciting tips on how to practically introduce set texts to students in a fun, creative way

What a year 2020 has been…for so many reasons it was a year to remember as well as a year to forget.  I am sure that everyone has had to work incredibly hard just to reach this point. I can honestly say that looking back over the year,  I feel