Storytelling in Action: Working with Oxford Researchers on the CIRCLE Tool
On 18 March the Storytelling team spoke at the launch of the CIRCLE Tool, a free-to-access online resource designed to support cultural organisations to think about accessibility and inclusion for older people with Global Majority backgrounds. The CIRCLE Tool...
Read MoreArts for Impact Big Give 2026
As we kick off the Big Give 2026, our CEO, Clara Vaughan, shares a few words on what this organisation means to her, and why now is the time to donate. This year,...
Read MoreThrough the Blue to Beauty
Entering the Old Fire Station gallery from Gloucester Green, you’re struck by a bold, deep blue wall evoking the ocean, with a line of white framed artworks reminiscent of undulating waves or the shoreline...
Read MoreJanet Jackson is an Icon – here’s why
Artist and theatre-maker Paula Varjack’s Nine Sixteenths takes one of the most infamous celeb’ incidents of the new millennium as a prompt to explore the rise, fall and rise of one of pop music’s...
Read MoreAn interview with… Jessica Reilly and Alistair Nunn
This March, James Graham’s Quiz arrives at the Old Fire Station (3–7 March 2026), bringing with it one of the most gripping, surprising and hotly debated true stories in modern British pop culture. Most...
Read MoreBefore the Millennium – Cast Announcement
Before the Millennium – Meet the Company Meet the Company of Before the Millennium Zoya – Gurjot Dhaliwal Gurjot Dhaliwal is a London-based actor who trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and...
Read MoreHidden Spire Collective | Our Freedom: Then and Now | Session 7
Hidden Spire Collective | Our Freedom: Then and Now Phase 2, session 7, 3 November 2025 Anisah Rokib On the 3rd of November we practiced our parts in groups. We split into two and...
Read MoreHidden Spire Collective | Our Freedom: Then and Now | Session 5
Phase 2, session 5, 20 October 2025 No warm-up, physical or vocal, just a ring of chairs upon which we plonked ourselves and chatted easily until called to order. Polly revealed that we would...
Read MoreHidden Spire Collective | Our Freedom: Then and Now | Session 4
Hidden Spire Collective | Our Freedom: Then and Now Phase 2, session 4, 12 October 2025 The Road to Freedom Last week Monday, we started the class session by getting into circle and doing...
Read MoreHidden Spire Collective | Our Freedom: Then and Now | Session 3
Hidden Spire Collective | Our Freedom: Then and Now Phase 2, session 3, 6 October 2025 Polly invited us to warm up by channelling our inner aerobics class leader, which came more naturally to...
Read MoreHidden Spire Collective | Our Freedom: Then and Now | Session 2
Hidden Spire Collective | Our Freedom: Then and Now Phase 2, session 2, 29 September 2025 Isabel Taylor What is your status within the society you are part of? Do you earn that status...
Read MoreHidden Spire Collective | Our Freedom: Then and Now | Session 1
Hidden Spire Collective | Our Freedom: Then and Now Phase 2, session 1, 22 September 2025 Polly warmed us up with physical jerks and vocal calisthenics, and then led us through a couple of...
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