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At the start of 2024, Common Wealth began a new venture, employing a Performance Collective, a group of young, working-class creatives who are paid two […]

A series of Self Defence workshops for women and girls October to November 2024 brought to you by Speakers Corner, please email [email protected] for more […]

Join artist Ffion Campbell Davies for a creative workshop exploring play, making art and ritual. We will work with gentle movement to warm up our […]

Calling All Young Filmmakers: Join Our Short Film and Documentary Workshop! Do you have a story to tell? Ready to make your mark in the […]

Bradford is the youngest city in Europe. 29% of our population is under 20.  29% Festival is a free festival of live performance, music, dance, […]

Take Your Place was an arts and activism project for young working-class people aged 14-18. Take Your Place was for dreamers, builders, and thinkers who […]

In December in solidarity with the people and our friends in Gaza and the West Bank we performed a rehearsed reading of Ashtar Theatre’s Gaza […]

We are starting the year in Bradford by welcoming our new Performance Collective, made up of 9 local working class people aged 17-30 who will […]

Our Welsh language book club starts again on Wednesday 25 September. Come and join us from 11am- 12pm in our office at Llanrumney Hall. Clwb […]

What does it mean to be Welsh and not speak the language? To not know the history? Or the activism behind preserving the language? What […]

‘Take A Breath’ with Speakers Corner! Join us for a series of workshops and events from arts, creative, political and sports. Speakers Corner are focusing […]

Everyone is unique and has something different to offer, which means there is always a stage waiting for you to share your niche. It’s time […]

Common Wealth are thrilled to host Phil Minton’s incredible project Feral Choir – a series of vocal workshops with non-professionals and self confessed non singers, […]

The Posh Club Spectacular cabaret, afternoon tea, dancing and lots of festive fun The Posh Club is a glamorous performance and social club for older […]

Speakers Tea party!!!! Come join us on the 19th October to speak about issues that are important to you and what you feels like needs […]

As part of Off the Curriculum, we ran a series of creative workshops about the school system and through an exciting partnership with Connecting Roma […]

What would you like to say to someone living in Llanrumney? Do you have any unique phrases or nuggets of wisdom you want to impart? […]

with Welsh drag king Len Blanco Ever wanted to unleash your inner boyband member/action film hunk/ prince charming? Join in this relaxed drag king workshop […]

We collaborated with the fantastic Good Chance Theatre to bring Change the Word to Bradford in autumn 2022! The project consisted of weekly sessions to […]

The writers lab is a free, in-person course open to those who are curious about creative writing. Over the course of six workshops, participants will […]

FREE drama workshops for people aged 16-25 at the Grange Pavillion! Join us for three one-off sessions where we’ll get creative, tell stories, have a […]

11-18 year olds – 6:30-8pm every Friday Free weekly drama sessions for children and young people in Bradford. A space to make, play and create […]

I Am Perfect As Me explores mental health, body image, body confidence, self acceptance and other issues young people face. Speakers Corner are working together […]

Speakers TV is a series of four conversations; they explore systematic and institutionalised racism and how it affects people on a daily basis, how faith […]

Poetry as witness to soul, to society. Llyfrau. Gwybodaeth. Rhyfeddod Over 25 years of words bearing witness to the world we live in and the […]

Weds 17th November (meeting fortnightly 1:30pm – 3:00pm) Llanrumney Hall, CF3 4JJ The PALESTINE BOOK CLUB invites us to deepen our understanding about Palestine. We […]

We’ve created a series of podcasts to explore all things Common Wealth, chatting to the people we make work with, the people who inspire us […]

Join Common Wealth and Crab & Bee for a 2-day long workshop, exploring routes and narratives of connection. We will be looking at the way […]

Join Common Wealth and Gabin Kongolo for a workshop looking at our innerselves to create monologues. We will be sharing our thoughts, feelings & views […]

Join us for a magical storytelling workshop for all the family! Cath Little (a storyteller, singer and author from Llanrumney) will tell The Salmon Children, […]

A magic, creative workshop for families building creative worlds to explore and shelter in. ‘There was an old woman who lived in a shoe, she […]

Are you 11-16 years old? Are you interested in grime, making art, live performance & changing the world? Common Wealth and No Hats No Hoods […]

OUR EXISTENCE IS AN ALTERNATIVE is a window installation by artist Sonia Sandhu co-created with Amatullah Oyefolu, Jackson Castillo, Maryam Ahmed and youth workers from […]

As part of Wales Millennium Centre’s Creative Voice programme we’ve created a six week programme for young people aged 14-25 to get creative! Creative Voice […]

How are artists creating social change? What is co-creation? What does it mean? How do we do it? Can the arts operate from a place […]

Common Wealth were delighted to host Mark Storor in Cardiff East. Mark Storor is an award-winning artist with a rich and varied experience in visual […]

Speakers Corner have worked together to create a campaign to raise awareness and commemorate the 30th anniversary of the mass rape at Kunan Poshpora in […]

Common Wealth commissioned the incredible performance poet Haris Ahmed  to create a poetic response to Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as part […]

Common Wealth (Bradford) are based at Common Space, we took on the building as a project of transformation. An abandoned youth employment centre developed into a […]

Theatre-Maker & Financial Mentoring  Common Wealth offer theatre-maker & financial mentoring to support early career artists and theatre companies with their creative development and confidence […]

With Albany Park Theatre in Chicago We had an incredible 3 weeks with the inspiring Albany Park Theatre, a phenomenal youth theatre making political work, […]

With ASeTTs (The Association for Services to Trauma and Torture Survivors) in Perth, Australia Alongside touring No Guts, No Heart, No Glory to PIAF (Perth […]

With the New Theatre Institute of Latvia  We worked as dramaturgical mentors with practitioners from the New Theatre Institute of Latvia to explore work with […]

How to be Better, Contact Young Company  We worked with the very talented Contact Young Company over 4 weeks of evenings in December 2015 to […]

(Flexible –  1 day, 2 hours)  For between 5-25 people  Aimed at all ages, facilitators and people new to making theatre  Art can help us […]

(Flexible –  Could be 2 weeks, 3 days, 3 hours)  For between 5-25 people  Aimed at all ages This workshop brings together groups of people […]

Collaborating with 30 young people across a weekend, Common Wealth responded to objects and stimulus provided by the National Theatre, bringing together ideas, experimentation and […]

Common Wealth was part of Moving Roots, a collective of arts organisations from across the UK: Battersea Arts Centre (London), The Old Courts (Wigan), Restoke […]

Us Here Now is a celebration of people in Cardiff East; their stories and their power. It’s a journey into what it means to be […]