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BirdGang Ltd
BirdGang Ltd
BirdGang Ltd are an award-winning Hip Hop Theatre company with a global reputation. Founded by Simeon Qsyea, Kendra Horsburgh and Ukweli Roach, they are a collective of movement architects, bringing their spirit, craft and live experience to brands, audiences and pupils around the world. Former associate dance company to the Young Vic, and now resident at Stanley Arts, their work includes Vicycle (World tour), The Aviary (Sri Lanka, San Francisco Hip Hop Festival, The Network (Luxembourg, San Francisco), A Vice in Harlem (Harare International Festival of the Arts 2015); A Harlem Dream (The Young Vic) and Street Dance 3D 1 and 2 the Movie (UK, India). Directly funded by ACE, Stanley Arts, Breakin’ Convention, The British Council, The Young Vic and Croydon Council.
BirdGang Ltd teach Hip Hop to a growing number of young people and through their dance classes and commercial work they support young professionals as well as dance lovers and followers, providing exercise, culture and education.
Since 2019 Birdgang have been resident artists at Stanley Arts bringing their combination of dance, education, film making, and movement architecture to a range of new projects currently in development – including a new piece for Stanley Arts’ upcoming Freedom of Movement Festival.
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www.Birdgangltd.com @birdgangltd
Zoo Co Theatre Company
Zoo Co Theatre Company
Zoo Co is an award-winning theatre company creating powerful, playful productions which have performed to audiences across the UK and around the world.
All of their performance are ‘relaxed performances’ so everyone gets to feel comfortable and welcome. They strongly believe in the power of engagement and that everyone should be able to participate. Theatre is better when everybody is invited.
Boundless Theatre
Boundless Theatre
We are Boundless Theatre! We support a community of young adults to be creative. Productions, projects and diverse experiences promote meaningful social engagement around culture. We’re always in dialogue with a vibrant and diverse youth culture and believe by investing in and being inspired by early career artists we can promote conversation with a global community of 15-25-year-olds. Under the Artistic Direction of Rob Drummer since 2016, Boundless makes work across the UK and internationally, pioneering new ways to connect teenagers to theatre.
Theatre for a Boundless generation.
Our vision is for a world where all young adults harness their creativity to lead culture. Where intersectional and inclusive co-creation promotes radical optimism. Next generation ideas inspire the future of theatre as a vibrant, powerful tool for change and sociable space for community.
Team Boundless joined the Stanley family in Summer 2022 and have been using the building as our office ever since. We also deliver a number of our projects here and in the surrounding area including rehearsals for our latest show, Addictive Beat, and our new community project, Boundless Boxes.
If you want to learn more about Boundless’ work then visit our website at www.boundlesstheatre.org.uk or email our Executive Director, Ellie, at ellie@boundlesstheatre.org.uk.
Website: www.boundlesstheatre.org.uk
Twitter: @boundlessabound
Cherry Stars
Cherry Stars
Cherrystars are an award winning, community performing arts school. Their team consist of BRIT School alumni and professional television and theatre actors who specialise in teaching innovative performing arts classes to the early years.
The core values at Cherrystars are Communication, Creativity, Confidence Building and Community. They have taken great pride over the last decade, to have provided a safe, nurturing and affirming place in the local community for young children to unleash their creativity and develop a love of the arts.
Bold Mellon Collective
Bold Mellon Collective
Bold Mellon is an award-nominated multidisciplinary collective dedicated to delivering deliciously dynamic art and celebrating early career queer creatives. We produce theatre, cabaret, scratch nights, live music and club events, facilitate life drawing classes and host visual art events by and for emerging queer artists to experiment and collaborate!
Good Wolf People
Good Wolf People
Good Wolf use drama and theatre to support people to learn, express themselves, be a community, be creative, and experience joy.
Kelly Ng, John Handscombe, Jo Vyvyan & Krzysia Balinska make up the team behind Good Wolf, combining their experience in Youth & Community Work, Applied Theatre, Writing and Directing.
Most recently they have been delivering online community projects, creating audio plays, and supporting young people to be connected and enjoy drama. They also provide external evaluation to arts and youth organisations.
Croydon Brass
Croydon Brass
Croydon Brass was originally formed as the Croydon Temperance Silver Band in 1911. The band is a friendly, diverse and enthusiastic group of players based at Stanley Arts in South Norwood. They perform at a variety of events in and around Croydon, as well as further afield.
The band’s Musical Director Paula Goodwin is also currently the associate conductor of the All Saints Concert Band.
Infinity Technical Services
Infinity Technical Services
Infinity use their specialist technical knowledge and understanding of the arts to help clients make the most of their events, productions and the spaces they use to create them. They offer dedicated project managers, high end lighting, sound, video and staging equipment, supported hires, sales and installs, regular maintenance and safety inspections and dedicate venue support packages. Since mid 2019 they have worked with Stanley Arts on a rolling programme of technical improvements across the Stanley Arts site.
Clare Haward
Clare Haward
Acclaimed artist Clare Haward‘s work appears in galleries around the country and in many private collections. She regularly exhibits in national shows and competitions.
Her quixotic approach to painting confounded the presenters on the recent Sky Landscape Artist of the year for which she was selected. Her approach is rigorous and sensual, sensitive to colour and composition, edge and tone. Clare is acutely aesthetic with an exquisite colour sense and best of all she’s a fine communicator.
Gareth Brookes
Gareth Brookes
Gareth Brookes is a graphic novelist, printmaker and embroiderer who studied at the RCA. He uses unusual materials such as crayons, textiles and pressed flowers to make his graphic novels which include The Dancing Plague (2021, SelfMadeHero) A Thousand Coloured Castles (2017, Myriad Editions) and The Black Project (2013, Myriad Editions).
In 2018 the French edition of The Black Project was nominated in the Sélection Officielle at the Festival de la Bande Dessinée in Angoulême.
His work has appeared in exhibitions including Comics Unmasked at the British Library, the Storytelling Cities project in Seoul, South Korea, and two solo shows in London at the 155a Gallery and the WAR Gallery.
He is currently studying for a PhD at UAL.
James Sandalls
James Sandalls
James Sandalls is a personal trainer with a studio for 1-on-1 training at Stanley Arts. He also offers training via zoom, socially distanced training in local parks, fitness bootcamps and nutritional guidance. You can call James on 07807 084 141 to book a session.
3 Restorers
3 Restorers
3 Restorers are a boutique workshop offering a furniture restoration & repair service to London and surrounding areas.
Whether you’re looking to revive an inherited chair with sentimental value, conserve a cherished antique chest of drawers, refurbish that (almost) perfect, mid century table you’ve just won on eBay or you simply wish to repair rather than replace in order to be environmentally responsible – they can help.
Spiritual Tiik
Spiritual Tiik
22 – 25 September 2023
Cumbria, Lake District
https://www.spiritualtiik.com/
Description:
The Cumbria Retreat is an all inclusive luxury retreat centred in the beautiful Lake District. The purpose of the retreat is designed to support the divine feminine balance within their mind, body & soul. The participants learn and participate in activities that support their understanding of the chakras and how to connect with the energy in their body to heal. Spiritual Tiik has over a decade of knowledge of spiritual pracitices and academic knowledge which supports each individual to heal & grow on their journey. This retreat is for any women who is ready to embark on a transformative journey into the newer version of self.
Spiritual Tiik‘s Divine Masculine Cumbria Retreat
16 – 19 June 2023
Cumbria, Lake District
https://www.spiritualtiik.com/
Description
The Cumbria Retreat is an all inclusive luxury retreat centred in the beautiful Lake District. The purpose of the retreat is designed to regain balance within their mind, body and soul. The retreat will support the diving masculine to balance the divine feminine energy in the body in their journey and road to healing, by learning and practising the use of energy and how to clear stagnate energy from the body. The retreat is open to any divine masculine whether they are new to mindfulness or well into their journey.
Spiritual Tiik‘s 1 Day Womb Retreat
21 May 2023
09:00 – 17:00
Doors Open at:Virtual, Online
https://www.spiritualtiik.com/
Description
The purpose of this event is to support the Divine Feminine to make space to reconnect to the Sacral Chakra (womb) on physical and spiritual level. The Sacral Chakra is what Tiik calls the seat of the soul as this energy centre holds life in the womb. When we are in our mother’s womb we are subjected to any traumas our mother’s endure as well as through our ancestral lineage, which can have an impact on us later in life.
This virtual retreat is designed to help you rediscover your power through the Sacral Chakra. The Sacral Chakra is one of 7 main chakras in the body and the gateway to our creativity, passions and sexual energy. When this area is blocked it can lead to energy blockages in the body which can manifest into physical problems in the stomach, intestines and reproductive organs. This virtual retreat will support each participant to become aware of energy and undertake exercises to release stagnation in the body.
Rosie Bright
Rosie Bright
Rosie specialises in the conservation and restoration of decorative surfaces (historic buildings) and furniture. She splits her time between working on site in some of the country’s most prestigious buildings and her workshop here at Stanley Arts, where she continues to carry out repairs on a diverse range of objects from polychrome sculpture to antique furniture.
Recently Rosie has been using some of her spare time to start the restoration of some of the tiles surfaces in the main Stanley Hall. Her work is slowly exposing the original grandeur of the space hidden behind layers of thick oil-based paint.
For Life Thailand
For Life Thailand
For Life Thailand is a UK based charity which works closely with the Thai diaspora in the UK to raise funds for good causes in Thailand. The charity’s vision is for a Thailand where all children with disabilities can be raised at home with their families and are supported with equal opportunities within an inclusive society.
They aim to create lasting change and support their partner charity, Christian Care Foundation for Children with Disabilities (CCD), to help them transform the lives of hundreds of children and their families.
Oliver Thornton
Oliver Thornton
Oliver is a Scenic Carpenter working in the west end, television and film. He has worked on some of the biggest live television shows and films; from Britain’s Got Talent & the BAFTAS to Star Wars.
Oliver Studied at the BRIT School and has a deep passion for theatre and live music. He has recently started producing live music shows aimed at putting a spotlight on young musicians and songwriters providing a stage for them to express their music.
In his spare time Oliver enjoys working at Stanley Arts and offers practical and technical support in building improvements and the delivery of our performance schedule.
Vinyl Sign Studio
Vinyl Sign Studio
Vinyl Sign Studio is a family run business that offers multiple graphics and signage solutions for retail, offices, events & exhibitions, independent traders and more. Its founder, Walter Forero, has a family history of graphic designers, printers and sign makers and cumulates over 20 years’ experience within the graphics and sign making industries.
As professional London sign makers, Walter and his team know what a tight deadline means and can offer fast turnaround when needed. Whether you are looking for a new front sign for your shop, a large-scale branding for your building or a vinyl lettering for your vehicle, they can help your business stand out from the crowd through personalised, functional and visually appealing signage. Their main workshop is located in London Bridge and they recently opened another workshop here in Stanley Halls to respond to the increase in demand in the South London community.
