It's often said that RAT has its fingers in a lot of pies. We offer spaces for fun, for connection, for peer support, for activism, for self-discovery, for creative skills building. We put on shows for survivors, for the public, for professionals across a range of sectors, in a mix of traditional and unusual venues. We offer training in trauma-conscious practice, we help survivors understand what's going on inside them, we guest lecture and guest speak to others trying to mak

A brilliant artist asked me this last week. First came the sinking feeling in my stomach, caused by hearing out loud the question I had asked myself a thousand times. Then came the tightening in my chest as my heart tied itself in knots, trying to contain my rage at hearing someone with so much to give feeling solely defined by what has been taken from her. Then I realised I should probably say something - and surprised myself with the realisation that I didn't have a ready-m

Shout-out to anyone who is feeling deeply impacted by the state of the world right now. We're all feeling it on a level we haven't noticed for a while. With so many vital topics competing for media attention (or desperately trying to avoid media attention, as the case may be), we’ve noticed in our community that post-traumatic stress activation seems to be coming from all directions, whatever the original source of our traumas. With so much in the air, so many different point

It’s been a while, friends! Starting the year with a two-week festival took a lot of our attention, but it’s far from all we’ve been doing. Before we reflect in detail on that whirlwind, we wanted to share with you an update on how a much slower, more reflective part of our work has been going. Our first year of RAT LAB is off to a great start, with each of our four first cohort artists now having delivered their first workshop for the rest of the community. They design thes

Happy new year, everyo - ... Right, enough of that nonsense, time to get back to work ;) We teased you with the first little bits of information about the festival at the end of last year, and now we have the full programme announcement for you . And with just under two weeks to go, you'll want to get your 2026 diaries out now and start planning what you want to attend! This year (because our friends at ODAC put us in charge...!) there are more theatre- and storytelling-relat

We were Chuffed To Bits around this time last year when our founder, Nell, was asked to give the One Roof Festival at Old Diorama Arts Centre a touch of the RAT-a-tat-tat by co-producing it with ODAC's in-house staff. Having attended and facilitated at the festival in previous years, it had a special place in Nell's heart. It has since been our Almighty Chuff to see One Roof through its first year as a year-round programme - meeting weekly, and building on our ambitions, skil

We are over the moon to be supporting these four spectacular survivor theatre artists as the first ever cohort of our new professional development programme, RAT LAB. All four have been regulars with RAT ever since we started core group sessions, and have brought distinct and invaluable things to us as we have worked out what and who we are - so it feels really fitting to be walking alongside them as they start developing arts projects that aim to have an impact on issues tha

It's been a busy start to autumn for us and we've loved every second of it. Much as we can't get enough of the time we spend with our post-traumatic community planning, experimenting, sharing, and just being together, it's utterly thrilling when we get to bring what we do to the wider public. It helps us to step back, notice reactions, and see how unique what we are doing really is. Photo by Alice Horsley For the first of our outings, our Founder and Creative Lead Nell Hardy

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