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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