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06.02.2026 10:54 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0big man Michael is running for @cardboardcitz.bsky.social. He's a legend. Support a legend.
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"We have to keep talking about possibility": Chris Sonnex on Cardboard Citizens
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How can digital storytelling drive social change? Our CEO Chris Sonnex shares insights from More Than One Story on the latest Digital Culture Podcast.
🎧 bit.ly/46GgSED
Caitriona Shoobridge and Stef O'Driscoll hosting Class Assembly Bradford
Panel discussion chaired by Sue Emmas, with Michelle McGrath (Museum as Muck), David John (Equity Class Network) and Beth Hughes (Working Class British Art Network).
Panel discussion chaired by Stef O'Driscoll, with Ezra Nash (Common/Wealth), Tanya Vital (Vital Culture) and Chris Sonnex (Cardboard Citizens).
Conversations and artist commissions at Common Space.
Earlier this month, we brought together artists and organisations from around the country for Class Assembly Bradford and WOW, what a day it was!
We were so energised by the day and we’re excited to keep the conversation going around class inequity in the arts.
📸 @tomwoollard.bsky.social
“Not causing new trauma, by bad practice, matters.”
Our Artistic Director, Chris Sonnex featured in @thestage.co.uk last week, calling on the industry to prioritise artists' well-being when making worked focusing on trauma.
Read here: bit.ly/4jWfEsf
Book review: More Than One Story: An Anthology of Monologues on Homelessness and Poverty from Nick Hern Books, in association with Cardboard Citizens
www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/more...
We’re excited to share the launch of More Than One Story - our first-ever published anthology, a groundbreaking collection of new writing by thirty-seven emerging and established writers from across the UK with lived experience of homelessness, poverty, and inequity.
25.09.2025 12:57 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0So proud for everyone involved
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If you’re about and wanna see it. book here trafalgartheatre.com/shows/more-t...
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I’m so proud for all the writers in this. if you don’t know, get to know them. @cardboardcitz.bsky.social
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Please share. We need community now more than ever.
Calling ALL #PLAYWRIGHTS, #SCREENWRITERS and their friends Support Playwrights is holding a SUMMER SOCIAL at Soho Theatre Walthamstow.
Thurs 24th July 7pm-11pm.
Come alone or come with friends. ALL WELCOME.
#SupportPlaywrightsSummerSocial
Cardboard Citizens’ #MoreThanOneStory campaign is the 2025 winner for the #CreativeChangemakers award!!
To read more about their wonderful campaign, visit smk.org.uk/awards_no...
#SMKAwards2025 #LoveCampaigning
Pink print of The Arts Emergency Manifesto with 11 points written alternatively in red and blue: 1. Be fearless. You are just as entitled as anyone to have the life you want. 2. There are things that are bigger and better than money. We have things that those in power will never understand. 3. We take it as a given that a civilised society values education, lifelong learning and creativity as a public good. 4. Fight the conditioning that tells you to demonise young people. 5. We are a social justice not social mobility organisation. Arts Emergency is no substitute for justice withheld. 6. To think creatively and critically is to free yourself from the limits of an unfair society puts on you. 7. There is no recession of the imagination. 8. The future is another place. Allow yourself to believe a better life is possible. Say it loud, defiantly, to everyone. 9. Be generous. Now be more generous. Share your privilege. 10. Do something. Start small, start local, keep going. 11. Optimism is a weapon and if all else fails be silly.
"What young people need now is not new schemes, it’s consistency, it’s someone they can trust enough with their best most aspirational self" - @njgriff.bsky.social AE CEO
Can you donate £2 a month to help keep our mentoring & community projects running?
👉 www.arts-emergency.org/donate
running a session with Spotlight on building an Access Rider Wednesday 18th June 5.30-8.30pm.
session is suitable for anyone who's a creative professional and is free!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/spotlight-...
places are limited. captions/BSL/AD and lots of breaks. see you there? x
Read some thoughts from me
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Two weeks ago, we featured in @BigIssue music special - alongside some mighty talent.
Evey experience is different. We’re looking for monologues that cut through the statistics. What matters is that they’re authentic to lived experience.
Find out more: bit.ly/3GVLirS
Chris Sonnex discusses why we need to celebrate the creative brilliance of writers with lived experience of homelessness and poverty.
Submissions open until midnight, 30 June.
Find out more here: bit.ly/3GVLirS
🎨🎭Had to share this @bigissue.com by @csonnex.bsky.social about the Carboard Citizen project and work
So much to love & admire about art being a force for change &
"nurturing a movement, not just producing a product" 👏
www.bigissue.com/culture/thea...
There’s no sense to any of this policy. Big love and power to @touretteshero.bsky.social.
Also read @graeaetheatre.bsky.social statement.
A photo of Jess Thom, a white, wheelchair using woman looking into the camera with a serious expression. She is wearing a blue and green hoodie, black padded gloves and is pictured in from of a brick wall
I’m profoundly sad to say that as of today, I’ll no longer be able to do my job as co-artistic director of #Touretteshero because of a recent decision by #AccessToWork to cut my support by 61%. Read & share this post, the hardest I've had to write: www.touretteshero.com/2025/05/23/a... 1/4
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Cardboard Citizens artistic director Chris Sonnex on the launch of the company's next chapter, More Than One Story: The Anthology.
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No experience of homelessness is the same. That's why we're giving people space to tell their stories.
www.bigissue.com/culture/thea...
www.bigissue.com/culture/thea...
@bigissue.com & @cardboardcitz.bsky.social & @nickhernbooks.bsky.social
Are you a #writer with #livedexperience of #poverty and #homelessness?
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Submit your #story and change the #narrative!
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Call for submissions @cardboardcitz.bsky.social in collaboration with @bigissue.com and @nickhernbooks.bsky.social - open until 30 June
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mtos.cardboardcitizens.org.uk/anthology/
@cardboardcitz.bsky.social are inviting submissions for their anthology : More Than One Story.
Details are below. Enjoy and good luck.
mtos.cardboardcitizens.org.uk/anthology/
big vibes for @cardboardcitz.bsky.social
13.05.2025 16:46 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Hi, Labour Party. Perhaps instead of leaning into fascism because you’re scared (or in agreement) of the influence that Farage has on people, give the people a better alternative that they can believe in, perhaps based on hope and creating better futures for people who can’t see futures right now
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Take care of yourself innit
youtu.be/RZ-z81Ov4sE
I wanna see more of this energy thanks
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