This year, our Key Clubs have been exploring film and television🎥

Last month Key Club Finchley designed their own adverts which they will film at their next session!

Toi toi toi to all of the team, we can't wait for audiences to see this brilliant show❤️

If you haven't yet got your tickets for The Lowry & the Corn Exchange don't hesitate and get them now!

Image 1 - Jamie Dennis
Image 2 - Nik Mackey

20 years ago Turtle Key Arts watched Ockhams Razor perform at The Place London as part of Resolution!, a showcase for emerging artists, and ever since then a collaboration and partnership was forged. It feels fitting 20 years later for Collaborator to open at The Place tonight and celebrate there!

In support of Positively UK and Waverley Care.

Funded by ACE, Creative Scotland, Without Walls and Abderrahim Crickmay Charitable Settlement, commissioned by the Lowry, Certain Blacks, Stockton International Riverside Festival, Inspirate, Norfolk & Norwich Festival and in association with Summerhall Arts, MimeLondon, and 101 Outdoor Arts.

There's just one week until Sadiq Ali Company premiere their Tell Me at the Lowry, Salford! ⭐

Through Chinese Pole and Aerial Artistry, Tell Me seeks to challenge outdated perceptions and offers audiences a fresh perspective on HIV, one rooted in courage, beauty and possibility.

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Learn more about CHIVA here: www.chiva.org.uk

Sadiq Ali on the life of a circus performer living with HIV: 'It’s more about where we are now, rather than where we were, or how' (EXCLUSIVE) “I don't know who, where, what. I just know I got really sick,” Sadiq Ali recalls, as he looks back on the day he learned he was HIV-positive.

Check out Sadiq's article for Attitude Magazine discussing his experiences as a circus artist living with HIV 🔗 www.attitude.co.uk/life/sadiq-a...

CHIVA is an amazing charity with whom we partner on the Art is Key project. In Art is Key, a group of young people living with HIV to create art inspired by their experiences, while building community.

We're proud to work with a range of artists who champion this important cause.

Three performers stand around a Chinese pole in the midday sun, watched by an audience. One of the performers, a Black man wearing a red tracksuit, is climbing the pole, while the other two - a man with brown skin wearing grey denim, and a white woman with dark curly hair wearing beige jeans and a white top, look up at him, smiling.

This World AIDS Day we would like to celebrate some of the incredible artists we work with - Sadiq Ali Company and CHIVA.

Sadiq Ali Company is led by HIV activist Sadiq Ali. His new work, Tell Me, explores and challenges stigma around living with HIV in 2025.

📸: Jamie Dennis for Primo DVP

TURTLE OPERA LONDON TURTLE OPERA IN LONDON (HALF-TERM 17-20 FEB  2026)

🗓️ Tuesday 17th - Friday 20th February 2026
⏰ 11am - 3:30pm
📍 V&A Museum, South Kensington

🔗 To apply please fill in the online application form - www.turtlekeyarts.org.uk/turtleoperal...

☎️ Please email ellie@turtlekeyarts.org.uk for more information or if you have any questions.

APPLY NOW for Turtle Opera London 2026!

Turtle Opera is a FREE music and drama project for Autistic 11 - 15 year olds. Join us for four days of fun, friendships and creation during the February half term at the V&A Museum, South Kensington📣

TURTLE SONG LONDON THERE WILL BE A TURTLE SONG RUNNING IN LONDON (OCTOBER TO DECEMBER 2024)

To sign up or for more information, fill out the form on our website, email ellie@turtlekeyarts.org.uk, or give us a call on 020 8964 5060 - www.turtlekeyarts.org.uk/turtlesonglo...

WHERE?
Turtle Song London will take place in The Recital Hall at the Royal College of Music, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2BS

WHEN?
Mondays 10:30am to 12:15pm
19th January - 16th March

Turtle Song, our free singing and song-writing project for people living with dementia, is returning to London in January!

Turtle Song is a FREE singing and song-writing project for people living with memory problems and all forms of dementia, and for their companions (husband/wife/carer etc).

KEY CLUB APPLICATION (2)

Key Club is our monthly creative arts club for autistic adults (18–30)🎨 Places are still available for Key Club Finchley - apply here www.turtlekeyarts.org.uk/keyclubappli...

In October all three clubs met together to watch Amici's Our Time at the @lyrichammersmith.bsky.social which included a Q&A with some of the performers and the director Michael Vale!

Our Key Clubs started back this year and have already had two great sessions!

In September they started exploring this year's theme of film and got to test out their camera skills🎥

Our Time

Our Time

Our Time

Amici Dance Theatre Co. Exhibition

#OurTime Brilliant masterpiece, outstanding dance and physical theatre performance. #AmiciDanceTheatreCompany
@turtlekeyarts.bsky.social
@lyrichammersmith.bsky.social

The role would involve facilitating sound & lighting design sessions to small groups, as part of a wider technical theatre workshop in a West London school.

DBS checks & full workshop delivery plan to be provided by Turtle Key Arts.

To express your interest, email carina@turtlekeyarts.org.uk

💡🎭 Facilitator Needed: Sound & Lighting Technician

We are looking for a sound & lighting technician to join us for a schools workshop on Friday 24th October (with potential for future work).

Congratulations to the entire Sisters 360 team on their @asianmediaawards nomination for Best Stage Production🏆

We are excited to be taking Sisters 360 back out on tour next year🛹 More information will be announced soon!

Sadiq Ali Company is a queer, neurodivergent-led company, and particularly welcome applications from underrepresented/intersectional artists.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to get in touch! 🤸

Availability Nov 2025 - mid-Feb 2026 is essential.

If you’re interested, please email to niamh@turtlekeyarts.org.uk
1. Links to video examples of your skills
2. A short introduction about yourself (a short paragraph or video)

by 10am on Monday 6th October.

Looking for:
• Strong circus skills (base) incl. Chinese pole - aerial/dance a bonus
• Confident in movement, theatre & ensemble work
• A collaborative spirit — this is a devised process, every voice is part of creation
• An openness to explore HIV, stigma & queer history through circus&performance

🚨 PERFORMER CALL OUT
Sadiq Ali Company is seeking a circus performer to join the creation and touring of our next indoor show.

⏱️ Deadline - 10am Monday 6th October

Tell Me is supported by Without Walls. Commissioned by Norfolk and Norwich Festival, Inspirate, Certain Blacks & Stockton International Riverside Festival. R&D supported by Blueprint: Without Walls R&D Investment Fund. Rehearsed with space provided by 101 Outdoor Arts, Imagineer & NCCA.

What a brilliant summer touring Sadiq Ali Company's Tell Me! We've been reminiscing with these gorgeous pics from Stockton International Riverside Festival ☀️

Thank you to everyone involved - the cast and crew, the festivals who hosted us, Without Walls and all the audiences who came to watch!

We will be in Edinburgh from Tuesday 19th - Friday 22nd so please get in touch if you would like to catch up or have some show recommendations for us!

Over the years we have had so much fun at Edinburgh Fringe! From running our own venue to supporting @ockhamsrazoruk and the @sadiqalicompany🙌

We're so excited to be going again this year🎉