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Little Angel Theatre has been fuelling the imaginations of the youngest minds since 1961, via the magic and wonder of puppetry.
As our charity grows, we increasingly depend on our commercial income and donations to bring our work to life and to ensure that our work continues to be accessible to all. We are committed to this mission, both in our Islington home and across the UK. We believe that live performance, especially puppetry, can have a transformative impact for child wellbeing, social integration and education.
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Here’s how your support has made a difference, and why we still need your donations to continue this vital work.
Community is at the heart of Little Angel Theatre and we are proud to run a number of wonderful free activities and events for our very local residents in and around Sebbon Street, wider Islington residents and partner organisations.
We have an ongoing partnership with 8 Islington primary schools, providing every pupil with at least one free theatre visit every single year, as well as a wide offering of after school clubs and in-class workshops.
We feel passionately that theatre should be accessible to everyone, so we offer free tickets through our Puppets-for-All (PFA) scheme.We give out over 2,000 tickets per annum (over 3% of our tickets) through the scheme, partnering with schools, community groups and our PFA mailing list to distribute.
For most of our in-house productions one performance is scheduled as a Relaxed Performance.Puppetry is a highly visual art form. Our productions are categorised as D/deaf friendly if they use little or no verbal language and if the story can be understood equally by D/deaf and hearing audience. For shows which don’t fit with this idea we provide performances for those who use British Sign Language.
We run an annual Spectrum Summer School. The key aim is to deliver a socially rich experience of teamwork, friendship, and interpersonal skills using the medium of puppetry and film making. This is for young people with Autism Spectrum Disorders. We recruit for this Summer School through Whittington Health Trust.
Oliver Hymans our Associate Director has been working on developing his practice around the endangered craft of marionette carving. You can read a little more about this at the link above. Marionettes have recently been listed on the Red list of Endangered craft.
Artist Development and Traineeship
Our Heritage strand contains both our Artist development and our interest in continuing the craft of puppet making and performance. This comes through our Artist Development Strand, which consists of an annual traineeship, adult learning opportunities and commissions.