We’ve said it before & we’ll say it again…big tings are on the way from POCP; but we need to extend the fam to make them happen.🫱🏿🫲🏽
👇🏾 If you’re a Global Majority creative that wants to support the collective by donating time/skills.
HERE WE GO THEN!
Following the success of our two networking events up in Edinburgh Fringe this summer, this
#BlackHistoryMonth
we are teaming up with
@NYTofGB
to throw an Artist of Global Majority link up here in London!
A HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who came to watch Things I Can Laugh About Now at
@BrxHouseTheatre
. We are so full from all the love rn.
If you caught either run of the show and loved it, make sure you vote to have it recognised at the WhatsOnStage Awards:
PAID OPPORTUNITY!! 💰
We're on the hunt for a skilled Video Editor 📹 💻. We'd love to start chatting with you ASAP as the deadline for the finished product is March'23.
Hopefully hear from you soon!
🍰 💚
ARTISTS OF GLOBAL MAJORITY FROM ALL SECTORS IN LONDON!!!
Keep Monday 17th October at 19:00pm free.
We’re teaming up with
@NYTofGB
to put on a free networking shubz.
More info to come next week.
Watch this space and tell your creative mates!
🍰💚
We’ve been working very hard in rehearsals lately but tonight we chilled out w/ some of the creatives who are taking part in our upcoming project with
@bushtheatre
.
We hit up
@sohotheatre
to watch
@nvrchuk
‘s Queens of Sheba and were completely blown away.
We ❤️🔥 Black theatre.
We had a blast at our Artist of Colour mixer with
@nvrchuk
last night. It was a pleasure to meet so many talented Global Majority Theatre folk.
#community
#EdFringe22
National Youth Theatre (
@NYTofGB
) members of Black heritage, slide in our DMs ASAP for a chance to perform new writing on a west end stage this Feb!!
(Please RT we don’t want to miss any of the talent!)
Last night was a movie ✨🍿. We’ll be posting more RUSH HOUR content throughout the week, for now have a look at the beautiful people involved in creating this showcase in just under 2 DAYS!!
A million thanks to
@NYTofGB
for the continuous support & opportunities.
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Word on the South London street is that there’s a super funny & hard hitting show opening at
@BrxHouseTheatre
tonight which has been produced by a class, emerging Black, theatre company….
Check it out yourself and let us know if rumours are true:
Two extremely proud directors stood beside our first ever theatre poster.
We’re both still feeling with joy and warmth from this weekend just gone. What our fantastic participants/cast and creative team created.
Respectfully; We run tings, tings nuh run we!
Wow you lot really came in your hundreds!
We’re loving seeing how keen everyone is to grab tickets to see this show.
Please see below for more information on the tickets we have had allocated for us from ATG:
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🫶🏽 The POCP fam has been extended 🫶🏽
We’ve been hard at work gearing up for the blessings 2024 is about to bring - meet the bakers making it all happen behind the scenes 👋🏽
Scroll to get to know them cos you’ll be seeing their gorgeous faces a lot more 👇🏾
First show done ✅
A massive well done to the cast for bringing the good vibes from start to finish & big up you man who joined us for the after shoobz.
@official_jammzz
& MC
@toooooure
blew the roof off
@bushtheatre
& got EVERYBODY in W12 ready for carni!!
Last night we linked up with the guys from
@90sBabyShow
to watch
@RedPitchPlay
. They brought some of their members with them and a time was had by all! 🤝🏿
Wanna come on a POCP theatre trip? Make sure you're signed up to our newsletter:
We kicked Piece of Cake’s Vintage Film Club
#POCPVFC
this month and it was a roaring success.
Thank you for everyone who came and shared that space with us. Everyone was heard. Everyone was held. Everyone was inspired.
Our next screening is mid-Sept!
Yesterday we held our first ever music event supported by
#PortsmouthCityCouncil
for their Live at the Bandstand event. This was the first time anyone Black or female has programmed an event like this in Portsmouth.
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We kicked off the new year with a POCP linkup to see
@kwame_8
's beautifully crafted Dreaming and Drowning, performed stunningly by Tienne Simon.
Massive shout out to our
@bushtheatre
fam for the invite - what a way to shake off the cobwebs & get the 2024 creative juices flowing!
We’re currently still lost for words on how amazingly
@ShakiraNewton
’s run of Things I Can Laugh About Now went at
@BrxHouseTheatre
.
Give us a minute. We’re too busy crying and then happy dancing and then crying again.
Our ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ show,
Things I Can Laugh About Now
(nominated for BEST FEMALE ACTOR IN A PLAY & BEST PRODUCTION PLAY at
@theBBTAs
)
is back on at
@BrxHouseTheatre
1st-11th of November!
See you there. Bring your posse, bring your crew.
‘Twas the day before show day & all through the Bush, all the cast of The Route are dancing & shaking their toosh (haha come on,we tried!)
1 day to go until we do our first public showing of our SOLD OUT show at
@bushtheatre
Here’s a vid of a classic
@ibraheem_toure
cool down!
Happy Monday!
After 6 months of bi-weekly evening R&D sessions/rehearsals we’re about to enter tech! 😱🤯
To watch these lot volunteer their free time & put so much passion & energy into every session, fills us with the most gratitude.
SNEAK PEAK 👇
💃🏾🕺🏿🌞
@bushtheatre
3 years since Shak created Piece of Cake Theatre Co. A fantastic Associate Director (
@ibraheem_toure
), a whole-ass pandemic, & some fantastic projects later, and we’ve decided that although we are still Piece of Cake, we want to give you more than just a slice.
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POCTCO X
@bushtheatre
We had such a fantastic workshop with some of the members of our Local Partnership Scheme group at this weeks session.
Massive thank you to the legend that is
@Datywar
for running the session and bringing them good vibes + valuable knowledge.
🐐 🎶
We’ve been nominated for not one, but TWO awards at
@theBBTAs
.
Things I Can Laugh About Now has been nominated for
Best Production Play Award & Best Female in a Play Award 🏆
Love to everyone who came to see the show, and voted for the nomination!
Last night was a movie… literally.
We’ve kicked off our new ongoing project - Piece of Cake’s Vintage Film Club - at Soho House on Dean Street last night and we couldn’t be happier with the result.
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If you didn’t know yet, we are currently in rehearsal for our next project at
@brxhousetheatre
;
Things I Can Laugh About Now, written by, and starting our Artistic Director
@ShakiraNewton
!
The show is directed by the legend Lo Feliciani Ojeda.
Tickets:
POCP X NYT GLOBAL MAJORITY NETWORKING LINK UP : The Film Edition
A massive thank you to
@NYTofGB
for providing us with the space, support and refreshments. We couldn’t be prouder to be an Associate Company to a legendary company like yours.
We’ve created a database of all of the amazing Global Majority artists that we’ve worked with recently.
If you’d like to have you details on file please click the link below 👇🏾
Fancy joining the ATC 24 creative team? 🤔
We’ve just opened two very exciting new roles that will be key to making the project a success!
💥 Event Project Manager
💥 Project Admin Coordinator
Deadline: Midnight 15 Mar | Apply below 👇🏾
THE ROUTE by Notting Hill Carnival Project &
@POCTheatreCo
Step onto the route of Notting Hill Carnival past and present to celebrate Black joy, spirit and legacy through live performance, music, dance, and big party vibes.
18-19 Mar |🎟️
Plays 💫
Best Female Actor in a Play Award
Shareesa Valentine, Forgotten Voices, Hope Mill Theatre
@shareesav
Selina Jones, An unfinished man, The Yard Theatre
@SelinaJones14
Shakira Newton, Things I Can Laugh About Now, Brixton House
@shakiranewton
#thebbtas2022
Vintage Film Club 🎥🎞️
A week ago, we celebrated international women’s day with a screening of the Black Feminist classic Foxy Brown. Girl power was def in the room as
@ShakiraNewton
sat down with
@audreythefinest
&
@tolly_t
from
#TheReceiptsPodcast
to discuss the themes ✊🏾💅🏾
✨MEET THE WRITER/PERFORMER ✨
Shakira Newton (she/her) actor/writer. Things I Can Laugh About Now is the first play that she has ever written & these performances will be the first time she performs in a full length stage play since she graduated drama school in July’21.
Good Morning!
We’re looking to widen our connections with Global Majority dramaturgs.
If that’s you, and you’re free to give some new writing a once over plus feedback, please slide in the DMs!
Have a sneak peak into how The Route @
@bushtheatre
was created.
The cast/participants joined us twice a month for 2 hour evening sessions on a voluntary basis. They came after work/college/uni to give us their time,energy & immaculate vibes & we couldn’t be more grateful!
💚🍰
✨ MEET THE DIRECTOR ✨
Lo Feliciani Ojeda (they/he) is a theatre maker & educator from Caracas, Venezuela. 🇻🇪
Lo trained as a theatre maker at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and is currently gaining their MFA in Theatre Directing from East 15 Acting School.
!!!PAID JOB OPPORTUNITY!!!
Our workload has outgrown our 2person company and we need a hand.
We’re looking for a Development Producer from the Global Majority that has experience with successful Arts Council funding to join our team for our next few projects.
Pls share!
POCP ED FRINGE AOC LINK UP 2.0 was a great success.
Love to everyone who came and hung out with us. We’re very grateful to have been able to create a space for everyone to decompress and let go after a very full on month.
Make sure you all keep in touch yeah?
🍰💚
✨Filled to the brim with blessings✨
We’re extremely grateful to be working alongside
@bushtheatre
with an amazing group of people for the next 6 months.
Stay tuned to keep up to date with this project!
They'll be working with Piece of Cake Theatre Company, run by
@shakiranewton
and
@ibraheem_toure
, an emerging creative company that strives to uplift, promote, and give opportunities to creatives of the global majority.
We can't wait to see what
@poctheatreco
creates with them!
We've been sitting on a bad boy piece of information - we’ve secured funding from Arts Council England for Along The Coast 2024 🔥
Show us some love & follow
@alongthecoastfest
on IG for more exciting announcements coming VERY soon!
HAPPY 5th BIRTHDAY TO US!
✨✨✨✨✨
We not only celebrate 5 years of pure grafting... we release
#5
- our FIRST mini season of work showcasing our projects in development:
Thank you for the support, it's been a ride.
✨✨✨
🎥 Solar Flare
@thelensofnana
Round 2 of POCP’s Vintage Film Club.
We watched BABYLON (1980) just before Ibraheem had the pleasure of sitting down with one of the actors from the film
@1Trevorlaird
& the legend who is changing the face of Black British filmmaking
@theadjani
.
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Our Artistic Director doing bitsssss, make sure you apply to participate in and/or tune in to watch this online show, Sunday 3rd March.
Support Black theatre. Support New Writing.
🤩
#blacktheatre
#blackartists
#newwriting
#supportblack
Meet NYT Member
@ShakiraNewton
who’s curating Rush, an online showcase of some of Britain’s best young black talent on 3 May.
Apply now:
Deadline: 12 noon Wed 29 April
A massive well done and break a leg to our Associate Director and resident MC
@ibraheem_toure
who is making his debut on the
@TheRSC
stage tonight for the first preview of Henry VI.
You’re a superstar 🤩
Please sign this petition and help ensure Fran and all of the Black/Global Majority cast members on this production are getting the protection and support they need and deserve.
RT and share around!
We cannot add anyone else to this list.
If you missed the newsletter last night you have also missed out on a chance to grab one of our allocated tickets.
There MAY be more released at some point.
If you are signed up to our newsletter you will be the first to know 🫡🤞🏾💚🍰
We’ve teamed up with Portsmouth City Council, and loads of Black creatives on the South Coast to create ALONG THE COAST - a free day festival of music by local Black artists, as well as, Black-owned business and restaurants.
Please share. Come party!
* DJ Khaled voice * Anotha one.
Our production of Things I Can Laugh About Now has been nominated for Best Production Play Award.
What an honour to be up next to two amazing shows.
We’re buzzing for the 16th!✨
Plays 💫
Best Production Play Award
My Voice Was Heard But It Was Ignored, Red Ladder Theatre Company UK Tour
For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy, Royal Court
Things I Can Laugh About Now, Brixton House
#thebbtas2022
#blackexcellence
That’s a wrap on 2022 for Piece of Cake Productions. 🫱🏾🫲🏿✨
Merry Christmas to those who celebrate, and a glory-filled (and hopefully restful) winter break to those who don’t. 💫
The Stage Debut Awards nominations are live and we want YOU man to vote for our critically acclaimed one-person tragicomedy;
Things I Can Laugh About Now by Shakira Newton.
See thread for details on how to vote!
⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️
Our Exec Director / Co-Artistic Facilitator is making her first film!
We’re so gassed for her and are backing her 100% of the way.
She needs some help making up the last bit of budget.
Please share and donate!
Global Majority Performers CALL OUT!!
As part of our annual Global Majority Networking Link Up X
@NYTofGB
on Friday 13th October 7pm, we are looking for performers for the night!
If you are a musician, poet, dancer / movement artist send us a DM and a clip of your work!
Nine recent graduates have been cast in
@rsc
’s Henry VI: Rebellion and Wars of the Roses, as the organisation says graduates have been facing a “period like no other”
After we watch the film, we have a Q&A with Black/Global Majority industry professionals.
Last night we had the pleasure of chatting with RYAN CALAIS CAMERON & KARLA-SIMONE SPENCE who both dropped inspirational BARZ for the peopledem.
Watch this space for the next one!
💚🍰
… A company who have produced legendary theatre pieces such as ‘Typical’, ‘Queens of Sheba’, ‘For Black Boys’, and now ‘CASTE-ING’ - showing every day of Fringe (except for Tuesdays) at Roundabout, Summerhall @ 8:25pm.
With special guest performances from some amazing Black artists. This event is open to all Global Majority creatives across ALL sectors.
Best part? It’s free! You just need to RSVP via the link:
Our one-day celebration of Global Majority musical talent, food and local businesses on the south coast is back this summer!
Follow Along The Coast’s Instagram for more info:
The theatre company is still very much intact, but now we have some exciting music, event and screen ventures on the horizon, we think it’s time for a glow up. From here on out we will be known as Piece of Cake Productions (POCP).
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The best part is we got to do it with one of the UK’s leading theatre companies, Nouveau Riche (
@nvrchuk
); a company who are paving the way, and setting a standard in this industry; a company whom we have admired from the beginning.. (cont.)
!!! BLACK CREATIVES !!!
We posted this on our Instagram at the beginning of the month & will be posting the first few submissions on Monday. Pls do not hesitate to get involved/flood us with resources!
(Pls RT)
#blackcreatives
#blacktheatre
#blackbusiness
#BlackLivesMatter
The vintage film club is here for us to share work made by Black & Global Majority creatives that came before us and paved the way for us to be able to do what we do today.
It’s about paying homage & ensuring these piece of work continue to have life long after their creation.
THE ROUTE by Notting Hill Carnival Project &
@POCTheatreCo
Step onto the route of Notting Hill Carnival past and present to celebrate Black joy, spirit and legacy through live performance, music, dance, and big party vibes.
18-19 Mar |🎟️
Their work includes:
Things I Can Laugh About Now at Brixton House, The Tragedy of Antony & Cleopatra at Shakespeare’s Globe (Rutgers), Olivier Nominated A Place for We (Assistant Director) at the Park Theatre, in collaboration with Talawa Theatre Company,
📸:
@CallumHeinrich
📢Next year, we're coming back bigger than ever.
Looking for a party or a chance to perform as an artist or sell your goodies, please register your interest by filling out the form below. We will contact you with more details once they're confirmed.📲
A thread:
Black-led festivals and events that you might want to promote, add to your calendar and follow.⤵️
Add other great examples in the comments.
#BHM
Monday 17th October
7:00pm – 9:45pm @ National Youth Theatre’s Holloway Building
(443-445 Holloway Road, London, N7 6LW)
(Performances start from 7:00pm so please allow for this when planning timings for travel.)
Can’t wait to party with you all 💃🏾🪩🕺🏿
First come first served for spaces at our next Vintage Film Club.
For Soho House members (if you haven’t got a membership hound your mates that do have one to book on. They can bring up to 3 guests)
This is a free event.
We are full of gratitude for the productions and events we were given the opportunity to co-produce this year. Lots of love to
@bushtheatre
,
@NYTofGB
&
@brxhousetheatre
for the space & experience throughout our 1st year in the industry!
Nothing is going to stop us from having the party of a lifetime‼️
With many performers and amazing businesses to keep your day filled with good vibes and music.🎶
✨You will be allowed to bring food and drinks to the festival so make sure you bring yourselves along
“Newton is a witty writer and charismatic performer, with a wicked sense of comic timing.” ★★★★ The Stage (
@TheStage
)
Things I Can Laugh About Now is on now until 11 November!
Don’t miss out 💫
🎟
How MEGA is this? Change is happening people. We’re so excited for all of the student who have experienced racism currently studying and starting at Central!
Central's Board of Governors is delighted to announce that Josette Bushell-Mingo has been appointed as the incoming Principal of the School. Read more about Josette’s distinguished career as an award winning actor, director and teacher here: