YARD YOUNG ARTISTS: 11-15

Aged 11-15? Love performing and want to grow your creative skills?

Join The Yard and jump into a year of performing, making friends, and creative experimentation. Yard Young Artists: 11-15 is for curious and enthusiastic young artists, whatever stage of your creative journey.

During the year, you’ll learn what it takes to be an actor through masterclasses in acting, improvising, directing and other elements of making a theatre production. As a group, you’ll work together with a professional artist to bring these skills together and create a showcase using your own ideas and stories to perform on The Yard’s stage.

As well as all that, you’ll get to meet other creative young people, see theatre shows across London, and make friends over pizza at the start of every session. All for free.

Maybe you’re thinking about doing drama GCSE, or you’ve started writing and want advice on how to put together an exciting script, or maybe you love making TikToks but want to learn how to be more confident in front of an audience. It all starts here, at Yard Young Artists.

Sign up deadline: 5pm, 26 September

SIGN UP HERE

Key Information

Yard Young Artists: 11-15 is for those aged 11-15. No previous experience is necessary, just an interest in theatre!

  • When: Every Monday in term time 4.45-6.45pm.
    Taster Session – Thursday 31 August, 1-4pm
    Officially starts 2 October and finishes July 2024.
  • Where: The Yard Theatre, Unit 2a Queen’s Yard, London E9 5EN. 
  • Cost: FREE.
  • Bonus: Fresh pizzas from our neighbours at Crate will be provided every session.

The Yard Theatre has level access and is fully wheelchair-accessible. There is an accessible toilet with a wide, outward-opening door.

If you identify as disabled or neurodivergent, we want to warmly welcome you into Yard Young Artists.

We want to support you to take part in this programme and are open to making adjustments where we can, for example:

  • providing the application form in other formats.
  • providing a support worker for certain sessions (inductions, performances etc)
  • providing a BSL interpreter for sessions.

If you like to meet with the team before the project to discuss your access needs or to find out more about what access we can offer, please contact our Young Artist Producer, Holly, on:

Email: holly@theyardtheatre.co.uk

Text/Call/WhatsApp: 07523298482

Removing Financial Barriers

We know that there are often financial barriers to participating in projects like these. Participation in this project is totally free. In addition, we have made available:

  • Travel expenses:

We can support participants with travel expenses (£5 per session), if you require.

  • Free tickets

If you are required to see any shows or exhibitions for this project. This will be paid for by The Yard.

If there are other requirements you might have that aren’t listed here, do let us know and we can see what we can do.

If you’ve got any questions or would like find out more, get in touch with Holly:

  • Text/Call/WhatsApp on: 075232 98482
  • Email: holly@theyardtheatre.co.uk